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mavj96's Mirthful/Sinister Embark

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Varni's Volcano Embark

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Metruption's Embark

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Imp's Ocean Side

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Total Members Voted: 13

[gchristopher]

Wait.. a reanimating ocean biome AND a big flat aquifer? Except for the tiny embark, this place is starting to sound quite appealing!

[Imp]

Wait.. a reanimating ocean biome AND a big flat aquifer? Except for the tiny embark, this place is starting to sound quite appealing!

Curious, what size embark do you prefer, and how many years play do you usually get to enjoy before FPS is below 50 (or your forts have died because of something else)?

There's at least a few places on the map where there's no obvious aquifer, where I picked to dig happened to be one of those.

[Varnifane]

It has been fun in a number of ways. I've been doing embarks in an area that has 18 towers for neighbors for the last month or so a terrifying zone with no bad weather is a something of a break.

I am a little disappointed by the ocean (one tile deep), that the aquifer is so easy to get around, that there is fresh water all over the place, and there seems to be (as far as I have found) no weapon-grade metal. Actually, the only thing that is annoying is the lack of weapons-grade metal.

I'm finding myself doing things I haven't done in quite a while like: relying on dogs to fight off annoying enemies, mass producing cages for cage traps and shutting out the outside world with raised bridges.

But I'm hoping if I can raise my fort value high enough the goblins will start bringing me weapons-grade metal.

[Varnifane]

Don't misread me tho. I'm having a great time. 

[Brewster]

They have creams that'll clear that up for you.

That clear up tattoos?

Actually, the only thing that is annoying is the lack of weapons-grade metal.

agree

Edit: Is danger rooms against the rules?

[gchristopher]

This is a cool thread. It'd be neat if there was a web tool where each player could post events and reports on a timeline and you could browse the divergent paths of the forts that way.

Something like http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/, maybe.

[Imp]

This is a cool thread. It'd be neat if there was a web tool where each player could post events and reports on a timeline and you could browse the divergent paths of the forts that way.

Something like http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/, maybe.

Huh!  That's a very interesting utility.  I only played around with it for a couple of minutes, but saw a few things I didn't like - it appears to have no overall index.  I can scroll further and further back (or forward) in time, but... until I get close I cannot tell if there's anything there to see.  And then I have no idea if I've actually found the start or end of events, or need to scroll further.  And I don't see a clear list of instructions of how to use it.

A spreadsheet of some sort maybe, with links to events?

I'm not adverse to the timeline, just... it's new and weird, maybe hard to use (I didn't instantly see how to use it) and maybe hard to navigate for the inexperienced who want to find the beginning and end of updates to it.

Gchristopher, you made an awesome suggestion.  By any chance, would you be interested in helping implement it?  Do you know how to use this program or know of others that you think would be good, and would you be willing to 'begin' one and give a basic overview of how to maintain it (or offer a link that explains that), or maybe be willing to maintain it yourself?

If Gchristopher doesn't want to do this, would anyone else be interested in doing so?

Edit: Is danger rooms against the rules?

Originally they were - because 'Things that make the game to easy' and 'things that abuse bugs in the game' are not desired by our OP.  We discussed it and agreed that we would watch each other's games and try to learn from the different playstyles (such things like danger rooms ARE balanced IF they are hard to do safely or efficiently, or offer other downsides... after all, forts that use danger rooms usually do end up experiencing FUN if not !!FUN!!, thus they may not be the be-all, end-all boring tactic that the OP wants to avoid completely - things like deconstructing your trade depot during trading IS against the rules because that's to easy and with to little downside, according to our OP).

With the current rules, danger rooms and similar are legal, assuming they are either challenging to do correctly and/or have downsides  - at least as I understand the rules.

[waylon531]

Winter has just arrived. A have to decided to do a report at the beginning of every season or if there is an important event.

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Right now, for the lack of crossbows, my dwarves are again trapped in their fortress, hiding from the zombie albatrosses.

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There is a water purification system set up for the ponds, I just need to make a pump for the one near the ocean for it to be complete.

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I have more food from plump helmets than I can possibly use, and I sent one of my woodcutters to be the bookkeeper for the fort. I am constructing an outside pen for the animals, but as I can not work on it due to the albatrosses, it will be a while before it is finished.

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Also, my fortress is named Alecheeses the Ancient Bald Animal-Beer of Banes.

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4 Moonstone, 80
The Albatrosses managed to get through one of the ponds I had drained. However, I had underestimated the skill of my marksdwarf (And overestimated the albatrosses). He took out 2 of them within the first couple seconds, then I drafted the rest of my fortress and they mobbed the rest of the albatrosses. They managed to take out my rooster though.

18 Moonstone, 80
My only militia member was killed by a zombie crab woman. For some reason, she wanted to punch the crab woman instead of shoot her with crossbow, and the crab made short work of her.

[Brewster]

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We set-up trade depot and bringing supplies indoors.


Our hunter is of course as close to being a tree hugging elf as a dwarf can get.


An undead! An undead!!


Everyone is drafted into the militia.


Our hunter was the first to attack the undead while the milita was being grouped. She held her ground, firing arrows until the undead was on top of her, pushing her off the cliff and then beating her over and over until the miner finally landed the killing blow. The hunter is now in need of medical attention and we have no supplies. The horse hair is being spun and the carpenter is making splints/crutches, it's the best we can do.


On the plus side we have more food.

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We set-up a draw bridge to smash intruders if we ever need to retreat into our base, and a bridge to  seal us if we need.


Forgot the bucket for the medical treatment!


We now continue to scan the lands, only Kiwi people, we can live with that.


Everyone at work, and finally surgery has begun.


The hunter was hurt on the 16th Felsite and it's now 13th of Hematite. We still only have our starting seven so we're doing compound fractures with dabbling skill-sets.


Mining still continues, and we slowly bring workshops indoors and underground, above is the rock workshops (mason, mechanic, craftsworkshop) and our carpenter with log stockpile, below is the still and metalshops (wood burner, smelter, forge)


The blacksmith needed a long break after all his surgery work, but above ground is looking fine, just one-humped camels grazing.


Finally, migrants! One manager, one farmer, one builder, one woodworker, and 4 recruits.


A well is being dug out before winter freezes our water.

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Everyone's hard at work, and the militia is training with wood spears currently.


We unearthed some gold ore. We're going to need it for our well, now if we could only find some iron or even copper, and our hunter needs more thread for her wounds... I've never prayed for elfs before.


Our medical system has failed.


SOB, placed the corpse outside to stop the stink and it arose from the dead!


She was quickly dealt with but upset the whole milita so we had them go idle. She was put to proper rest.


Our golden well has finally been set-up.


Our biggest challenge has been spotted!

[waylon531]

24 Obsidian, 80

You know how my rooster died at the beginning of winter? Well some of the eggs from one of the two hens hatched today. A miracle! I thought there had to be a rooster for the eggs to hatch, but apparently he just needs to be there when the eggs are laid, even though the wiki says otherwise.

Beginning of spring, 81
Not much more has been accomplished. One of my dwarves killed another when tantruming, but luckily he was fairly unimportant. I have a few more workshops set up, and I have just started my wool production.

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For some reason, my dwarves won't stockpile any of the new plump helmets, leaving them to rot in the field. I have dug down to layer 20, but have not hit any caverns.

[AutomataKittay]

You know how my rooster died at the beginning of winter? Well some of the eggs from one of the two hens hatched today. A miracle! I thought there had to be a rooster for the eggs to hatch, but apparently he just needs to be there when the eggs are laid, even though the wiki says otherwise.

Nope, it's like all other pregnancy, they just have to be there to start it. They don't have to stick around to the end, that's what fertilizing means

Though, point out which page got it wrong so I can double check that it's not just mis-understanding.

[Imp]

Minor update from me, haven't had much time to play yet
From the first chapter

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Midday, 15th of Timber, 80

     A giant dead crab and a giant dead moon-like snail have been stalking the fortress for the past four days.  We took the horse herd underground and waited to see if the unbeasts would fall into or perhaps pass our traps.  They came close to our entrance, but did not attempt to enter.

     The caravan was spotted earlier today.  We shouted at them to beware, but they were well prepared for the menace.  A single bash to the body with a mace dropped the snail, which may still be fresh enough to eat.  Caravans are always welcome, but this one especially so.  Now that they have found us, we can begin work on the hidden merchant’s path.

Despite the strange sea, things have remained calm and mostly safe.  Some weeks back a goblin thief went to near the horses and was spotted.  One of the dogs had wandered from its pen and chased it, but the goblin escaped and the dog was safely retrieved. 

We now number fourteen and are ready for winter, if the trading proves to be any good at all.

[waylon531]

Just reread the page, (I was looking at the nest box one) it said "however the eggs will not be fertilized and will not hatch unless a male is present," I thought it meant that the male needed to be present when the egg hatches, just a misunderstanding on my part.

[AutomataKittay]

Just reread the page, (I was looking at the nest box one) it said "however the eggs will not be fertilized and will not hatch unless a male is present," I thought it meant that the male needed to be present when the egg hatches, just a misunderstanding on my part.

Clarified it a bit anyway, that line can be easily mis-understood

[Imp]

From the first chapter
Hey guys!

I haven’t done much in the way of screenshots yet.  The fort just made it to the next year, so decided to update visually and OOCly for a change.  The screenshots are annotated for (hopeful) clarity.

All of these pictures are taken from the same perspective with just with a change of 1 z level, so everything lines up as if you were descending through the fortress.  The pictures go from top to bottom, though the central staircase goes a bit further down than the pictures show – those levels are just staircase for now and not worth showing.

For me there's been a bit of gold and a tiny, really really weak amount of risk, but no real danger.  No aquifier where I dug either.  The fort has no real problems other than that it's not yet very defensible against any real threat.

There’s been only one death on the map so far, a giant moon snail corpse which was returned to proper death by a bash to the body from a caravan guard.  Hadn’t realized that these undead, or some of them at least, could be killed so easily – that was NOT a decapitation or any sort of severing of the essential bits.

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