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[Lexx]

Well Bronzephrase is coming along nicely. We now have over 80 citizens. One of them turned out to be a vampire. My hammerer didnt have any hammers to use after one of my founding 7 dwarves caught it in the middle of feeding. So they punched the thing till its everything was broken. Its miraculous healing abilities giving away its secret. A month later the thing had no injuries to speak of. Except its thoughts saying "Suffered major injuries lately". So I promptly drafted this one into the militia. Vamp army is a go! With the constant waves of migrants it should have plenty of "Cattle" to sate its thirst for blood. Apparently one of my masons decided to engrave the dining hall repeatedly with pictures of the vampire feeding from one of its victims.

VAMPIRE CULT FORTRESS! I shall make him a baron when I get the chance.

The farming levels also now churn out every surface and underground crop I have found so far. Sadly no sunshine so far. I don't think they grow here even though featherwood does. No unicorn yet either. Plenty of animal people and giant magpies to kill though.

[Bastus]

Everything was good.
I had plenty of food. My Clothing Industry was working perfect. I had more gold and steel than I could ever need.
And what happens?
4 Pages of Goblins on Alligators. 
And of courste at least the half of them was equiped with crossbows.

Time for restart. *sigh*

[imperium3]

A kobold thief tried to break in but in inexplicably took a detour into the marksdwarf barracks. This is a great idea when all the marksdwarves have no ammo. It's a terrible idea when I've reassigned a Hammer Lord to the squad to teach them close combat.

splat

[AWdeV]

Everything was good.
I had plenty of food. My Clothing Industry was working perfect. I had more gold and steel than I could ever need.
And what happens?
4 Pages of Goblins on Alligators. 
And of courste at least the half of them was equiped with crossbows.

Time for restart. *sigh*

You had steel. They didn't. Why didn't you kill them?

[Nogan]

Tried making a waterfall for the first time.  I accounted for the reservoir by digging a tunnel to the edge of the map, forgetting that dwarves do not dig through the final layer of rock on the edge.  Entire fort flooded.

[ZzarkLinux]

Finally have time to generate a new world for the next RabbitHut in 34.06

Hopefully I'll have time to play today too 

[Chagen46]

FInally got around to killing those bug-people. It was a fittingly spectacular mess when the whole group came splattering to the ground.



They fell far enough to explode, somall those small bits are of course various limbs and guts.

FPS went up considerably.

How would you reccomend building an execution tower like this? I have the idea of just channeling a big pit in my mountain over a retractable bridge.

[Kimril]

Well a while ago i discovered my Mayor was a vampire, I was cool with it he was a pretty good mayor and now hes a Baron, occasionally he takes too much blood out of his loyal subjects but ah well.

Just a second ago i got a message saying

The Werelizard Zulast Tamodoz has come! A large lizard twisted into humanoid form. It is crazed for blood and flesh. Its eyes glow green. Its sandy taupe scales are blocky and close-set. Now you will know why you fear the night.

Needless to say i shat myself but then i get the message

Zulast Tamodozo, Werelizard has transformed into an amphibian woman!

I look on the unit list and Zulast is now a frendly amphibian woman.

Thanks Zulast you gave me a bloody heartattack

[Garath]

The fort copperdusted has decided to start a proud tradition of falconry. An owl, a kestrel and a peregrin have been added to the available animals...


___

It would seriously be fun if they could bring in bunnies and such, but I guess that's on a wish list. However, map, can you bloody well send me something worth my time? all I get is birds too small to even slaughter.

[AWdeV]

Tried making a waterfall for the first time.  I accounted for the reservoir by digging a tunnel to the edge of the map, forgetting that dwarves do not dig through the final layer of rock on the edge.  Entire fort flooded.

Just because you can't dig through the final edge doesn't mean your theory wasn't sound. What you could've done was dig to the very end and then d-s to smooth and after that d-a to carve fortifications in the edge. Water (and, hopefully, magma) will flood out through the fortifications, sparing you a lot of grief. Might be worth remembering for next time. 


As for my own fort, I embarked on a volcano. It soon acquired a magma crab so I devised a way of using magma without getting shot at. It is functional now. I dug a system of channels similar (but inverse) to the floorplans I usually use to cover a volcano, I then placed a basalt floodgate at the end closest to magma, linked it up with basalt mechanisms and channeled out the tile in front.

In short, we have magma power and we're safe. Glee.

With a drain to get rid of magma in case I want to expand or use it for execution purposes.

[Stil]

Was worried my military dorfs would go nuts because everyones unhappy with the new fort at the moment. Thankfully slaughtering a host of keamen cheered em up no end

[Stormfeather]

The fort copperdusted has decided to start a proud tradition of falconry. An owl, a kestrel and a peregrin have been added to the available animals...

I first read that last as "penguin" for some reason, which brought to mind a whole new, odd image of falconry.

[Phantom of The Library]

The fort copperdusted has decided to start a proud tradition of falconry. An owl, a kestrel and a peregrin have been added to the available animals...

I first read that last as "penguin" for some reason, which brought to mind a whole new, odd image of falconry.

It's a well known fact that penguins are the bird of choice for advanced falconers.  Only the truly skilled attempt the daunting task.

[SixOfSpades]

Marblehalls just had its first big siege: 64 goblins & 24 trolls . . . and my cages swallowed all of them, without a single dwarven injury. The local goblin civilization's war leader is now on a pedestal in the exact center of my 3z-level legendary dining hall. He won't stay there forever, though: I imagine his red eyes, prominent chin, and somewhat tall ears might put a few of my dwarves off their feed, so before long he'll be sent to the killing floor. Not to die, of course--he'll just stand there, still caged, while all of his kinsfolk are pitted down on top of my waiting military. I wonder how much blood will spatter the cage.

[Akura]

Everything was good.
I had plenty of food. My Clothing Industry was working perfect. I had more gold and steel than I could ever need.
And what happens?
4 Pages of Goblins on Alligators. 
And of courste at least the half of them was equiped with crossbows.

Time for restart. *sigh*

You had steel. They didn't. Why didn't you kill them?

I imagine the "half of them was equipped with crossbows" part. A single bolt can easily cause someone to be overcome with pain, which far more than what it takes for an alligator large enough to carry a goblin to bite a dwarf's head off.

I usually try to draw in ranged attackers into a tight area, so that all my stabby stuff hits them before their shooty stuff hits me.