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[MobRules]

Started a 250-year-old world in the new version, started a fort, then made a copy to go digging around in legends -- I wanted to learn about my civs gods so I could better plan for temple-building and such. I ended up spending hours following one family.


In the year 1, the general Zon Helmferns and bard Udil Zealseal married, and lived happily with their ever-increasing number of daughters, and in the year 12, the had their seventh child, who was their first son. But then a  tragedy struck: while still an infant less than a year old, their son was devoured by the troll Milo Wetspin the Meteor of Periwinkles. This was devastating for the entire family, but Zon took the death of his son particularly hard. He became obsessed with death and the avoidance of death, and began ardently worshiping Zulban, the diety of victory, war, death, blight and chaos. When his second son was born in the year 13, he even named him after the dark goddess.

In the year 14, Zon underwent a journey to the depths of the world, where he tamed the giant toads. Zulban answered his prayer, providing him with copper tablets that allowed him to become the first mortal to learn the dark arts of necromancy.

And there is plenty more to the story of Zon, Ulbin, and their (eventually) 13 children. I'm considering starting a thread for posts about my civs history. (The upshot is that that necromancer tower over yonder? It was founded by my civilization's first general. He still lives there with his wife, two of his children, the and widower of another of his children. My civilization's first king lives there as well. Necromancers all.) Some of their other children took very different paths, eventually dying of old age or other causes.

In contrast, my kingdom's second king was a doctor and a scholar who was the first to develop an important surgical technique.

[NJW2000]

Started a new fort of budding intellectuals (all novice in an academic skill) in an terrifying biome next to a dark goblin tower. No bad thoughts so far, several days in, elf blood rain seemingly disappears before hitting the ground. 1x1 embark, but an aquifer. Gonna be hard.

[vjek]

While testing a dodge-me trap into magma, found the following combat report:
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The spinning iron spear misses The Goblin Recruit!
The Goblin Recruit jumps away from The spinning iron spear!
The Goblin Recruit slams into an obstacle!
The Goblin Recruit's lower body takes the full force of the impact, bruising the muscle and bruising the right kidney through the ({troll fur cloak})!
The Goblin Recruit is caught in a pool of magma!
Olngo Strodnootsmor, Goblin Recruit: I was caught in smoke underground. I'm annoyed.
The Goblin Recruit is caught in a pool of magma!

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Yeah, I bet being caught in smoke would be annoying when it's your smoke.

[WatcherAM]

Started a 250-year-old world in the new version, started a fort, then made a copy to go digging around in legends -- I wanted to learn about my civs gods so I could better plan for temple-building and such. I ended up spending hours following one family.


In the year 1, the general Zon Helmferns and bard Udil Zealseal married, and lived happily with their ever-increasing number of daughters, and in the year 12, the had their seventh child, who was their first son. But then a  tragedy struck: while still an infant less than a year old, their son was devoured by the troll Milo Wetspin the Meteor of Periwinkles. This was devastating for the entire family, but Zon took the death of his son particularly hard. He became obsessed with death and the avoidance of death, and began ardently worshiping Zulban, the diety of victory, war, death, blight and chaos. When his second son was born in the year 13, he even named him after the dark goddess.

In the year 14, Zon underwent a journey to the depths of the world, where he tamed the giant toads. Zulban answered his prayer, providing him with copper tablets that allowed him to become the first mortal to learn the dark arts of necromancy.

And there is plenty more to the story of Zon, Ulbin, and their (eventually) 13 children. I'm considering starting a thread for posts about my civs history. (The upshot is that that necromancer tower over yonder? It was founded by my civilization's first general. He still lives there with his wife, two of his children, the and widower of another of his children. My civilization's first king lives there as well. Necromancers all.) Some of their other children took very different paths, eventually dying of old age or other causes.

In contrast, my kingdom's second king was a doctor and a scholar who was the first to develop an important surgical technique.

Sounds like the beginning to a epic history/story thread. You should post other interesting facts.

[Romeofalling]

Started a 250-year-old world in the new version, started a fort, then made a copy to go digging around in legends -- I wanted to learn about my civs gods so I could better plan for temple-building and such. I ended up spending hours following one family.
...

Yep. Sometimes I intend to play DF, and end up playing Legend Viewer all day instead.

[Torrenal]

I've learned that ramps are complicated.

Starts with, I've got a fort on a flat plain with a river and the river freezes in winter.  To avoid any antics with flooding during freeze/thaw, I've gone ahead and build a 1Z level high wall surrounding my entrance with a ramp over the wall, then ramps down into my fort (cause stairs are dangerous, don'cha'know).

This looks approx like (with # as wall, ^/v as ramps, and a moody dwarf not claiming any workshops as @)

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#  v ^##^
#  v ^##^
# @v ^##^
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The spot one Z level under directly @ has been dug out, you enter going west, and exit going east.  What could be simpler?

Except it turns out that my moody dwarf can't access the ramp he's been standing nextg to.  Doh!  I'll adjust the design slightly to not leave any 'inescapable' ledges.
//Torrenal

[Robsoie]

So apparently , despite the liaison was telling us every years that "the world is always the same" , things have actually happened at the mountainhomes, because



Oh well, going to have to improve those rooms standard i guess.

[Camulus]

The Stern Doors is receiving it's first visitors...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One fort into the new release, my mind throbs with the familiar ecstasy of addiction.

Is it possible to determine what story a visiting dwarven dancer is telling?


Edit:Nevermind, I absentmindedly pressed enter on one of my dwarves and that magically opened a view activity screen.

[Speakafreak22]

Got a great fort going, almost up to 80 dwarves, all my industries are running well, tons of food. Haven't breached the caverns yet and a crundle keeps crashing my game "path fail: crundle,129,73,70 -> 143,83,68: Id #5965:Path Goal Seek Station:Station Head for Edge at 143,83,68". Not sure how to fix it.

Until I figure that out, I'm gonna start a new fort in a different world. I'll have to keep an eye out for flux stone and sand on this one, not having steel or glass was a little annoying.

[Button]

Got a great fort going, almost up to 80 dwarves, all my industries are running well, tons of food. Haven't breached the caverns yet and a crundle keeps crashing my game "path fail: crundle,129,73,70 -> 143,83,68: Id #5965:Path Goal Seek Station:Station Head for Edge at 143,83,68". Not sure how to fix it.

Until I figure that out, I'm gonna start a new fort in a different world. I'll have to keep an eye out for flux stone and sand on this one, not having steel or glass was a little annoying.

Path fail errors happen fairly frequently and usually don't crash the game. It's likely the actual cause of the crash is completely different and not being logged.

[Speakafreak22]

Got a great fort going, almost up to 80 dwarves, all my industries are running well, tons of food. Haven't breached the caverns yet and a crundle keeps crashing my game "path fail: crundle,129,73,70 -> 143,83,68: Id #5965:Path Goal Seek Station:Station Head for Edge at 143,83,68". Not sure how to fix it.

Until I figure that out, I'm gonna start a new fort in a different world. I'll have to keep an eye out for flux stone and sand on this one, not having steel or glass was a little annoying.

Path fail errors happen fairly frequently and usually don't crash the game. It's likely the actual cause of the crash is completely different and not being logged.

Thanks, good to know. I'll start experimenting with it at some point if this new fort doesn't work out.

Just got my first siege. It's supposedly a goblin siege, it has the vile force announcement and the goblin civ just showed up on my civ list. Weird thing is, the only attackers are dwarves.

[askovdk]

The world is definitely alive.
I'm 1½ year into my first fort (slow computer and work), and suddenly have to make quality housing for the king and a baron, as they their fathers apparenlty got themselves killed.

Booksave (yes, with that name at random I guess I have to go for a legendary library):
http://mkv25.net/dfma/usermaps.php?fortressName=Booksave
(Not much to see yet, it is only the end of year 2).

[Robsoie]

5th year of my fortress, a 2nd siege is happening. At last a battle !

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My military is made of 40 soldiers , 4 squads, protecting the 150 pop fortress i have.
After so many years of training (not even using any exploit, dwarves train incredibly fast with simply sparring), my 1st (and best) melee squad is made of 2 Master, 1 High Master ... and 7 Legendary warriors !

The 2nd squad is made of very good marksdwarves (thanks to the many buzzards and keas for training), not yet masters though but very likely to be deadly with the sea of bolts i have by now

The 3rd squad is made of high skilled melee warriors, they were drafter a year ago.

The last squad is mostly beginners, drafted a couple of months ago.

The goblins, that number are 62 this time are not fielding any dwarven traitors , but in the same time they are not having a single troll , mount or any other creatures, that's not good for them.



Let's go meet on the field of glory, the dwarven new king that auto-declared himself some months ago is wanting the goblins to meet their end. Right here and right now.
I notice that on this 2nd siege the gobs still have no weaponmaster, despite it's been 5 long years of gameplay.

That means my 1st squad that is nearly everyone legendary, should destroy all of them without a problem, especially with the support of my other squads that out of the newbie squads are skilled enough.

Anyways, they move, they're coming ! To arms !
They have no idea what is going to strike them once they reach the gate. The fools !



The brave defenders of the fortress are waiting for the signal, while the citizen are well inside of the burrows.


On their way the evil gobs kill most of our animals in their pasture fields, their souls ask for revenge, their death will be avenged .


The signal is then given, the warriors prepare their shields and best weapons, and the legendary weaponmasters  rush into the battlefield, to glory , vengeance for our animals, death to the gobs !


The battle rage, but the ferocity of the fortress defenders makes it more like a carnage, gobs are cut , are hammered, are slashed, are stabbed , are filled with bolts, there's no escape for the foolish demonic gobs.


There is only death for those monsters.




(despite the damned equip bug) Only 2 braves warriors on the 40 dwarven defenders fell in battle, one in the 3rd squad and 1 in the 4th squad.
Wounds will heal and be forgotten but our fallen will be remembered with magnificent slabs at the fortress gate for everyone to see, their souls will dance in dwarven heavens .

The gobs came to murder the fortress, the gobs are now dead and our animals avenged.

And in memory of that great battle, a swordmaster bestowed a name to his sword

[vjek]

Visiting Scholar...

Discuss Reproductive Behavior!

yeah, I'll bet you are.. 

[FortunaDraken]

For those having issues with armour, you have to set specific armour rather than just saying wear iron breastplate or whatever. Only way it works, that I've found.

I am having very few visitors in my new fort. Maybe being in badlands is bad for visitors XD