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[Ifeno]

OP Updated.

Wow, a challenge that actually promotes the good of the fortress?! I'm already downloading the save.  Can't wait to see what the fortress looks like now. XD

[Ifeno]

1st Journal of Ifeno

I was just summoned by Reginald who has chosen me to be his successor.  Now I would like to lead off by making one thing perfectly clear.  Although I share the same first name as one of this fortresses previous overseers, we are in no way shape or form related.  It is not uncommon for two individuals to share the same first name, that does not make them the same person.  As such, I have no intentions of acting like our previous overseer who, as far as I can tell from the stories, was a lunatic to begin with.  Being relatively new to the fortress I decided to take this time to make my first formal inspection of the fortress.  I will record my findings here.

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So that part of the fortress is being flooded.  I'd love to prevent it but I can't find the damn lever!
I later discovered the door was already closed.  Guess I lucked out?

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I found what I assume is Andy's trap.  I'll just wall it off and that should be that...

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[Ifeno]

Any tips for reclaiming a fortress infested with zombies?

[ashton1993]

You know I have a sneaking suspicion Ifeno sucks at this game, you somehow managed to lose two relatively stable, if dangerous fortresses in less than a season

[GreatWyrmGold]

5 dead, 1 alive 

and we've got one 11 year old, one 8 year old, and a baby. though as you can see i've already given you a new dwarf.

Hm, thanks. I'll take the 11-year-old if when my current dwarf dies...oh, too late, everyone's dead. Well, I'll take a dwarf in the reclaim party. The fourth one down in the list, make him/her whatever.

[Ifeno]

You know I have a sneaking suspicion Ifeno sucks at this game, you somehow managed to lose two relatively stable, if dangerous fortresses in less than a season

I was working on a way to dispose of the corpses but they  all woke up within an hour of gameplay.  Really not much I could do considering we only had 1 militia...  Calling either of those fortresses "relatively stable" is a huge exaggeration since the 1st one required evacuation after a few hours and this one has roughly 20 zombies inside it... To be quite honest though I haven't played much solo DF since the necromancy update.  I wasn't aware they'd come back to life after such little time.  (Granite hadn't even ended yet)

But yeah currently attempting to re-claim.  3/7 Dorfs still alive and inside the fortress.  But that's still crawling with zombies so...yeah.... I'll probably just keep sending reclaim squads in until 1 of them eventually survives it....

[peregarrett]

My usual tactic was - embark, dig under, lock inside with provosions, make plans of dispatching zombies. You can use my smasher trap, it worked fine

Dorf me as one of survivors after you manage it.

[andyman564]

and the irony is that if you had left the bodies alone they would have behaved just fine. the part where i kept them is non-raising (save for 1 or 2 tiles).

good luck with the reclaim

P.S. please redorf me as Reginald II, if that dorf dies Reginald III, and so on...


EDIT: and at least my flood trap won't cause fps death

[Ifeno]

and the irony is that if you had left the bodies alone they would have behaved just fine. the part where i kept them is non-raising (save for 1 or 2 tiles).

good luck with the reclaim

P.S. please redorf me as Reginald II, if that dorf dies Reginald III, and so on...


EDIT: and at least my flood trap won't cause fps death

Yeah your food trap isn't too big a deal.  Really just an inconvenience.  In all honesty the FPS is fairly good for all the flooding.  Also, how do you know those tiles are non raising?  Again sorry I don't have super much experience with the zombie update....

My usual tactic was - embark, dig under, lock inside with provosions, make plans of dispatching zombies. You can use my smasher trap, it worked fine

Dorf me as one of survivors after you manage it.

Where's your smasher?  I was looking for that earlier but couldn't find it.  What exactly did you do?  Kill them and smash the corpses or did you smash them while they were alive?

[andyman564]

Yeah your food trap isn't too big a deal.  Really just an inconvenience.  In all honesty the FPS is fairly good for all the flooding.  Also, how do you know those tiles are non raising?  Again sorry I don't have super much experience with the zombie update....

i know the tiles along the inside of the wall are non raising because that's where i stored all the corpses during my turn.

[peregarrett]

Where's your smasher?  I was looking for that earlier but couldn't find it.  What exactly did you do?  Kill them and smash the corpses or did you smash them while they were alive?

If Andy didn't dismount it, it's entance should be to the left of this:


it has note on it describing it's construction. Plate with smasher behind it, then plate+hatch combo. Sometimes crundles make run over bridge before it raises.

[Ifeno]

Yeah your food trap isn't too big a deal.  Really just an inconvenience.  In all honesty the FPS is fairly good for all the flooding.  Also, how do you know those tiles are non raising?  Again sorry I don't have super much experience with the zombie update....

i know the tiles along the inside of the wall are non raising because that's where i stored all the corpses during my turn.

But are you sure they're not raising?  Or did you just get lucky?  I had't started moving them when they got up and started killing things.  My preperations weren't ready when they were killed.  Or is any corpse stockpile non raising?

[Ifeno]

Where's your smasher?  I was looking for that earlier but couldn't find it.  What exactly did you do?  Kill them and smash the corpses or did you smash them while they were alive?

it has note on it describing it's construction. Plate with smasher behind it, then plate+hatch combo. Sometimes crundles make run over bridge before it raises.

So it's an automatic atom smasher?  Ie.  I just clean out the fort, dump the corpses outside and wait for them to attempt to re-enter the fort upon which they will hit the plates and smash themselves?

[andyman564]

Yeah your food trap isn't too big a deal.  Really just an inconvenience.  In all honesty the FPS is fairly good for all the flooding.  Also, how do you know those tiles are non raising?  Again sorry I don't have super much experience with the zombie update....

i know the tiles along the inside of the wall are non raising because that's where i stored all the corpses during my turn.

But are you sure they're not raising?  Or did you just get lucky?  I had't started moving them when they got up and started killing things.  My preperations weren't ready when they were killed.  Or is any corpse stockpile non raising?

i don't have much experience with evil regions, but seeing as most of those corpses were there for the better part of a year, i'd say they were safe. i know that the fields south of the mountain are non-raising. maybe try building a fort out there first.

and i never dismantled the smasher, so it's still there, just south of the garden of death.

[peregarrett]

Where's your smasher?  I was looking for that earlier but couldn't find it.  What exactly did you do?  Kill them and smash the corpses or did you smash them while they were alive?

it has note on it describing it's construction. Plate with smasher behind it, then plate+hatch combo. Sometimes crundles make run over bridge before it raises.

So it's an automatic atom smasher?  Ie.  I just clean out the fort, dump the corpses outside and wait for them to attempt to re-enter the fort upon which they will hit the plates and smash themselves?

You can dump them somewhere inside. Deads raise if the tile where they are belongs to evil region. in our case it that is what under snow. Courtyard along the walls, moat and such are safe, I was dumping boudies there with little problem. I even made butchery next to guard tower - it's safe too.