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[crazysheep]

The hardest lesson for me to learn in dwarf fortress is that sometimes, you just gotta let your fort sit for a while without making/digging/building anything at all, let it mature for a while like a fine wine while you do some reading or something. Keep an eye out for *PAUSED*

I do this a lot by keeping DF on while I do something else, like cook dinner or go out to classes.

Also, it seems that I have managed to atomsmash a stray dog accidentally while ordering the civilian masses indoors during a goblin siege recently at Gearedsoldier.

[Broseph Stalin]

I do this a lot by keeping DF on while I do something else, like cook dinner or go out to classes.

Also, it seems that I have managed to atomsmash a stray dog accidentally while ordering the civilian masses indoors during a goblin siege recently at Gearedsoldier.

You can't make an omelet without killing a few dogs.

...

I'm not a great cook.

[Caprealis]

Fixed up a squad of musketeers.. Weilding some masterwork steel Spring-Guns(Can't make the ammo for the muskets for some reason)

Other then that the sea of blood is soaking up this fortress nicely, The fact its made of silver makes me happy. Thank you Humans and all your waisted time to give me a fortress that was already built..

I even have a god in the fortress..

[DTF]

So I tried a no-items embark, found a nice location, unpaused and a wall of water moved towards my dwarves. Seems like a river had an 'open end' and is now flooding the area.
I tried building a pump construction, but it is just painful to watch with ~15 fps. Sick of sitting around and looking at dwarves needing 10 minutes to chop down a tree, I used dfhack to place obsidian where the river should end and removed the quadrazillion tiles of water flooding 3/4s of the map. Sad really...
But as it turns out, the river coming in from the east flows into a large area next to the ocean which has 7 more river source tiles in it... so the river flowed directly into another 7 potential rivers and then into the ocean.
Instead of having a very 'plain' game, surviving only with the bare minimum, without big changes to the map other than surface buildings, I now have 7 obsidian pillars blocking the sources, ruining the integrity of the landscape (and of my game)... and a cheated obisidian dam. Maybe I'll build an artificial river bed with clay bricks and then remove the obsidian again.

[Sidhien]

The booze ran out... new migrants... so much blood...

Edit: The entire bloody fortress has "report crime" as their active job.

Edit2: Okay... I've a got new supply of beer and the dehydration deaths have subsided. Now the only problems are the tantruming dwarves, rotting corpses everywhere and the fact that I now have no food. >_<

[Broseph Stalin]

The booze ran out... new migrants... so much blood...

Edit: The entire bloody fortress has "report crime" as their active job.

Edit2: Okay... I've a got new supply of beer and the dehydration deaths have subsided. Now the only problems are the tantruming dwarves, rotting corpses everywhere and the fact that I now have no food. >_<

You have a surplus of corpses and a deficit of food... I don't see a problem.

[Splint]

Rotting corpses tend to not yield good food.

[Sidhien]

What's more important is the supply of corpses' differential. We're not going to need much food soon anyways.

[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
20) Moar Haulers Moar Gems
21) Tranquility in Terrifying
22) Forgotten Beasts on the Rack
23) Feelin the Migrant Squeeze
24) One Fancy Trademark
25) Whistle While You Work
26) Endless Autumn
27) Endless Autumn
28) Endless Autumn
29) Endless Autumn
30) Endless Eight The Traders have Arrived !!
31) Spot Checks and Spot Battles
32) Speedy Setup After the Trade
33) Cloudy Skies Show their Ugly Head
34) The Calm before the Storm

35) The Day of Blood - Nurse Reimu's Point-of-View
36) The Day of Blood - Mayor Mami's Point-of-View

Zombies, Goblins, and Migrants all in one big mixing bowl...

Spoiler: The Situation (click to show/hide)

The Game
My surface map is really well designed for this incident.
I have the original RabbitHut building in the center, a brook up north, and construction site in southwest.
It makes it really easy to locate stuff and find my orientation.
And it's all evil, except the construction area

The Story

Mami hurried to the main hut area.
Even though the Glumprong Depot creeped her out, she still felt it necessary to monitor everything.

Looking through small holes, she could set a large clump of humanoids.
Likely dwarven immigrants and goblins. She could also see bird-like shapes flying above.

She saw one of the birds being stabbed. It's assailants later charged back into the large group.
She also saw a small shape being stabbed. It, however, seemed to fidget and move while it lay down...

She heard screams, then she heard a splash.
Nearby, she could see a goblin fighting some giant zombie bird.
The bird's attacks seemed overwhelming.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

If this one bird was such a horror, she wondered what was happening in that large group.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Another dwarf ran screaming by the hut.
When Mami turned, she saw that the dwarf was surrounded by a goblin and another zombie bird.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

That dwarf gave his fate to the goblin, rather than that rotten bird.
Mami's stomach jumped a little bit.

Another splash.
Mami turned back, and saw the one goblin get out of the water to stab that bird.
She would have noticed the goblin was bleeding, but she was too fixated on another dwarf's blood.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

That one goblin shuffled away from the bird he "killed".
But then Mami saw the town militia charging toward it.
One profient axedwarf started chopping the goblin's limbs away.
Mami closed her eyes after the second limb was amputated ...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

When she opened her eyes, a dwarf was standing next to her, just outside the hut. Mami yelled in suprise.
"Please, help me" the dwarf asked.
Mami couldn't answer. She was out of breath. But she did point west towards the construction site entrance.
So the dwarf limped away.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Then Mami went pale.
That zombie bird which fought the goblin started standing up.
That ... goblin ... which fought the bird ... It also tried to stand up ...

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[Loud Whispers]

Well that was certainly odd. Every now and then, I check my shallow sparring pit to see how the amphibious warfare training is going, and you can imagine my surprise when I see a baby in there, dehydrated and starving. Turns out, the baby was left there because the mother was picking up her favourite battle axe. I made a challenge to raise a single Dwarf from birth to death in my fort, and my Dwarves are not making it easy for me at all.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Out of curiosity, does anyone know if windmills work while submerged in water?

[Splint]

No, but I know how you can find out.

[Corai]

My 20 strong mitila of steel-clad warriors stood guard against the greatest threat they have ever seen.



A huge mob of crundles. I wanted them to have live-training, I forgot to put a door. The crundles killed the army, flooded out into the halls, and mauled everyone else. They then tantrumed to death.



Fun?

[Splint]

.....

Crundles?

Your settlment went under thanks to a marauding horde of uppity flaps of ambulatory taintskin?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA SWEET JUSTICE!!!! And you mocked me for being the first to give birth in the Kobold Camp!

[Loud Whispers]

Never try to contain your crundles. They will always find ways to maraud their way across the undergrounds of your residencies in the most inappropriate of times. Blood always flows.