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[talysman]

A Cave Dragon wandered into the caverns and took out two clowns. His fat is all melted off and he's Pale, so he probably won't take any more out, but still! Awesome!

Edit: He just got a third, and his bruises are all healed. He's got two limbs "burned" in his 'z' screen, and still Pale, but wow! Cave Dragons are beastly! I wish I could capture a breeding pair..

My second goblin siege on my plain vanilla volcano embark has brought something like six cave dragons, so maybe I'll try capturing those. I've also got a regular dragon on the map, but he showed up before the siege, broiled the rutherers I'd trained, and then got caught in a cage trap. The goblins are actually heading towards the caged dragon. I wonder what will happen...

[Deathworks]

Hello!

Encouraged by the claim in the General DF forum that the next update will be about a month from now, I have started my big project... very slowly :) :) Since I am writing down all relevant data, I am still basically in frame 1. I have already designated some wood cutting and plant gathering as well as setting some traffic areas (5x5 with a bit of lake and brook or river, that means a lot of restricted traffic areas :) :) :) ).

I think I need to read up on the technical stuff, though. I thought that designating areas actually made an entire frame happen with each press of the RETURN key, but as far as I can tell, the dwarves have not been moving much yet (I recall them moving every 10 frames by default, but that information may also be old).

The controls of the game are lagging quite a lot - I suppose I should try to find out whether this is because I set the FPS limit to 1 or whether the 5x5 embark (which is unusually big for me) is draining away at things. Oddly enough, the graphical FPS go down to 0 along with the FPS, even though the init file has the graphical set to 25 as usual... and reading the init file, the FPS limit should not really influence the interface - so maybe it really is the embark....

Anyhow, I hope to get something really going in a few days time. The world I genned has some nice deities for the dwarves, and my initial seven aren't that bad (although I have very few with real artistic ambitions, which counters my playstyle).

Yours,
Deathworks

[ZzarkLinux]

The Rustic RabbitHut

Spoiler: Previous Chapters (click to show/hide)

01) Embark
02) Raise the Roof
03) Sour and Sweet

04) Spring Growing - Part 1
05) Spring Growing - Part 2

Butchering the 2nd Yak goes fine too.
In fact, I wonder if the 2nd Yak slaughter chamber is under a good-biome part.
Maybe nothing will rise-from-the-dead in this chamber ?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And I get that funny error message too when a dwarf partial-deconstructs something.
In order to control where an animal is slaughtered, I have to forbid/mark-for-deconstruct all the other butcher rooms.
But this one I forgot to lock it.

...

The mechanic (with help) finally links up all the floodgates to flood my farm.
I have 2 floodgates: the one at the farm and the one above the farm (where we will open the pool).
So one dwarf goes to mine-open the spot to release the murky pool, and the other goes to close the top-floodgate immediately after.
I only want the farm to flood, not the floor above it.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My timing is perfect. No water was lost on top-side, everything is draining into the farm.

However, my dwarves never have time to clear out a huge farm, so once again the farm starts flooding too-much-too-fast.
Sigh, move the seeds, close the floodgate, and let the water spread elsewhere.

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My miners are busy, because I'm on a time limit.
Once summer hits us, migrants will clog the surface. If they get zombifyed up there, I'll be in trouble.
So my miners start working on migrant tubes, and I use burrows to help them focus.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Otome is now novice in mason/mechanic. Not a moment too soon.

[Orky_Boss]

Started using a mod called "Legends of Forlorn Realm". When I embark, the first thing I notice is that instead of having 2 copper battle axes by default in the items section, it's two great axes.

Then, when I embark, my designated Militarydwarf is apparently a Master Bowyer prodigy. What that is I have no idea, but I will try to find out sooner than later.

[Superior_Tomato]

Bowyer prodigy is a caste who has natural skill in bowyering (or whatever) and should be around Master in bowyering, and still have the other skills you embarked with. You can get Prodigies in quite a few skills, (Armoursmith prodigy ftw) though there seems to be an abundance of bowyer prodigies, atleast from my experiences.

[Orky_Boss]

Thanks. In that case, Marksdwarf Army, I choose you! Also, everyone's having a drinking party after I finished bypassing the aquifier, no doubt drinking to their luck at having only a 1 layer aquifier (Sometimes it's two or even three, and the cave-in method to bypass the wouldn't work). And by a drinking party, I just mean they're all taking a drink at the same time, it's not an actual party.

[Orky_Boss]

F*ck. Turns out aquifier is more than 1 layer. I usually don't try to dig so close to the Z-level of the aquifier, but I had found the first cavern layer must sooner than I had expected, so I digged a few Z-levels away from the cavern area.

Que my entire construction site being ruined as I miserably attempt to wall off the water, and rage-abadoning.

Well, let's try again!

[talysman]

A Cave Dragon wandered into the caverns and took out two clowns. His fat is all melted off and he's Pale, so he probably won't take any more out, but still! Awesome!

Edit: He just got a third, and his bruises are all healed. He's got two limbs "burned" in his 'z' screen, and still Pale, but wow! Cave Dragons are beastly! I wish I could capture a breeding pair..

My second goblin siege on my plain vanilla volcano embark has brought something like six cave dragons, so maybe I'll try capturing those. I've also got a regular dragon on the map, but he showed up before the siege, broiled the rutherers I'd trained, and then got caught in a cage trap. The goblins are actually heading towards the caged dragon. I wonder what will happen...

Nothing happened to the goblins or the caged dragon, yet. The eight war cave dragons, however, were a bust: most of them were slaughtered by the serrated iron disks. Two were hanging out near the main gate, so I opened the gate to try to lure them towards the line of backup cage traps inside my safe area. Caught one, but the other was on a rampage and had to be killed; took several casualties before it was finally put down. Meanwhile, every baby in the fort decided the open gate was a signal to head for the refuse pile. Took a while to get them back inside.

[Goodguy3]

A marksdwarf threw a tantrum. . .and continued her archery practice. Why can't other dwarves follow this example?

[LuckyLuigi]

Can someone PLEASE dump this last stone that's been lying here for a YEAR so I can finish this section !? Curse these dorfs !

*Combat Report incoming*

A giant musquito forgotten beast is on a rampage in the living quarters
ZOMG where did that come from ?!

*Sends his army down there from their usual place near the gate*

AMBUSH ! Right at the gate and my army is gone ! OMG so much blood !

As the musquito is killed and my army is rushed back up and killing the goblins suddenly I notice that my population is dropping like a stone.

A GCS has killed 15 dorfs inside of a minute. O_o

Read much about them but never had one visit. Sadly I had to kill it to recover the bodies.

Classic 'accidentally breached the cavern' action.

In other news, we're a barony now yay.

[MasterMorality]

A were-giraffe cave fish woman ran onto my map, killed a fisher, and was ripped apart by dogs after turning back.
A giant dingo killed my only military member.

I put the artifact cabinet in the meeting hall. Hopefully that will cheer things up.

Edit:

Whoah!
I was mining out a section of marble for later use as flux and mined through wall into a deep pit.

You have discovered a deep pit.
You have discovered an expansive cavern.
You have discovered a downward passage.

I'm used to mining downwards into the caverns vertically, not horizontally..
This is... cool.

[ZzarkLinux]

The Rustic RabbitHut

Spoiler: Previous Chapters (click to show/hide)

01) Embark
02) Raise the Roof
03) Sour and Sweet
04) Spring Growing - Part 1

05) Spring Growing - Part 2
06) Spring Growing - Part 3

Need to get migrant tubes and a farm setup pronto.
The zombie sparrow men above ground won't hesitate.
Crap, I haven't even made battle axes for my militia yet.

So I have finally cleared out a workshop area. It gets a Carpentry Shop, a Wood Furnace, and a Tanner's Shop.
I notice that chamber #2 hasn't got any undead yet, so I send a militia to grab the skin and tan it.
Turns out the room is still evil and the hair later rises, but I get one leather so yay.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Tear-down the Carpentry Shop to make a Mason's shop.
Militia go to make floodgates for the migrant tubes because my Mason/Mechanic Otome is too busy with the mechanisms.
Since I don't have any free rooms, I will make the Workshop Room into the Lever-Control area for now.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The 4 floodgates are done, but mechanisms are still being made.
Militia goes from Masonry to Farming, because we are getting short on booze.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Charcoal is just now finished for militia's axes.
We get 1 Plump-Helmet seed in the ground.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It is now summer.

[Reudh]

Zzark, I'm beginning to think you should make a new topic purely for your RabbitHut forts.
It's almost like a succession game with you as the only person!

Anyway, as for Sabreheals...

Four goblin snatchers were detected during the elven caravan. Old Sabreheals Gate was sealed up to prevent their escape.

The first one, Stozu McNormalThief ran around in circles before being bisected by our M.COM.
The second one, Snodub McMasterThief killed a fishery worker, and injured another fishery worker before being taken down.
The third managed to steal a child but was killed in the escape; yay boost to happiness for baby and mother and father!
And the last one, after the elves went to leave, found his route blocked and started fighting with the elven caravan yak, then got his head kicked in. The elves promptly ran out into a storm of infernal ash and started dying, but not before they made it off the map.

[ZzarkLinux]

I checked for a "stories" sub-forum, but the only one is a Community Stories one, so I don't think my stuff goes there.
That place is for community based things no?

I think I may start wrapping more chapters into one post.
That way I don't spam this thread as much, but still get all the details in.

[Reudh]

Technically speaking, your fort would fit into Community Stories with a bit of tweaking; if you took the fort and wrote it from the start as a story. That'd be epic.