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[jc6036]

Still searching for teh magmas, and getting bored with Ectocraft very quickly. Am thinking about letting a siege in or something to spice up my dwarves lifes

[jaxy15]

The Darkwing eggs finally hatched. I now have 8 two tentacled large chickens wandering around the fort.

I'd have been more impressed if they'd been ducks. Still, chickens with tentacles does have a lot potential for FUN. 

I had no idea what you were saying until I found out what the hell "Darkwing Duck" is.

[Bleaktea]

So, I'm building an above-ground city for fun.  The city is separated into cells with drawbridges that can seal off cells in the event that something goes wrong.  Sounded like a good idea at the time.

Downside: the passages between cells get a lot of foot traffic, so almost every time I raise or lower a bridge, someone gets crushed.  I actually felt bad when I obliterated a two-year-old boy by accident yesterday, which has got to be a first (not the child-crushing, I mean the feeling of remorse).

I like the Baroness so far though, peering into her character screen revealed that she is a wrinkled granny with a long temper and a sweet, caring personality.  This drove me to add two floors to the castle so she could have a truly opulent throne room, bedroom, and dining room.

[jc6036]

You would make a sweet old granny walk up all those stairs?! Well, this is bay 12!

[HunterBlackLuna]

Our Legendary Legendary Stonecrafter, who's been literally doing nothing but Make Rock Crafts/R for six years and has thus become a minor deity unto herself of microcline rings and scepters, just gave birth to her fourth kid. Congratulations, Litast Soulbolt! (Both on the new kid as well as the awesome name.)

We're also well underway with work for the new dining hall. The old one was good enough to be considered Lengedary and all, but it's a little cramped for space with 180 Dorfs.



Old Hall



New Hall

I fixed the bugs and stuff that were preventing regular caravan travel, and we had a great human caravan come in and bring us iron, steel, iron and steel weapons, food, drink, wood, cloth, every thing I could have asked for. Our mayor continued to be a jackwagon, pissed that we've ignored his impossible orders for fine pewter, and has prohibited the export of rings. Much working around bins of finished goods to avoid mandates was had by our poor broker. The caravan's arrival also happened to occur right when a Hydra showed up.

I figured Hydras were tough guys, but this one really performed pathetically. He starts out by chasing a cat, of course, giving my stragglers and the caravan ample time to head indoors. When he finally gets around to charging our front entrance... he gets snared in a cage trap. So not even kidding. I figured that thing would avoid traps, but I also noticed my rockfall traps banging it up pretty bad. Maybe the rockfall or something triggered the cage? Or are Hydras vulnerable to traps? Either way, I've got no clue what to do with the thing, or my half-dozen Gobber prisoners, since my Dorfs can't seem to move the cages without releasing the prisoners.

[Bleaktea]

You would make a sweet old granny walk up all those stairs?! Well, this is bay 12!

Oh gods, I'm a monster!

I will install one of those motorized chair things immediately.  Nothing but the best for Urist McGrangran.

(Also she likes turkeys for their snood and worships a magical bat.  I love DF.)

[Flaming Toadstool]

Well, in a random fort of mine, my broker/woodcutter got into a fight with a duck. Here is the log:

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The Duck bites The broker in the right foot, bruising the fat through the (alpaca wool shoe)!
The Duck latches on firmly!
`Wood/Broker' Rimtarkir, broker cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Interrupted by Duck.
The broker charges at The Duck!
The broker hacks The Duck in the right foot with his (copper battle axe), tearing apart the skin!
The Duck has become enraged!
The broker collides with The Duck!
The Duck is knocked over and tumbles backward!
The Duck stands up.
The Duck is no longer stunned.
`Wood/Broker' Rimtarkir, broker cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Interrupted by Duck.
The Duck attacks The broker but He jumps away!
The broker slams into the Duck!
The Duck stands up.
The Duck bites The broker in the right upper leg, bruising the fat through the (giant cave spider silk robe)!
The Duck latches on firmly!
The broker breaks the grip of The Duck's bill on The broker's right upper leg.
The Duck bites The broker in the upper body, bruising the muscle through the (giant cave spider silk robe)!
The Duck latches on firmly!
The broker is no longer stunned.
The broker breaks the grip of The Duck's bill on The broker's upper body.
The Duck bites The broker in the upper body, bruising the fat through the (giant cave spider silk robe)!
The Duck latches on firmly!
The broker breaks the grip of The Duck's bill on The broker's upper body.
The Duck bites The broker in the right lower arm, bruising the muscle through the (giant cave spider silk robe)!
The Duck latches on firmly!
The broker stands up.
The broker breaks the grip of The Duck's bill on The broker's right lower arm.
The Duck attacks The broker but He jumps away!
The Duck bites The broker in the lower body, bruising the fat through the (giant cave spider silk robe)!
The Duck latches on firmly!
The broker charges at The Duck!
The broker hacks The Duck in the head with his (copper battle axe), tearing apart the muscle, shattering the skull and tearing apart the brain!
A tendon in the skull has been torn!
The Duck has been knocked unconscious!
The (copper battle axe) has lodged firmly in the wound!
The broker collides with The Duck!
The Duck is knocked over and tumbles backward!

I have to say, that duck put up one helluva fight.

Also, I bought out a caravan with tons of electrum crafts made by a high master metal crafter. Got all sorts of food, leather, cloth, ect. I also bought all the iron/steel stuff because my embark has no iron ores. Well, none until I get some goblinite.

[Darun009]

Had a cave croc taking off the arm of my legendary huter. Damn crocodile. But he is dead. My hunter manage to kill him. Now i call him João-sem-braço (jonh-armless)
Still huting. Dunno how he reload the crossbow with one arm
Note:Just readed yesterday abou the infamous habit of running with others arms of the crocodile.

[drakon136]

Finally found the magma sea, and luckily for me, nothing came out of it yet. Training up my macedwarf on flesh balls just in case. The damn things won't die, even after getting torn open.
EDIT: I also found some light yellow diamonds! Problem is, that if I go to mine them, my Legendary miner's will be slaughtered by a Giant Cave Spider and a Troll. So what should I do? Leave the diamonds or send my Macedwarf on a one-man zerg rush? It's worked with everything else I've fought so far.

[BloodBeard]

523 was coming to an end in Daggerdepths when bam! my starting 7 brewer got a fey mood and headed for a masons workshop. I thought "Awesome! One of my starting 7 is going to make some awesome furniture for my 25th artifact, making it so 50% of my dwarves have created one!".

But that FUCKING dwarf made a FUCKING kimberlite floodgate, my SECOND artifact kimberfuckinglite floodgate. But no, that wasn't enough because he had to craft an image of a FUCKING Elf on it killing a god damned DWARF.

The fuck was he thinking? "Oh hey, what should I make with this kimberlite? Well, we already have a floodgate, 2 floodgates in fact with one of them also kimberlite. But hey! Wouldn't it be cool if we had a matching set? Dude that would be awesome! The other dwarves would be all 'Sweet! Look at those TWO kimberlite floodgates!'. But no... it needs something else. Oh! How about an elf, killing a dwarf, from a battle several hundred years ago? OH. MY. GOD. I'm a fucking genius!"

Catten Strokewire you fucking failure.

[sarus92]

LOL ^^ fantastic

[tastypaste]

I promoted a lowly fish cleaner to Baron because it amused me. One of my military dwarf's baby was torn to pieces by a badger boar while its mother was distracted by a snatcher. Same military dwarf's pet lamb wandered into the danger room and was impaled. She's still happy because of engravings and fine quality bedroom furniture.

[Niccolo]

Dig, dig, dig. That's what's happenin'...

Gotten my workshops up and running, finally - just in time for a mood. I got really excited - my gem setter got the mood! Then I noticed it was a goddamn possession. Well, shoot.

A peasant became my military commander since nobody else wanted the job; for some reason, this amuses me.

Also, hundreds of animals have been marching to their deaths. I accidentlaly designated a bunch to become pets... then realised that nothing was getting butchered. Though now I remember to press b instead of enter.

[Flaming Toadstool]

Well, after a large migrant wave, I got another high master metalcrafter (who is now a engraver because my other one has a bit more experience) and I got a high master metalsmith, who is now making electrum crutches for the next caravan (they want crutches apparently). I am also building a wall around my fort in this sort of fashion:

--O--O--O---
w    wtw     w
w    wtw     w
wwwwtwwww

- = cliff face
O = opening into fort
w = wall
t = cage traps

This way, I have two courtyards that are pretty much protected except from flying things. They will be used for a refuse pile and as a grazing ground for livestock. The trap line extends inside up to my depot, and I have a bridge connected to a lever just in case some gobbos or something get though the line of traps.

Militarily, I am getting some marksdwarfs some leather armour, and eventually, some crossbows and bolts. I'll work on my melee dwarfs equipment once I get some steel going, which will be difficult seeing as though as I have no iron ores. I put in an order for iron ores and bars, however, so those electrum crutches will prove handy. Also, I hope I can catch some goblins to be involuntary targets for my marksdwarfs.

Also, I am slowly but surely digging my way down to try and find some magma for some forges. I have been getting by with my metal industry on just making charcoal for fuel, but I want magma forges because they are awesome.

[Reudh]

Embarked in a Terrifying biome with an aquifer for a challenge. Was in the process of building an aquifer breacher a la Oilfurnace but soon into it my miner was strangled to death by an Ogress called Zuglarondin/Shipfaded. So the fort's hanging on. Now everyone is running around screaming...

Seconds later i've just lost the fisherdwarf (skull bitten off, jamming the skull through the brain) and 3 dogs. D: Challenge lost.