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[Vercingetorix]

Hey dwarfs, just leave the seeds where they are and plant the ones that are closest to you!  I don't need you putting every damn one in a bag when you have a fort full of violent ghosts and rotting corpses to clean up!

Edit:  I just got a migrant named Kivish Fortressweakened.  Something tells me I should get rid of this guy NOW.

His full name is Flesh Fortressweakened.  He's going to weaken the very body of the fortress...even the stones will burn.

[Sir Leonard III]

Currently starting a new fortress with the genesis mod, I'm building a drawbridge and a wall to protect my people. After that I'm going to put some walls and floors around the top of my courtyard so goblin archers can't shoot down.
I already have some wood production getting ready, along with some mechanisms. I already wasted some time getting an area ready which I would later not use.
I'm hoping I can do this in record time so I can get my food industry ready, along with the bedrooms and other things. I'm actually designing it instead of placing stuff everywhere.

[alesia]

Just got my first goblin ambush and goblin stalker for this fortress, two years in.  My stalwart quartet of poorly trained marksdwarves killed the leader of the ambush and the stalker and the rest ran away, but there are giant slicks of goblin blood left on my nice tidy badlands, and my dwarves are covered with the stuff.  What a mess.

Time to build a Roman-style bath down by cavern #3, I suppose...

[Ultimarr]

Big siege after I took a very long break from DF, with a war leader leading the whole thing. When I saw the leader's squad, I wondered where the pond he was standing by came from, and where all his help was.


That is about the time I found out those are, infact, axegoblins. Heeellllpp...

[Eoganachta]

Due to Armok blessing my dwarves with the fertility of rabbits, I nealy have over a hundred smaller buggers running around. They are good for deconstructing stuff in a hurry but they follow mummy and daddy into danger rooms and die, they follow mummy and daddy outside the walls to watch them build a bridge and get snatched and/or die. Not only that, but most of the children are friends with everybody else so once a few die it all hits the fan. I've had several dwarves slammed in prision.
Indecent acts towards a dog? 25 days. Indecent acts towards a dwarf? 25 days. Being so strong as to actually destroy the *Black Bronze chain* (my duke has a thing about chains and black bronze)? 15 days.
Breaking an item of furniture or building? BEATING!!!
My Sword Master, a vertern since the early days of my fort, was having a hissy fit and knocked down my leather works. A dwarf from my Captian of the Guard's squad came over and hacked him to death. First his arm, then leg, then ribcage and internal organs. The guy bled out after a few frames and about ten guys showed up. I thought they were there to weep but they where really just there to steal his stuff.

[geoduck]

Using a danger room, I finally was able to cobble together a functioning military, which took down a visiting giantess and a few goblin ambushes (no full assaults yet, tho). On the negative side, some nameless shlub got himself elected mayor, and I lost my founder-mason when he walled himself up inside someone else's tomb and starved to death. Ouch.

It's a nice site, with lots of iron (no coal..), an above-ground plateau that I was able to completely isolate and use for my tower-building fetish, and a cool underground island in the middle of a vast lake, covered with spiderwebs. Haven't decided what I'm going to do with that last one, yet. Still setting up the trap-corridor before I actually breach into it.

[malimbar04]

Decided to go back to what works - danger rooms included. Currently using several little tricks for fps - including pop cap of 0, one cavern, no economy, and so forth. Also found out that there is a masterwork adamantine two-handed sword buried however many z levels down. I dug down to it's level, but ended up seeing "an unusual structure" made of slade.

My one soldier in purchased steel... I'm not feeling comfortable with that. If I get a full squad of soldiers up to legendary with full steel spear outfits... I'll go for it.

[Sir Leonard III]

Decided to go back to what works - danger rooms included. Currently using several little tricks for fps - including pop cap of 0, one cavern, no economy, and so forth. Also found out that there is a masterwork adamantine two-handed sword buried however many z levels down. I dug down to it's level, but ended up seeing "an unusual structure" made of slade.

My one soldier in purchased steel... I'm not feeling comfortable with that. If I get a full squad of soldiers up to legendary with full steel spear outfits... I'll go for it.

Pull the sword, everything nothing bad will happen.

[Niccolo]

I just had a really promising site, ignoring the aquifer present... There was goddamn limonite everywhere.

Except when it got 'round to the bigass river melting my game crashed.

[malimbar04]

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Trained up two dwarves with danger rooms, and trecked to find this adamantine sword that's been bugging me. The path is SO FREAKING LONG though. One of my two soldiers actually died of thirst trying to come back from the place. Logical solution? create a midway point to store booze and a bed. The top of the underground slade pyramid is a perfect place for such.

My plan was to set up a kennel of war dogs/giant eagles next to it, attached to a lever above. It too so freaking long though... I just gave up and took it.

Best... decision... ever.

FPS from ~150 to a 15. And really... 15 is generous. It seemed like 1.5 to my eye.

[Niccolo]

My new fort (after the last damn one crashed, sadly...) is succeeding wildly. I've had to dig through a metric crapton of dirt to hit rock, but I'm there. The soil has made setting up ludicrously large numbers of farms an easily achievable idea... I suspect that I will need to expand my booze stockpile in a year's time.

Unfortunately, when I crawled up from the depths of my fortress to see how the surface-fort (walls around the entrance and butcher shop to avoid miasma) is coming along I found that I had hit a slight problem.

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Yeah. Everywhere.

[Cheese]

I'm channelling out the floors of a pit to throw captured enemies in, carefully as possible, and of course it just has to collapse, killing or disabling all of my miners and about 10 other dwarves. I don't even know how it happened, there's just some hole that goes all the way to the bottom of the pit, as if an elephant had stood on the top and caused the floor to collapse. Apparently the dwarves in the cave-in were 'boiling in magma' at some point, even though there's no magma anywhere near it. Maybe hot dust.

[Lost_Deep]

Well, I guess I start by making coffins...

An ambush!

Blast! everyone inside! close the door!

Another Ambush! this one has bowgoblins...
But the door is closed! They can not get in! They will leave when they realize that my glorified hole-in-a-hill is completely impenetrable!
Or not...

AHA! Badgers approach! Now for some real bloodshed! After all, given how much they hate my dwarves they will probably wound the goblins!

"What in de blue blazes are you doin out ere?"
"Welp, we're a-waitin' for the dorfs over thar to open up so we can kill 'em"
"Mind if me an' my conga join yall?
"No, be my guest! Troop 2 is parked in front of their gates, so if you go over to that slight rise we will be able to keep any from escaping at all!"

COME ON

[wlerin]

I'm channelling out the floors of a pit to throw captured enemies in, carefully as possible, and of course it just has to collapse, killing or disabling all of my miners and about 10 other dwarves. I don't even know how it happened, there's just some hole that goes all the way to the bottom of the pit, as if an elephant had stood on the top and caused the floor to collapse. Apparently the dwarves in the cave-in were 'boiling in magma' at some point, even though there's no magma anywhere near it. Maybe hot dust.

Exactly, hot dust. All stone has "boiling magma" as its gaseous state. So all the stone that was vaporized during the cave in counts as boiling magma.

[Lielac]

Welp, Dutycalls is my first official tantrum spiral. From 100-someodd I have 16, and all of 'em are miserable and likely to snap.

Also the dwarven caravan is here, so I'm going to zerg rush them for the lulz.

Edit: Goddamnit! My fort is down to one guy (who's named himself mayor because, well, one guy) who's miserable and hobbling around on a crutch but not crazy yet and he's getting used to tragedy and it's spring and if he takes too long to crack I'll have migrants and all my effort not stopping this tantrum spiral will be for naught! NOOOOOOOOO!

Edit2: Aw crap he went melancholy!

... 'aw crap?!' aw CRAP i got attached to him!

ehhh, it's mid spring, migrants will be here in time to see him die