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[Eric Blank]

I've got this one dude, Eric the Ranger who spams messages like: Eric McWhatever Ranger cancels eat: Unconcious.

He's been in a fight, but only his left elbow and right ankle are yellow, everything else is white. He's 'Unconscious' and 'Hungry'.

Is this some sort of permanent brain damage?

I had a similar problem with a marksman who had an eye injury in 40D. He would sporadically (daily in dwarf terms) flop on the floor unconscious. I watched him several times, going in and out of the [v]iew page and he didn't experience any pain or whatnot beforehand, just keeled over.
It became very dangerous at one point during a battle, across a river, with orcish bowmen, in which he predictably fell unconscious as soon as he arrived on the scene (which isn't good for us since the enemy's morale must have skyrocketed)before sustaining any injuries and was then turned into a pincushion. remarkably, he survived the ordeal and infact woke up in time to take out a couple of orcs and save the other marksmen that had passed out.

Lost about half the military that day(month), and a couple civvies trying to rescue them, but the orcs luckily ran out of ammo(hahaha) and proceeded to stand there until the last one finally bled out. From that day on I never leave any opening un-walled up to the point where the enemy absolutely cannot shoot over it(at least as long as they can't fly), Or, you know, build entirely underground.

You know who's even more annoying than me (when) I (type) like (this)(?) My current fort's liaison. He was so annoying my expedition leader went melancholy after only the import agreement. At least I don't need to go through the rest of the meeting.

[Hippoman]

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You mean 31.08

[lanceleoghauni]

I'm pretty certain of this, but as it is vital to my city's survival, water cannot seep in through a corner between walls on different Z levels can it?

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Kinda like that, with this being a side view.

Edit: Nevermind, Found it on Pressure, Not the water Page of the wiki.

Hey! I was going to try building my next fort underwater with glass! Now it's not a cool and original idea 

All joking aside, you might as well just assume it does. Better safe than sorry, right?

Sorry! you're the second person Who's told me I stole the originality of their idea from them. I actually decided to do it based on a challenge page I read. seems to be doing well so far.

Edit: Ran out of glass so I had to use Olivine. It's a bit grotesque really, I'll have to replace it as soon as I find sand, I know it's here somewhere. Oh, and this appears to be a generational fort. My Dwarven Civ has no important leaders and my second immigration was 3 people. no caravan either. I am assuming this means it was wiped out.

We at Honoredsalve are the only ones left...

we must seal ourselves in a vault beneath the waves and grow in number, before we once again rise to the surface to repopulate the globe.

Edit 2: First Bioshock themed, then Fallout 3 themed. what OTHER videogame themes is DF gonna throw at me?

[Bryan Derksen]

Edit 2: First Bioshock themed, then Fallout 3 themed. what OTHER videogame themes is DF gonna throw at me?

Dragon Age themed! Though that's cheating, since some of the BioWare writers who worked on the game have played Dwarf Fortress.

[lanceleoghauni]

I should hope no building destroyer 2's show up. I'm not ready for THAT.

I need to finish moving my gear in before I'm ready for THAT.

[opsneakie]

I've sealed off Lightlances, my generational fort, from the outside world completely, at least for the time being. With only 16 dwarves, and only 7 of those adults, I have no practical way to fight off any invading forces other than my 50 war dogs.

It's interesting to watch the families slowly form and grow. We're into our eighth year, and three dwarven couples have all been married, and are having children now. When they mature, they should be able to marry, and so on, until the fort's population reaches incredible levels. I hope. Someday I hope to have a huge, fully-functioning fortress here, populated completely by the descendents of the seven founders.

Interestingly enough, I've yet to get a dwarven or human caravan. Any reason this would be, other than those races being extinct? I do get elven caravans as well as kobold thieves/ambushes, so there's definitely access.

-Ops

[lanceleoghauni]

Honoredsalve is near ready to seal itself off. come spring the entire thing will be submerged, and the fortress will never again rise above the level of the water. though I reserve the right to dig up into the cliffs so long as it's still below the water line.

as I have no magma (yet) I need tips on Tree farms, anything special? or just get a huge area wet and wait?

Edit: it is done. Maybe with a nifty pump setup I can use siege weapons to hunt merfolk.

[Schilcote]

as I have no magma (yet) I need tips on Tree farms, anything special? or just get a huge area wet and wait?

Not even that. Just dig some dirt. They'll show up, along with tons of free berries for your gatherers to collect. Can't run your fort off them, but they're good if you've forgotten to set up farms.

Damn, I thought the frozen-ocean underwater fortress idea was mine first.

One more thing. If I were to embark on a volcano and make a magmatuct with screw pumps that runs off the map, and do this repeatedly, could I run magma from a volcano to a completely different place? I think I might mod my dwarves into megaproject dwarves and try it... 

[Flaede]

as I have no magma (yet) I need tips on Tree farms, anything special? or just get a huge area wet and wait?

Not even that. Just dig some dirt. They'll show up, along with tons of free berries for your gatherers to collect. Can't run your fort off them, but they're good if you've forgotten to set up farms.

Damn, I thought the frozen-ocean underwater fortress idea was mine first.

One more thing. If I were to embark on a volcano and make a magmatuct with screw pumps that runs off the map, and do this repeatedly, could I run magma from a volcano to a completely different place? I think I might mod my dwarves into megaproject dwarves and try it...

I think someone bridged an ocean in 40d using this tactic.

EDIT: rather, they breached the volcano, devoted a series of forts to magma-direction, and then WALKED THE MAGMA OVER with adventurer mode.

[lanceleoghauni]

Will getting a huge area wet work?

I mean, This far down there's not a lot of soil left...

[OmnipotentGrue]

My new 31.08 fort is going extremely well, except the booze stockpile is emptying exceedingly quickly...

Does anyone know how much drink 1 plant will get, or if it's random depending on your brewers skill?

[lanceleoghauni]

oh Armok...

We've run out of booze and the river's not thawed yet....

Edit: I've managed to salvage the situation, but we had to burn through the last of the Plants I'd managed to stockpile. I desperately need the thaw, so I can plant again.

[Schilcote]

Hmm. A murky pool collapsed into the volcano as soon as I embarked. What are the chances?

EDIT:

Revealing adamantine. I guess there's adamantine in every embark now.

[lanceleoghauni]

THE THAW.

WE ARE SAVED.

Praise be to the gods.

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as of right now, Much to do still

Edit: went to irrigate my farm chamber:

HOLY %#&*! an 11X13 room filled to 7/7 INSTANTLY 

on the plus side there's no way in hell anything is getting to my fortress.