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[Martin]

Huzzah! MacBookPro Retina has arrived. Should have everything back up and running tomorrow sometime. My old machine just couldn't manage DF any longer unless I dedicated it to the task (which I really couldn't afford to do.) Still need to clean things up to fit everything on the SSD.

[parlor_tricks]

And there was great rejoicing!!

[Xenos]

And there was great rejoicing!!

Let us burn an elf to celebrate!

[Martin]

Autumn 576


It's been quite a few years since the last caravan was able to get through. We've been sieged by the undead nearly constantly all that time. A few elven and human caravans managed to slip through, thankfully, or we'd probably have starved. Good to hear that life in the homelands is somewhat calm - perhaps we've gotten this evil forces attention focused on us here. There's an unbelievable number of undead creatures roaming around here outside the outer line. Now and then a bunch of goblins will arrive and kill them, and then they all come back to life again a bit later. I'm not sure how we're going to defeat that kind of a foe.


I think we'll be ready for migrants soon. It's taken us much longer than anticipated, but progress continues.

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Things really is taking unbelievably longer than I thought. I've gotten into a bit of a catch-22. The bunker preparation with all of the mechanisms and whatnot has increased the value of the fortress so this first migrant wave is going to be massive, so I need more bunkers for them. I had intended to do this more incrementally, but I think that's not going to be possible. The layout puts all of the farms, food, and clothing all on the main level, so the fortress is at least operational with just one level completed. The lower level will be stone (currently being handled in the central core), wood, most other crafts, pottery, metalworking, and so on. We can work around that for some time. I'm planning now on running a single immigrant cycle, then diving down to the cavern layers, getting those secured as quickly as possible as the population will be bringing in forgotten beasts, sorting out where the magma will come from, and then doing the lower level.


The good news is the new computer has hoisted my 25-30 FPS up to a much more tolerable 80 FPS, so a season zips by in maybe half an hour. The bad news is that I'm wicked busy, so I'm not getting in much time. I'm not sure how long it'll take to finish up this level. The digging/smoothing is very nearly done. I'm going to do three more bunkers on this level and then put everyone in on finishing the mechanics (there's a fair bit yet to do - maybe 500 mechanisms more). I think the sorting area is nearly done (I kinda lost track of things waiting for the new computer) and just needs to be dug out to connect to the surface. Morul will do that so he can then clear out the bazillion zombie macaque/elf/liaison/gobbo body parts to make it at least somewhat safe for migrants. The sorting area also needs furniture/food/booze, and enough provisions stockpiled around so that we can get the provision shipping system up and running. Reaching steady-state on that is going to take quite a while. There's 29 bunkers on the first level. If the provisions minecart spends a week at each bunker, it'll take 3 seasons to make a single lap. That'll be no problem once every bunker is fully stocked, but the last bunker could take 5 years to get stockpiled at that rate as I think a cart can only hold about 3-4 bunkers worth of food/booze. The odds and ends have really dragged this out - and I'm not even sure the mechanics are going to work - they appear to all be set up right, but everything connected to pressure plates seems to be operating randomly and not to my expectations. We'll see.

[parlor_tricks]

Life! Yaay!

Where dis zombie body parts come from O_o. Currently there, or expected in future?

Well, you could turn temp and weather off for a bit - for the FPS boost, and if you aren't using speed 0 dwarves already, you could for a short boost to get through some of this phase.

[Martin]

Yeah, temp and weather aren't doing anything for me now. Good idea.


I'm getting regular undead sieges - about 3 seasons out of 4 right now. There must be necromancers wandering onto the map raising everything. The gobbos will hack them all apart and a season or two half the map will be covered with undead stuff walking around.

[parlor_tricks]

I don't know if you are open to using DF hack, but for ease of use you could just autodump everything on the surface and then atom smash it - getting rid of all the siege issues and hence letting the world get back on to its task of saving things.

Breaks the immersion though - I thought a work around would be to rename a dwarf to wizard, and as long as he is alive, you can use DF Hack commands .

Also - Still watching this thread.

[parlor_tricks]

Live!

[parlor_tricks]

Anything new Martin?

[Helgoland]

C-C-C-Combo breaker!

(You can now post again without being accused of quadruple-posting )

[parlor_tricks]

Much obliged. Morul and cacame were characters I remember and continued stories are great. Hoping it serves as encouragement

[Hurize]

Anything new Martin?

[Kofthefens]

LIVE!!!!!!

[Martin]

I'm here. Sorry, the last few weeks have been wicked busy - but Morul hasn't been completely idle. I'll put up a proper post soon. The first level is nearly ready for occupation - still a hundred or mechanisms to install (out of two thousand so far, so really not that many) and need to get food and booze distributed until production gets up and running and things like beds installed. The main problems have been a recurring crashing problem at the end of many seasons. No clear idea what the cause is, but I suspect something related to invaders. A few dozen to hundred restarts and it'll get past the crash, but it's wicked annoying. Hopefully the next version will fix it.

[Kofthefens]

The main problems have been a recurring crashing problem at the end of many seasons. No clear idea what the cause is, but I suspect something related to invaders. A few dozen to hundred restarts and it'll get past the crash, but it's wicked annoying. Hopefully the next version will fix it.

DF hack's quicksave function? It's just an autosave like you can have in the init, so you could save right before the season change without having to restart it.

Good luck on this project, I m glad it still lives.