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[melomel]

It's the Bloody Picks' second year at Uristkogan.

The dwarven civ is dead in this world; I've never been so pathetically grateful for potash makers and fish dissectors; been trying to carve out a rudimentary fort with only 14.

[Eric Blank]

Scratch ALL of that. My civ isn't actually dead. The traders just came.

And it didn't end well; The bastard wanted something more than a 80* profit margin for a caged animal, 1 steel bar, and I think I asked for a couple empty barrels. He became unwilling to trade and left, but before he could I had the depot yanked from under him. I got the animal but one of the bastards got away with the bar. Nobody has refused such a high profit margin before! What the hell does he think, that we have something more to offer?

Also, the gem crab population in the magma sea apparently isn't immune to the magma they're submerged in, and are burning to death by the dozen. I thought I'd fixed that issue...

[Lielac]

Ohh boy.

Blazewater! Part joyous wilds with a volcano, part untamed wilds tropical ocean. Salt water and an aquifer... but then again, magma. BWAHAHAHAHA!

I just hope there aren't any badgers.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger MAGMA MAGMA

[Buttery_Mess]

I just cracked open my caverns and slaughtered like five forgotten beasts in a row, with the loss of only one marksdwarf. That was fun. I'd been saving them up for, oh, a decade or so.

[Lielac]

So... many... job cancellations...

Dear god I hate aquifers. Might just let the volcano take care of it...

Edit: But I am finally - FINALLY! - done. On the 16th of Limestone, in 1001, Blazewater breaches its aquifer. W00t!

I'm going to go gather plants now before my dwarves get cranky from the lack of booze.

[Oliolli]

Planning on making the (almost) most overkill trap in dwarven history: through long training for my mechanics and metalsmiths, I shall make a trap with nothing but masterful large, serrated adamantine discs in it, powered by a masterful mechanism.

The only way to make it more overkill is to fill it with artifacts.

[jaxy15]

Elves came with two bears.
I trained the grizzly one.
Now I probably need to get his new owner, a hammerdwarf, a silver hammer.
He'll probably be terrifying on the offensive side.

[Lielac]

Uuuugh. I knew the aquifer from the other biome would bite me in the ass. More pumping, yaaaay! >.>

[Oliolli]

Another goblin siege. My casualties: one macedwarf lost his hand, one dog was mangled, one other soldier was hospitalized. The dog will go see a butcher and both dwarves will stay in the military. The macedwarf can't hold a shield anymore, but I dont care.

The goblins lost 8 troops to my soldiers and 9 to my cage traps. Also got one cave crocodile.

[jaxy15]

I got an artifact.
To be specific, a giant olm bone door.

[Renzuko]

blarg, i decided to force quit df, after my attempt at making a pump stack met with about 10 dwarves being retarded and refusing to realise, that in the opposite direction of the slowly advancing 7/7 wall of water, was the pumpy pump stack tower, that could get them back into the fort...

[Musashi]

Mindflag the Eye of Focus was founded in 6.
It's 10, I found shiny metal, and still no siege. Only a few ambushes and a bunch of thieves.
Almost sure goblins and badgers are plotting together to bring me down.

[Flying Dice]

Okay, managed to do a large-scale cavein and breach past the aquifer. Now... Is it possible to safely dig in the z-level below an aquifer? Because I don't want to abandon all of that hematite...

Are you using dfreveal to determine where the damp stone is?

Yeah, after I took care of the third level of aquifer and found more damp soil below it, I opened reveal to see how deep it went.

You've probably noticed, then, that the damp stretches to one z below the aquiferous soil or stone. Unfortunately, these tiles will spew water from above if dug into, so if your hematite is on that z level, I'm afraid you're out of luck. If, on the other hand, the hematite doesn't appear damp when viewed with dfreveal, then you can safely dig it out.

Of course, there are other options. You could make extracting the hematite into a sort of mega-project, establishing a giant machine on the surface for the sole purpose of boring into the waterlogged earth.

That's what I figured, but it never hurts to be sure. I've got fairly rich deposits of the iron ores though, so I probably won't bother unless I really start running out. Thanks!

[shadenight123]

two of my dwarfs are sparring: my chief medical dwarf and a recruit...
here's the log in question which made me ponder how the hell he is not legendary:
"Urist mc recruit grabs the chief medical dwarf by it's rear right end tooth!"
"urist mc chiefmedical dwarf can't escape the grip!"
i mean, i'm reading it right, right? he grabbed him by the REAR tooth? right?