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[Naryar]

And another wave of giant cockatiels. It seems the RNG loves to taunt me by sending continuous waves of the most fabulous birds ever in DF.

I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THESE MOTHERFUCKING COCKATIELS ON THAT MOTHERFUCKING FORTRESS !

[Splint]

remove the cockateil's flier tae if they're up a good distance and enjoy the show.

[Naryar]

Aaaaand they barely fly at all. 95% of the time they're on the ground, hopefully for my melee dwarves.

Seriously I killed 26 giant cockatiels and nearly 20 cockatiel men since the start of the fort two years ago. What's their pop number anyways ?

edit : 15 to 30 for giant cockatiels, 30 to 50 for cockatiel men. Armok damn it, i'm gonna need to kill more furries to get my good old GDS and camels to appear. Hell I would prefer buzzards to the waves of insects and cockatiels I am getting.

Also creeping eyes can appear in water, it seems. Never seen that.

[ZzarkLinux]

BunnyBunches the Rabbit-Hut

Spoiler: Previous Chapters (click to show/hide)

01) Embark
02) 6 Flavors of Hell
03) But mostly he just raged
04) Water Water ... Is it safe to drink ??
05) Risk vs Reward vs Frustration

06) Green light a lot of things
07) Stomping the Learning Curb

Still autumn.

Bunnies are doing okay. A bunny birth of two little-er ones just happened.
They can use more pasture space once the evil tide recedes for a little bit.
My puppy-pet just grew into a full blown dog.
Best of all, my 4-way Migrant tubes are done. Now things can sneak onto the map and under it without becoming wolverine bait.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And wouldn't cha know it, the migrants arrive right now.
Even though the migrant tubes are done, the floodgates haven't been linked yet.
Gotta improvise.

The first migrant shows up, and squats right in place. Great.
The undead wolverines are on the other side of the map.
So I create a meeting hall in the nearest tube (on the migrant side), and draft the first migrant to station at that meeting area.
He moves, and two other migrants spawn and follow him to that meeting area.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

One citizen has arrived, and she deconstructs the floodgate to let the migrants in.
Then, all the migrants are still stupid stuck in the meeting hall in the tube.
So I convert them to Masons and tell them to build walls deep in my fort. They finally start moving into my fort.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I have thusfar avoided any surface deaths !! This is good for the future of the fortress (the rabbits at least)
And in the last picture, you can see I have a lot of Cherry Opals in this fort (should mod in Cherry Blossoms too)
One of the Summer migrants was a Novice Jewller, so now he is working on wealth so I at least have something to trade with the dwarven caravan.

Very good.

[crazywulf]

I have food stores of "200?", how much approximately would that last me with about 13 dwarves?

[Splint]

a few months, a year maybe. Assign a bookkeeper to a chair and he'll give you an adaquate tally on food.

[Broseph Stalin]

I have food stores of "200?", how much approximately would that last me with about 13 dwarves?

Each dwarf needs two units of food per season. Two meals every season for each dwarf is 26 food per season four seasons in a year, you have about two years of food there (not counting the fact that some of that is seeds, 200? could be + or minus 49 meals and that you'll get migrants) 

[Tsuchigumo550]

Started the fort, tantrum spiral has begun before winter even hit, the trade caravan's things were stolen, a feeding frenzy like you've never seen washed over the place. My dwarves were starving, since I can never seem to get food in any manner acceptable for my dwarves, hunting isn't doing it. This map will accomodate a farm and it's high time I made one, instead of piddling around with a broken waterfall. Leave it on for a minute and the residental block floods. Dining room is a sucess. A coffin is made, but a memorial is going to be required for a miner stuck inside the bowels of Giant Water Resivoir Sink For Waterfall.

[talysman]

The Suicide Falls fort (I just looked up its real name: Highbreach) looked suddenly better, because migrants finally showed up in the second spring. Went from five adults and two babies to 30 adults and two babies... and then one of the babies grew up to a child, making him slightly more useful. Great! Stuff started getting done. Already had 360+ prepared meals and 400+ booze by the time the migrants arrived, so the real focus was on doing something with all that rope weed thread I had, building a few more beds, setting up a hospital, and start digging down more, looking for coal or magma.

Oops! There might be an aquifer 10 levels down. I will have to explore more.

Oh oh! Weregopher showed up. Quickly took him out, but he killed both war dogs and three dwarves first. And one of the injured dwarves was infected (hadn't made soap yet... oh, and it looks like a pond turtle destroyed my well when I wasn't looking.) So he turned were and killed another dwarf before they took him out. There's another dwarf in the hospital, so I better rebuild the well and get that soap made...

[Splint]

My current civ is made of win.

It's domesticated dozens of giant animals, almost all cavern dwelling creatures, and appearently gremlins work as haulers for them. It's the smallest dwarf civ, and probably the most powerful if its knowledge isn't global.

Why?

A freaking stray Giant Cave Spider just arrivied ina migrant wave. A GIANT FREAKING CAVE SPIDER.

I can die happy now.

[tahujdt]

Not until you weaponize it.

[Splint]

Not until you weaponize it.

I made yaks and musk oxen trainable fearless nongrazers. You think I wont militarize that spider?

[JimDale]

Keep the spider as a household pet, weaponize sheep.

[tahujdt]

Make cows war trainable. Beware the Battle Cattle!

[Splint]

I won't lie, I was strongly considering it. A booze shortage has been averted thanks to dilligent plant gathering, the depot is up, mess hall being firchished, and gremlins proving the use of nondorf haulers.

Plus I'm positive if I get some quivers they'll start hunting whatever stumbles onto the map since they have natural ambusher skill.