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[Urist Imiknorris]

EDIT2: GAH! Late Autumn arrive and the tip of the brook dipping into the forest biome froze over but the rest of the brook didn't. THE ENTIRE BROOK has redirected into my REACTOR CORE!

Wall off the part that freezes and redirect the brook so it's entirely in a biome that doesn't freeze. Don't want a repeat occurance.

[darkflagrance]

I wonder if this has something to do with me killing their general. I doubt there's any relation though.

The two are indeed related; the general is the one that tamed the beasts during world gen, and without him, the goblins do not command the loyalty of his animal companions.

[Zidane]

I started a new fort and tried my hardest to make the little bastard tantrum! I killed two with lava, and locked the larder door and they... JUST SAT THERE.

They refused to tantrum, I have no idea why! I deprived them of food, beds, chairs, liquid.

Nothing.

[Samrobot]

I started a new fort and tried my hardest to make the little bastard tantrum! I killed two with lava, and locked the larder door and they... JUST SAT THERE.

They refused to tantrum, I have no idea why! I deprived them of food, beds, chairs, liquid.

Nothing.

Mind over matter and emotions

[Bomepie]

I've started some mass engraving, and random sampling reveals that about 25% of all engravings are about some human who went into the a jungle and tamed some jaguars. There is no mention of what he did with said tame jaguars, why he tamed them, or how long before one of them ate him. I can only imagine the rich stories the dwarves tell their children with the aid of these pictures.

"Lil Urist, lemme tell you the story of Jimmy the Human. Jimmy once went into a jungle, and in this jungle there were some jaguars."
"What did Jimmy do to the jaguars daddy?"
"Jimmy saw all those jaguars and he tamed them, not all of them mind you, just some of them, wouldn't do to have too many jaguars."
"What did Jimmy do after he tamed the Jaguars daddy?"
"He wen't and got drunk because his kid kept interrupting his fucking story."
"But-"
Urist McDad has canceled tell bedtime story: Too thirsty

[Flaede]

My miner has, for reasons unknown to me, claimed a very spiffy ice axe. He loves it and carries it everywhere with him. I'm sure savvy players can immediately suss out why this might be a problem.
 I don't even want to mention the dwarf who is claiming everything she picks as a legendary herbalist. Her room gets stuffed full of odd plants.

In other news, my Baroness is awesome. She demands animal traps, makes them herself, and is then happy. Also, sometimes she bans the export of animal traps, oh noes /sarcasm.

One of three besieging armies has been dealt with. They are ALL trussed up in the dungeon, awaiting their fates. The Snakeman ambush comes next, then I'll figure a way to deal with the Elves and Keepers, which seem to be ganging up in one giant unstoppable mob out... on... the... ice. nevermind.

[fivex]

So I just embarked in an evil map for the first time ever. It is sinister. Any advice in particular? I haven't seen any undead.

[ungulateman]

Stay the hell away from grimelings until you have edged weapons. That is all.

[FleshForge]

On the item is an image of Nako Vilehate the goblin in granite.  Nako Vilehate is falling.  The artwork relates to the collision of the goblin Nako Vilehate with an obstacle in Bootodors in the early autumn of 606 during The Second Abduction at Bootodors.

On the item is an image of Amxu Twistjackals the goblin in rose quartz.  Amxu Twistjackals is making a plaintive gesture.  The artwork relates to the drowning of the goblin Amxu Twistjackals in Bootodors in the early summer of 606 during Saspspuskok "The Fierce Assaults".

[AngleWyrm]

I started a new fort and tried my hardest to make the little bastard tantrum! I killed two with lava, and locked the larder door and they... JUST SAT THERE.

They refused to tantrum, I have no idea why! I deprived them of food, beds, chairs, liquid.

They have to have a lot of friendships to tantrum. Make a meeting place of just one tile, and let the dwarves idle there. They will develop deep and meaningful relationships, which you can then destroy by killing their friends. That is when they tantrum.

[Haspen]

I started a new fort and tried my hardest to make the little bastard tantrum! I killed two with lava, and locked the larder door and they... JUST SAT THERE.

They refused to tantrum, I have no idea why! I deprived them of food, beds, chairs, liquid.

Nothing.

No no no, you get it wrong.

You don't make tantrum. You let it happen on it's own.

A goblin siege going bad is enough to start the tantrum. Oooor kill the fortress outright.

[Shade-o]

Could be that you didn't give them enough time to socialise first. They only get sad if someone they know well dies.

[Xzalander]

Could be that you didn't give them enough time to socialise first. They only get sad if someone they know well dies.

They have to have friend status in the relationship screen as a minimum. Believe it or not even with just 7 dwarves its hard to get them all to become friends in the first year.

[LemonFrosted]

I miss getting wedding announcements. That was my absolute favorite part of the first fort I had that even roughly succeeded: Urist McHappypants has organized a wedding at Microciline Statue.

Pinebasements has finished the magma scrubber (which melted all the bronze traps at the front gate as well because I didn't feel like disassembling them first) and is currently working on the 7th floor of the Southern Obsidian Tower. Which may end up being the only Obsidian tower. I'm getting pretty close to FPS death and I'm tempted to breach the core just to see if my army can take on the demons. I'll craft a couple more Adamantine axes first.

[AltF8]

Finally gave up and turned invaders off in my new fort so I can finally practice things like setting up hospitals and training a military. Also experimented with using a pump and aqueduct system to get water from the brook up 2 z-levels to irrigate the farms inside. Nearly ran out of food, but then I was so close to finishing the aqueduct. 40 food. 30 food. 20 food and no drink. Things were looking grim. Emergency channeling gave me a pit above my farms to dump water in; just enough to set up a few 1 tile farms to tide us over. Then the brook froze - for a season-and-a-half. Luckily, the caravan showed up just in time. I think at the most dire moment we had about 12 food and no drink.

Once everything thawed, a combination of the 7 levers were actuated, and we had between 56 and 70 units of water prepped to flood each of the 5x5 farms. A few seconds later, then entire thing was drained and deconstruction was initiated. So much work and near-death for a few seconds of pumping. I retract my argument about farming in the caverns from earlier in the thread.