OH BOY
OH BOY DID I SURE LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES TODAY
So I got a total of to goblin squads and a troll squad. I captured about half of them, causing the troll squad to flee. A bunch of goblins chased after a dog, making their way around the traps. I sent my five-man, legendary +5, superdwarven military after them.
I didn't know just how badly cave adaption affects combat until now. I lost two macelords to the stupid goblins. I also lost around 5 civilians, but whatever. The captives will be made to
suffer.
Then the dwarven and impish caravans came at the same time, so I got the depot ready for them. My legendary broker/mayor (he's the only one in the fort with above dabbling social skills) was on break, so I made some peasant the broker.
THEN A FUCKING FB ARRIVED, so I tried to close the cavern gates but my dwarves were too busy hauling goods to the depot to pull the lever and save their sorry asses. The FB, a bug of some kind with solid secretions, killed my only metalsmith and her baby, then was one-shotted by a passing engraver. Pitiful. I designated a new metalsmith and traded with the merchants. I don't think the secretions got anywhere, but I'll hold off on using DFhack's clean command for a few months.
After the merchants departed, I moved the depot to an underground area. I also made it out of solid platinum this time because I'm richer than Bill Gates. I also moved the barracks to the second-to-the-top level of the Eyrie so they would be out in the sunlight a lot. The Eyrie is completely finished except the final roof and the nest boxes. Hopefully I will have buzzards and giant sparrows soon.
Hehe, hope your fort survived. May i ask in which biome you are?
I'm getting sick of these giant lorikeets sitting in the trees for several years now, preventing other animals to spawn.
Yeah, my fort survived. I can just shut the gates at any time and nobody can get in.
I built my fort in a savage sand desert, although after the saplings grew it's more of a sand forest. I still have four giant sparrows sitting around from way back near when my fort was founded. I should probably tell my marksdwarves to go kill them.
EDIT:
HA YOU PIECE OF SHIT BIRD I PUT YOU IN A CAGE LAST MONTH CAN'T ESCAPE NOW