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[JTTCOTE]

What's the most difficult embark you've ever attempted?

For me I would say a Terrifying glacier. Sadly, there was nothing but a zombie yeti in the first year of the fort so things were pretty calm.

[Niccolo]

Zero-point embark in a terrifying biome.

Or did you mean a survivable embark?

[Elred]

Terrifying biome, don't remember which (woodland anyway).

I just wanted to test a little what atrocities evil biomes had to offer and embarked casually as you would embark on your typical flux-volcano map. First thing I see after embarking is a group of Giant Wren (5 or 6 of them) wandering on the extreme north of the map and half-a-Wonbat corpse (it only had a spine and 2 legs left) on the other side.

I start to dig my hole quickly and set up some farms and stockpiles. Then, a dreadful mist cloud appears and slowly drift near my home. Fortunately for me, it avoided my fortress. Unfortunately for me, the Giant Wren group got hit. 2 of them became deadly thralls and started murdering the others meticulously. They then rushed in my fortress, scattering my dwarves around the map and chasing dogs. I quickly recovered and burrowed my dwarves inside while they were chasing the unlucky dog (which was eventually beheaded).

Then, the freakin' Giant Wren corpses (murdered by their friend, not so far from the fortress) come back to life and deal death in my lovely muddy hole. 3 more dogs and 5 dwarves die, the 2 others rushing outside, one to be ambushed by the Thralls, and the other, fleeing the Wren corpses, goes right to the half-Wonbat and get bitten to death.

Most epic slaughter I ever had.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Oddly enough, a good biome with an aquifer.

First, I tried a bunch of methods to pierce the aquifer. Then, a necromancer showed up, left a ferric ef corpse on my doorstep, reanimated a mule and a cat skeleton (this was a reclaim), and left me besieged. I missed the dwarven caravan before the undead sorta dropped dead. I started to recover the bodies and possessions of the fallen, but then a couple squads showed up and killed pretty much everything before I could deconstruct the bridge leading into the fort.

Did I mention these guys were KOBOLDS?!?!

[Loud Whispers]

Everything vaporized.

[rtg593]

Giant Wren... thralls...
They then rushed in my fortress,... ...purchasing dogs.

zombie traders! Run!

[Asra]

I once embarked in a world where the temperature was cold enough to eventually kill all dwarfs outright so I had to quickly dig underground and set things up, especially when the blizzards started coming. It was pretty neat, but once I was underground things became pretty easy to handle since all the default races were also pretty much dead too, except in one or two pockets iirc.

As for a normal default embark location, I have a bad history with evil husks, but haven't embarked on a 100% Terrifying biome yet where the undead will keep respawning after I kill them.

[Elred]

Giant Wren... thralls...
They then rushed in my fortress,... ...purchasing dogs.

zombie traders! Run!

Corrected. English isn't my native language but I'm usually good enough at it and nobody can guess... Keep it secret :3

[rtg593]

Giant Wren... thralls...
They then rushed in my fortress,... ...purchasing dogs.

zombie traders! Run!

Corrected. English isn't my native language but I'm usually good enough at it and nobody can guess... Keep it secret :3

I just assumed you were using a phone and got caught by a silly autocorrecting error :p That happens to me a lot, lol. Secrets safe with me

[Mudcrab]

Giant Wren... thralls...
They then rushed in my fortress,... ...purchasing dogs.

zombie traders! Run!

Corrected. English isn't my native language but I'm usually good enough at it and nobody can guess... Keep it secret :3

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... Keep it safe

[Martin]

.28 embarks. Almost any of them.


With the 3D versions, the ability to drill straight down on embark makes even really terrifying locations not so bad. With caverns now, that's doubly true, because you know it's a matter of time before you hit trees/water/harvestable plants/planting ground. You can pretty easily turtle up until you get your legs under you now.


When I want to replicate the challenge of a .28 embark, I embark without a pick so you need to harvest plants just to get farms going, and you need to survive half a year until the caravan arrives.


A good challenge competition would be a dwarven woodcutting crew returning to the mountainhome with a cart of logs. Lost and out of food and booze, they have no choice but to stop and try and set up a camp. The 3x3 embark has only one corner of non-evil land to survive off of, and they're armed with nothing but axes and logs and nothing but woodcutter skills. With the right location, that'd be pretty fun.

[Blizzlord]

Everything vaporized.

That one embark/world was impossible to survive. You turned up the heat a bit too much in worldgen. Also, you would not find one of those embarks in an ordinary world.


Personally I would say that the most difficult biome to survive in which is still survivable would be a terrifying biome with just enough plants so you could survive until the first caravan. Also, zero points.

[Loud Whispers]

Everything vaporized.

That one embark/world was impossible to survive. You turned up the heat a bit too much in worldgen. Also, you would not find one of those embarks in an ordinary world.

People managed to survive it though

[Broseph Stalin]

My first evil embark in DFVD. The rain caused blistering, bleeding, and then made the spinal cord swell and suffocation set in a few moments later. At first it was seven dwarves Vs three zombies. Then Then the Migrants came. The ones that weren't killed by zombies were already doomed by the murder rain pooling on the ground. Then it was seven dwarves versus twenty zombies. Then forty. Then one hundred and sixty. The fort became a tomb.