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[Greiger]

No iron. Small amounts of copper, but I hadn't found any tin.  Naturally my military is not fully prepared when the first Orc ambush shows up.  I have a few crossbowdracon on the walls, with copper bolts, but despite all my attempts I am unable to get them to stand behind their fortifications.  It seems they take the station order as a vague suggestion and just decide to stand near it instead of at the proper position they need to be if they want to be able to use my fortifications.

My military manages to repel the ambush squads, barely.  Mostly just dumb luck that the crossbow deck was incomplete and the crossbow users didn't have to worry about the fortifications in a particular spot.  And the one adamantine sword I managed to hastily produce when the ambush showed up, which the militia commander ran off to grab while the crossbow fiasco was happening.  Showing a surprising degree of competence that he got it and got back to the fray with it in time to put it to shiny cyan tinged use.

5 deaths.  1 legendary miner that was outside digging into ice, 1 tanner, and 3 wrestlers, of the remaining melee soldiers only two aren't partially paralyzed or missing limbs.  Still I think I got lucky, nobody is tantrumming, and the fortress still stands.  I'm out of bolts, and I'm not sure I can handle another wave, but for now the fortress named Deathtrap still stands.

[Orkel]

I guess I'll keep playing 40d until I lose my fort.
 

After that I'll switch.

I'll probably need some time to get used to using the escape key to back out instead of space. 

And silly soliders, stop making each other bleed to death.
Death count of dwarves so far: 5

You can rebind the key to space in the options fyi

Takes only a few seconds and voila space works again.

[Svampapa]

Whats going on in my fort, you ask?

Since the wiki entry concerning bits of my adventures has spoiler warnings, I guess I'll be a good dorf and throw some tags on.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Looking for magma, which was being elusive at comfy z-levels as always, I spent some time digging down. Deep down. All the way to the magma sea.

I needed an anvil that can withstand the enormous heat, so I get to finding some adamantine. After checking around I set the pickaxes into a spire that looks like it will hold a fair bit. After setting the miners digging orders up I go back up to the fort and move on to other business for a bit. Let them clear out some of that precious adamantine before the construction begins to harness the power of red. Then comes the blurb: "You have discovered an eerie cavern..."

Uh oh.

I watch the fps drop into the single digits as all sorts of hellish monsters come crawling out. Then I go and furiously do something else for a bit. FUN.

[bobbens]

Pets randomly start bleeding to death. It seems like a 4 year dead forgotten beast has started to take it's toll with it's ultra-toxic ichor. Meanwhile another forgotten beast hits the primary cavern stairs, it starts spewing this dust that creates blisters all over whoever it touches. Four dead of bleeding, but a couple speardwarves manage to kill the beast. The hospital is now full of rotting dwarves throwing miasma all over. At least my hospital staff wasn't on break this time. Diagnosis: Needs cleaning and surgery on their entire body.

Fun thing I found out about surgery. Resting dwarves think they're cured in the middle of it and run off. The surgeon cancels surgery and there we have it. Half a dozen dwarves in advanced rotting stages spewing miasma all over the fort. Fun times. It seems like I'll have to kill the lot, which leaves me with an amputee and a comatose as the remainders of my 15 dwarf militia. Since I've been having major issues getting them to train, I probably won't get a substitution anytime soon.

So, for next time. Train marksdwarves, don't let the forgotten beasts bleed. If so, flood the entire damn place to clean it up (assuming that does clean it up).

[Sphalerite]

So, for next time. Train marksdwarves, don't let the forgotten beasts bleed. If so, flood the entire damn place to clean it up (assuming that does clean it up).

Flooding with water doesn't.  Flooding with magma does.

[bobbens]

So, for next time. Train marksdwarves, don't let the forgotten beasts bleed. If so, flood the entire damn place to clean it up (assuming that does clean it up).

Flooding with water doesn't.  Flooding with magma does.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pumping magma up 40 floors from the magma sea might be too much of a hassle... I think I might just try to trigger demons and have it all end.

Isn't there a way to make dwarves clean it? I've seen them clean stuff before.

[Sphalerite]

Isn't there a way to make dwarves clean it? I've seen them clean stuff before.

In theory, dwarves will clean up spilled blood/ichor/goo/whatever on tiles, and can even do so safely with poisonous substances.  If you have just a few isolated tiles, that might work.  Once you have a large pool covering multiple tiles, the dwarves seem to spread it around as much as they clean it up.  They go to clean up one tile, walking through pools of whatever on other tiles on the way there, get it on themselves, and then track it around making more mess than they cleaned up.  And if you get water near the area, forget it - you'll just spread the contaminant around even more that way.  Contaminants don't even remotely respect conservation of mass, they breed like amoebas powered by the footsteps of passing dwarves.

[bobbens]

Isn't there a way to make dwarves clean it? I've seen them clean stuff before.

In theory, dwarves will clean up spilled blood/ichor/goo/whatever on tiles, and can even do so safely with poisonous substances.  If you have just a few isolated tiles, that might work.  Once you have a large pool covering multiple tiles, the dwarves seem to spread it around as much as they clean it up.  They go to clean up one tile, walking through pools of whatever on other tiles on the way there, get it on themselves, and then track it around making more mess than they cleaned up.  And if you get water near the area, forget it - you'll just spread the contaminant around even more that way.  Contaminants don't even remotely respect conservation of mass, they breed like amoebas powered by the footsteps of passing dwarves.

Yeah I thought so, which is why this fort is a bit screwed. At any moment a tantrum spiral will start from the dead pets or a dwarf might die. My mayor currently has burnt almost all the fat off his body I'm guessing by the ichor. If it can't be cleaned there isn't much I can do. I walled off the area, but it's most of the caverns and my entire cavern stair. It's all fun and games until you get toxic ichor and rotting dust. Then it's also fun and games, but you know you're screwed .

[Johuotar]

Playing same fort for 5 years now, just broke into cavern and began collecting web and tree caps. I created my first well, and I think its quite well designed cause it refils when rains.

But I now have a BIG problem. Nothing fun (http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Fun) is happening, no sieges/ambush monster from caverns. Just cats. When do I start running into such things? (not cats, sieges) I don't currently have much to do. Only deaths have been crazy dorfs because of shell demands and few dorfs trapping themselves with constructed walls and dehydrating.

I really want to test my military, I have 2 legendary soldiers, but even in the cavern I didn't run into anything. Should I piss off elves? They trade nothing but useless cloth and humans just started appearing so they can replace elves as trade pals.

I'm onto explore caverns more in case the other islands have enemies.

[bobbens]

Playing same fort for 5 years now, just broke into cavern and began collecting web and tree caps. I created my first well, and I think its quite well designed cause it refils when rains.

But I now have a BIG problem. Nothing fun (http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Fun) is happening, no sieges/ambush monster from caverns. Just cats. When do I start running into such things? (not cats, sieges) I don't currently have much to do. Only deaths have been crazy dorfs because of shell demands and few dorfs trapping themselves with constructed walls and dehydrating.

I really want to test my military, I have 2 legendary soldiers, but even in the cavern I didn't run into anything. Should I piss off elves? They trade nothing but useless cloth and humans just started appearing so they can replace elves as trade pals.

I'm onto explore caverns more in case the other islands have enemies.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Increase your wealth. You'll soon start getting your fancy forgotten beasts. Also dig to the deeper caverns. Mind you combat is much harder in 0.31. In the old versions I would never have legendary casualties, now I've had legendaries dropping like flies. It's even cute to see a goblin bash the brain in of your legendary swordsdwarf with a copper mace in one blow. Not so cute is it to mess with mummies or other really really nasty stuff.

For getting wealth fast I recommend legendary cooks, each meal can be from 2-10k which is a lot. And check for goblins in the 'c'ivilization menu.

[VerdantSF]

Embarked on a really awesome mesa.  It stretches to the east of a small single peak mountain and has plenty of trees and a few lakes.  It's set apart from the rest of the map, except for a small natural bridge (which the dwarves started out on -- it's fate!) which connects to a much larger mountain range to the south.  I'm going to remove all the ramps on the edges, then replace the natural bridge with a retracting one.  It's the best-looking, most defensible set-up I've been graced with yet!  And just for fun, I might divert the stream to the west and surround the whole thing, too.

[Schilcote]

Mod in crowbars and HEV suits and build a perpetual motion machine deep underground and then breach the HFS.

[Lawec]

I am currently draining my moat so I can fill it with magma. It's the first magma moat I have ever made! It is glorious!

[eclipsetail]

I am currently draining my moat so I can fill it with magma. It's the first magma moat I have ever made! It is glorious!

I'm unfamiliar with moats.

But if you need a floodgate, I dare you to make it out of wood. And then poor booze all over it.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

I'm flooding the lower parts of the volcano in lava.
Bwahaha!