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[MAurelius]

I'm thinking of the ancient Romans and how they would parade captured enemies through the streets of Rome after a victory. While we can't "parade" in game, I am thinking of creating a hall where all my citizens can see the panoply of captured bad guys. Maybe one or two each of centaur, goblin, demon of pain/lust, lizardman, scavenger, beastman.

I'm only hesitant because I know that zoos give bad thoughts to dwarves that don't like the particular animal on display and I wouldn't want any of my guys to get bad thoughts due to seeing an enemy, which I don't know if they do or not.

The rest will go into the pit. 15z levels this time. I'm very proud of it.

[Garath]

added a pit trap to a cage funnel. I usually use it on wildlife, but I realized that if a goblin captain would run into one it'd cause the rest to hang around forever. Now I can drop them 15 z-levels

[the woods]

Just had a promising swordsdwarf meet the famous adventurer's end of dodging into a murky pool and drowning. Thanks skeletal moose cow. Setting up a pump to salvage his body and gear which would be a gross job irl, all moist body parts clogging the pump and clinging to the armor.

[Pukako]

Honestgrave didn't last long.

Volcano, flux and metals, just no trees, despite the starting screen STRONGLY suggesting there was.  So I tunnel down 37 levels to the caverns (3 beds aren't enough for 15 dwarves), and am immediately attacked by a succession of wandering beasts.  Every time I breached the cavern, even for a moment, something large and dangerous wandered in...

So now on with Puzzledworks, the next sacrifice.  Will probably have trees but no flux...

[Garath]

the flux detector is off anyway, so you'll never know

[Loud Whispers]

Attacked by GDS, Camels and Giant Eagles, along with HFS and intentional river flooding.

[Theonefreerunner]

I just lost my legendary axe dwarf. Not to battle or magma. The git fell asleep while wandering the caverns and got eaten by a croc. Now his friends are upset.

[Garath]

Agh, third FB came to visit, again through the caverns, and again the antmen killed it. They are going to fry!

[Phantom of The Library]

Siege over, all but two goblins have been captured and are being transported to a holding area until they can be properly stripped.
Four injuries total to my dwarves do to the stupidity of an engraver and beserker charges.
Just discovered that I have no soap.  Luckily I have plenty of tallow and potash already made, so its just a matter of getting a dorf to do it.

Agh, third FB came to visit, again through the caverns, and again the antmen killed it. They are going to fry!

What kind of FBs have you been getting?

[Jenniretta]

Took a short break from DF, just started a new fortress and I have surface magnetite, and hematite, and galena.. and the site finder mentioned flux, So I'm pretty happy with this site. it's 3x4 and I decided to make a shallow fort, basically the entire thing is going to be inside the mountain, so that the lowest main floor of the fortress will be on the lowest above-ground point on the map...

I'm not going to use any magma stuff as a result (no volcano, and I don't like fussing with pump stacks), but there is an abundance of trees so that won't be a problem. 

[HunterG24]

First time posting, long time lurker.

Have played before but am only now settling down for a long haul fort. My mega project will be to last for as long as possible. To that end I've been trying to get everything moved to the future stockpiles.

I've been carving out the apartment blocks when I noticed the majority of the stone I am mining is magnetite. Not being familiar with the various ores I went on about my business and completed the apartment block. Then I checked the wiki to figure out what magnetite was... I shit bricks when I found out my entire apartment block was iron ore. I find myself in the frustrating position of either letting all that iron remain as walls to the apartment block, or tearing it all down and replacing it with stone walls. Worse comes when I move to my stockpile/workshop level to make a stockpile for magnetite... only to find the space which I was carving out for the stockpile IS magnetite.... I know this is a good thing but this early in the fort I find it's too much of a good thing... No smelter yet. No flux for steel making.

My dwarfs keep trying to use the magnetite to create Stone Crafts! AGH!

And to think, the !!FUN!! hasn't even started yet.

[Jenniretta]

My dwarfs keep trying to use the magnetite to create Stone Crafts! AGH!

Bydefault magnetite should be considered an 'economic' stone, if it's not you can mark it as such from the z -> stone menu, this will prevent it from being used for crafts or furniture, etc.

[Phantom of The Library]

First time posting, long time lurker.

Have played before but am only now settling down for a long haul fort. My mega project will be to last for as long as possible. To that end I've been trying to get everything moved to the future stockpiles.

I've been carving out the apartment blocks when I noticed the majority of the stone I am mining is magnetite. Not being familiar with the various ores I went on about my business and completed the apartment block. Then I checked the wiki to figure out what magnetite was... I shit bricks when I found out my entire apartment block was iron ore. I find myself in the frustrating position of either letting all that iron remain as walls to the apartment block, or tearing it all down and replacing it with stone walls. Worse comes when I move to my stockpile/workshop level to make a stockpile for magnetite... only to find the space which I was carving out for the stockpile IS magnetite.... I know this is a good thing but this early in the fort I find it's too much of a good thing... No smelter yet. No flux for steel making.

My dwarfs keep trying to use the magnetite to create Stone Crafts! AGH!

And to think, the !!FUN!! hasn't even started yet.

You lucky...
Go to the stone menu and disable it.  I think that that should stop anything from the smelters from trying to use them.
Darn ninjas.

Bet I can beat you in time spent lurking before making a profile.

[Reudh]

Migrants. And lots of them.

Dwarves cracking a fit because there's warm stone. QUIET DWARVES I KNOW THERE'S MAGMA BENEATH YOU SO STOP PUSSYING OUT.

[Kc_spot]

 I just found out that I have a male and female pair of war grizzy bears

FUCK YEAH INFINITE WAR GIZZES FOR LYFE

Also I have some corner walls that need to be built for my fort to be completly enclosed but none of my masons are doing anything about it. They aren't suspending but they aren't building either.

If it goes on like this invaders will have a back way into my fort. How in the hell do I make them build the walls?

Also I've forgotten what to do to make my dwarves dump water in a pit from a water source... how do?