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[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
07) Acceleration is Easy at Low Speeds
08) Guard Duty activate
09) Drumroll ... your fingers
10) Good Times lead to Fun
11) Slugging Stone Around
12) Trading Season - Part 1 - Awaiting the Surge
13) Trading Season - Part 2 - Here they come

14) Trading Season - Part 3 - Trade Winds are blowing
15) Roadkill

Right off the bat, the traders' Wagon Train rolls over a live wolverine, killing it.
It lies dead and silent, for now.

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Since Mosquito Men Corpses are in the NE, I open the SW Migrant Tube
and begin construction to make a safe passage to fresh water.

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The dwarf who lost his hand to the dead takes this time to go clean himself on the surface
This is why you always think carefully before opening your doors.
It works out okay though.

...

And now the wolvering corpse gets up.
I don't think it's much of a threat, all its limbs are broken.
It is dragging its intestines on the ground too.

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For some reason, it is pathing to my construction site.
I seal off the floodgates, but decides to park right next to the site.

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I decide that I'm not waiting.
There's no other undead on the map surface,
so I build a butchers and send the squad to kill the wolverine corpse.

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The corpse is fiesty, it gets up 2 times before being properly butch'd.

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I've been clearing out more space, hopefully for stockpiles and not corpse rooms.
The hexes fit together nicely !

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The miners are working on a garbage compactor, and I build a tannery and farmshop to handle the skin/hair.
Let that be an lesson to all the rest of you nuts !

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[Count Dorku]

I've finally installed a trash-pulverising atomsmasher, which is currently merrily slamming its way through an endless chain of goblin bits. Meanwhile, my chicken-drop system is taking a long time to build, but if I can't use it to drop chickens 15 storeys onto goblins for reasons I'm not entirely sure of, what use is rock?

[Greiger]

I was looking for a new sig,  That will do nicely.

[Bartinyou]

Apparently a Large gem made it in the trade with the last human caravan, my duchess did not take kindly to such insolence and in one fell swoop killed 6 legendaries; the jeweler, cook, weaponsmith/armorsmith/metalcrafter, mason, miner, and a bonecarver.  Apparently I picked a blood thirsty lady to rule over my dwarves.

Edit:  Also mechanics in this fort are horribly cursed, my initial mechanic (original 7) was killed by a vampire.  My following 3 mechanics have all been replacing cages on cage traps at the fort entrance when an ambush/grizzly bear/unicorn decided to take them to their maker.  Luckily I had 38 children between the first 4 migration waves and 25 or so of them reached age 12 within 2 years, so plenty of replacements.

[Eric Blank]

Apparently a Large gem made it in the trade with the last human caravan, my duchess did not take kindly to such insolence and in one fell swoop killed 6 legendaries; the jeweler, cook, weaponsmith/armorsmith/metalcrafter, mason, miner, and a bonecarver.  Apparently I picked a blood thirsty lady to rule over my dwarves.

Sounds like somebody needs a "bath." A very special "bath" indeed.

[Niccolo]

Ironpillar is still searching for iron; I've found bismunthite and tetrahedrite... Must go deeper!

My second carpenter has taken up mechanical engineering as a hobby, which is probably a good thing; constructing the above-ground living area has taken so much time that I'll soon be knee-deep in goblins, so a method to close my gates will be welcome.

My technique leaves something to be desired, I suspect. Taking a year to get to the walls-and-gates stage is way too slow. I have nearly thirty dwarves permanently on masonry duty, so I don't exactly know what they've been doing.

Juggling the rocks, probably.

[Eric Blank]

ronpillar is still searching for iron; I've found bismunthite and tetrahedrite... Must go deeper!...

...Juggling the rocks, probably.

Iron isn't going to be found deep, since magnetite and limonite are found only in sedimentary layers and hematite is found in sedimentary and igneous extrusive layers. All of which would only really appear in the first few layers of the map. If you've got a map with more than one geological stratigraphy through different biomes, you can try digging elsewhere, but down isn't the way to go for iron, honestly.

If you remove the masons' and miners' hauling labors, or any important dwarves you want to keep working and not looking for socks among goblin hordes, they will spend the vast majority of their time doing what you really want them to do, and thus work much, much faster. I always do this with my stoneworkers and usually get an exterior wall up within the first year.



My own interest in my fort collapsed yet again, and I haven't founded another one. This happens a lot. Fort-surfing until I take up interest in a fortress and it survives for a while, to die of boredom or unexpected fun...

[TheCoolSideofthePIllow]

Fuck my life...

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Edit: Thankfully, it was a brook, not a river as I had thought (with this graphic pack, rivers tend to have the same color as brooks).

Edit 2: Continuing with the same fortress started in the above picture, I am going for a more aesthetically pleasing design, while also trying to be efficient and defensible. Part of this design calls for a multiple z-level shaft with stair cases in the corners, and a central open shaft in the middle. On the bottom-most layer is where the meeting hall, kitchen, still and bedrooms will be, above that all the main workshops I need, and so on.

While channeling out the central opening, one of the miners was an idiot and caused a collapse, injuring himself (thankfully only himself) to the point where he could no longer move. He sat where he fell (all the way down in the meeting hall; he fell through 4 z-levels of unchannelled flooring to get there) for almost an entire year before he finally died of thirst, even though there was a bucket full of fresh dwarven wine right next to him.

[MasterMorality]

I finally opened up the caverns again to take on Uph, the giant four-horned limonite humanoid. It's poisonous vapours did not start work till after it was dead. I tried sniping it, but it just wouldn't die fast enough. Now there are a bunch of swelling, rotting Thothgol being dragged to the hospital. Miasma is pooling in places.

Work continues on the fort expansion - I have laid out plans for another semi-fortress: connected, but distanced from the main fort, and quite some way underground. bedrooms are being carved below the work rooms and halls.

[orius]

The useless elves packed up their trade goods and left.  Good riddance.  For some reason, two of the traders decided to leave through the first cavern.



Birdsplosion!  Chicks, keets, goslings, ducklings, and poults have all hatched.  The sheep and alpacas are crapping out offspring too.  Our fort animal population is at 256 and my framerate is screaming for mercy.  Last year's birdsplosion has matured so our butcher shall be busy for a few weeks.  The traps down in the first cave have snagged two more dralthas, so they need to get trained and slaughtered.  They get slaughtered right away since they are ridiculously huge grazers.  It might be helpful to train them for civilization knowledge and we're also making them herdable to the butcher's shop.

The outside traps have caught a grizzly bear!  Huzzah!  Traps do something the stinking elves cannot (the elves have no excuse here either since they have TWO settlements in the same local area map and grizzles are in this biome!)  He's going to be trained up, and I hope I can catch a female to breed them.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Just finishing the top floor of my new act of insanity.  Then to engage the Clock...

[Blizzlord]

Does it look dwarven? It does not matter if it works as long as it looks cool and overcomplicated.

[AfroScotsDwarf]

recently discovered how to find adamantine! praise the miners!

shortly afterwords, i learnt another valuable lesson.

i abandoned.

[peskyninja]

recently discovered how to find adamantine! praise the miners!

shortly afterwords, i learnt another valuable lesson.

i abandoned.

Sir, you are getting your beard removed. *Grabs AfroScotsDwarf by the beard*
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It seems that ranged enemies are tougher in this version, I've lost 6 of my legendary candy clad dwarfs to a storm of copper bolts and arrows.

[Reudh]

Vastly tougher. Especially if they have silver bolts. Those things tear through armor like paper.