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[Max™]

Why am I disappointed by that?

Because now you can't become a husk and swim in the magma sea anymore

Oh, that whole fort was dug out with advfort and a race I added so I can become a ghost without getting stuck in mid-air. They're a copy of pixies I think which I just called Spirits so people greet me "Hello, spirit." Normally hauling stuff around when you're that tiny slows you down, but ghosts don't get tired or slow, so in the middle of doing silly stuff like chatting with demons in hell and rescuing children I realized I can do advfort stuff in mid-air.

One thing led to another and I realized glass windows are magma-safe, and with a bit of additional bracing can support something like the big olivine face I originally put up in dorf mode at Joycup.

Since ghosts can't get killed (literally tried everything, jumping into glowing pits, sitting in the middle of an underwater volcano and getting encased in obsidian, getting frozen in rivers, nada) they're perfect for this. So I swam down the volcano to the magma sea, went over to the first candycane I found and filled up my dragonscale (also magma-safe) backpack.

Did the same thing here, adding steel for the face outlines, smoothed and engraved everything, cut all the trees down, floored over the courtyard, dug out the basic outlines of the underground fort for the 7 living here, set up fortifications along the edges of the fort on the mountain to make sure jerkass outpost liasons or migrants don't try to enter from 75 z up the side of a cliff and sit there forever, then set to work getting everything ready for fort mode. Though I only grabbed candy and steel for the lower face, the two upper ones I carved out of the obsidian and left supported by the windows/a couple strategically placed floors.

Did you know: in advfort you can hold down the careful move keys (shift+numpad buttons in my case) when detailing a wall and it will immediately queue up the engraving job afterwards? You can also line up additional building or digging jobs around 5 or 6 on the timer, and unlike in fort mode it is always best to channel when you can fly.

Incidentally, three faces, each with a 3x1 mouth for an outlet, are very effective at draining a tube.

[Lielac]

City Dentbridge, 208 Granite 03 - 209 Granite 01: 134 138 beards

208-01-03: Atir Gorepartner, Dwarven Child is taken by a fey mood!

Please be stone or bone please be stone or bone please YES IT'S STONE

Spoiler: Spring (click to show/hide)

208-01-09: Elven diplomat! Huzzah! Time to hit Rifafa with his own olive branch!

208-01-13: ♪ Elven caravaaaaaan ♪

We have 34 sets of leather armor, or slightly less than a third of what we need. (We need 105 sets of armor, leggings, and boots.)

208-01-15: Who needs idlers when you could be offloading all the old clothes on the elves!

208-01-21: Holy shit I've had an ungelded male cat in the fortress for HOW long?! Dear god no CHOP OFF ITS BALLS

208-01-25: I didn't think I could deal with FPS that ranges between 10 and 22, and mostly covers around 15, but it's not that bad, really. I'm taking this opportunity to clean out all the old scattered clothes and dumping them in the depot. The elves didn't bring anything interesting, unfortunately, but if I bring the clothes to the depot now it'll be less work when the humans and dwarves come along.

208-01-27: A trumpet, Atir? Come now, honey, you can't play that until next version, and I highly doubt DF2015 will be compatible with DF2014.

208-02-07: Oh, wow, training in the barracks increases discipline. Neat!

208-02-22: We're up to 45 sets of leather armor. Hoorah!

208-03-28: And we have our first noticed case of a dwarf becoming attached to their spear. Kumil Rampartlisten has become attached to her exceptional iron spear. Cool!

Also, I'm seeing more sparring as more dwarves gain speardwarf experience.

Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)

208-04-01: We have 65 suits of leather armor. More than halfway done!

208-04-03: You know what? I'm moving the barracks outside. Because sunlight is good for you, dammit, and I'm sick of all this puke everywhere.

208-04-05: Barracks moved. And whoa, every single on-duty soldier decides to do individual combat drills instead of organizing demonstrations. Interesting.

208-04-07: Aaaaand there are the demonstrations. Also, I didn't notice until now that below 20, my G_FPS falls in lockstep with my FPS. (20, for the record, is what I capped my G_FPS at.)

208-04-08: And another dwarf has grown has grown attached to his spear. (Snerk.)

208-04-10: Human caravan, woopwoop! Broker's doing a combat drill. Screw him anyway.

208-04-15: Dumped all the clothes on the caravan, and now there's a human diplomat. They never do anything interesting

208-05-26: Goddammit we're out of food storage again. Moar rock pots!

208-06-06: Hahahahahahahaha, puking in the sparring logs. Deal with the sunlight, honeybuns, it's character-building!

208-06-07: 87 suits of armor. 82%!

Spoiler: Autumn (click to show/hide)

208-07-01: 92 suits of leather armor. Only 13 left!

Oh goddammit a vile force of darkness has arrived. I was hoping to get to deal with the caravan this year.

208-07-02: Hah! This time, dropping half the siege down a pit and making them explode into chunky salsa actually broke the siege. We'll get a caravan this season after all.

208-07-13: Oh my god Kivish Feastfloors must have dodged down the well SHIT goddammit I should have channeled next to the edge of the brook come on Doren Martyrgalley please get there in time SHE DIDN'T FUCKING HELL

And Kivish was one of my artifactors, too. And the husband of Rigoth Gorepartner, one of my matriarchs. Ugh.

208-07-14: Welp, until I manage to drain the brook long enough for someone to retrieve Kivish's corpse and stuff, he'll at least be useful for tragedy training. A dwarf died on my watch. So annoying!

208-07-15: Also, Kivish's wife and kids seem to have no idea he's dead, which is interesting.

-disgusted noises- Zefon Roughnesswaxed fell in too. Luckily, there's a usable ramp right there USE IT INSTEAD OF FLAILING AROUND DROWNING YOU FOOL

208-07-16: And some beard was taken by a fey mood. Whatever. ZEFON STOP FLAILING AND CLIMB OUT OH MY GOD nope drowned oh my god fucking hell she was an artifactor too that's just great OK EVERYBODY BACK TO THE OLD BARRACKS

aaaand the caravan arrived sure whatever don't care

208-07-18: I'm going to pump the brook back over on itself in the hopes that the corpses will become accessible for long enough to retrieve without costing more lives.

.. Ok I could abuse autodump but I don't wanna.

208-07-23: yaaaaay the mood succeeded sure whatever

208-08-06: Hoorah, the brook is finally being half-drained by the power of dwarven engineering! Aaaaand I'm being spammed with "item inaccessible" cancels. Ugh.

208-08-13: fuck it abused autodump

208-08-17: We are at 112 suits of leather armor, which means WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH FULL SETS OF ARMOR HUZZAH

208-09-13: Adding shields back to the civvie outfit. Because.

208-09-20: The duchess and the king are sparring. I love this so much.

Spoiler: Winter (click to show/hide)

208-10-01: 62/103 shields.

208-11-24: I left DF running and fell asleep, and came back to some noob being possessed. Cool story, bro.

208-12-24: Holy crap, my first dwarf named Urist. Hello, baby Urist!

208-12-27: oh sHIT I FORGOT I USED ALL THE SILK MAKING CLOTHES AND THE POSSESSED DWARF NEEDS SILK

209-01-01: And one of the first cats died of old age. Alas, poor Amost, I didn't give a shit.

And we have 122 iron shields, which is plenty, so I'm going to modify the civilian uniform yet again and keep going. We've had 6 births and 2 deaths this year, which is pretty good but I'd rather have had zero deaths. Dwarves died under my command. So annoying!

[cochramd]

Right now, I wish I knew a good way to kill pond grabbers. And to make these damned VCCs breed. And to make the Jabberers mate before claiming nestboxes. And my Giant Olms and Giant Toads.....the toads don't even have a child state, I just slaughter them

My militia commander was injured in a valiant battle against 17 Creeeping Eyes, and I don't want to send him into battle again before he's properly healed. For a while, I will not be able to send him in to eliminate any stragglers that are keeping the next batch of animals from coming in.

A visit to the Health screen informs me that something has caused my VCCs to lose their vision. This is probably why they aren't breeding; I have put them all down.

The crundles keep coming.

It is a dark winter for the fortress of Crowgravel.

[Daris]

Year 40.  Population 130.  Turns out that it was my trying to build two artifact tables in the dining room that was corrupting the save.  So no epic table-admiring for my dwarves, I suppose.

The goblins came by, unexpectedly at the beginning of spring.  They've never shown up in the spring before.  It's a good thing I finished my wall, because I'd been doing all the work during the spring on the grounds that it was the only safe season to work outdoors.

In the confusion, one of the rocs somehow escaped confinement.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Lielac]

City Dentbridge, 209 Granite 02 - 209 Hematite 01: 138 137 135 beards

209-01-02: A vile force of pffffffffffffffffthahaha yeah sure right you know i really need to hook up the HFDP to the higher magma vent so i can cleanse it of waste byproducts of goblinite farming

Spoiler: Spring (click to show/hide)

209-01-03: Aw look they brought trolls how cute

holy shit the trolls actually survive briefly

209-01-04: welp some clever shit of a troll actually managed to get past the bridge OK TIME TO PULL THE AIRLOCK LEVERS

huzzah, the troll is distracted by the trade depot.

hahahahaha one of the hunting dogs charged the troll this is awesome and the troll is overcome by terror DOUBLE AWESOME

209-01-06: Screw it, let's call it our first live training exercise. One troll again squads 1, 4, and 5. Overkill? Probably. Do I care? Nope.

209-01-07: I'd say there are about 15 dwarves there. Pulling the lever for the inner airlock...

... So that took a grand total of five attacks from three dwarves. Congratulations, Kulet Bridgehalls, for your first live kill.

209-01-08: Hah, and half the fowl I brought on embarked must have died too, because I just got five "[fowl] has been missing for a week" messages. Anyway, let's open the airlock again and get back to the splatting.

209-01-10: Ok, I'm gonna use a militiadwarf to lure these hesitant siegers over with that "station and then cancel the order once they hit line of sight" trick.

209-01-12: ah shit I should have used an entire squad now ber pagelull is gonna die and he's got a lover and everything ugh

holy sHIT HE WENT ENRAGED AND IS HOLDING HIS OWN HOLY CRAP oh my god you have a spear USE IT STAB THE GUY IN THE HEAD INSTEAD OF BEATING HIM WITH YOUR SHIELD

209-01-13: I called in the rest of Ber's squad to help mop up. They should get here in time.

If we mop up the siege fast enough, we might even get the elven caravan! -crosses fingers-

209-01-14: These goblin recruits might be a little outclassed. They might also all be a little dead.

209-01-15: Yessssssssssss elven caravan

209-01-23: Elves have shit-all so only gave them a few clothes.

209-02-06: And the chimpanzees have killed a dwarf. Not directly, perhaps, but opening the HFDP while he was on the bridge still killed Vabok Handledike. Ugh.

209-02-11: Designated an area for a magma pump stack for HFDP cleansing.

209-02-13: Aaaand now I'm digging it out.

209-02-16: I've breached the edge of the volcano. No magma crabs or fire imps allowed! Also I've started the massive sand bag collection, because I'm going to need... uh... 240 sand bags. Ok, more like 225, but I'm hedging my bets for how many pumps I'll need in the stack.

209-02-25: oh sHIT two dwarves have just been missing for a week shit shit shit

... they're in the death pit. of course they are. and there's a chimp clinging to the edge of the death pit. of course there is. ugh.

209-03-18: holy shit an actual marriage in this fort congratulations to Udib Bellsstraps and Ingish Daggerhonored MAKE WITH THE BABIES NOW

209-04-01: So the casing for the pump stack is dug out. Now I just need all of the components to be made...

... I'll be over there eating ice cream and playing Minecraft Pocket Edition while keeping half an eye on the fort.

[FortunaDraken]

...well that was weird. My latest fort is in the vicinity of everything ever. I just got notif of a human siege...except there was a single dwarven zombie in the corner of the map. Who immediately walked off the map, thus ending the siege. And then RIGHT AFTER...

Intruders! Drive them away!

Two humans who ran for it like a thief who's been spotted. *scratches chin* I'm not sure what to make of this except be glad that nothing happened since the military isn't up yet (my third wave of migrants that I really really badly needed...was two useless people and their FIVE kids; thanks game)

[Sanctume]

I completed my Breadbowl Summer 240 and about to begin Autumn 240.

Summer has some behind the scene stockpile and project management, character improvement, science, cheesy joke, and DF soap opera level intrigues.

Come on by and say hello in the DF Community Games and Stories.

[Max™]

Switched Zan over to fort mode after raiding some towers for prizes, if they want them back they gotta come take 'em from her.

[cochramd]

A lot of things have happened in Crowgravel, some quite tragic. The death toll has grown to over 1100, though it is mostly animals. A large number of trained animals were slaughtered off to reduce the dwarfpower needed to maintain the herds; capybaras, rutherers, elk birds and wild boars were the species most heavily culled. The giant olms were also slaughtered for refusing to breed. IO've caught 4 more VCCs, and slaughtered them. A jabberer egg was snatched away from its mother before it even hatched; at least, only one that I knew of. But most tragic of all was the fate of my militia commander, Lòr Umarnomal: bled out from a smashed finger from his battle with the creeping eyes. I set up a hospital to save him, but you know how stupid dwarves can be about such things.

But his tragic tale does not end without new hope: I foresaw his death and added 2 soldiers to his squad so he need not fight alone any longer; he died while giving them a demonstration. A former peasant raised in Growgravel with a wife and 2 daughters has taken over as militia commander and inherited Tusungushil, while a stonecrafter with previous hammerdwarf experience is showing him the ropes.

In other good news, 2 male and 1 female cave crocodiles have been caught and put alongside my original female, another 2 male Jabberers have been captured and 3 females have claimed nest boxes. New batches of capybaras and elk birds have been caught.

Since the last time, I've an increase in length and quality of the training screen:

[FortunaDraken]

One season down of a seemingly endless Undead siege. The necromancer left awhile ago, but there's still about 30 zombies trundling around outside my base. Thankfully they can't get in after I slammed down 9 hatches on the stairs, though one goblin pikeman did manage to get inside and killed 7 of my dwarves and a giant war jaguar. Ended up having to draft EVERYONE to launch at it to take it down -_- Though now I have an iron pike to train someone with. Also have three of the outside zombies in cage traps, but I don't know how long it'll take for them to leave. I doubt I can do anything outside without horrible things happening...

[Splint]

Sorry to be a spoilsport Fortuna, but that pike's probably useless to your footdwarves. Too big.

[FortunaDraken]

I expected as much, but I'll make him use it anyway to see what happens. For science.

EDIT: Actually that makes me wonder. If it's too big for dwarves, doesn't that make it too big for goblins?

[Splint]

I expected as much, but I'll make him use it anyway to see what happens. For science.

EDIT: Actually that makes me wonder. If it's too big for dwarves, doesn't that make it too big for goblins?

Goblins are very slightly bigger (I think they're literally just large enough to use pikes and other two-handers.) I've never seen dwarves able to use them, unless the height and broadness modifiers thing was fixed in v40. Could look for the biggest sumbitch in the fort and see if he can wield it.

[FortunaDraken]

Yeah, it looks like there should be someone who could wield it if they were big enough and the bug was fixed. Which means this goblin must've been enormous because he was using both it and a copper crossbow to beat the crap out of my dwarves.

[Max™]

Ah the joys of endless early undead sieges.


This is why I dug out the Trinity of Magma, to inundate the hordes as they arrive.