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[PainRack]

And for two years running, the dwarven caravan fails to arrive due to my fortress being besieged........

Damn, I want my elevation to the baron, as well as steel damn it.. I'm running out of iron bronze, and even copper.......

[Corai]

And for two years running, the dwarven caravan fails to arrive due to my fortress being besieged........

Damn, I want my elevation to the baron, as well as steel damn it.. I'm running out of iron bronze, and even copper.......

Then use the iron, bronze & copper you have to make a army. Crush the siege! Unless its glitched.

[Broseph Stalin]

I'm playing a new fort just two years old, in which I've breached the aquifer using the two-slit method, and am planning to bring magma up to the fort using the cave-in plug method. Both techniques I've never used before. I also aim to make this fort look like Manhattan instead of digging down into the dirt. If possible I want to play around with isolated dwarf communities each with their own living/dining/working tower.

Issue 1: I created this pocket island with only a single cave layer, and my dwarves have no access to pig-tails (or dimple cups)
Issue 2: Some dyestuffs grow above ground, but only a very few rope reeds
Issue 3: The temperature is so hot that I can't make outdoor farm plots ('need mud or soil')
Issue 4: Elves are nothing but a fairy story told to impressionable dwarf children.
That means I'm going to be dependent on importing rope reeds from the humans if I want to avoid failed moods.

I'm also in range of three towers, so this is my first experience of necromancer sieges too. I had to save scum after a siege of 30 undead interrupted the first dwarven caravan before I had my perimiter built up or much in the way of weapons or armour.

I'm currently in my third spring, and under siege by 90 undead and 4 necromancers. I'm in no immediate danger, but I need to break this siege in the next 3 months or so, for the human caravan. Having archers plink at the undead from the walls is just not going to do anything but run me out of ammunition.

You get "Need Mud or Soil" trying to build plots on grass, you can still build them.

[wuphonsreach]

And for two years running, the dwarven caravan fails to arrive due to my fortress being besieged........

Damn, I want my elevation to the baron, as well as steel damn it.. I'm running out of iron bronze, and even copper.......

Humans sieged me for a full 2 years.  Just hanging around at the edge of the map while I turtled and improved everything inside the walls.  They eventually gave up and the diplomat came and offered peace at his annual visit.

[misko27]

Yep, thats how humans roll. "They think they can turtle? We can starve them out!"

[crazysheep]

Made a new fort with a Tower neighbour. The RNG gave it a pretty decent name for a fort experiencing zombie attacks: Boardtired.

I'm also going for a policy of killing off all traders in order to have more fun in this fort

EDIT: One of the traders locked in my trade depot atm is named Monkkey. If he goes berserk..

[Premium]

One of my rookie militia decided to go berserk and attacked one of my hunters, who was a mother carrying her baby. It was a fairly close fight that went on for ages, with the berserk guy taking a few dozen bolts and the hunter losing one of her feet.
At some point during the battle, he hit the baby in the head with his axe, but couldn't break the skin. I guess this was one badass baby because after getting hit by the axe he decided to punch the berserker in the head.
8 times.

[Mageziya]

My fort is now under siege by a minotaur (First one I've ever encountered.), early obsidian, year 1055. (3rd year.) My bridge is up but I forgot to remove the fortress-side ramps in the pit to it. I am scrambling to get up traps before facing this monster. My milita is only a squad of marksdwarves, so theoretically I can micro to keep away from it while my milita unloads bolts into it. Of course I can always just bait it into the traps when they are ready, but that wouldn't be fun.

Wish me luck.


UPDATE: Minotaur is DOWN! As in dead. There were 2 causualties, mainly due to PEBCAK from the military menu borking to me. One Dwarf is severely injured, others possess injuries, degree unknown.

[theprofessor!]

Was playing earlier today when I accidentally set my computer to restart, which force closed DF and I lost a small amount of gameplay time, nothing major.. but what's interesting is I had a swordsdwarf in mid-possession at the last save (he was still running around gathering materials) Well, before DF force closed he had finished the artifact and it was something inane and boring like a glove. 

Well I just started it up again and when he finished the artifact (again) he made a toy boat instead.  Still inane and boring, but the idea sprung to mind that I could technically exploit that (provided constantly forcing DF to close doesn't screw up my save) until I get a cool artifact like a weapon or some furniture for display purposes.

Just a thought.

Beyond that, more fucking migrants have showed up even though I'm well past the population cap I set (I prefer smaller fortress' of around 70-80 dwarves)

Ah well

[Corai]

Was playing earlier today when I accidentally set my computer to restart, which force closed DF and I lost a small amount of gameplay time, nothing major.. but what's interesting is I had a swordsdwarf in mid-possession at the last save (he was still running around gathering materials) Well, before DF force closed he had finished the artifact and it was something inane and boring like a glove. 

Well I just started it up again and when he finished the artifact (again) he made a toy boat instead.  Still inane and boring, but the idea sprung to mind that I could technically exploit that (provided constantly forcing DF to close doesn't screw up my save) until I get a cool artifact like a weapon or some furniture for display purposes.

Just a thought.

Beyond that, more fucking migrants have showed up even though I'm well past the population cap I set (I prefer smaller fortress' of around 70-80 dwarves)

Ah well

If you wanna force-close DF without restarting the computer, go into the task manager and close the Dwarf Fortress process.

Just incase you didn't know.

[Kilroy the Grand]

Carp. To be slightly more specific, Undead Carp. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but several things led to this becoming a serious problem.

• I failed to realize I embarked near a horribly cursed lake
• I was building a walkway over the lake
• I had blinded all of my dwarves, so they streamed out to rescue the dead and dying
• The dead dwarves on the walkway came back to life almost instantly

Besides the whole "the undead are ripping them apart" part, things are going good! I found out my civ's symbol is a coin, so I'm mass producing all the gold and silver coins I can, then stuffing them into a gold vault.

I have a good feeling about this fort.

[theprofessor!]

Was playing earlier today when I accidentally set my computer to restart, which force closed DF and I lost a small amount of gameplay time, nothing major.. but what's interesting is I had a swordsdwarf in mid-possession at the last save (he was still running around gathering materials) Well, before DF force closed he had finished the artifact and it was something inane and boring like a glove. 

Well I just started it up again and when he finished the artifact (again) he made a toy boat instead.  Still inane and boring, but the idea sprung to mind that I could technically exploit that (provided constantly forcing DF to close doesn't screw up my save) until I get a cool artifact like a weapon or some furniture for display purposes.

Just a thought.

Beyond that, more fucking migrants have showed up even though I'm well past the population cap I set (I prefer smaller fortress' of around 70-80 dwarves)

Ah well

If you wanna force-close DF without restarting the computer, go into the task manager and close the Dwarf Fortress process.

Just incase you didn't know.

yes I know    Mostly worried if doing it without letting it properly save and clean up could corrupt the file or smt.

[Corai]

Was playing earlier today when I accidentally set my computer to restart, which force closed DF and I lost a small amount of gameplay time, nothing major.. but what's interesting is I had a swordsdwarf in mid-possession at the last save (he was still running around gathering materials) Well, before DF force closed he had finished the artifact and it was something inane and boring like a glove. 

Well I just started it up again and when he finished the artifact (again) he made a toy boat instead.  Still inane and boring, but the idea sprung to mind that I could technically exploit that (provided constantly forcing DF to close doesn't screw up my save) until I get a cool artifact like a weapon or some furniture for display purposes.

Just a thought.

Beyond that, more fucking migrants have showed up even though I'm well past the population cap I set (I prefer smaller fortress' of around 70-80 dwarves)

Ah well

If you wanna force-close DF without restarting the computer, go into the task manager and close the Dwarf Fortress process.

Just incase you didn't know.

yes I know    Mostly worried if doing it without letting it properly save and clean up could corrupt the file or smt.

Not at all! I do it alot. Never got a single problem.

[theprofessor!]

Ah, cool. Good to know thanks.

So I drafted most of the new migrants as I have plenty of workers, somehow one of them has already gone and drowned himself.  Perhaps Toady should consider adding "Safety Rails" as a future construction

[crazysheep]

Perhaps Toady should consider adding "Safety Rails" as a future construction

We call walls "Safety Rails" around here.