build an embassy, and declare war repeatedly on all other races (it does not technically declare war but it causes ambushes/sieges)
This should get you visitors. Best way to do it is by building the embassy right next to the coin stockpile to reduce hauling time between the declarations of war If you do that for 2 seasons and nothing happens, then your game is probably screwed ^^
Speaking of coins, my fort's new mayor has banned coin exporting. Can anyone confirm for me whether or not using a trade workshop will violate the ban?
I am using masterwork tile set and It seems I can't start shade thorn tree farms (I do have seeds). Where they removed or do I do something wrong? I remember making one of those in some other older version.
Does anyone know the item values (density/yields) for bloody ingots made melting bloody armok stuff ? Is it better then steel or even mithril ?
I don't think Armok gear can be melted, and even if it could, it'd probably revert to steel or something, seeing as it's ostensibly good only because it's been blessed (or at least, that's what would make sense to me), e.g. smelting it would destroy or invalidate the blessing. As far as how good it is, I think it's roughly on par with volcanic and bifrost, and certainly better than everything else, although candy is still the top dog for non-blunt weapons.
As far as the shade thorn thing, have you breached the cavern they're native to? I don't think you can farm cavern 2/3 plants unless you've breached. I guess it's different for cavern one because it's just more familiar to dwarves or something?
