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[Stealtharcadia]

Drinkglove, after several botched reclaim attempts, belongs to the dead. I'd require an army or something to even last a minute there now. It's a sad thing too, I wanted to start a fortress in a haunted hell-hole. I guess some things will just never be.

[AJARTCGA]

So, my militia commander and another marksdwarf were killed by an ambush. I send out a few others to clean up the few remaining goblins, though most of them get killed.
Que tantrum spiral, which is magnified because I had way too many idlers, the bigger migration waves are still new to me.
So people keep killing each other and all of that, and I only have a few able-bodied military-skilled dwarves left.
'Some migrants have arrived' taking me from fifty-some dwarves to ninety-one. 
The tantrums seem to slow down, then I get the message, just a few minutes after the migrants, 'A vile force of darkness has arrived!'
Wheelrisen is no more.
It was my first real Fun experience in a while. Blood everywhere, woo!

[Akura]

It seems my fort can confidently fight off nearly any reasonable threat. I've got a brook, as well as dolomite, sand, kaolinite, and coal aplenty. Massive amounts of wood and clay can be imported relatively easily. I haven't even touched the caverns yet, so there's no telling what riches can be found there.

It's Project Time! I'm thinking of building a blitzball stadium, using clear glass blocks for the sphere pool, dolomite for the stands and general structure, and maybe porcelain for decorations like statues. And then I could pit goblins against elves or something, and see who drowns first blitzes better.

[Naryar]

No flux at all, when I have plenty of coal and even more iron ore. God damn it.

How am I supposed to fight the war elephants and warwolves, which are the 2 only enemy civs alive, without steel ?

[Garath]

raw editing done, snake eggs will now hatch! as will GDS eggs!

[Akura]

No flux at all, when I have plenty of coal and even more iron ore. God damn it.

How am I supposed to fight the war elephants and warwolves, which are the 2 only enemy civs alive, without steel ?

I often find marble down below. But I assume that's not guaranteed. Here's a trick: check your economic stone settings. Any flux stones on the map(whether you've found them or not) will be usable by default.

[Luzahn]

Does anybody know a way to cause undead to be vulnerable to magma via RAW editing? The 20 undead milling around in the lava sea are making ending a siege difficult.

[kaijyuu]

If you're willing to cheat, DFhack and obsidian cast them.

[Electrode]

Vigorsacks, my latest fort:
* Cold rocky wasteland/mountain
* Untamed wilds
* Volcano
* Abundant hematite and marble, several obsidian layers, and two candy canes
* No coal or trees

Embarked with "play now!" loadout. The fort is currently in it's fourth year, and has been doing very well.

Spoiler: Main level (click to show/hide)

The big pile of cage traps in the entryway seems to be pretty effective at keeping the gobbos out. Most of the time I don't even bother raising the drawbridge, they won't even path into the fort.

Spoiler: Above-ground farm plot (click to show/hide)

Now here's where it gets interesting: only about half of this area was arable clay soil, the rest was bare obsidian rock, so some irrigation was needed. Temps are freezing year-round, so my bucket brigade was just making ice. The solution was simple enough:

Spoiler: Some walls, some screw pumps, some dwarves and a volcano! (click to show/hide)

An interesting observation: once I started warming the ground, a little patch of grass started growing on the exposed soil. This gave me an idea...

Spoiler: Dwarven geoengineering (click to show/hide)

[Gigaz]

I proposed my mayor for the barons position because she has not caused me any trouble yet. After that, I checked what she likes.

Turns out she likes wagon wood. That might become a source of Fun...

[Clover Magic]

Now my Giant Jumping Spider is showing up as "Trained" instead of "Semi-Wild".  Turns out letting it follow my trainer like a puppy works, as occasionally they'll take a trip to the animal training zone (had to learn to set one up) and he'll give a round of training to any animals under his training.  Also caught a breeding pair of Giant Keas, fuck yeah, they're added to the puppy train.  Giant Kea egg omelettes for everyone!

Sadly animal people cannot be tamed.  Freaking hedgehog people took up three of my cages before I managed to dump them over a cliff.

I want to start trapping the caverns, since I save a Giant Cave Swallow down there and I wanted it, but on that cavern layer is also the fucking Forgotten Beast that FLIES and BREATHES FIRE.  I barely managed to seal the fortress off before it got in in my swallow-catching attempts.  Let's find a ...less-dangerous cavern.

[FortKiller]

Just started a new fort. Embarked near a volcano, waiting for a migrant to show up with no skills.

[Count Dorku]

Thanks to a wounded dwarf who keeps bleeding everywhere, including on channelled-out ramps, my soothing mist engines regularly spray blood all over the dining room. Oddly enough, nobody seems to care that they're regularly treated to a bloodfall rather than a waterfall.

[Captain Crazy]

everybody's nuts, gutting each other and being visited by some half-bit kobold ghosties. there's a wizard diplomat just milling around doing god knows what

[Garath]

everybody's nuts, gutting each other and being visited by some half-bit kobold ghosties. there's a wizard diplomat just milling around doing god knows what

casting insanity spells?


Thank armok the human caravan arrived safely. The elf bastards dragged goblins all over the place and we got stuck with our own garbage as well as theirs. Buying too-large human metal armor and smelting it may not be cost effective usually, but we're kinda stomped for storage space here.