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[Retro]

There's a river with a small (1-z) canyon, which is nice. I'm considering building a glass pyramid on top of my fort. Whats the tallest z-level in 40d?

15z above the highest aboveground level, and 15z below the lowest aboveground level.

[Schilcote]

There's a river with a small (1-z) canyon, which is nice. I'm considering building a glass pyramid on top of my fort. Whats the tallest z-level in 40d?

15z above the highest aboveground level, and 15z below the lowest aboveground level.

And in 31, it's whatever you set it to in the params!
I like making each layer around 50 Z-levels. Adds a bit of challenge (as well as a lot more metal). Or at least for me. Every time I start a fort the first thing I do is build a staircase to the bottommost Z-level.

[BodyGripper]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I've been working on a cave-in trap, made to terminate the Bronze Colossus known to live in the cave nearby.  I thought I'd completed it, so I drafted Kivish Patternedpulley, a trader (I already had a much better one), made her a militia captain, and sent her into the caves, to lure the Colossus into the trap.  Once she got down to his lair (deep in the cavern) and he noticed her, I ordered her to run away toward the trap.  Instead, she ran toward Bronzy, and he started pummeling her. 
I quickly gave up on the situation and started tending to my other dwarfs' needs.  After a couple minutes, I noticed Captain Kivish was still alive, albeit with lots of gruesome wounds.  I decided to disband her squad (which consisted only of her).  She started to run away, but she went in the wrong direction, and now she's cornered and being terrorized again.  Interestingly, she's now a Legendary fighter and wrestler...  I really hope she can make it home alive.

Well, that didn't work out well... she did manage to make it home alive, but she took the wrong route, avoiding the cave-in trap.  Bronzy followed her to the fortress, fought some merchants' bodyguards for a while, somehow got into the fortress, and started fighting with my four soldiers.  I decided to stop trying to save the fortress, and just let Fun happen.... only it didn't.  This particular Bronze Colossus seems to be incapable of killing anything.  BORING.

[brainfire]

Just finished blocking off my little section of cavern, water and all. Had to collapse the ceiling in, in spots, to wall in a section of water for my own use, without giant olms swimming in and wrecking my shit. Also built walls up to the ceiling, which is an average of 10 levels above the water (I tweaked cavern openness)- I lost my last fort to the very first forgotten beast to show up, a flying blob of vomit. No flyers will be making it in this time!

On the other hand, I lost an entire 17 dwarf migrant wave to a goblin ambush. Turns out 17 wrestlers and one guy with an axe don't do so great against six lashers and a hammer goblin in metal armor. Every dwarf dead, and the worst injury on the goblin side was a broken ankle.

Next step is to figure out whether it's smarter to pump up the magma to a reasonable level or just burrow a few dwarves in the depths. I need some arms and armor for my military...

[Flaming Dorf]

For whatever reason, I decided to buy a giant lion, struggled to figure out how to let it out of its cage, crossed my fingers that it wouldn't attack my dorfs... and it turns out I have to train it to fight for me. Dang. Come to think of it, I've never bought/trained any animals, so I'll be looking into that.
Hell, I think I need to train it to even name it.
Ah well. It's nice to have. It looks pretty cool. Maybe I'll eventually get off my lazy ass and read the wiki to figure out training, who knows. >.>

edit: I officially like this thread. I just read through a couple pages... like a million little microblogs.

[lanceleoghauni]

reassigning immigrant jobs. then I'm going to kick back and wait for .06 so I don't have to deal with the globs crash.

[Hippoman]

Water flooded my room again.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

The elves just brought some o' dat valley 'erb.

[Hippoman]

After much reconsideration, I reverted back, Fixed the well by blocking up the hole until I can find out what to do.
Then I put myself into the military to train with a bronze buckler and a copper pick.
I will continue to search for magma.
And I will release the troglodyte I caught, into the barracks and lock the doors. its good for training.

[Greiger]

Last year I had asked the caravan to bring every kind of meat they had available, like I usually do.  In previous versions this was usually just the domestic animals.  I believe something with the melting rain kept civs from realizing they had access to wildlife in tropical areas.

I had noticed that they had a very wide selection of meat when I told the liason that but thought nothing of it.  Figured they wouldn't bring it all.

Haha.  They brought it all. a total of 20000☼ of various animal products is currently sitting in my trade depot on year 2, as I puzzle out how to legitimately purchase it all.  Everything from Sea Serpent tripe to Large roach brain.   Carnivore fortresses have gotten almost trivial now with trading enabled.  I have enough food in my fortress right now, to feed every member of my entire civ for just short of an entire season.  Enough to feed just my fortress for 5 years, and they are bringing more of the same next year.

[Srial]

I'm trying to figure out what to do with the first 13 adamantite ore I've ever mined in DF.  I'm very excited.  Maybe new battleaxes.  Maybe a statue for my newly elected mayor.   Maybe I'll just make funny dwarven hats out of them.

Oh, and also try to find more admantite ore.  Most I can find so far is floating in the magma sea which is hard for me to get to.

[Diablous]

I'm trying to figure out what to do with the first 13 adamantite ore I've ever mined in DF.  I'm very excited.  Maybe new battleaxes.  Maybe a statue for my newly elected mayor.   Maybe I'll just make funny dwarven hats out of them.

Oh, and also try to find more admantite ore.  Most I can find so far is floating in the magma sea which is hard for me to get to.

Be careful...

[Lurking Grue]

Just Found that my favorite Militia Captain is apparently destined to fail miserably and die a pitiful death no matter how many times I reload.

Take 1: He thunders forward towards the group of Goblins, Axe raised high to cleave and smite, The axe falls once! twice! thrice! Three blows and three Goblins are sundered... Then he dodges, Slips and plummets into a tiny murky pool one square wide. The remaining Goblins point and laugh as he drowns in two inches of water.

Take 2: He thunders forward towards the group of Goblins, Axe raised high to cleave and smite, The first Goblin takes a plucky swing with his little knife scratching the captain across the knuckles, Causing him to drop his axe and shield and flee the field of battle crying like a small girl... Goblins pursue and take their time killing him literally carving him into small chunks.

Take 3: As before Blah blah, The last Goblin takes a swing and pokes the captain in the EAR killing him outright... This the only wound he recieved in the whole fight.

Take 4: Meteor Strike, Chest Burster, Spontaneous Combustion... I'm scared to find out.

[Kidiri]

Urist McMilitiaCaptain cancels live: Interrupted by destiny.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Urist McMilitia cancels Survive Goblin Attack: Interrupted by Random Number God.