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[angrysully]

How wide does a road need to be to be considered a highway?  I want to start working on a highway that halts into a little settlement outside my city.

[Broseph Stalin]

How wide does a road need to be to be considered a highway?  I want to start working on a highway that halts into a little settlement outside my city.

The only qualifier for a highway is that it's a major road. It's more about what it goes to than how big it is.

[angrysully]

How wide does a road need to be to be considered a highway?  I want to start working on a highway that halts into a little settlement outside my city.

The only qualifier for a highway is that it's a major road. It's more about what it goes to than how big it is.

Well I want to have it go to all 4 directions on the maps and connect to the settlement area I'm going to make outside the fort.  What kinds of things need to be included to make it considered a royal road and doesn't it still need to be a certain width to handle back and forth travel from carts/people.

Other thing I wanted to know is if I can build underground roads and have them function as well.

[Broseph Stalin]

Well I want to have it go to all 4 directions on the maps and connect to the settlement area I'm going to make outside the fort.  What kinds of things need to be included to make it considered a royal road and doesn't it still need to be a certain width to handle back and forth travel from carts/people.

Other thing I wanted to know is if I can build underground roads and have them function as well.

I don't know what you mean by royal road but you can make sure people use it by designating it as a high traffic zone, carts need a 3 urist wide space to move but they more or less ignore roads.

[Splint]

They tend to prefer using a road if it connects directly to the depot or is the least obstructed path. It's the merchants leadiing regular pack critters that will most often ignor roads though.

[angrysully]

Well I want to have it go to all 4 directions on the maps and connect to the settlement area I'm going to make outside the fort.  What kinds of things need to be included to make it considered a royal road and doesn't it still need to be a certain width to handle back and forth travel from carts/people.

Other thing I wanted to know is if I can build underground roads and have them function as well.

I don't know what you mean by royal road but you can make sure people use it by designating it as a high traffic zone, carts need a 3 urist wide space to move but they more or less ignore roads.

Well, I thought that eventually your city can become the capital of the dwarves so you have make better roads to cover the increased traffic.

[Sutremaine]

Goal: Breed jabberers.
Result: Butcher own dwarf and cook him into a roast.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This fortress I made an effort to kill all the crundles and bugbats and such so that I'd be able to catch all the interesting stuff. I ended up two jabberers, both female, and have been messing around with syndromes in an effort to turn one of them male to make the eggs viable. I modified flesh balls to give off the correct mutating gas as a secretion, but I forgot to make dwarves immune to it. Cue sudden transformation, which I was very surprised about at the time. I was curious about if he'd still take jobs, but all I saw was the 'Butcher? y/n' screen.

Y

So poor Adil was dismantled into his component parts, which were named as dwarf parts but in the quantities appropriate to a jabberer. Then I wanted to see if they'd cook it up, which I figured they'd do because the parts were moved into the food pile and not a corpse/graveyard pile, but I wanted to see. Voila, masterwork dwarf spleen roast!

[Sus]

Desperately attempting to pull up from a tantrum spiral before everybody goes berserk.
We need more coffins dammit!

Also, caught a giant olm. And a fucking skunk of all things. Why couldn't it be one of the rattlesnakes out there, or at least an ostrich? 

[Vorthon]

Catch more skunks and breed them. Then unleash the resulting skunk army upon a goblin siege. Then proceed to laugh your ass off as goblins get gassed.

Lemons and lemonade and all that jazz.

[RabblerouserGT]

"The Mason cancels Construct Building: Creature occupying site"

Why does this happen when trying to build walls (and sometimes, tables)?
I never had it in earlier updates.

[Splint]

"The Mason cancels Construct Building: Creature occupying site"

Why does this happen when trying to build walls (and sometimes, tables)?
I never had it in earlier updates.

Just an irritating  bug. Sometimes they'll stand on the thing they're trying to build and block it by mistake. Just gotta redesignate.

[RabblerouserGT]

Whooooooooooaaaaa....


My fortress is getting swarmed by snatchers about now.
But they dont' seem to be interested in kidnapping. They just outright ATTACK the babies. D: And they're babies so they don't really have much chance to defend themselves, leaving baby parts strewn about the lawn.

That's brutal.

[Bobnova]

Hit a new record for injured bits of a dorf... Everything but one toe is swollen at best.  That toe is gone.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

FB with boiling poison gas breath. Amusingly, the FB was roasting itself with its breath, too.
Six militia tackled it, all survived, one died in the hospital bed (amusingly, the battle was in the hospital) promptly, the one pictured is giving off miasma so I don't have high hopes.

(Never hit post, whoops. Those who didn't die right away made a full recovery)

[crazyjake56]

I have an idea to wall around my little hole in the wall leaving the only entrance as a bridge. While I know how to approach the bridge I don't know how to go about the watchtowers so I'm just gonna fumble around a bit.

[doublestrafe]

I just hit a personal record for number of deities worshiped by a single dwarf:



All these gods and she's still unhappy.

Golud the Spongy Pig isn't as exciting as he sounds. He usually takes the form of a male dwarf and is associated with family. But still. Golud the Spongy Pig. Best god ever.

Incidentally, Nadak Bastionjewels is actually associated with wealth and fortresses. Never had a relevantly named goddess before.