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[Sig Tau Dwarf]

I've actually never wanted to go and find an old destroyed fortress before but this one has such a massive amount of gold stored away! I don't know where I was on the world map when I started it and I techinally haven't lost it yet, one dwarf to go. Is there a way to find this fortress again? (Undead horde did me in)

[i2amroy]

I believe if you hit 'R' on the world map then it will come up with a list of your old fortresses that you can select from.

[MrWiggles]

Yea. Once you're fort is abandoned, or fall to darkness, you'll be able to find it again on the site finder menu.

You'll get a new command that allow you to cycle through your past fort sites and reclaim it.

[Sig Tau Dwarf]

I've been playing Dwarf Fortress for almost three years you'd think I would know this by now, . Thank you.

[i2amroy]

You learn something new every day. Heck, I've been playing DF for over 4 years now and I still encounter things I don't know or I thought I knew wrong from time to time.

[UristMcWanderer]

You should raid this Fort Knox of a decimated fortress in Adventure Mode and find something to do with the gold

[Sig Tau Dwarf]

A trader group just came through so I had sold all my golden items, crowns, cup, etc. So all I really had left was gold ore and around twenty or thirty golden blocks.

[UristMcWanderer]

The gold blocks are still worth a ton, though... You could net a full suit of iron armor and weaponry with the gold blocks there.

[GiglameshDespair]

If you reclaimed a fort will you find the mouldering bones of your fallen adventurers?

[Sig Tau Dwarf]

They were undead corpses if that has any say on the matter.

[Altruist]

Newb here, but I did this last week, and when I showed up with my embark caravan, the zombie horde was still there.  And now I don't even have the benefit of a halfway set up fort.  Help?

[Azated]

Newb here, but I did this last week, and when I showed up with my embark caravan, the zombie horde was still there.  And now I don't even have the benefit of a halfway set up fort.  Help?

You have three choices here.

1: Embark with 7 military dwarves. You'll want to use blunt weapons so you don't end up with dismembered hands trying to choke your dwarves.

2: Embark with 6 miners and a mason. Dig yourself a hidey-hole and block it up. Pretty straightforward.

3: The dwarf option. Embark with 7 miners. Fight your way to your favored position, dig yourself a hole, then collapse the entrance. Bonus points if you can decimate the zombie horde with your miners alone.

[donald]

Newb here, but I did this last week, and when I showed up with my embark caravan, the zombie horde was still there.  And now I don't even have the benefit of a halfway set up fort.  Help?

Id suggest abandoning and reclaiming with a custom caravan with some stone blocks and 4 or 5 masons. Confine everyone to a tight burrow and erect a 5x5 wall around your wagon. Remember to do the corners first.

If you really want to try without abandoning first, id say dig straight down and seal yourself in with a constructed wall.  Forget the wagon to save time and plant some plump helmets asap.

[Sig Tau Dwarf]

How do I keep the undead from coming back to life, that's what killed me for the most part.

[Ass_Kraken]

You probablly had a necromancer in your fort. 2 necromancers attacked my last fort rather early and that's what did me in aswell. I tried reclaiming the fort but the necromancers were too tough and every attempt just added more zombies to fight past.

You'd have to find and kill the necromancer.