jediyoshi said:
So you don't play any RPGs or strategy games ever?
Self-buffs in WoW, i.e. Demon Armor, can only be cast on yourself but they used to have a time limit where you would have to recast it like every 30 minutes (I haven't played in years, so they might have changed it). Why? What's the point of making you recast a spell like that? What harm would their be in letting you keep it until you died/it was debuffed?
In the same respect I view this as a pointless little task that adds nothing of real value to the game. Walking outside and killing pigs isn't challenging and it will just be annoying to have to end your mining spree only because you need to return to the surface to kill some harmless mobs so that you don't die from hunger. I appreciate the idea, making animal npcs more important and forcing you to leave your fortress, but I'm not sure about the execution.
EDIT: Also a correction to an earlier post:
Easy --> health stops at 5 hearts.
Normal --> health stops at .5 hearts.
Hard --> death.