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[Schilcote]

I just modded in a magic system. Technically, this isn't in my fort but...

Testing it right now.

EDIT:

Not quite working, isn't creating the item it's supposed to...

EDIT:

Works now!

[Supersquee]

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Today was a glorious day in CudgelDye.

The entrance to CudgelDye is an excessively large and overengineered deathtrap, consisting of a series of 9 3X10 tile retracting steel bridges over a 9 wide, 90 long, and about 20 deep pit that empties into the lowermost chasm level.  Above the bridges are openings leading to large reservoirs of magma, and flanking those are large water tanks that can also be dumped into the pit.  Depending on which levers I tell the dwarves to pull, this entrance way can kill invaders by dropping enemies 20+ levels, or by flooding them off the bridge with magma, or even by encasing them in obsidian.  I originally built it to deal with the demoness rules of the local goblin civilization who appeared to be impossible to kill by any means short of an obsidian trap.  Since then it has dealt with many goblins.

The caverns under CudgelDye are inaccessible from the fortress or the surface.  I have been very careful while excavating the massive pit beneath the entrance bridge to avoid the creation of a walkable passage from depths to the surface.  By breaching the top of a cavern, then releasing alternating floods of magma and water into the open area, I created a solid plug of obsidian to bore down through.  Every use of the magma flood system is timed to match an incoming siege, so every tile of obsidian is created through the death of invaders.  I eventually plan to make blocks out of the goblin-flavored obsidian so created to make a vast aboveground fortress, but that's a long-term project.

Leaving the caverns inaccessible means that forgotten beasts pile up.  I have built an automated kitten dropper to explore the caverns, but otherwise did little to deal with the monsters.  I was considering building a specialized cavein trap to kill them, but then decided that the gigantic entrance deathtrap I built to kill the unkillable demon queen could work on them as well.

I very carefully built a passageway, sealable with a retracting bridge, from the fortress entrance to the depths.  Then I locked the inner doors, leaving only my trade chamber full of chained war elephants accessible from the outside, and waited.  Soon four forgotten beasts were climbing up the twisting stairway from the caverns to the entrance.

What I didn't expect was what happened next - an eleven trade caravan arriving on the map and making to the entrance just before the forgotten beasts arrived.  The elves found themselves trapped between the forgotten beasts and the trade entrance.  They fled for the trade entrance, only to have the inner drawbridge slam shut just before they reached it.  Then I pulled the lever to release the magma.  The elves were incinerated, of course, and three of the four forgotten beasts died in the magma flood.  The fourth has horrible injuries but is somehow still alive, I expect another magma flood will either finish it off or knock it off the bridge.

While this carnage was going on inside, an elven diplomat arrived outside.  Followed by a goblin siege.  The goblins finished off the elf, and are now marching on the entrance where the last forgotten beast is waiting.  I expect they'll arrive just in time for the magma chamber to be recharged.

Too long to quote normally

Because the Geneva Convention does not exist in DF.

Anyway I have a perplexing Elephant related event, I captured 3 elephants and trained them to be my military force for the early two years, which worked against my mad Clothier, but last year once of them gave birth. The problem is this, all 3 elephants are female and none can get in from the outside through my solid ring of cage traps. Have Animal Trainers perfected IV?

[Thadius]

Nah, a random male wild elephant showed up and impregnated them all via spores.  Technically anything that gives birth that you've tamed gives birth to tamed creatures, no matter if half of your animal pair is wild.

[Supersquee]

Spores make sense, I thought there was some proximity thing involved but meh.

[Thadius]

Everything reproduces via spores.

EVERYTHING.

[Arkbrik]

This is going on in my fort.

Urist McArchitect: What a nice day for building roads!

Smuxu McGoblin: Okay guys, be careful now and stick to the plan: we quietly move behind the dwarfs outside, cutting them off from the fortress entrance, and then...

Oso McCyclops: MY NAME IS OSO MC CYCLOPS! TREMBLE BEFORE MY WRATH!

Urist McArchitect: Aaah! Run! Close the gates! Activate the military!

Smuxu McGoblin: ...

[Macalano]

I'm running a new fort with Genesis, and I've just finished my protective wall.



Now to put the traps in and turn wasters immigrants back on.

Not sure if that counts as a mega project?  A mini-mega project perhaps.  Over 3000 Marble Blocks in the wall!

I'll go ahead and say that's pretty neat. Now just build a slightly smaller 50 z-level channel inside of it, and do something with it. Like make a bridge leading toward the middle...

[Still Standing]

I only have 30 levels to play with before I hit magma.

[AltF8]

I only have 30 levels to play with before I hit magma.

I wish I had that problem. However, as I'm thinking more and more about it, I have incredible amounts of bituminous coal (seriously, it's everywhere on this map), so I may give up on the magma forges for a while until I have more support in the mining department (only two legendary miners out of 60 dwarfs). I may end up making that epic pump stack later though, since it'd be dwarfy.

[Still Standing]

On this map I have NO coal and NO iron. 

[Haspen]

On this map I have NO coal and NO iron. 

Uh, why you would like the second-worst metal in the game?

Go for bronze~!

[charl]

I just discovered a great way to make use of my caged goblin armies. I drop them down a pit into the underworld to fight the clowns and other creatures down there. Over time they are weakened and hurt (and dozens of goblins and their mounts meet their deaths) and my own military can move in and finish them off.

Can't believe I didn't think of this before! Plus it's entertaining to see hordes of gobbos desperately trying to fight the things from the deeps, with predictable results.

[Still Standing]

Uh, why you would like the second-worst metal in the game?

Go for bronze~!

Well iron may be used for Steel, and I have no Tin , so I can't make Bronze.  I made around 700 Large Serated Copper Discs whilst training my Weaponsmith to Legendary, so I imagine those will get me plenty of Goblinite for use in my Steel forges!

[Haspen]

Uh, why you would like the second-worst metal in the game?

Go for bronze~!

Well iron may be used for Steel, and I have no Tin , so I can't make Bronze.  I made around 700 Large Serated Copper Discs whilst training my Weaponsmith to Legendary, so I imagine those will get me plenty of Goblinite for use in my Steel forges!

Ah, yes, Steel.

I always forget about that metal.

[Ralith]

So I used Perfect World and made a world I liked, took a volcano near a brook and decided to do a flooding thing. 5 of my original guys die. I go crap, decide to etch out a fort anyways. One goes beserk. Summer hits. Brook is filling with magma. This does nothing to help me. Migrants arrive. After the third one gets in, my original expedition leader, the only living person from the first seven left, goes beserk. I go Oh, SHIT that was close.