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[Ovg]

All my dorfs at Windstrikes got fat and weak. Had to change raws to prevent stat loss and regen :< Just as I got 100 dorfs did I notice.

[Flaede]

do dwarven exercise machines (AKA screw pumps) help prevent this?

[schussel]

they do but very slow as it seems

military training in a dangerroom is the best for this but its hard to estimate how much is needed without hitting champion or lord status(thus making the worker useless for the profession)

[Ahasver]

I've reached stability, and my base is centered around the rim of a volcano. I'm training some marksdwarves up using the wooden bolt elephant hunting technique, and let me say, my food stockpile is overflowing with Elephant innards. I'm trying to move towards a more military oriented population (something I have neglected to do too many times in the past). Any suggestions for cool projects to do? I'm thinking about making a lava moat.

[Wastedlabor]

So... many... skelephants...

[proxn_punkd]

* The Proxian deletes Paddlepasses: Taken by mood.
* The Proxian withdraws from society...
* The Proxian sketches pictures of gathered dwarves...
* The Proxian sketches pictures of a barren landscape...
* The Proxian works furiously!

* The Proxian has created Ablelagesh, "Bustcontests", a badlands fortress!

I decided to challenge myself with a surface-plant-less embark. My first try, I accidentally the circus with DFReveal, but on my second try I found an even nicer place: three layers of silty clay, a bit of red sand, some limestone, and a fish-infested river. It's gorgeous. My first project was a fishpond, so I'm hoping some fisherdwarves show up with the next wave of immigrants. Then I assigned furnace operating labors to all my miners, so they've kick-started my steel industry.

My next will be wet t-shirts so my lady dwarves can live up to the fort's name.

[vhappylurker]

News from The Lone Fortification: {FPS: started at 16 and is currently around 10}

I've been getting a pretty steady stream of migrants, who ended up becoming labor for my various roofing/flooring and walling projects. Also, late summer 253, the Snakemen returned to trade...and so did the Lizardmen, Turtlemen, and Frogmen. Which the Snakemen are at war with...and guess who decided to use some reptiles and amphibians as "training aids"? 

Unfortunately, two of my dwarfs got killed and another five wound up in the hospital (which I had to make a burrow just to get the doc and the nurses to stay there are WORK...). So far, one dwarf's been taken care of and is out training again. I've also noticed a major flaw in my defenses: amphibious assualts. So to remedy this oversight, I'm going to attempt rerouting the river temporarily to remove the downslopes and retrieve some goods left by the turtlemen. Hopefully, I'll be able to pull that off before fps death claims my fort. I've only got around 80 dwarfs, and I've been trying to do anything to get just a little bit more fps.

[Mr. Argent]

12th Galena, 353. Oraclepaddles has been having terrible bedding problems since our population hit 42, and they're even worse now that six more dorves have migrated. We're having trouble keeping up with demand, and may need to build more workshops. This will require expanding our workshop area, though.

[Samuel]

So a forgotten beast has attacked, a humanoid made of morganite. He'd apparently been in quite a fight previously, because every part of his body was roughed up in some way (bruises, fractures, etc.). Now, this would be scary enough alone, but you won't believe how he's attacking.

He grabbed the first dwarf he saw, tore his x<pig tail fiber coat>x off, and butchered both my squads with it. He actually broke my Baroness's spine with the coat, and quite a few dwarves have gotten it jammed into their brain, and even twisted around in the wound.

Does it still count as cherry tapping if the imrpovised weapon is deadlier in your hands than a real weapon?

UPDATE: It's finally dead. I had to create a new squad and assign them Adamantine swords, but they managed to gang up on it and cut it's head off. He used that pig tail fiber coat to kill eleven dwarves, plus three cats. my broker was among the fatalities, but his replacement says the coat is now worth 70. I'm not sure if value goes up based on kills, though.

[Internet Kraken]

PArt 22 of my LP is up.

In which everything works out in my favor once. Weird, I'm used to at least one thing going wrong with everything I try at this point. So I'm guessing Alath will die from some random syndrome to balance this all out.

Seriously, it feel so weird to have a military I actually depend on. After Townbrush, I've been stuck in the mindset that all military dwarves are lemmings that will get themselves killed at the first opportunity, so don't count on them to do jack unless you've covered them in adamantine from head to toe. In which case they will instead throw themselves into some body of water and drown to death.

[riznar]

Making Lovecraftian sausages

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[ungulateman]

Ah, IK, your adventures with the military get more hilarious every time.

[Jaxicat]

It was all fun and games until..

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[Zaerosz]

So in my current and most successful fort ever, Orbmurder, I've had a forgotten beast - a snow blob, to be precise - sitting at the bottom of my underground magma pipe for the last two years. I stopped getting "The forgotten beast is caught in a pool of magma!" messages after about three months, and so far its only injury is a missing wing, removed by the axedwarf it dodged down the pipe to get away from. I've dropped two caveins on the bastard. Help me!

[Samuel]

After my most memorable experience with a forgotten beast ever, the game crashes. No save. Everybody back to life, including the creature. Would be cheating to use my knowledge of the future to save their lives, so I abandon the fortress. Feel a little depressed. Will start a new fortress. Maybe one where people die less often.