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Total Members Voted: 3

[Mishrak]

Hilarious.

Look at all that gold!

It's probably not a huge deal to stray from the pop cap, depending on what your goal is. 

[Giver99]

I am definitely in This will be

[RockBiterSon]

All right, I'm going to do this if I can find time on the weekend. Low-to-moderate experience player. I've had successful forts but allways lost interest past year four. This time I'm going to try and shake up my conservative playstyle by actively seeking out caverns and the like. Maybe I'll try for breaching

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Hell.

I've never dug that deep before so I don't even know if it is possible in just ten hours. I'm going to actively avoid using the wiki while doing this, in part to simulate the Ars Technica writer's attempt, but mostly because in any given fort I tend to spend more than half of my time in wiki spirals. I'm also going to limit myself in the amount of clutter I make, mostly for fps reasons.

I assume that dwarf therapist is allowed? It's in the lazynoob pack, yet I wouldn't call it in theme

new players probably don't know this option

Maybe I'll limit myself by not using the handy 'roles' system built into the latest version.

Fps is a large problem for me in past forts. In my latest I got stuck around 20 fps after clean-up from a goblin seige. I'm not very good at controlling fps. My computer is a five-year-old dell laptop, that as I am typing this is whirring loudly even without anything running in the background. It often emits frightening clicks and whirs that sound like it's dying. I'm not sure how to find out all the stats about its performance, if anyone would walk me through that I'll try for the ancient machine category too.

Oh, and btw this is my first forum post. I made an account just to give this a try.

[Mishrak]

Yep.  Dwarf Therapist is definitely allowed.  You can manage 10-20 dwarves without it, but 150, forget it.

[Fluoman]

Count me in.
And boy, I'm going to marathon that. Ten hours straight ftw 

[Thatdude]

A DF marathon tomorrow sounds like just the plan! I think I'll return to my above ground fort that I do so love. Though not controlling the pop cap may annoy my ocd. Every dwarf must have a personal house! 2 stories tall and with a small dining room! If I can break away from the mad house building I may also build a big a castle around my town as possible....

Let's see where this goes.

[Gigaz]

Sign me in. I tend to have the game paused quite often, no idea how much ingame time would pass if I'd play 10 hours.

[Ruhn]

Congrats to Vjek on the first submission!
Gold & masterwork sets the bar high for the rest of us. (I'm giving it a try too, 2 hours in so far)

I know many players like to reduce the pop cap; it is discouraged but not an instant DQ.

My computer is a five-year-old dell laptop, that as I am typing this is whirring loudly even without anything running in the background. It often emits frightening clicks and whirs that sound like it's dying. I'm not sure how to find out all the stats about its performance, if anyone would walk me through that I'll try for the ancient machine category too.

Wow, sounds like lots of !!FUN!! even when DF isn't running 
(( Right-click computer properties, and it will show your CPU speed and RAM. ))

OP has been updated with Vjek's submission and the new contestants.

[Mushroo]

Great work so far, everyone! Very inspirational. I have a fun idea for my fort and will be getting underway tonight.

[Fluoman]

Your strength has been broken.
Oh god, year 2 4-squad elf ambush followed by undead siege.
Well, that was fun.

[flabort]

  Time to start. I will be going for the Survive This category, looking for an evil ocean. My second ocean, my second evil biome (but neither of my firsts covered the entire embark), my goal will be to turn this evil ocean into a dry bed. Or something. IF I can survive 10 hours.

Edit: This is how it's going:

Spoiler: Day One (click to show/hide)

900 PM, March 1st
Seems the Moist Oceans cover most of this world. Lots of little islands and fjords and bays. Couldn't find a place where the ocean itself was terrifying, but I did find a terrifying haunted embark intescting the ocean. Bah, not nearly as hard as I was looking for, but OK. Going with an old fashioned 6x6 size embark space, with 26/36 tiles being ocean. The Forest of Slime, a haunted Taiga, is the other biome, taking up the remaining 10 tiles.

Blah, blah, blah, warnings about large areas, salt water, and aquifiers. Embark. Bring lots of food, lots of wood, lots of drink, and 7 picks.

Great, the whole of the ocean here is frozen. Unexpected, but useful. Everone mines, let's get under the ocean, ASAP.

915
And... it would seem once you dig some stairs through ice, when they meet the ground they don't continue. Groan... fortunately, a quick check reveals only albatrosses and crabs currently inhabit the map.

Enough space dug to build mason's shop. mason no longer mining. Need doors, ASAP, incase this ocean ever thaws.

Carpenter off mining, starting to make stockpiles for everything. Wood and food, mostly. Furniture, too.

930
3 quantum stockpiles set up. Setting the carpenter back to hauling and mining.

YES! The dwarves brought in the anvil. I could care less about the bags of sand. Umm... why did I embark with 80+ bags sand again?

Raven corpses on map. sigh.

Yay for water buffalos!  9 dead ravens dead again.

940
Of course, there's the reanimation thing. "The partial raven skeleton slams into an obstacle!" And "This is a raven corpse skeleton". Today I also discover that pudding stone looks like a bed in a wall.

950
Wagon forbidden to prevent more hauling. Turtling now. I think my mason is a lost cause, he's trapped outside.
 
1000
A very thirsty and unhappy dwarf streaks through recently unlocked doors, weilding a recently unforbidden axe obtained from the wagon. Cerol wipes sweat off his brow, and locks the series of 16 doors behind himself.

1008
Summer arives. My food and drink industry starts. I strike bloodstone (the green/speckled rock, not anything bleeding). The only two undead remaining are one of my water buffalos (the bull, not the cow), and a crab. The wb cow and sea otters killed all the others.

1015
3 dwarves take breaks. Two are asleep. The ocean melts, finally, taking the dead bull under. Seems an 8x2 hall full of doors CAN keep out an ocean.

1020
Another wave of raven corpses arives. Too bad there's no sign of any entrance to the dwarven halls, haha!

1025
I knew I forgot about something. Migrants arive. Darn. Where will I put them, how will I get them into the fortress? Or will I let them all die? Two fisherdwarves, a dyer, and a carpenter. NONE of which are useful except as maybe more planters/harvesters/haulers. IF I can get them inside.

I reclaim the wagon, and set up a carpenter's shop outside. unsuspend it once or twice, and deconstruct the wagon. A corkscrew and a pipe section later, and I enable mechanics.

1030
Save for the night. Time spent so far: 1 hour 30 minutes.

[Fluoman]

Just to be sure about the rules:
I did Fortress One in 3 hours and 13 minutes and it was destroyed by outside forces. Do I reclaim and save it and submit it, or do I still have 6 hours and 47 minutes to do a better fort?

[Mishrak]

That's up to you and whatever story you want to tell.  You could also start an entirely new fort and devote 10 hours to it.  The time limit pertains to a single fort, not necessarily how much time you have total to make a fort.  Just remember you can only submit one fort.  You could also just as well submit your first 3 hour 13 minute fort and be done, if you were so inclined.

[Fluoman]

Oh, that's nice!

[hermes]

Mosus Borushsodel, expedition leader of Leaderroughness, presents...

War Horse Fortress

With the impending nerfing of fast quadrupeds by the Great Toad, Mosus decided to lead an outpost in tribute to their prowess by relying on them entirely for the defense of the dwarves in her charge.  The fortress was to have no guard, militia, armour or weapons save the axes for felling as many small trees as possible.  Horses were to be brought and bred and were expected to defend the dwarves with their fleet hooves and quick lives.

Spoiler: Year One (click to show/hide)

Mosus thought a savannah would be the best embark so the horsies could stretch their legs. 


Her parent civilization didn't have much faith in her hairbrained military schemes so only let her take four mares and a single stallion.  Six horse-lovers followed her on her mission, including the tamer Kadol Eribasol.  Kadol had no experience training any animal in fact, but she convinced Mosus she had a natural bond with all long snouted beasts.

She ordered the dwarves to dig a rudimentary dirt warren to begin with.  One mare was war-trained in case some bad egg showed up, but generally the strategy was to not produce anything of worth for the time being so nobody would even think of coming.


The first year was quiet, which the dwarves and ponies were thankful for.  A handful of horse enthusiasts arrived but only got a glimpse of the horse army before they were drafted into masonry and carpentry for the statue that was to be built.

As the hot summer wore on, Kadol worried the grass might dry up, but autumn soon came to the plain and all the grazing beasts were healthy.  More tress were felled so horse and dwarf became happier.  The mares gave birth to four foals.

The outpost liason from the mountainhome arrived and we requested only more horses.  Despite bringing two wagons and two pack animals they didn't bring any horse pets so the broker didn't deign to trade with them.

[I just changed horses to be war trainable for this, if that invalidates my entry that's OK, I'm enjoying this so far.]

3 hours in so far.  I'm gonna be lucky if I get past year three.... *gulp*
Solid 100fps.