(Part 2) Top products from r/dwarffortress

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We found 3 product mentions on r/dwarffortress. We ranked the 23 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.

21. The Ants

Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
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22. The Design of Everyday Things

Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
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23. The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell

Sentiment score: -1
Number of reviews: 1
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Top comments that mention products on r/dwarffortress:

u/Priapulid · 3 pointsr/dwarffortress

These are castings of species you can find in the US. Somewhere there are probably better quality photos but these are the best I could find. I saw these in a presentation given by Dr Tschinkel and he had a bunch of really awesome high quality shots that might not have made it to the web.

I actually met him and Dr. Holldobler (mentioned in the linked video) one summer in Arizona.

For anyone interested the book Journey to the Ants by EO Wilson and Holldobler is the laymen version of their seminal book The Ants... which is pretty much the bible for anyone that studies ants.

Interesting factiod: You can find some interesting species just about any place in the world... in the US there are about 400+ species including army ants, fungus growers, slave making ants, etc.

u/mglachrome · 12 pointsr/dwarffortress
  1. No capitalized hot keys
  2. undo on every non-trivial actions (squad/noble/military/burrow management.
  3. Everything that is longer than one page: make it searchable.
  4. For building walls/floors: Select material(s), just designate until done or out of materials.
  5. Standardized hot keys for every sub menu(stocks/trading/trading request/stockpiles, for a start)
  6. Offer undo for every non-trivial function (burrows/military/nobles)
  7. Unified scrolling: Not Pgdown/PgUp | +/- | / - *

    Actually, read some books about interface and object design - it is really fun and enlightening. For start: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465067107/
u/Yangel · 3 pointsr/dwarffortress

Bingo!

http://www.amazon.ca/The-Big-Oyster-History-Shell/dp/0345476395

You might find this book interesting. Basically oysters are a keystone 'poverty food' for coastal cities. Very important to the history of New York for example. In DF, a coastal fort would very likely become an important food exporter to the rest of the Dwarven nation...

Also you can burn the shells to get lime! Shell armor (ala boar tusk helmet of the Mycenaean I guess) and swords (pacific islander/aztec style - ouch! http://www.tikimaster.com/category/05.21/ The shells can be crushed and used as a concrete additive - and although I'm not certain, I believe they could also be used as flux for steel making. In the game we'd run the shells through the millstone (using Masterwork as that's what I play) and we'd basically end up with a renamed bonemeal reaction. With a fishing industry running full bore, running out of flux should be a thing of the past! :D