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[Ubiq]

I embarked on an evil taiga/savage glacier once without really thinking about the side-effects of adding mammoths into the game.

Undead mammoths are Fun.

[omg_scout]

Terrifying glacier single pick challenge. It was exciting to establish food and booze production and generally secure the living for the first time.

[Sutremaine]

Any biome with huskifying clouds

...too much fun, tyvm.  Passive reanimation is bad enough, what with the inevitability of an unslabbable trader ghost showing up, and the inability to close a coffin tightly...

Husked wildlife does at least always leave the map when it's time for the next batch of creatures. Also, unlike reanimating biomes, husks don't automatically make more of their own by attacking*. So far I haven't observed clouds appearing in the middle of the map, so that leaves a bit of wiggle room on 3x3 or larger sites. I'd rather just stick to colonising the caverns though. The horrible deaths you'll find down there are non-contagious... unless you managed to score a site that both reanimates and husks.

Undead creatures can also be husks, though I suspect based on the capitalisation and other things** that it only applies to Corpses -- that is, creatures that appear on the map already undead.

Oh, and the only metals on-site are gold and cassiterite. I was hoping for hematite as my deep metal for each biome, but nope.

*Coatings can transmit huskification, but coatings are not always left on a husked creature. One site I had was in a swamp, and the rain left the whole surface covered in husk dust, or whatever substance it was. This site has foul smoke, and forcing rain via DFHack doesn't leave any coverings washed onto on the ground. More study required, preferably with superzero temperatures.

**GCS corpses do not shoot webs, but GCS Corpses do. Wildlife corpses do not leave the map, but wildlife Corpses do. There are certainly some differences between animate dead and animated dead.

[rcmgames]

My favorite way to play is:

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You can only use what the map provides, or what you start with.  Set migrants = 0 and wait until the first two hard-coded waves. 

Once you have every migrant, dig yourself into the dirt and close yourself off to the world, vault 101 style.

No merchants, no invasions; the only way you can survive is if you can build a self-sustaining fortress.  Building a completely self-reliant fortress in less than a year is nearly impossible, and a constant challenge.

Bonus if you do it in rock (no soil -> harder to get farms, you need mud).

Bonus if you make the surface appear untouched.

Bonus if you build under a river (wait till it freezes, then burrow straight down).

Dfhack is recommended, so you can autodump any dead liasons down into your fort to prevent ghosts.

This sounds like a fun and new way to play! I wish there was more of a scenario mode - or a way to set this all up right off the bat...

[Broseph Stalin]

One of my favorite embarks had an evil rain that eventually became fatal and regular rain that washed the toxic pools away. There was also a lake that was free of the evil rain. They built their fortress over the lake and when the normal rain started all the dwarves would run out and collect resources from dead enemies and animals that were killed by the evil rain. When the evil rain started back up they ran back to the fortress and dug in until the next cleansing rain.

I find the dun comes less from the difficulty of the embark and more from the narrative that develops around it.

[fractalman]

Ah. So a husking biome does not include passive reanimation, then?...
I'm still not planning to do another pure-badnews embark for a while. Maybe when any one of these is implemented: pulping, full clothing coverage (bio hazard suits), all remaining unslabbability glitches fixed, cleaning designations/zones...
Maybe then.  Untill then, my dwarves will just have to be nice to the elves who are maintaining the shrine keeping the dead from getting back up in that one corner of the map.

[Sutremaine]

It might do. You can have reanimation and one type of evil weather (blood rain) together, so I wouldn't rule out reanimation plus a different kind of evil weather.