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[laularukyrumo]

Last minute signup engage!

So I decided to park myself in a Joyous Wilds swamp. That happened to be scorching. I've never actually played a Good region before.

Fairly uninteresting in the first minute, but I noticed when I unpaused, I was chugging along at 8fps. From start. In a swamp. I've never had that problem before. It might have something to do with temp... I tried disabling it and reloading, but it doesn't seem to be helping the situation. FUCK.

edit: DFhack command "immolate all" worked, brought me up to 60fps at the expense of all the trees being dead. I don't like that option.

YOUR SETTLEMENT HAS BEEN ABANDONED

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ROUND TWO, ENGAGE

So the fortress of Yellowwheel, situated in the neutral, yet savage, Shrublands, is now under construction. First thing I notice? Snow. Snow everywhere. I keep forgetting, "temperate" really means "fucking freezing". I'll be lucky if this shit melts in time for, well, ever.

The second thing I notice is all the god damn bugs. And I don't mean the savage wildlife. I mean FUCKING BEES EVERYWHERE. Naturally, while I'm getting my minecart stockpile and logging operations underway, I send the miners to go exterminate the colonies via cave-in flavored justice. Fuck yeah, justice.

Then the badgers showed up.

[Ruhn]

So the fort entry deadline is tomorrow, March 6th.

Will that also be the conclusion for voting on the submission deadline?

Yep, I'll end the poll and announce the deadline in about 34 hours.

[HavingPhun]

So the fort entry deadline is tomorrow, March 6th.

Will that also be the conclusion for voting on the submission deadline?

Yep, I'll end the poll and announce the deadline in about 34 hours.

Signing up or handing in? Do the forts have to be uploaded and done by midnight march 6th?

[Mishrak]

March 6th is the cutoff for new entries.  Meaning people participating (signups).  Right now we're voting on the date still for fort submission, but that vote ends on March 6th also.  Sorry for the confusion.

[HavingPhun]

March 6th is the cutoff for new entries.  Meaning people participating (signups).  Right now we're voting on the date still for fort submission, but that vote ends on March 6th also.  Sorry for the confusion.

Its ok. Thank you. I was going to rush to finish up 6 hours tonight. 

[Brewster]

Sign me up! Probably attempt/finish this weekend.
Now just need to figure out my main goal.

[laularukyrumo]

In hindsight, I probably should've started on the aquifer before designating all the ramps to be nuked and going around and destroying all the colonies of ants/bees/beetles/whatnot on the map.

In my defense, ramp patrol is important to keep unicorns out, and I really fucking hate bees.

Oh well. At least the aquifer is only 1z deep, it'll be done in no time. I've got enough wood to last me approximately a while, DEFINITELY until we hit the caverns, and I can probably even burn some for charcoal--which I'm gonna need to do, as I was unable to bring coal with me.

Anyway, while I wait for the miners to finish, I've declared war on boulders. I'm smoothing every single fucking aboveground stone I see, because, they're ugly and get in my way. And I don't recall but I -think- they have a random chance of dropping a stone, which is gonna be nice, so I don't have to use wood to seal up the aquifer. No clay, for once--it's all loam and peat. Which, frankly, is a first for me. I sort of forgot DF actually had legit soil.

All right. Got the ramps dealt with, got the first stair channeled out... oh hey migrants. Sweet. Now I have an army of stone-murderers and pump operators and wall builders. Excellent. We might see stone before winter. Maybe. Hopefully. I should get a trade depot and some spiked balls made so I can buy out the caravan when it shows up.

FUCK. Two children and a fish dissector. God dammit. Okay, so I have ONE stone-murderer/pump operator/wall builder. That's one more than I currently have, you lazy fucks.

Ran out of booze while micromanaging the aquifer. Lol. At least I have plump helmets.

Animals are giving birth now. Time to cage the cats. That fish dissector? He's a cat slave already. I know who I'm drafting first.

On second thought.... He has a preference for Wagon Wood. Hahahahaha. Oh man. I forgot about that. WELP. Guess who's not allowed to be a noble?

EDIT: I actually think his wagon wood preference makes up for both the cat-loving and him being "extremely quick to tire." He probably isn't the best candidate for pump operation. I've gotten several "Cancels Operate Pump: exhausted" messages already. I -hope- I can put him to work in the pump gym to get that fixed, but it's unlikely to happen.

fuck



Bloody hell. The first safe z-level below the aquifer, and we've got iron, BUT IT'S UNDER A SECOND AQUIFER. That's it. I'm gonna go nuclear on this shit. I'm building a drain to the caverns, then strip mining THE ENTIRE FUCKING Z-LEVEL.

[laularukyrumo]

Good gourd.

I got frustrated and popped a quick DFhack reveal. Ten layers of aquifer, with varying patches of dryness.

Fuck it. I'm bowing out. Good luck y'all.

[Thatdude]

Ok! I just finished my 10 hours. The goal of this fort was to create a human like town with each dwarf having their own personal house. No dwarf would live underground and no workshops would be there either. Only mining for stone and any infrastructure to transport the stone would be underground.

So how things went:

Year 1: Embarking and settling.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Start
Generated the world:
Small world, short history, low civs.
Embarked on a woodland with 2 rivers intersecting and an aquifer as well as deep and shallow metals.

0:00
Started with:
2 Miners
3 Masons
1 Woodworker
1 Farmer

Notable items brought:
And extra pick in favour of 2 axes
No seeds, we wont be farming underground
A bunch of granite to start production work as soon as possible
Apart from that, all the usual stuff.

0:15 1st temporary accommodation built. Granite brick walls and roof, orthoclase floor. Work on individual rooms starts next.

0:35 The first 4 houses are finished. Roads to connect everything are being started. Bad planning has caused the need to move the mason workshops and stone stockpiles. Summer has arrived.

0:50 All the initial 7 have a house just in time for the first migration wave to arrive. Luckily it’s only 3 people, a married pair and their child, so only 2 more houses are needed immediately. First kobolds already…. Really?

1:10 Autumn has come. The migrants have houses, a bridge over the river has been constructed and a warehouse for workshops is now under construction. Food supplies are running low, farmer sent out to gather plants.

1:15 More migrants, only 2 useful dwarves again, but bringing 4 (!) children. We have too many children already.  Ran into the deconstruction, teleporting glitch. Lol. Butchering all the remaining animals just to make sure we survive until the caravan. Luckily it arrives shortly after. A workshop over the river is started connected by a bridge.

1:30 Broker doesn’t want to do the trading. Pretty standard for my brokers.

1:40 One of the children grows up to a peasant. That’s a nice surprise.

2:00 More koblods spotted….. Spring has arrived! Year 1 complete!

Year 2: Expanding and exploiting.

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2:30 Holy balls a huge migration wave. 42 of them and not a single mason. Sigh.
Because no farms have gone up, people are soon hunting for vermin to eat. Not looking good. When I do make a farm, we have only 1 fisher berry to grow…. Woooooo. Work on a meeting hall starts. A forge/smelter and wood burner are placed. More kobolds. Work on a minecart track from the mines to the workshops is started.

2:45 Elves are here. That means free stuff! I steal their shit and they go off in a huff. Good thing they came, needed the food desperately.

3:00 First booze is brewed in the fort. Only took 1 and a half years or so. Minecart track almost finished.

3:10, Minecart track is having problems but set to be solved quickly and the track works! Apparently we have a mayor now. Also, first fey mood, only a child though.

3:20, Another set of useless dwarf migrants. I set a bunch to be masons and add another miner. Kid finishes his amulet…. Kinda boring.

3:40 Humans here…. Guess we’ll steal their stuff too since we have nothing to trade with them. I set the minecart route to “ride”. The unfortunate dwarf ends up sailing into the river after an amazing derail. Said dwarf drowns shortly after… The second test (after a few walls have been installed to prevent any derails) works more successfully. The dwarf is only thrown from the cart with a shattered leg. I guess we’re pushing not riding but still a success!

4:00 More fucking migrants. I reset the pop cap to 80 just to control the population for a while. Also, weremole appears at the same time and I have no military right now. Luckily it turns back to a dwarf right away and all is good. Animal trainer grabs some rock and withdraws from society.

4:15 Dwarf caravan is here. Shame I have nothing to trade with them. Trade some mechanisms for some more picks. Need them for the large moat that is going to be dug out.

4:30 Orthoclase shortages cause granite to be main building material. A child is kidnapped. Another wave of kobolds arrive along with another successful kidnapping. This causes work on removing all ramps and strategically digging moats to protect the fort. Thanks to my miners all being legendary by now, this is achieved fairly quickly.

5:00 spring has arrived. Year 2 done.

Year 3: Titans and terror.

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5:10, Non stop wood burning has caused me to run out of logs. Whoops. Cut some more useless peons! Another child grows up. A hill titan shows up.  Smudo Xogaktungu. A colossal grouse that shoots webs. Oh shit let’s hope it can’t swim…. Or fly… Wait, a grouse is a bird. It can fly. Shit. The grouse proceeds to the mines and starts the slaughter with a miner it trapped.

5:20 Praise be the hunters! An incredibly lucky crossbow shot breaks the creature’s leg. Now seemingly immobile, the hastily assembled and equipped (I literally set a few swords to be made while it was distracted and told dwarves with and experience to hold them) militia wades through the stream of webs fired out by the titan and after a long struggle bring it down! Construction of a hospital begins.

5:30 A ranger goes berserk. Obviously lost a few friends in the conflict. And proceeds to kick the first militia dwarf he meets to death. Wow. Now everyone is unhappy. All said and done the titan killed 11 and the ranger caused 12 and was 13. Make that 14, a child just got kidnapped. The spiral starts in full with another berserker. He is more quickly dealt with. But another berserk follows. More dwarves go insane and only one out of the first 4 insane dwarves doesn’t go berserk. Wow. More insane dwarves. All efforts directed to burying the dead.

5:45 The spiral seems to have slowed. No more go insane but a few dwarves are still regularly tantruming. The bridge to the workshops is destroyed and the minecart track is the only crossing over the river. Orders are immediately set to stop all minecart activity.

6:00 That’s a lie, another wave of berserks and insanes come when the non-violent insane dwarves die claiming more lives. Graves are being filled just as fast as they can be made. Meanwhile a dwarf doesn't have the thread they need to complete their possession. Hope the human caravan arrives soon.

6:10 Human caravan is here. Thank god. We had just ran out of food as well. But despite all the death recently there are still a few happy dwarves somehow. However seems all the children are going insane. Possessed dwarf starts building after we steal supplies from the humans.

6:20, The possession is incredibly useful. A Statue of dwarves. Fuck yes. It immediately is placed in the major meeting hall. Statue shows affect immediately with a  few dwarves becoming “fine” rather than miserable. Awesome.

6:30 The fort is showing signs of stabilizing again. Just waiting for all the currently insane dwarves to die and restart the whole thing a 3rd time. So much has been destroyed in the constant tantruming. Have to replace a great number of furniture and roads. Here comes the next waves of deaths. Brace yourselves. Bridge to the workshops is destroyed for the 4th time. God dammed dwarves.

6:45 Dwarf caravan again. No trade goods again.  The liason; “let’s discuss your situation” FUCKED.

7:00 Bridge goes AGAIN. It seems every angry dwarf in the fort has a vendetta against that bridge. And another mood from a wood worker. Needs cut gems. Fuck. I set a useless dwarf to the task. Caravan leaves with no trade. Again we had nothing to trade with.

7:10 A coffin is marked for burial but not immediately assigned to a dead dwarf. Is this a turning point? The woodworker starts his construction and makes a wooden floodgate.

7:15 One final berserk dwarf is put down and marks the end of the tantrum spiral!
Fun facts:
At the start of the spiral we had 84 dwarves. We now have 21.
Only 1 child (out of like, 20) survived the spiral. He’s my legendary stonecrafter from the fort’s first strange mood.
Both my military dwarves that survived (out of the 4 that were there at the start) have also have created artifacts and neither managed to get big names from the "peacekeeping" (Both have 4 kills).
Over half of the original starting 7 survived (4): 1 miner (of 2) the carpenter and 2 masons (of 3).
It is now the age of legends! End of year 3.

Year 4: Recovery and Remembrance.

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7:30 A goal of making sure each of the dead in remembered in a proper fashion has been set. All the dead have graves and I will work on everyone having an engraved slab to go with it.

7:40 Ghosts are put to rest. The first set of migrants arrive “despite the danger”. 39 of them. God dam.

8:00 Migrants put to work as haulers mostly. Fey mood from a trader. Who claims a masons workshop. Free stuff- I mean elves are here again. Booze, thread, plants, the usual, is all stolen and the elves are off again. Normal construction work resumes over a year of tantrum fueled pausing.

8:30 Work continues on memorializing everyone. A donkey went berserk some how. Zooming to find it reveals it’s at the bottom of the lake next to the fort’s cliff. Evidently an elf tried to jump cross the river as the ice melted and fell down the waterfall

8:40. More migrants. Might have to start thinking about houses again

8:45 2 things happen. 1: Human caravan. Yay. 2: A vile force of darkness. Dam. Looks like we’re just going to take up the bridge and just hide from them. Or not. Humans are badasses and deal with the goblins no problem. Return of the reluctant broker though.

9:00 Only 14 more slabs to go we’re almost there. Another bunch of useless migrants show up though. Sigh. Also a dwarf is possessed and claims the craftshop. God dam. I need that for slab production

9:30 Despite the mood, all slabs are made an placed. Every dead dwarf has been buried and memorialized! I haven’t checked properly but only 1 mistake was made when placing slabs and that was fixed. Which considering how many dwarves died is amazing. But on a sadder note, the moody dwarf went mad. Couldn't get the stones he needed apparently. Dwarf caravan arrives along with some kobolds.

9:40 Fisher dwarf withdraws from society and quickly starts building, making an earring. Boring.

9:55 With minutes to go every dwarf that needs a room has one! Was a bit of a rush though.

10:00 finish!

Final stats
Dwarves: Alive: 87 (all except babies with their own house) Dead: 67 (All with a grave and an engraved slab except the last death).

Wealth: 489 187 (157 994 in architecture, the majority).

Only 1890 exported (lol) 119667 “imported” (mostly stolen but yeah).

Number of blocks made: 3464. Only 70 were unused by the end.

End date 21st obsidian, 129. Almost 4 years after we embarked (in 126).

The final save!

If I can I'll upload images of the fort at the end of each year if anyone at all in interested. I have to say this was fun to do. I like having a set goal to work towards even if a large part of DF is setting your own goals to do. Really sorry but I didn't keep track of what my fps was like though it was pretty high throughout.

EDIT: Spelling, grammar and a few things to make it make a little more sense. Hopefully.

[Gigaz]

What was your FPS?

[Ruhn]

I got frustrated and popped a quick DFhack reveal. Ten layers of aquifer, with varying patches of dryness.

I had no idea they could go that deep. 

Nice submission Thatdude, I lol'd a few times.  That artifact statue came at just the right time.

OP updated!

[Thatdude]

What was your FPS?

-snip-
Really sorry but I didn't keep track of what my fps was like though it was pretty high throughout.

I edited that on the end a little after posting sorry.

[Mishrak]

So now the race to March 11th begins.

I've got some work left to do on mine, but it should be ready in time.  I'll probably go right down to the wire to polish the write-up some, as I have a fun (I think it's fun at least) story I want to tell.  I just need to work out how to do it.

[HavingPhun]

I have 7 and a half hours completed. I'm thinking about how I should do my write up.

[Mishrak]

I'm just short of 3 hours in on mine.  It's a little tricky finding more than 30 or 40 mins of time to plop down during the week.  It's progressing well, although I forgot to actually cook food and my dwarves were starving despite having 150 livestock, woops.  So I fixed that but lets see how we do.  First year is coming to a close.  I should be able to get a lot hammered out over the weekend (which I have no choice because monday is the 11th!)