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[ThaMuzz]

I have a Forgotten Beast, Nssu-Ghahnb by name.  It is a Caddisfly made of "25% chance to make enemies crazed".  It has poisonous vapors.  Oh, and a square shell.
This is the single most awesome thing I can imagine.

[Jerbot]

The HFS just destroyed the best fort I've had yet. 16 years old, 4 squads of named warriors in full mithril armor, half had named their weapons, just became mountain home, self sustaining, loads of fun.

Thanks Meph for a mod that is such a blast. This was 3c so now i need to get caught up to the current version, and add something else to learn...maybe the magic system.

Favorite things right now...the metal industry, guilds, fighting frost giants, and turrets.

[Meph]

The HFS just destroyed the best fort I've had yet. 16 years old, 4 squads of named warriors in full mithril armor, half had named their weapons, just became mountain home, self sustaining, loads of fun.

Thanks Meph for a mod that is such a blast. This was 3c so now i need to get caught up to the current version, and add something else to learn...maybe the magic system.

Favorite things right now...the metal industry, guilds, fighting frost giants, and turrets.

Good luck (I never had a 16 year fort...)

[cephelo]

Heh, I had a frost giant come with some other invaders.

The Swamp Titan Kista Dobrotayagoditsa has come!  A gigantic hairy antlion larva.  It has two short horns and it emanates an aura of giving and kindness.  Its taupe hair is very curly.

D'awww, he just wanted some hugs!!

[LMeire]

First fort on the latest version, just dug into the side of a mountain and found a Balrog 20 tiles in. He managed to take out 2 bats and a tuskox, but other than that there weren't any casualties.



After losing so many forts to metalwraiths, I'm not too impressed with this supposedly more powerful foe. I don't even know how he died, none of the military have him as a listed kill.

EDIT: Nevermind, dug up another "shadow rock" or whatever and lost 25 dwarves in less than a minute. Gonna reclaim with an orckish warband, try to clear them out.

[henkalv]

 just arrived in a mirthful embark, setting up my fort for what I expect to be a easy mode game.

Suddenly it starts raining dwarf blood.

edit: Holy armok that made the fps tank hard

[cephelo]

Yeah, you can't really go on the good/evil biomes as easily with Masterwork. A few failed forts ago I had a Serene embark get invaded by 64 automatons in the 2nd spring, at the same time as the first large formerly large migration wave.

[deknegt]

Just embarked in the Gaia map.

Decided to check the animals, and the first thing I come across is a cute little Platypus.

Wait...



Remind me never to pick a fight with that Platypus, because I am sure she will fuck my entire fort up.

[Gamerlord]

Word to the wise; DO NOT EMBARK WITH 30 PLUMP HELMET MEN. I only meant to butcher them all first thing, but they rioted and now my smith has broken arms!

[LMeire]

You know that fort that I said would probably fall to the balrogs earlier? It actually survived another 3 years! But now there's a rabies breakout and I'm down to three starving dwarfs that are being constantly interrupted by each other. So I've mapped out what I've got so far:

The Entrances:

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This is where my wagon landed and broke apart, there's like 50 sandbags in there.

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Another crevasse in the mountain that I had modified into a majestic hallway; it hooks up to the first entrance by that hall to the east there. Also included are some housing projects and the ore-processors for what I was hoping would be a massive mining/foundry/manufacturing-complex, to the north there's a track that was going to take processed ores to the magma-smelters I never got to build.

The Grand Hall:

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This is where I met the first pathetic balrog, he didn't even manage to kill the transformed miner that was "frozen with fear". It's also where I discovered a Tear, which was much more dangerous as it had trapped all but one of miners and the flood was quickly advancing toward the lower farming levels.

The Industrial Hall:

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This is directly beneath the ore-processors, to the east is where I stockpile ore-bearing rock to be hauled upstairs. To the west is what I was planning to be assorted workshops, the ramps are to allow access to the housing above.

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The hallway underneath the track, (It's nestled between the ore-processors and the majority of the track path, to limit minecart-dwarf casualties.) I guess I'd fill it with housing or workshops or whatever. Didn't get very far.

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The track itself, I might have expanded it into a grid pattern with stockpiles in the middle or something

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This was going to be my magma-tap, as usual I was planning to channel it down a staircase after I finished carving out a reservoir.

The Agricultural Hall:

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Granary and some basic workshops. Not much else.

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Farms and a sawmill-brewery, might have expanded into exports office in time.

The Nobles Hall:

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Guildhalls and military warehousing to the west, noble housing and grand feast-hall to the east. This is the deepest part of the mountain that on the same z-level as the entrance.

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The second story.

The Slums:

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This is where I've been burrowing all the insane, plague-bearing, and loyalty cascading dwarves. It's just to keep them out of the way for now, I was planning on adding a track that automatically fed food into a small stockpile in the burrow, but that fell through with everything else. On the z-level below is where I found an aquifer, currently using for well-water, was going to weaponize it by lining my entrances with water-pumps, freezing them solid in the open air on command.

[Gamerlord]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT MONSTROSITY.

[urmane]

Rith Elikshem has become a Masons Guild Dwarf *Architect* schizophrenic
A human caravan from Caspagil has arrived
Rith Elikshem has become a Masons Guild Dwarf *Stonecrafter Potter* schizophrenic

Um, remind me to have a talk with him.  Er, them ...

[LMeire]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT MONSTROSITY.

That would be the doomed fortress of "PolishedAxe"; I was going for a cross between the dwarves of Dragon Age and Lord of the Rings.

[SharpKris]

Thank you dragon age for inspiring me to create INSANELY DEADLY Beautiful lava roads

[Repseki]

As I type this my current fort is paused and I just made a backup of the save so I can try and figure out what just happened after I watch what is going to likely be the fall of this fort. Or at the very least a painful memory.

It is the 5th year at Shedimkatdir, or "Shadowglimmered", and the Dwarven caravan is unloading at the Depot while my dwarves bring the mass of worn clothing, rusty armor, and various trinkets I had nearby. Things have been going smoothly from the start, with only two early casualties when a Hunter, and baby, tried to wrestle with a few Drakes. The metal industry has been going good, the military is full of killing machines, and there are even a few new recruits working on some mage training. Besides a recent stone shortage, and related stone journal overflow (How do we have 500 journals? What do you mean we never set the workflow limit?), everything has been going great.

At least until right now...

I'm not even sure what exactly happened, but after a quick screen jump to see my military cut a kobold in two, I jumped back to the Depot to do some trading. That's when I see the entire Depot area filled with deadly poison. As the smoke clears I start looking for combat reports, or anything, that might tell me what happened. Nothing. All I have to work with are half of my dwarves, possibly more, and all of the traders/guards on the ground unconscious, suffocating, and in extreme pain.

I'm not sure why they would have gone off, but the only thing I can think of causing this are the few stacks of Manticore ammo I set to be brought to the Depot.

So now I'm gonna watch as half my fort suffocates. On the bright side, none of my military and even the Baron were elsewhere in the fort. 60 of my 123 dwarves were nearby though, so this should be interesting...