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So, relatively recently, there have been this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgolX750KoA

Which is to say, Gimli's actor have done a version of Durin's Song (or the Song of Durin). It inspired me to ask, what exactly would be an appropriate challenge fort to "replicate" what's described in Durin's song? For reference:

The world was young, the mountains green,
No stain yet on the Moon was seen,
No words were laid on stream or stone
When Durin woke and walked alone.
He named the nameless hills and dells;
He drank from yet untasted wells;
He stooped and looked in Mirrormere,
And saw a crown of stars appear,
As gems upon a silver thread,
Above the shadow of his head.

The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas have passed away:
The world was fair in Durin's Day.

A king he was on carven throne
In many-pillared halls of stone
With golden roof and silver floor,
And runes of power upon the door.
The light of sun and star and moon
In shining lamps of crystal hewn
Undimmed by cloud or shade of night
There shone for ever fair and bright.

There hammer on the anvil smote,
There chisel clove, and graver wrote;
There forged was blade, and bound was hilt;
The delver mined, the mason built.
There beryl, pearl, and opal pale,
And metal wrought like fishes' mail,
Buckler and corslet, axe and sword,
And shining spears were laid in hoard.

Unwearied then were Durin's folk;
Beneath the mountains music woke:
The harpers harped, the minstrels sang,
And at the gates the trumpets rang.

The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge's fire is ashen-cold;
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls:
The darkness dwells in Durin's halls;
The shadow lies upon his tomb
In Moria, in Khazad-dûm.
But still the sunken stars appear
In dark and windless Mirrormere;
There lies his crown in water deep,
Till Durin wakes again from sleep.

So, how would be an appropriate fortress be, to be fair as in Durin's day, with "Golden roof and silver floor", with a "King on carved throne in many pillared halls of stone", including the "runes of power on the door", and "The light of sun and star and moon in shining lamps of crystal hewn undimmed by cloud or shade of night"?  Not to forget too all the industry described in the following verses, because you'll not get "shining spears laid in hoard" just with a fancy throne room.

So, opinions? What would be a hard but doable challenge fortress based on the song?

So, now weapons can decay with use and combat. For metal weapons, it's ultimately just a matter of melting them up and reusing the metal, sure. But it also includes weapon traps. And it's not equal among all weapons in a weapon trap. This is specially visible with glass trap components, as a weapon trap with 10 glass serrated discs will in very short order be destroyed and leave the non-destroyed components heavily damaged. Even aside of that, there's obsidian short swords and elven wooden weapons, even though both of those aren't really all that commonly used by players.

Either way, it does mean that there's a number of sources of non-meltable weapons that can get damaged. Right now they don't seem to decay further, which means permanent clutter unless you take the time to manually atom smash it up or go through the trouble of getting a caravan to take it as (low value, as their value has been massively reduced from previous versions, to a far more reasonable one) "trade goods".

Instead I'd propose that weapons kept on refuse stockpiles should just run the same decay routine as clothing and armor, and quickly cease to be, reducing clutter by quite a lot in some forts.

Using Steam version, I was trying to send a few raiders and tribute demand missions out, but it doesn't seem to work.

Specifically, I send the mission out, they spend a bit of time away, then I get the (non-major) announcement that they have returned, but nothing else, doesn't seem to bring any loot, or really do anything at all.

Am I missing something? New version is bugged? Something on my end?

Building a pump stack, can't seem to figure out how to make so that I can choose the mechanisms for the linking. It shows me which ones will be used, but clicking on that just seems to cancel things up.

Been playing with the Steam version, haven't gotten any caravan with a wagon yet. I think my Depot is Wagon accessible, but either I can't check on this version or I haven't figured how to do so yet. It does have a 3 wide route, no stairs or anything else in the way, and the map is sparse enough with trees that they shouldn't block it either.

Do caravans just don't bring wagons in this version? Am I just getting unlucky and getting small caravans? Something else?

Looking around the near current 1.27 version for the toggle to disable warpstone, or at least it's syndromes, but can't seem to find it. Is it not possible to disable it without directly editing the raws?

So, the tanner can mold horns and hoofs into large daggers. The problem comes into being that, once it gets made, it just sits there forever, no matter if you have every possible stockpile enabled. Even if you deconstruct the tanner, it just on the ground. So far, the only way I've found to actually "store" them is to mark them for dumping, and having it on the dump zone.

Any way around it? Or do they just really not count?

Because I went 5 pages down the forum and couldn't find a thread for it, and well, there are silly questions that don't quite merit a whole thread for themselves.

Speaking of which, lemme start:

I've been trying to find a cliche/trope/quote that came to mind that goes something like: "I only had my own wits to rely on.", I think mostly commonly used in rather Noir works, and, I do believe, is occasionally parodied by adding something that makes their troubles far less problematic, something like: "I only had my own wits and unlimited cosmic power to rely on.".

Anyone knows what I'm talking about? It's gnawing on my brain but I've not been able to find neither the original one nor the parodies.