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[Splint]

Sqaud is now being drilled full time. Migrants came, expanding the magma pipe securing crew. Hunter killed a Giant Olm and a weasel, trio of kobolds visited. One beaten to death by a mechanic with a silk shoe. Drinks were made, and more will be purchased when the yearly caravan comes.

A mole was beaten to death by the wrastler, keas stole a random suit of clothes... Oh god. Now I know what happened to that mad farmer. Gonna have to check for his body in the river.

Hope they didn't have a spouse....

[Eric Blank]

There seems to be a serious flaw in my dining room waterfall design. Namely that I can neither shut it off nor rescue anybody that falls into the drain and drowns. Not that I care. The morons shouldn't be trying to drink from the bottom of the drain ramps. Lost 3-4 so far due to this problem. I also didn't put grates over the stoneworkers' access points, so that's how the idiots have been getting in. Fixed that right up.

[ZzarkLinux]

The Rustic RabbitHut

Spoiler: Previous Chapters (click to show/hide)

01) Embark
02) Raise the Roof
03) Sour and Sweet
04) Spring Growing - Part 1
05) Spring Growing - Part 2
06) Spring Growing - Part 3
07) Acceleration is Easy at Low Speeds
08) Guard Duty activate
09) Drumroll ... your fingers
10) Good Times lead to Fun
11) Slugging Stone Around
12) Trading Season - Part 1 - Awaiting the Surge
13) Trading Season - Part 2 - Here they come
14) Trading Season - Part 3 - Trade Winds are blowing
15) Roadkill
16) Bed Intruder
17) Cuttin the Cows

18) Extrememe Pain is better than Death
19) To the Quarry for You

I want to close off my place so I can sort my migrants.
However, one militia goes outside to clean his hand,
then a migrant goes out to fish ...

Eventually I get them all inside and seal up again.

My doctor works furiously on Shirai "SplitSkull", who was nearly killed by a kobold corpse punch.
The doctor makes use of the cow hair I spun earlier, and the Gypsum Plaster I got off the merchants.
But he hits a problem when he needs cloth.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The weather has cleared
Oh, I didn't notice, I was too busy bathing in blood to notice.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

After assigning all the migrants, it was easy to get a butchers, tanner's, leatherworkers,
and farmers workshop all setup in one place.

Speaking of which, here's the general West-Side layout of my main fort.
It includes:
: Militia Training room
: Militia Bedroom
: Garbage Chute
: Dining Hall
: Food Stockpile
: Booze Stockpile
: RockPile (via dump)
: Ramp to the rabbits
: Corner of my hospital
: Original Workshop Room

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The notable thing you don't see is all the dead-corpse rooms.
Those are on the East side.

Eventually, I make notable progress.
I get cloth made for Shirai SplitSkull,
some Fisherdwarf brings Shirai stangant water in a glumprong bucket,
and I even get all that fat from earlier rendered to tallow.

Shirai gets up.
He lives ! and goes to combat training.
Free Bronze Helms for the militia !

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh, and elven caravan arrives.

[Sus]

The Queen arrived, and turned out to be even more of a bloodsucking parasite than your average noble. She even flaunted her "Queen vampire" status quite openly. She was also missing her left cheek, which was kind of gruesome.

I assigned her to a certain part of the fortress originally designed with forgotten beasts in mind, and ordered the attached lever to be pulled. She ended up in the caverns, a lot thinner than before, and with a couple of tons of sylvite on top of her. Thus, Razorwheels became the fort to make history and end the reign of the vampire queen. We don't put up with no bloodsuckin' nobles here! 

[NRDL]

The fortress Doorlong is losing dwarves, bit by bit, through insanity, and injury.  Every dwarf that goes berserk or melancholy either gets put down by my "military" ( I just draft random dwarves and send them unarmed against the rampaging dorf ) or dies of thirst.

I also have an ongoing siege.  But, since I have this slate palisade/wall on the surface, they can't get in.

Woe to any migrant waves that arrive. 

[kisame12794]

The Queen arrived, and turned out to be even more of a bloodsucking parasite than your average noble. She even flaunted her "Queen vampire" status quite openly. She was also missing her left cheek, which was kind of gruesome.

I assigned her to a certain part of the fortress originally designed with forgotten beasts in mind, and ordered the attached lever to be pulled. She ended up in the caverns, a lot thinner than before, and with a couple of tons of sylvite on top of her. Thus, Razorwheels became the fort to make history and end the reign of the vampire queen. We don't put up with no bloodsuckin' nobles here! 

Too bad it wasn't the king. Castlevaina anyone?

[sjm9876]

Just flooded my entire food stocks in an attempt to build a fluid repeater from an aquifier.
Went from 1000 food to 50.
FUN!!!

[floundericiousWA]

accidentally atomsmashed the liaison in a drawbridge when he ran madly for it after the lever had been pulled...despite the fact that he was standing there inert for a long time before.

[Loud Whispers]

Can anyone give the the run down on how I can get minecarts up hill? They can just get pushed up right?

[MaxZero]

I'm trying to smelt pig iron on a magma furnace, despite three bins of refined coal (coke) sitting invitingly a level below the smelters, the game is under the impression that I lack any

Any ideas as to whats going on here?

[Loud Whispers]

Use the manager's orders to smelt it.

[Garath]

is it in a burrow that doesn't include the fuel? Doesn't matter if it's active or anyone assigned to it, it messes up smelters

[MaxZero]

is it in a burrow that doesn't include the fuel? Doesn't matter if it's active or anyone assigned to it, it messes up smelters

Ah, thats sorted it. Brilliant, cheers

[MaxZero]

Wimpiest forgotten beast i've ever seen



I was mining an exit into a cavern for a waterfall, as soon as it was breached it popped out. A miner thwacked it with a pick in defence, and it deflated

[Calech]

I was intending to wait until the next release before diving into minecarts and such, but thought I'd give it a go just for the hilarious RTA potential learning experiences with the new system of hauling.

Chose a rather unusual (for me) embark site: half of it is a lake, the other half is notionally a dense forest but it's hard to see because of the steep slopes on that half of the map.

It may be some time until I see or need a minecart - I've also encountered the first more-than-two-z-level aquifer that I've seen in my games so far. Currently boring through the third level of soggy sandstone (boring, of course, being the operative word here), and adding more waterwheels to the aquifer-powered dwarven reactor as we go. Also experimenting with an airlock system built over the lake to prevent undesirables entering the fortress.

Had a couple of kobold thieves nick some abandoned bolt stacks in the first winter. The spring migrant wave, as usual, included a number of low-skilled Marksdwarves, who were all promptly drafted, which is probably just as well as they've prevented more thefts from Coati and Kobolds alike since.

Oh, and there was an interesting moment in the first year when a Honey Badger managed to essentially shut down my entire fortress operation by RAAAAGING at everything. Its spree was brought to an end when one of my off-duty miners hacked off its front paw with his handy mining implement.

I guess you could say...  ...it should have picked its fights better.