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"In the late autumn of 208, Nomar cursed the reptile man Stroso Archbold the Hide of Deer to assume the form of a gecko-like monster every full moon in Spunshovel."

So the lizard dude is cursed to become a lizard dude every full moon.

Interestingly enough, Nomar Minecaves was most often depicted as a female draltha associated with caverns.

• Embark on area that is only partially an evil biome.
• Set up entrance and death traps in non-evil biome. (preferably non-edged traps)
• Wait for goblin/elf/etc. attack.
• Collect corpses. (keep corpses in non-evil stockpile for a while for skeletons)
• Place corpses in walled off part of evil biome where only exit is through cage traps.
• Collect caged zombies/skeletons.
• Place and uncage zombies/skeletons as wanted. (in crypts, traps, etc.)
• ? ?
• Profit! Necromancy!

You know how you can't make all liquid meals anymore in the newer version? I just made a few all milk roasts. Completely bug-free too.

(i'd post a screenshot but i play on a pretty big resolution and you can't read it if i scale it down.)

"This is a stack of 10 frozen yak's milk roast. The ingredients are minced frozen reindeer's milk and minced frozen yak's milk."

Yeah. Apparently as long as the ingredient is in a solid state, it can be used as the 'base' of the meal. Fun stuff.

It's kinda incongruous with legends mode where

no one seems to be able to kill any mega or semimegabeast that they're such pushovers in adventure mode.

I fought a Hydra with an axedwarf and chopped off 5 heads/necks before it could lay a tooth on me (it quickly died of bloodloss). In a different game with a human swordsman my guy near insta-crippled a dragon by stabbing it in all four legs in the first five hits, breaking the bones. In fact said dragon died from getting stabbed in the legs for some reason. 'Struck down' instead of 'bled to death', and all i ever hit was it's legs and a foot, weird.

This was all with starting stats and gear, with no better than bismuth bronze weapons. Semimegas are also pushovers. I haven't gotten down to -redacted- with a non-modded adventurer yet, they'll probably be a bit more challenging with all the poison gas and junk.

Edit: All my guys follow the following skill formula:
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Title speaks for itself.

To elaborate, i've started a fort of 7 woodcutter/axedwarves on a cave (part of a personal no-digging challenge). So a season in, i get sieged by rhesus macaques and thus activate my starting seven confident that they'll quickly sort out the monkey menace. Their uniform consists of a copper shield and a copper axe and since they're all woodcutters they're all already holding copper axes.

So it starts off ok, those already near the monkeys start chasing and hacking them up. Then they all drop their axes and those indoors go and grab their shields. No one makes any moves to pick up any of the axes, except for the monkeys.

A rhesus macaque has stolen a copper battleaxe!

Much swearing occurs and i reload the save. Which happens to be right when the monkeys are next to the entrance, so there's no time to sort stuff out.

I try several times, but they only make moves to pick up the axes once i change their uniform after they activate. And of course they won't do anything of the sort while there's a monkey next to them.

Sometimes dwarves can be perfectly infuriating.

I have irrefutable proof that communists are taking over Dwarf Fortress!


We must combat this sinister political threat!

This is the result of my appreciation for glacier sites, and sitting up all night figuring out a way to produce water in such a location.

So here's the idea: Embark on a glacier site, preferably a completely flat area of land ice. Build an entire fortress out of ice. And i don't mean build in the traditional sense, i mean cast a huge fortress out of ice, like you would with obsidian. Mine and smooth out all the rooms. Engrave to taste. Fill in all temporary dwellings/storage areas once finished and move everything into the ice palace.


Requirements: Magma, strangely enough. You'll need it to produce water and keep it liquid until it is where you want it.

Lots of initial building materials for all the scaffolding.

A 'not-too-cold' temperature so that merchants don't die on arriving at your depot. It is also required for your dwarves to accept rooms in the ice fortress.


Bonus points for: Having an aquifer. They're really hard to find in glaciers.

Making all the furniture ('cept beds) out of microcline. Major mucho bonus points for making all the furniture out of clear glass.

Guard polar bears. More points for breeding them and making all your clothes out of polar bear leather/fur (when fur is in).

Bulding giant statues to guard the gates out of ice. Bonus bonus points for casting them out of ice instead.

Smoothing out a 'road' on the glacier leading to the fortress entrance, more for lining it with something made out of ice. Particularly for cast pillars of ice that have been smoothed and engraved.

Having a defensive measure that involves freezing attackers.

Having a defensive measure that involves dropping cast blocks of ice on attackers' heads.

Capturing enemies in cage traps, taking their armor/weapons and freezing them (not in their cage) in a block of ice in a large gallery made specifically for this purpose. Major mucho bonus points if you engrave the resultant pillars and savescum until each pillar has an engraving depicting that particular goblin's death.

Having a Queen rule your civ and having her move to your ice fortress. If she has an ice/cold related name you must be cheating somehow. Please let me know how. 

Having something ice/cold related as your local symbol.