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[FrisianDude]

I've had two prisoners die of thirst because they got blamed for not making anything out of toad leather and got sentenced to 101 days, and people stopped giving them water. One of them was a mother, and the baby died of thirst soon after.

Always put a drink pile near the prison-chains. Within reach of the prisoner.

[Saint]

In the middle of the doctors sleep in the community dorm, which is undergoing renovations for engraving, a dwarf walks in and begins to engrave the wall above his sleeping head, afew hours later an engraving is made. It's a masterfully designed drawing of the doctor. I assigned the doctor that bed specificaly just because of that.

[Niccolo]

Frantically searching for some sort of metal to turn into a bar for my weaponsmith.

Hit the caverns, there's a bit of sphalerite there... maybe I'll just smith that down. A zinc weapon is better than nothing, especially since I'll get a legendary weaponsmith out of it.

[FrisianDude]

In the middle of the doctors sleep in the community dorm, which is undergoing renovations for engraving, a dwarf walks in and begins to engrave the wall above his sleeping head, afew hours later an engraving is made. It's a masterfully designed drawing of the doctor. I assigned the doctor that bed specificaly just because of that.

Would be hilarious if the engraving was of the doctor in the exact mirror of how the doctor slept. But then with it's eyes open.

Urist McDoctor has suffered a minor heart attack upon waking up lately.

[igmas]

At least mountain goat horn can actually be obtained. My countess has a fondness for toad leather. I can't even get that from the caravans, which routinely show up loaded with firefly brains.

I've had two prisoners die of thirst because they got blamed for not making anything out of toad leather and got sentenced to 101 days, and people stopped giving them water. One of them was a mother, and the baby died of thirst soon after.

My Count decided to inprison a pregnante dwarf, she died of thirst altough she had food and water in her prison cell(The reason why she didn't drink or eat was that she couldn't find her baby). She was my only metalsmith and her other child died shortly after of thirst .

[nightwhips]

In the middle of the doctors sleep in the community dorm, which is undergoing renovations for engraving, a dwarf walks in and begins to engrave the wall above his sleeping head, afew hours later an engraving is made. It's a masterfully designed drawing of the doctor. I assigned the doctor that bed specificaly just because of that.

"The brilliance of Dwarf Fortress."

[Urist Imiknorris]

Inspired by Scraggletag's 0-point desert embark, I've decided to try one of my own.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I think this might be a bit of an issue. At least I might have a chance to live so long as my dwarves stay the hell away from it.

EDIT: It immediately blitzed me so I runesmithed it to death.

[BloodBeard]

I thought I might start getting tired of doing these tournaments in my fort but they're getting more fun each time.

Quick rundown, I used Runesmith to pit my dwarves against each other in tournaments to determine the top dwarves of each weapontype (on a copy, not the one I play) and the winners of each tournament get put into my Elite Squad 1 with the runner-ups being put into Elite Squad 2. Elite squad dwarves get to use adamantine equipment that is passed down to the winning (or losing) dwarves and are responsible for defending the fort against megabeasts and forgotten beasts.

Afterwards for fun I pit the champions against each other in a tournament of champions. Purely for my own entertainment, the winner doesnt get anything.

Results of the weapontype tournaments:

Spoiler: Main Tourny (click to show/hide)

-SHORT SWORD-
1.Lokum 'Deadpool'
2.Vabok 'The Executioner'
3.Zon 'Hollywood'
4.Ablel 'Basher'
5.Melbil Athelsheced
6.onul 'The Nose'

-BATTLE AXE-
1.onul 'Nameless'
2.Vabok Dodokcudist
3.Ducim 'Punisher'
4.Melbil 'Nerfy'
5.Olin Mesber
6.Ingish 'Law-taker'

-WAR HAMMER-
1.Bomrek 'Tyson'
2.Reg Veshrigoth
3.Stodir 'The Stud'
4.Vabok 'Magoo'
5.Reg 'Hannibal'
6.Zasit 'Zero'

-SPEAR-
1.Tulon 'Spartan'
2.Tosid 'The Surgeon'
3.Medtob 'Tory'
4.Meng Enshalshem
5.Olon 'Tooth Fairy'
6.Geshud 'Siegebane'

Tournament of Champions results:

Spoiler: Champion Tourny (click to show/hide)

1.Bomrek 'Tyson' (hammer)
2.Tulon 'Spartan' (spear)
3.Lokum 'Deadpool' (sword)
4.onul 'Nameless' (axe)

The first tournament 8 years ago was basically the 10 vastly more experienced dwarves kicking everyones ass. The second one 4 years ago was more of the same but not quite as much. The experience gap as they both train appears to be less of a factor as this is the first time dwarves outside the 10 veterans made it to the finals, 4 of them in fact. None of them won but the tables are definately starting to turn.

Bomrek 'Tyson' is now a 2-time hammerdwarf champion, 1-time hammerdwarf runner-up and 2-time tournament of champions winner. He has done awesome in these tournaments but using my point system he's still behind Spartan who has been more consistant over the 3 tournaments. He got his name after he bit the ear off a goblin in his first or second battle.

His profile:

Spoiler: Tyson (click to show/hide)

And his stats:

Spoiler: Numbers (click to show/hide)

(Has been training for 23 years, no danger rooms)

Attributes:
Strength: 1923/5000 (#21)
Agility: 1674/5000 (#18)
Toughness: 3612/5000 (#3)
Endurance: 3808/5000 (#1)

Skills:
Legendary +250 Hammerdwarf
Legendary +145 Shield User
Legendary +347 Fighter
Legendary +6 Armour User
Legendary +2 Dodger
Grand Master Wrestler
Legendary +9 Biter
Legendary +44 Striker
Legendary +18 Kicker
Legendary +12 Misc. Object User
Great Concentrater
Legendary +11 Observer

63 kills, co-slayer of the year in 526 and 527 (the last 2 years) and got the first troll kill in Daggerdepths.

[monk12]

Ha, he likes war hammers- big surprise there.

[UristMcHuman]

I'm gonna try a 0-point-embark similar to Scraggletag's, except that it will be in a sand desert with Scarce trees and Scarce vegitation and [INVADERS set to :NO] until I manage to fully understand how the military system works (I've only been playing for a month or two).

[reechee3]

Looks like it could be then end for Boardedclasp.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Things were going quite well in. Several years in and feeling well protected. My 2 squads of Axe/hammer dwarves quickly turn a seige into New Years eve, with goblin confetti everywhere. Now though I have a silent killer lurking through my fortress, leaving only trails of blood and corpses in its wake.

 Years ago I punched through to the caverns mostly to trap all the happy creatures  for later use in my arena. As Im sure any of you would expect, soon enough a forgotten beast showed up, a giant earwig with poison breath. I stationed my military outside of the staircases leading down into the caverns, figuring they would deal with it when/if it decided to come up and play. It seems that wasnt good enough for a wax worker turned hauler, he wanted blood now! Or maybe it was just a pretty rock that he wanted... either way he came across the beast and it punced on him, or tried as he dodged the few attacks it used before he kicked it, knocking it to the ground. As soon as he knocked it over it shot out a clould of poison hitting the poor wax worker (who was by this time running away) and itself. The wax worker made it up a few flights of stairs without a scratch on him.. Though he was mildly dizzy. Within about 30 seconds every part of his body had filled with blood and he bled to death. At that point I decided to send a squad down to kill the beast before another worker decided he wanted that pretty rock also but by the time my soldiers got down there, it was already dead, its only damage was the single kick from my wax worker and spraying itself with poison when it was on the ground. My soldiers were sad that the beast killed itself and went back to training.

Years later I start noticing my cage traps in the caverns are being triggered, but nothing is in them other than some splattered blood from crundles/moles/toads/ogres.. Still being newish to the game I just wrote it off as one of the many strange things that happen within the fortress..

A year or two after I notice the empty bloody cage traps I see the message

Rulmomuz, Miner cancels Dig: Resting injury.

Zooming to him I dont see anything around him, no combat log for him... Figured he must have stubbed his toe.. Few seconds later he makes a mad sprint for the entrance of my fortress and

Rulmomuz, Miner has bled to death.

Again, being newish, I was very confused about what the heck happened to him... Not giving me time to put all the peices together, 3 cats, a dog and black bear bleed to death less than a minute after the miner drops dead. All in very different areas of the fortress. A mechanic is the next to go, followed shortly by a woodcutter, hunter, and a dozen or so roaming critters. Finally now Im putting the puzzle together. A forgotten beast, 4 years dead and reforgotten, is getting its revenge as my dwarves drop like flies. Bleeding flies.

[Ragingpantsless]

The only wild animal I get are wild turkeys. Great for supplying my meat industry, lousy for anything else.

[UristMcHuman]

Mod them to explode upon contact with enemies.


I prepare for my zero point embark. Which, now that I think about it, doesn't need any preparation at all, save finding the site.

[phatkarp]

My fort had its first goblin siege.  It didn't look too impressive, so I thought I'd sally my 7 upright battledwarves into combat.  I say "upright" because PunchingBag, my most veteran battledwarf, was still in the hospital recovering from his latest bunch of broken bones, sustained when killing a minotaur that had wandered onto the scene.

The battle was short but intense.  I quickly lost two young recruits to the hail of goblin arrows.  One was shot in the face and died almost immediately.  The other was shot through the throat while in a melee bottle with a goblin axeman.  The heroic bastard continued fighting until he succumbed to blood loss.  My other battledwarves closed the gap, laid waste to the goblins around them, and sent the surviving goblins dashing for the edge of the map.  All-in-all, I was pleased with the results.

Then 30 seconds later the game locked up, and the battle was lost.   

[Scraggletag]

Good luck on your zero point embarks guys!

Remember, your dwarves will need something to drink before the first caravan. Either embark somewhere with liquid water or surface plants. It's a bit of an exploit, but you can use a wooden training axe to cut down trees, turn them into barrels and then forage for brewable plants.

...my first zero point embark on a glacier didn't go so well.