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[Lich180]

The fort of Memadamost, or "Reinedtown" has suffered its first dwarf casualty. A dwarf was deconstructing part of a fortification above the main entryway. An unlucky mason was under the fortification as the block fell... was struck in the left leg, knocked unconscious, and happened to be standing on a few masterwork large serrated copper disks...

His parts are now being scraped off the walls and floor of the new barracks.

[Splint]

...That was actually lol-worthy.

[bukitodinos]

*clap clap clap*

awesome my good sir!

[SalmonGod]

After several failure, my latest fort seems to be catching.  Maybe it will survive until LFR's next update.

First threat we face is a werelizard.  It rips a yak to shreds while I set up my defenses for the first time.  It then moves on to a sheep, quickly removing its nose and tearing open a couple other severe wounds.  Just as it appears to be the end for this poor sheep, something unexpected happens.  A cave swallow man appears out of nowhere, and kills the werelizard in one punch.  This happened on the surface, and I haven't even opened up the caverns yet.  WTF?

[Splint]

Decided to try out playing as humans. I dunno if I bonded with the matrix or what, but before spring ended I had up and running with seven humans

Basic milita armed with bronze halberds
A fledgling metal industry using embark bronze bars and copper/silver/gold found onsite while digging the crypt for the miltia
A small farm
All my usual food processing buildings
A barracks
A meager dormitory/eating area (has since been moved deeper into a hillside with a much bigger room)
A well drinks (Wanted it ready in case the halberdiers had to deal with anything and got hurt)
An artificial pond (had to drain the farm)
A wood/bone crafting and wool industry (humans are fond of making things menace with spikes of shell)
Gme cutting and encrusting (a recently arrived jewler blinged the hell out of a right  shoe)

All this was done by 23rd Felsite.

Also I have observed the following:
Humans seem to train much more agressivly than dwarves do, opting to skip basic training and go right to sparring. All pre-trained migrants show these same tendencies, even if they only had novice dodger and fighter. They skip all training and go right to sparring. I have completly raw squad I'm going to activate and see if they exhibit this tendency as well.
Humans become attached to weapons much quicker than dwarves do, which is actually kinda suprising.
Humans like to fuck. Got one family of 7 show up (married couple, thier adult son who was a fish dissector and trained lasher, and thier 6 younger kids, one of who is physically perfect for military service.) and a family of 8 (married couple around thier thirties, two adult childeren, both drafted as theyw ere a swordsman and hammerman respectivly, and 4 young ones, in decreasing age from 6 to 2.)
Humans seem to be less efficent at farming, even with seeds available and multiple planters, but quite quick with a pick or woodsman's axe, as well as being rather quick at tanning even with no skill in it.

[weenog]

I REALLY need to train my military better... Any tips that aren't danger rooms?

Use multiple squads of 2-3 dwarves only.  Make sure each squad is using the same weapon type (all swords, or all axes, or all hammers, whatever).  This way demonstrations will be of the correct type for the observers (no speardwarves picking up a few tips they'll never use about smashing heads with a hammer), and much of the training will be in the form of 1v1 sparring, which seems to be the fastest way to improve in training.

[Sus]

Chaospage has been in continual tantrum spiral after the ...incident with the Goblin Mace Lord.
It remains to be seen if I can get the hairy buggers to calm down before they murder the shit out of each other...

[nopil3os]

does anyone have issues with chicken since the minecart update? i have a imported save and it seems that since the update my breeding batteries don't work anymore. nestboxes are claimed by hens, roosters are on the map (in a cage) but i get no chicks in years...

[PsychicKid]

I REALLY need to train my military better... Any tips that aren't danger rooms?

Use multiple squads of 2-3 dwarves only.  Make sure each squad is using the same weapon type (all swords, or all axes, or all hammers, whatever).  This way demonstrations will be of the correct type for the observers (no speardwarves picking up a few tips they'll never use about smashing heads with a hammer), and much of the training will be in the form of 1v1 sparring, which seems to be the fastest way to improve in training.

That's what I've been doing. I had 4 squads of 2. Two squads of axe, two of spear. They didn't seem to skill up very quickly, but they WERE training in some way. I'll have to fix their numbers though because they got... trimmed a bit in a goblin ambush and then the FB attack a month later. I commissioned a full set of gear for 10 Dorfs, so I better get drafting once those go through.

[Lich180]

does anyone have issues with chicken since the minecart update? i have a imported save and it seems that since the update my breeding batteries don't work anymore. nestboxes are claimed by hens, roosters are on the map (in a cage) but i get no chicks in years...

I haven't had any problems with egglayers... quantum cage has almost 150 hatchlings in it. Are you sure your dwarves aren't harvesting the eggs?

[nopil3os]

I haven't had any problems with egglayers... quantum cage has almost 150 hatchlings in it. Are you sure your dwarves aren't harvesting the eggs?

positive. the doors are locked all the time.

another thing: has anyone yet try to power a roller from above or below with a gear assembly?

[Fishybang]

The fortress of freezetundra is going well i have warded of attacks form beackwolves and dark stranglers and just captured a Female Voracious Cave Crawler! Now i just need a male and ill be set! Also 42 dwarfs in a meeting hall made for 10 makes freinds fast.

[Callista]

I'm up to ten casualties in the military. For having beaten the first wave of HFS, that's not too bad.

[Splint]

I'm up to ten casualties in the military. For having beaten the first wave of HFS, that's not too bad.

That's amazing actually.

[Callista]

I'm up to ten casualties in the military. For having beaten the first wave of HFS, that's not too bad.

That's amazing actually.

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Amazingly lucky, more like. Ten still represents one in five dwarves dying even with repeating steel and adamantine spike traps to take the first few dozen clowns stupid enough to climb straight up into them. Plus, there were five civilians killed walling up different levels of the fortress. (Yeah, I got a strange underground structure--so the military had walls at their backs most of the time instead of being mobbed by a bunch of them at the bottom level.)

The clowns I got were pretty wimpy overall--the worst syndromes weren't permanent, and the toughest ones were mouse or earthworm monsters. At least half of them were made of things like snow, ash, and steam. Most of those ten casualties were killed by deadly dust attacks. None of the clowns made of harder materials were immune to being beheaded or bisected by steel battleaxes. I'm probably going to get killed by the ones wandering in from the side of the map, though. Several dwarves are already "fine" and the tragedies are piling up. Now it's just a question of whether the tantrum spiral will happen before enough dwarves are too hardened to care about the steady stream of deaths.