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[DreamCarver]

I've been out of the game for a while, and while I'm certainly not a very good player, I think it might be !!fun!! to receive an idea or two from you guys. Embark site conditions, dwarf skills, and wagon contents are all fair game.

[wierd]

--Practically unwinnable challenge--

Evil Embark with huskifying dust and auto undead on freezing biome (maximum savagery)
NO PICKS-- You cannot dig, ever.
ONE stone boulder
Become mountainhome

[Silfarion]

ALL DWARVES ARE MILKERS

SPEND ALL YOUR POINTS ON COWS AND 3 LOGS

[MrsStick]

For animals, only bring rabbits and cavies --> only produce a skull when butchered, no meat.

[Lielac]

ALL DWARVES ARE MILKERS

SPEND ALL YOUR POINTS ON COWS AND 3 LOGS

Pffff, you don't even need to buy logs. Just deconstruct the wagon.

[Blastbeard]

Here's a pair of things I've done in the past. Try them yourself.

The Dwarves of Dune:

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Gen a world with high temperatures, no rivers and (0 or 100, been awhile so I've forgotten) minimum draingage. You should  get an all desert world that humans and elves won't appear in. There will be a cold north/south no matter how you do it, but that's just the way it is.
The dwarves will be on their own in a world where every other intelligent life is out to kill them or steal from them. The dwarven civilization's survival until the end of world gen is not guaranteed and the goblins will have a distinct advantage of numbers.
Thespicemustflowbonus: build a seitch by embarking on a cave and live like Fremen-dwarves. No surface constructions are allowed, a seitch is meant to be unidentifiable from a distance.
Muad'dibbonus: tame sandworms, train them for war, and send them against the Harkonnen goblin scum. Requires modding in sandworms.

The Big Bridge:

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Gen an island type world and look for a location where the two continents are within one region tile of each other. Expand your embark site and build a bridge on the suface between the continents. The bridge must be over 1 z-level high(high enough one can swim under it without ddrowning)and at least 6 tiles wide(large enough for two wagons to cross side-to-side). The fact that your embark site needs to be huge means that you might lag a bit. Also, since the wagon always attempts to place itself as close to the center of the embark site as possible, you're proably going to end up on the beach just as the tide is coming in, the waves adding to the lag problem.
Trollbridgebonus: set up toll booths(trade depots) at each end of the bridge, collect a fee(sieze the caravan)every time someone wishes to cross.
GIRUGAMESHbonus: only engage enemies on the bridge. Play this song any and every time combat takes place on the bridge:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHbYIbleQP8

[DreamCarver]

Evil Biome no-pick mountainhome? I'm bold, but nowhere near ready to even attempt such a feat.

Arrakeen Dwarves sounds like it'll be interesting. Will attempt an enbark and post results later.

[vjek]

I've been out of the game for a while, and while I'm certainly not a very good player, I think it might be !!fun!! to receive an idea or two from you guys. Embark site conditions, dwarf skills, and wagon contents are all fair game.

An embark so cold you won't get caravans or animal invaders.
Partial aquifer
No surface water
No surface trees
Only specific dwarf skills allowed on embark are Appraiser, Organizer, and Record Keeper.
Only things you're allowed to bring is a rope, bucket, pick and axe for equipment.
40 each of meat/drink (like rat meat + dwarven ale)  can be brought.
All seeds & wood must be obtained from the caverns.

yeah, I think that's tough enough.

[YvAd]

I've been out of the game for a while, and while I'm certainly not a very good player, I think it might be !!fun!! to receive an idea or two from you guys. Embark site conditions, dwarf skills, and wagon contents are all fair game.

An embark so cold you won't get caravans or animal invaders.
Partial aquifer
No surface water
No surface trees
Only specific dwarf skills allowed on embark are Appraiser, Organizer, and Record Keeper.
Only things you're allowed to bring is a rope, bucket, pick and axe for equipment.
40 each of meat/drink (like rat meat + dwarven ale)  can be brought.
All seeds & wood must be obtained from the caverns.

yeah, I think that's tough enough.

I like the sound of that!

[Blastbeard]

Use DFhack to embark on the open ocean. Bring anything. Build/Accomplish anything. All dwarves will need at least competent swimmer. Ocean in climate that never gets cold enough to freeze water recommended.
Easymode: Embark in a climate where the ocean will be frozen in spring, giving you time to build things with slightly more ease before the thaw comes and the difficulty autoadjusts to man mode. Frilly dress and receptacle to store your detached manhood not included.

[wierd]

If it freezes in the spring, it is theoretically plausible that they could dig down into the ice, and embed the fortress in the ocean floor, then construct a "tube" up to the surface.

Doing this in a hot biome ensures waterpark fun.

[Blastbeard]

If it freezes in the spring, it is theoretically plausible that they could dig down into the ice, and embed the fortress in the ocean floor, then construct a "tube" up to the surface.

Doing this in a hot biome ensures waterpark fun.

Okay, now I have to try this myself. I have to choose the impossible.
"Is a dwarf not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No', says the dwarf in the mountainhome..."

[wierd]

It is unlikely that the tube can be constructed before the thaw.

You will need to dig a series of up/down staircases in the ice until the ocean floor, mine out the tile next to the stairs at the bottom, then dig a channel to get a downramp. When you have something you can work with, you must put a hatch over over the ocean floor breach. This allows you to continue digging in the ocean floor after the ocean thaws above, without getting a waterpark ride until the winter, when it will freeze again. Then you can open the hatch cover, and construct the access tube to the surface using whatever stone you could process from the ocean floor sedimentary layers. The tube will have support from the ocean floor, so you can hang a surface dock with a bridge to the edge of the embark, and put the trade depot on it.

[WanderingKid]

Dream,

Are you looking for ways to make the game harder on yourself, or a megaproject idea to keep you interested?

For Harder:
Conquer an aquifer.
- Additional: Waterproof your entry so the aquifer can be used to floodkill your enemies.

Find the HFS.
- Additional: Survive it.

Get a Forgotten Best Silk Farm
- Additional: Don't lose a dwarf doing so.


For 'interesting'
Create a sustained yarn farm (harder than it sounds)
- Additional: Don't grow pigtails and don't let a 100+ dwarf fortress be naked.

Learn Minecarts
- Additional: Don't use exploits like DWR or impulse ramps.  Move your ore via raw power sources (Windmills/rivers)

Build a proper military
- Additional: Don't use drawbridges as a last resort.

There's plenty of things in DF to keep you alert an interested if you break the turtle.

[DreamCarver]

WanderingKid,

I'm just looking for an out-of-the-ordinary situation, to better prepare myself for dealing with these situations in proper forts.

Generating Arrakis now.

EDIT: Er, Blastbeard, I keep reaching the (Placing Civilizations) stage of generation, and the world gets thrown out. Clarify "High Temperatures", please? I think I might be boiling my prehistoric dwarves alive.