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[Lich180]

My dorfs apparently have a thing for nuts... my entire supply of rock nuts has been eaten raw... its the only way I can explain the loss of 50+ rock nuts. At least I got a few good meals out of the leaves, so I can buy more

[MenacesWithSpikes]

I have started up a new fort, Wealthlantern.  It's supposedly in the middle of a temperate shrubland/grassland (I forget which) biome and a temperate ocean biome... but I was expecting to see an actual coastline and some ocean water, which I don't in this zone.  Weird.  There is an area of pebbles and driftwood in the west, but it's solid land on the far side of it, not ocean.  I don't get it.

A river empties out into said ocean... well, somewhere, apparently outside the zone.  The climate is warm, so snow isn't a problem.  The site has magnetite and entire layers of marble, so forging steel isn't a problem.  No aquifer.  The site has both sand and fire clay... and I have a Legendary Glassmaker.  Good times.  If I can only manage to get a Legendary Weaponsmith, Armorsmith, and Mechanic...

I have an artifact green glass throne.  I bet the dwarven queen will like that, if this fort lasts long enough.

I'm trying out the 'three bridges' defense strategy in the wiki,which I haven't attempted before.  It looks like it'll be nice once it's completed.  Unfortunately, I spent time fiddling with that instead of properly armoring my first squad of speardwarves.  Results:  one speardwarf instantly killed by a headshot, as well as various other dwarves injured by arrows.  I don't have a hospital yet, either.  I'll have to churn out steel armor faster...  My first two goblin ambushes came in the form of crossbowmen, bowmen, and lashers.  Ouch.

I would like to capture some emus for meat and egg production.  This biome certainly has enough of them.  I've already captured some rattlesnakes, which I haven't really figured out a use for yet.

The caverns don't even start until Z-level... -50 or something ridiculous like that.  If I want magma, we're talking Z-level -100 ish.

[Sus]

The roofs over refuse stockpile and farms are finally complete (Building large structures out of whole rocks in .34.11 takes some serious time!) and food supply seems to be stabilizing, despite the fact that I haven't had a trade depot for the first three years... (Some idiot decided that a chunk of gabbro sitting on the depot construction site would make the perfect finishing touch for those huge-ass roofs.) Maybe I'll even get to actually trade now that this little hiccup's taken care of.
Also, my vanity project called "Down the Billon road" is proceeding nicely.

The miners just found the magma sea, which means magma furnaces for everyone as well as getting rid of every piece of wooden armor and xunwanted clothingx in the fort. (Yay!)
I'm told there's candy somewhere down there as well. If I can get my hands on some of that, it would make a most welcome improvement to the current copper weaponry and armour. (The only ore I've found before hitting the teal stuff was tetrahedrite, and without a depot to trade for cassiterite or iron ores... so yeah.)

[Iosyn]

I've spent about 2 days trying to gen the perfect world. had a few possibles, but maybe I'm just too picky.

Wants:
Plentiful Sedimentary layers
Plentiful Necromancer Towers
All civs, but not enough to flood the world with mountainhomes.
Thick forests and plenty of rivers.
Terrifying Glaciers
A few small deserts.

Forests, rivers, glaciers and deserts are easy. The rest? not so much.

[Raikaria]

Made a new fort to learn how to set traps, military, ect, in an Terrfiying Biome, nestled at the end of a mountain pass.

Firstly, no undead so far. Had evil dust clouds however.

I had one accident with Trolls and Giant Cats from the Caverns sneaking in, but I've fixed it. No losses except a kitten who got caught in the dust for an extended period, and died a couple of months later from a fever and coughing up blood. Killed about 7 Kobloids too. One died to being caught in a dust cloud that decided to smother him.

Suddenly, with only 43 Urists:



I thought uninvited guests were only supposed to show up with 80+ Urists? Not like he can get into my fort, but there goes my plan to breach the caverns themselves with him lurking down there.

This is my first uninvited guest. I'm so happy :V

EDIT: Without the caverns being actually breached [The accident was walled], and hence, no way for it to get into my fort... it leaves the map... and re-appears in my BEDROOMS a few 'weeks' later. I have no idea how it did this, maybe it surfaced somewhere off the map and walked in through the front door :/ Killed it but lost 2 Urists, including a miner.

The hero took the beast down using only a copper dagger...

[UristMcLurker]

Just got my first artifact in my new fort: "The Beauty of Discoveries" a palm hatch cover that menaces with spikes of rock salt. Ah well, at least I got a legendary carpenter out of it.

Also, I forgot to get the horses outside when a werechinchilla appeared. One of the horses kicked it in the head and it ran off before my militia got there.

[itg]

Update on Ironwinds (HFS-related):

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

To recap, I released the HFS into a heavily defended area with webbed cage traps (I'm sort of playing Pokemon Fortress) and copper spikes with artifact furniture bait. There's an airlock for maintenance and Fortifications so my marksdwarves can shoot at anything that needs to be shot. When I let the first chunk of demons into the trapped area, the cages caught about a dozen and the spikes killed about twenty, but a lot of the spikes were melted by flame demons.

Having sealed the airlock, I upgraded the copper spikes to adamantine, albeit with much fewer spikes per trap, and reloaded/re-webbed the cages. You have no idea what a pain it is trying to keep the dwarves off the webs when they need to be working in the area. Even at the best of times, they take area restrictions as no more than suggestions. But I digress. When trying to coax the last of the demons out of the shaft, I decided to (very) briefly open the bridge sealing the demons out of my fortress. It worked, but two steam-based clowns escaped (Were they phantoms of steam or steam phantoms? Yes, I have both). Before my military could get into position, they waylaid by best jeweler and mauled him with all the force of a featherwood training hammer. There were no injuries.

Anyway, the initial wave has been dealt with. Out of 100 demons, 52 are in cages and the rest are dead. I caught at least one every species but the tanager demon. No dwarf casualties except the miner who unleashed the circus. He'll get a hero's tomb. Next step is to send an expedition down to Hell. I'm looking for a place to put a new dining room...

[wuphonsreach]

The roofs over refuse stockpile and farms are finally complete (Building large structures out of whole rocks in .34.11 takes some serious time!)

1. Build stone stockpile near digging area, accepting that type of stone.  Use 3 wheelbarrows.
2. Put a mason's workshop next to it, link the two, build blocks on repeat
3. Setup a stockpile near your construction site which accepts that type of stone blocks, pull from mason workshop

Construction speeds up a lot when you turn the stone into blocks first.

[Urist_McDrowner]

I just did my first !!FUN!! thing.


I set a burrow on my retracting bridge over water.

I then deactivated all meeting zones, but filled all the workshops with orders. I used an alert to get everyone on the bridge. Then, I took off the alert, so the useful people actually went to go do stuff. Then, as I put on "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks, I dumped all those useless idlers in the drink. And now I have no more dyers, cheese makers, pressers, furnace operators, or novice siege operators with dabbling as all other skills.

[Bigheaded]

I just did my first !!FUN!! thing.


I set a burrow on my retracting bridge over water.

I then deactivated all meeting zones, but filled all the workshops with orders. I used an alert to get everyone on the bridge. Then, I took off the alert, so the useful people actually went to go do stuff. Then, as I put on "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks, I dumped all those useless idlers in the drink. And now I have no more dyers, cheese makers, pressers, furnace operators, or novice siege operators with dabbling as all other skills.

You live upto your name well!

[Vorthon]

I'm currently trying to figure out the newish hauling system. Argleblargle is all I can say about it.

[BodyGripper]

The caravan that had been stuck in my trade depot for over a year was starting to upset me.  So, I decided to take the risk of a loyalty cascade and ordered a 1-man squad to slaughter the merchants.  Unfortunately, he was seen by another soldier, leading to three squads wiping each other out. 

I then decided to order all of my squads into the area.  And then I made a burrow in that area and ordered everyone to get into it.  Over half of my 230+ population fort was slaughtered in the ensuing riot.  Then I abandoned, allowing the murderous military to escape into nearby settlements.  Perhaps I'll run into them again at some point.

[Mr Frog]

I've finally completed my first pump stack. It took over 200 logs, 40 gear assemblies, 50 galena blocks, and 200 iron bars to make.

Relatedly, if any of y'all were wondering what it looks like when one deploys magma on a glacier...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Now you know.

Incidentally, that's the top level of the stack (not counting the windmill battery extending from the roof). The glacier used to be 1-2 z's down. Then ‼PHYSICS‼ happened. There were a couple bits that extended even higher, but I had to clear them out because they were gumming up my windmills. Through solid block floors.

Ice is fun.

[Splint]

So in essence, you've begun to turn a giant block of ice into a giant block of obsidian. Very dwarfy indeed good sir Frog.

[Mr Frog]

No, no, you got it wrong. I'm creating a block of ice out of nothing, then changing it to a block of obsidian.