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[TolyK]

My Mason just got taken by a fey mood. He has claimed the mason's workshop, and has so far taken a silver nugget, two microcline stones, a cut aquamarine gem, and a log.
*picture of a metal bed*
Not bad, and I got a legendary Mason out of it too.

I love when this happens, especially when I'm low on wood

[Scraggletag]

I killed some migrants in the name of !!Science!!¹

One of them became a ghost and is currently haunting my farms. Shortly afterward, a metalcrafter gets possessed and made this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Coincidence? I think not!


¹ EDIT Not that anybody needs a good reason to kill migrants.

[Serio]

Truthfulfloors has reached 200 denizens, so I've decided it's time to inaugurate the Urist Time Capsule. Four lucky migrants have been allowed entry into the luxurious vault. Food, drink, and supplies will be deposited from a hatch in the ceiling. They'll have four beds, and four chests to store various items of personal value. In case that some disaster should come upon Truthfulfloors, the residents will be let out of the vault when I deem it safe.

EDIT: Forgot pressure again. I opened the floodgate to refill the well, but I closed it one second too late and water spewed into the dining room. To add to that, a dwarf somehow managed to fall into the well, so now I need to drain it. Lovely.

[FearfulJesuit]

I got a mayor!

He mandated that I make a toy hammer and then banned me from exporting it. It turns out he likes toy hammers. I'm not surprised.

He also likes limestone and mussel shells. I don't have either, so he better watch out.

[FearfulJesuit]

I got a mayor!

He mandated that I make a toy hammer and then banned me from exporting it. It turns out he likes toy hammers. I'm not surprised.

He also likes limestone and mussel shells. I don't have either, so he better watch out.

Truthfulfloors has reached 200 denizens, so I've decided it's time to inaugurate the Urist Time Capsule. Four lucky migrants have been allowed entry into the luxurious vault. Food, drink, and supplies will be deposited from a hatch in the ceiling. They'll have four beds, and four chests to store various items of personal value. In case that some disaster should come upon Truthfulfloors, the residents will be let out of the vault when I deem it safe.

EDIT: Forgot pressure again. I opened the floodgate to refill the well, but I closed it one second too late and water spewed into the dining room. To add to that, a dwarf somehow managed to fall into the well, so now I need to drain it. Lovely.

If I were you, I'd put in 8 husband-wife pairs for breeding.

[proxn_punkd]

Truthfulfloors has reached 200 denizens, so I've decided it's time to inaugurate the Urist Time Capsule. Four lucky migrants have been allowed entry into the luxurious vault. Food, drink, and supplies will be deposited from a hatch in the ceiling. They'll have four beds, and four chests to store various items of personal value. In case that some disaster should come upon Truthfulfloors, the residents will be let out of the vault when I deem it safe.

This sounds like a pretty neat approach to disasters, and a nice possible semi-megaproject.

Tinwonders' tantrum spiral subsided with only one casualty-- a legendary weaponsmith, of which I have two (moods have been good to Tinwonders). Most of the dwarves now have bedrooms, which helped a ton ("slept in a good bedroom lately" "put away possessions lately" "admired own fine bed lately"). The baby monkies have mostly been socked away to spare my FPS, valuables have been squirrelled away to stop the kobolds, the foe-grinder 2.0 has slowly been munching through my stockpiles of elves, goblins, and hostile humans/dwarves, freeing up cages for the cage-trap-lined entryway, the smelters and forges have finally churned out some steel armor and weapons, and work is underway to process some tetrahedrite for silver hammers.

Despite the name, there is still no tin ore to be found. Lots of platinum, though, so when I finally lift the pop cap to get some nobles I can make platinum decor to keep them happy.

[Serio]

This sounds like a pretty neat approach to disasters, and a nice possible semi-megaproject.

If the fort survives until the next migrant wave, I might expand it. I intended to include a well and some small farm plots too, in case supplies from the rest of the fort was cut off.

If I were you, I'd put in 8 husband-wife pairs for breeding.

I considered doing that, but I only use recently arrived migrants(and they don't arrive married, do they?). That way, no one will be affected by a possible tantrum spiral.

EDIT: I think I'll drop them a pick axe and tell them to dig a dining room, then I'll drop some tables and a few chairs down there.

EDIT2: What.

Spoiler: Forgotten Beast (click to show/hide)

I've seen strange FB's before, but a giant fire breathing jade skunk with three eyes?

[Scraggletag]

Spoiler: Forgotten Beast (click to show/hide)

I've seen strange FB's before, but a giant fire breathing jade skunk with three eyes?

I don't think that the fire is coming from its mouth.

[Zrk2]

This sounds like a pretty neat approach to disasters, and a nice possible semi-megaproject.

If the fort survives until the next migrant wave, I might expand it. I intended to include a well and some small farm plots too, in case supplies from the rest of the fort was cut off.

If I were you, I'd put in 8 husband-wife pairs for breeding.

I considered doing that, but I only use recently arrived migrants(and they don't arrive married, do they?). That way, no one will be affected by a possible tantrum spiral.

EDIT: I think I'll drop them a pick axe and tell them to dig a dining room, then I'll drop some tables and a few chairs down there.

EDIT2: What.

Spoiler: Forgotten Beast (click to show/hide)

I've seen strange FB's before, but a giant fire breathing jade skunk with three eyes?

Madness? This is Dwarf Fortress!

[FearfulJesuit]

Well, there goes that fort. Open up the caverns to gather some webs for a strange mood (I'm in the process of equipping my new military), and in comes an FB.

There are three dwarves left from 57. One is my mayor, one is paralysed and one is a Dwarven Child.

[proxn_punkd]

This sounds like a pretty neat approach to disasters, and a nice possible semi-megaproject.

If the fort survives until the next migrant wave, I might expand it. I intended to include a well and some small farm plots too, in case supplies from the rest of the fort was cut off.

If I were you, I'd put in 8 husband-wife pairs for breeding.

I considered doing that, but I only use recently arrived migrants(and they don't arrive married, do they?). That way, no one will be affected by a possible tantrum spiral.

They can arrive married, and/or with kids. Since I turned off breeding in my init files, that's the only way I get kids.

[SlimyMarmot]

My magma-breathing obsidian dragon statue megaproject is going to take a while... but the legs are finally finished!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Quite a few dwarves fell to their deaths building those. I'm thinking of giving it adamantine claws. Mmmmmm.

[Zrk2]

My magma-breathing obsidian dragon statue megaproject is going to take a while... but the legs are finally finished!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Quite a few dwarves fell to their deaths building those. I'm thinking of giving it adamantine claws. Mmmmmm.

I stand in awe of you. You, sir, are a God.

[Hydrall]

-applauds politely- That truely h'is h'a maa-vel of Dwaaarven h'engineering.

[Eric Blank]

That thing had better piss fire onto anyone it misses before they get indoors. You can never have too many giant statues that piss fire! I for one will find a way to make one of my statues piss bloody water, and I'm pretty sure pumps don't transfer the contaminants.

Speaking of obsidian and fire, my head smith whom I've been training for years has created an artifact platinum giant axe blade, encrusted with obsidian and encircled with platinum! It's worth over 368k db.

Damn possession though!  I may update runesmith and see if I can't force her skill up to legendary +100 where it belongs. She has an artifact lead bed made by some other possessed dwarf.

This was the second time I'd played through autumn. The first time I got migrants, then a siege, then the caravans started arriving after I'd dealt with them. This time however, I got migrants, then two sieges in a row, with no caravan before winter. The first consisted of several goblin melee platoons, two hammer and one sword, supported by trolls. They were pretty easy to defeat as they couldn't really handle the traps combined with the marksmen on the roof overhead, but the pit trap's weapon traps got clogged enough that they started getting through, but it was still a trickle compared to the goblin waterfall dodging into the 6-story pit. In all I think I lost just two idiot civilians that didn't want to stay inside, a soldier or three, and a couple animals.
The second siege was a little more viscous. It came from the ninataur civ, (imagine smaller minotaurs) who are pretty frightening melee soldiers thanks to their size and oversize weaponry. This siege however consisted of two archer platoons lead by a lasher and a swordsman, and supported by trolls. My marksmen on the roof of the trade-way/battle-zone aren't protected by fortifications, so the enemy marksmen just stopped and pin-cushioned a couple. By the time my melee squads had waltzed their way down the corridor, all the trolls were dead, both enemy commanders incapacitated, including the lasher exploding into gore at the bottom of the pit, and one platoon of marksdwarves lead by the swordsman had retreated, because of the swordsman's injuries. The lasher's platoon decided it would be a good idea to go check on him before they left, and were all cut down.
I think I lost a between 4 and 8 soldiers that time, and a couple more animals. I'm tactically retarded so it's my fault for not sending the melee troops up front to wipe them out while they were distracted with my marksmen. Doesn't help that two of them managed to dodge off the roof.