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[Akura]

Just embarked at Flamechasm, with the intent of building a mostly aboveground settlement. The group's name is The Tools of Yelling. It's got flux, plenty of iron, trees, land, etc.

It's also got a cave, lot's of snail/slugmen, and even a resident titan. My hunter was killed within a few minutes. Not by the titan, no, he(or she, I forgot) has barely moved the whole time, but by one of the slugmen in the cave.

Just got a few immigrants, busy setting up beds in the (temporary) cave shelter before building proper houses.

Man Dwarf, this going to be difficult.

[Shade-o]

A recruited woodcutter hit an enemy ambusher with their axe, sending them clear across the map, over a valley, and then explode against another mountain.

[Noldor]

What are these "wrestrels" of which you speak? They do sound awesome.

Anyway, I'm currently experimenting with Civilization Forge Unleashed. I wish I had known that Nivocite was magma-safe BEFORE I had flooded my magma channels. Now I'll never get it out. And I was paving the bottom of a brook-fed artificial pool with it...

I meant "Wrestler". LOL!

[BitLooter]

Finally, for the first time cracked open a HFS. This being my first time, I wasn't especially prepared.

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At first, nothing seemed wrong... then all hell broke loose.

Demons started appearing out of nowhere. Well, that didn't seem so bad; set my military on alert at a strategic choke point, and watch them lop their heads off. That's when all my dwarfs suddenly decided they had job orders in the mines.

Suddenly dozens of dwarfs went streaming down the shafts, pushing past my military to go retrieve Armok knows what. Right into the Spirits of Fire streaming out. It was a horrible scene; flaming dwarfs running from place to place, retreating back into side mine shafts; children fleeing in horror as their parents are consumed by the flames, and my military making a half-hearted effort to do something about all this.

Speaking of my military, apparently they weren't as badass as I thought they were; I couldn't see the battle because of all the smoke, but when things finally cleared up four spirits remained. Needing to take them down before they took me down, I enlisted every able-bodied dwarf in the fortress to go confront them.

They've managed to take three of them down, but right now there's one left - it's hiding on a staircase between two floors, and my dwarfs are refusing to attack it. I just happen to have a reservoir of water nearby and a pump stack to bring up more, so I'm going to try drowning it in a flood. Surely water would be effective against a fire spirit, right? Right? The only thing holding me back right now is that it destroyed the windmills powering the pump stack, and I'm waiting for carpenter/mechanic to rebuild it. Despite giving several dwarfs the relevant labors, and having an unblocked way outside to it, they're all just milling around refusing to do anything. This is probably partially because they're all as miserable as could be, what with all their friends dead or dying (~120 dwarfs down to 14), booze and food access blocked by the spirit, and a continuing tantrum spiral.

On the other hand, the queen showed up just as all this was starting and got fried by a spirit of fire not long afterwards, so in the end it all balances out.


EDIT: Well, it looks pretty hopeless now. I'm down to 6 dwarfs; 3 are crazy, one's stuck on the stairs below the spirit stuck in a loop trying to find a bed, and the other two are children that will take years to reach adulthood. Looks like it's savescumming time.

EDIT2: Military seems inadequate for this, so I'm going to try an experiment with high-pressure water.

[kilakan]

water won't work, evaporates a few tiles away from em.  However, magma AND water will, encase em and all!

[BitLooter]

Even high-pressure water? Never mind, I'm about to try it myself regardless. I do have access to a magma pipe, so I'll probably end up doing that.

[Dorten]

There was a puny goblin siege. After half of the gobbos was killed, the rest ran for their lives. My champion hammerdwarf saw, that he can't catch some goblin, so he sent another goblin flying in his back, stunning them both in the end!

[Kza]

I built a giant pressure washer, and just activated it to kill an entire siege.

...So I flooded the entire entrance to my fort, and the water is starting to seep into my barracks.

[Untouchable]

Got my first death by Forest Fire. My Woodcutter must have pissed off an Imp who then proceeded to set fire to everything. I got everyone out of there except for one of my new migrants who decided to be unable to move from the raging inferno that was baring down on him who then figured he could run through the fire and onto my safe sandy area.

Dumbass didn't make it.

[smjjames]

Making good progress on the first platform level of my ziggurat, its moving quickly even at 20-30 FPS. Of course though, all of my dwarves (except for my food/booze guys so that the food and booze can be maintained) are busy either making glass blocks, hauling, building and gathering sand.

I'm starting to approach what may be a moderately challenging or at least time consuming part since obviously I'm putting up walls for the next section, but I want to have the walls a few tiles thick (maybe 3?) and have the rest of the central space be filled in with floor. I don't have to worry about a cavein punching a hole in the fort since I have dug to the bottom level.

I wonder at what pop I'll get to the point of the incoming king/queen since I haven't done that before (I've had the pop cap at 100) and I have 171 dwarves atm.

[Pafferguy]

This may seem a stupid question, but how do you find gold?  I embarked on a map with a gabbro layer, thinking that gold would be in it.  Based on this assumption, I brought a metalcrafter and started making charcoal.  Howver, after digging up about 1/3 of the first gabbro level down, I found 4 veins of garnierite and nothing else.

[darkflagrance]

This may seem a stupid question, but how do you find gold?  I embarked on a map with a gabbro layer, thinking that gold would be in it.  Based on this assumption, I brought a metalcrafter and started making charcoal.  Howver, after digging up about 1/3 of the first gabbro level down, I found 4 veins of garnierite and nothing else.

Even if you have a layer of the appropriate stone type, DF only selects some of the vein types that can possibly be found in a layer to put in them. Sometimes it will pick all of them. Sometimes only one vein type will be chosen. The relative amounts of each vein type will also vary. You just got unlucky. Embarking in a different area with gabbro may yield more abundant gold.

[Geti]

Well, currently I'm playing as a modded human civ called the longswords, testing the playablity of the factions in a large scale modding project. Its 0247hrs now, so no big issues
Problems arose however, when the Death Elves (elves with less crapness, slavery and steel weapons) sent a 23 elve ambush against my fort in the winter of year 1. I had 3 military at this point, and they died in the first 5 seconds (wrestlers vs swords, gg) but I managed to keep 4 alive by leading the bastards through traps and fighting with my woodcutter (god axes are a lifesaver).
Eventually, all were dead, my population dropped from 32 to 4 in 6 minutes and industry stopped. To top it off, a minute after the ambush was over (I'm dreading the inevitable seige) my woodcutter flipped out and cut one of his relieved comrades to pieces.
Great. More mess.
Migrants have arrived, but it's bedtime, they brought spring with them, and an autosave. Tomorrow there will be a _lot_ of hauling to do.

[Hitti-Litti]

(First post, yay)

Just got my first immigration wave to my soon-to-be-extremely-mighty fortress.

2 miners
1 woodcutter
1 ranger
1 animal trainer
1 animal dissector
1 metalsmith
2 gem cutters
2 bone carvers
1 dyer
1 brewer
1 potash maker
1 soap maker
7 peasants

So that's 22 immigrants PLUS two children and a donkey. Wow. Well, at least I got a potash maker, time to get my ashery started, and start making lots of glass(my fortress has lots of sand). And 7 peasants could mean an army of 7 wrestlers, all goblins that will try to haunt on me shall tremble in front of my wrestler squad!

[Exiledhero99]

tryig to fid a non-colored rock. since I broke soil I've only dug into microcline.