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[Deviled]

My game just crashed two minutes in to embarking.

[Flying Dice]

Supplies of booze and food are low. The rivers have already claimed the woodworker who came in the first wave of immigration. My miners continue to ignore the designated dig area which was intended to be the first farm in favor of lounging around. We have been reduced to scavenging from nearby bushes and drinking from murky pools. The first wave of immigration was almost completely useless, except for the woodworker.

The second wave of immigration arrives, and I am slightly hopeful. Maybe one of them will have some useful skill, like carpentry, mining or brewing. No, says Urist McImmigrantLeader, we consist of a Weaver, a Miller, a Thresher, a Milker, a Woodcrafter and a Cheesemaker. I have no milkable animals, no kitchen, no cloth, and no wood even for beds. Dammit.

[Kabuto]

A giant toad just broke in somehow. I think my hunter let it in while attacking it...

I got 14 pages of reports on it. 4 pages of fat bruising, and 10 pages of vomiting/retching. His name was "the Hungry Head'. I guess he ate too much.

EDIT: Okay, now that I'm seeing actual "Hungry Heads" I'm really confused...

[bucket]

The world I just generated in .19 is 50% covered by haunted mountains. Interesting to see all that purple...

[Samuel]

I have discovered the ultimate fortress defense: a small ditch.

A ditch around the entire border, with only one point of passage onto the map. This point will be markedly easier to cover with traps. I won't have to worry about an entire seige striking just as I send all the idlers out to collect wood, because the goblins won't be able to reach them. Nothing will get into the fortress that I don't know about, save for the kobolds, for whom I will leave out all the cave spider silk socks they could ever dream of.

Talk about Boring But Practical.

[billybobfred]

Everyone cancels everything: interrupted by technically-still-living bloody mass of Goblin Thief limbs that can't even get to them x∞

[FGK dwarf]

I have discovered the ultimate fortress defense: a small ditch.

A ditch around the entire border, with only one point of passage onto the map. This point will be markedly easier to cover with traps. I won't have to worry about an entire seige striking just as I send all the idlers out to collect wood, because the goblins won't be able to reach them. Nothing will get into the fortress that I don't know about, save for the kobolds, for whom I will leave out all the cave spider silk socks they could ever dream of.

Talk about Boring But Practical.

This will be great until the crossbow squads turn up...

[Draignean]

Everyone cancels everything: interrupted by technically-still-living bloody mass of Goblin Thief limbs that can't even get to them x∞

That is why the main moat is filled with water, then they drown or climb back out into melee range. This amuses me greatly nonetheless.

[EveryZig]

I have discovered the ultimate fortress defense: a small ditch.

A ditch around the entire border, with only one point of passage onto the map. This point will be markedly easier to cover with traps. I won't have to worry about an entire seige striking just as I send all the idlers out to collect wood, because the goblins won't be able to reach them. Nothing will get into the fortress that I don't know about, save for the kobolds, for whom I will leave out all the cave spider silk socks they could ever dream of.

Talk about Boring But Practical.

This will be great until the crossbow squads turn up...

And the giant cave swallow riding goblins. Maybe even crossbow goblins riding giant cave swallows!

[Vercingetorix]

0.31.20...a fine release if I do say so myself. 

[Samuel]

I have discovered the ultimate fortress defense: a small ditch.

A ditch around the entire border, with only one point of passage onto the map. This point will be markedly easier to cover with traps. I won't have to worry about an entire seige striking just as I send all the idlers out to collect wood, because the goblins won't be able to reach them. Nothing will get into the fortress that I don't know about, save for the kobolds, for whom I will leave out all the cave spider silk socks they could ever dream of.

Talk about Boring But Practical.

This will be great until the crossbow squads turn up...

And the giant cave swallow riding goblins. Maybe even crossbow goblins riding giant cave swallows!

Goblins can ride into battle on giant cave swallows? I never knew that!

... it'll take a few years for them to arrive. I'll build a massive dome over the entire map.

[Lortath]

First ambush in Goldenvice.
Killed by skeletal Llamas.

I send my hammerdwarf squad for killing an alone skeletal Llama, the squad leader (the best fighter of the fort) lost is left foot in a battle of 4 seconds.

I need to weaponize these skeletal Llamas.

[Urist McBusDriver]

I hadn't noticed until today that you can use Animal hair from butcher shops to make thread at a farmer's workshop.

Before this I always assumed you could only use rope reed/pig tail/yarn thread for hospitals and thus never built a loom, because it always uses up all the threads before a suturer could grab it. Animal threads however, aren't used in the loom so they make for excellent stitchings. I never knew animal hair had a use and it annoyed me that it filled up the refuse piles.

Now I have all the thread I ever need, plus a pretty functional cloth industry, no more xxpig fiber mittenxx for Urist ever again!

On a side note, my military consists of 5 marksdwarves on permanent hunting duty. They've gone on a slaughtering spree, keeping my butcher's shop occupied and have a very solid supply of * bone bolts * to keep up the slaughter. They're all legendary ambushers now. Plus they intercept ambushes pretty well.

I thought the loom can weave hair? And do dwarves replace their clothing now? I thought that that was bugged so Toady disabled it.

.20 seems to prevent grass growing underground, if the bugfixes are anything to go on, so I'll be immediately slaughtering any grazing animals now. (ęsthetically, I like to leave no trace of my fortress on the surface except for a hole in the side of a hill surrounded by an area with no trees. No outdoor pastures for me, thanks! And Urist McMigrant: sorry, your pet yak calf is going to starve.)

[Samuel]

I abandoned the other fort. screw it. I found a better place: shallow metal, deep metal, flux stone, an aquifer unfortunately, but I'll punch through it somehow. And the number one attraction: NO GOBLINS.

I'll find a way to defend myself against them eventually. But not today. Gullypage is a place to be free of the vile forces of darkness.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

I am finally defeating an ambush! It's the first time! (I defeated an ambush, other forts either had half the population killed and were abandoned or just were killed) For Hamechewed! Later my dwarves will get steel armor/arms. And the crossbow squad turned into a hammer squad.