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[Dbuhos]

A fisherman just got a strange mood and claimed a leather workshop..
I wonder what will he do...

This is my first strange mood dwarf :3


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Elf caravan arrived => I killed them all

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Found a cave system, my first one...

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Fisherman went insane and didn't finish his shit. :C

So much shit happen all of sudden. AWESOME !!!

And the game crashed, so awesome...

[setles]

4 useless artifects then this

[Mandaril]

So, I'm playing like my 20th/50th fortress and I finally realized how to designate a well as a "water source".

I always wondered why I couldn't designate anything as water source....why couldn't I do it? Because I only covered the water/well itself with zone and the option never lighted up.

Now I misclicked one too far and the zone expanded to the square next to well and....TADAA! "Water Source" -square assignable.Sooo the "water source" -tile doesn't represent where the water source is, but places where dwarves can drink/use the water.... DUH.

I feel so stupid.

[Orkel]

oh god

[Heavenfall]

I just got two ambushes in the first year.

Lots of fun!

[Ladde]

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-9244-duskmountain
This is my fortress.

What should I do?
Should I just sit and wait for some attacks. I had Goblins on the Embark screen, but I haven't seen any.
And I've dug down to level 100, and I found no Magma yet.

This is my first successful fortress so any tips would be nice.

[Orkel]

One of my soldiers killed a huge green glass humanoid forgotten beast, and soon after he gave his sword a name. Zonkivish, aka. Helmlancer. Good name, now it's a kickass sword in my eyes.

[ungulateman]

That's great name. It would have been even better for, say, a spear, but who's complaining.

Nothing interesting here. I'm still annoyed about the fact that I have to irrigate before I can plant crops, though.

[MonkeyHead]

step 1: A sasquatch met my militia commander, who has become attached to his bizmuth bronze battle axe. he cut both his legs off which sailed off in nice arcs.

step 2: ....

step 3: Sasquatch soap! i liked to imagine my tyler durden fashioning it into large foot shapes...

[alway]

Updated from 08 to 11, so if I'm lucky, I won't have to deal with any more unkillable blobs (since IIRC one of the post-31.08 versions was supposed to have fixed that). It also seems while I was preoccupied locking down and crushing the immortal blob, a giant lobster Forgotten Beast snuck in. That is now the third time they have got in and messed up my pump stack (which due to most of the pumps being hanging from others, makes it a real pain). NO MORE. I shall now wall off my entire pump stack, which should keep just about everything out of it.

[Urist McTaverish]

Trying to pick a bedroom layout for my fort.  So far almost all my starters have slept outside, so I need to set up bedrooms quick to give positive thoughts.

[alway]

Oh, wow. It's a good thing I updated to 31.11. Not 10 minutes after loading up my game, another blob made its way into my fort. A few hastily drafted dwarves (I have no standing military) managed to kill it, with just one dwarf heavily wounded (who will likely die, but regardless, it certainly beats the immortal blob). Yay bugfixes!

[Greiger]

It is glorious!  My soldiers are actually SPARRING!  It is a miracle! And my crossbow users are practicing at the ranges too!  .11 is my dreams come true.

...Of course the sparring soldiers are sparring with adamantine greatswords... so it is likely to end in tears, but still, glorious.

EDIT:  Though now my combat log is being spammed by a forgotten beast getting caught in boiling clouds of it's own extract after it got shot with a bolt fired through a fortification from the main stairway.  I doubt I want that extract on any of my soldiers, but the thing is moving around too much for me to feasibly set up a crossbow station.   Hmm, need a plan... maybe magma...

[The Yellow Peril]

Most of todays Dwarf Fortress playing was a waste.

I built my big HFS-trapper in my quest to build a fortress in hell, only to find out that for some reason the HFS can actually walk through fortifications. I can't think of any way to flood the HFS with magma without simultanously letting the HFS escape, now that fortifications apparently let creatures walk through them when they also have magma pouring through them

I get really frustrated by things like this. My plan SHOULD work, it's just some stupid bug or poorly designed feature that ruins it.

[Niveras]

I actually pierced and cleared out the fun a while back (couple years fort-wise, perhaps a week ago real time), but for lulz:

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Brute: It does the body good. Lightly spiced with syrup.

What's humorous is this clown type had dangerous blood which causes blistering of the bone. So yeah... Clearing out that fun stuff gave me enough meat for this fort to last decades. Maybe clowns should not result in edible products (but still allow butchering for bone and other parts).

As an aside, some of my clowns are formed of gem types, whose severed body parts which leave "[clown] red diamond". I assume those can't be used as actual gems in any way?

On an unrelated note, my dwarves are either completely apathetic of the fort's history, or wholly in love with the history of the region. Despite a functioning cloth economy which involves making some cloth/leather crafts and then decorating them with sewn images, very few seem to actually involve my own fort, and none at all related to the piercing of the fun stuff (and the subsequent slaughter of clowns).