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[intently]

Just curious: when do attacks start happening?  I'm in my third year with 90 dwarves (and a mayor etc) and I haven't yet seen an attack by more then 2 enemies at a time.  One ratman from the chasm pops up periodically, but that's no big deal.  When will I have to worry about sieges?  When will the chasm heat up?  Magma men?

[Thetwodud]

From my experience, they all seem pretty random. Goblin seiges may start happening within a year of getting the mayor (they tend to for me). As for the chasm and magma, my current fortress is on its tenth or so year and has yet to provoke anything major from either (maybe a mole dog or a troll once in a while).

All I can recommend is patience, the goblins will come to destroy you on their watch.

[ August 24, 2007: Message edited by: Thetwodud ]

[PresidentEvil]

River, magma, and chasm attacks happen essentially randomly; chasming refuse can increase the odds of getting a chasm attack though.

Sieges will happen once your fort has either a mayor or a trade minister.

[Shadowlord]

I was getting ridiculously frequent and large ratmen attacks at my dwarf fort, though part of that may have been due to individual ratmen popping up and being unable to get into my fort through the doors which controlled access to the chasm (The bridges crossing it had railings). The peculiar thing is that I had done no chasming of any sort, and no flooding into the chasm until I got sick of their constant attacks.

[UrbanWanderer]

I've been channeling water into the chasm on my current fort. Nonstop ratman attacks so far.

[Lightning4]

Lemme clarify this:
Chasming things greatly increases the chance and size of a chasm attack.

After chasming like 100 pieces of goblin clothes, I managed to get like 200 ratmen to attack during the span of a year, including from my well at a magma flow outpost (Surprised me there, I didn't think they could ambush from wells).

[Ravendas]

quote:Originally posted by Lightning4:
<STRONG>Lemme clarify this:
Chasming things greatly increases the chance and size of a chasm attack.

After chasming like 100 pieces of goblin clothes, I managed to get like 200 ratmen to attack during the span of a year, including from my well at a magma flow outpost (Surprised me there, I didn't think they could ambush from wells).</STRONG>

Chasm creatures can come out of wells past the chasm apparently. I've had a giant spider pop out of a well near my magma river and mess up a lot of stuff before it was taken down. They are furniture destroyers.

I also get antman attacks out of another well near the magma, but for whatever reason they almost always come out with mental illnesses. Berserk or melancholy, don't know why.