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[Oaktree]

Waterspear's army is rounding into shape.  A few squads of reservist marksdwarves were given better armor and upgraded to militia status.  Which means they'll be given metal bolts and a section of fortification or a bunker to defend when the next siege arrives. 

Which should be a human attack this summer.  Their latest diplomat was rebuffed, and then caught spying on defenses away from his exit route.  So he was detoured into a ditch and locked in there until further notice.  His corpse is now there since he apparently went insane and died due to something. 

A few more goblin sieges have been rebuffed with heavy goblin casualties as well.  Plus some ambush teams discovering the fortress' penchant for putting in new crossbow traps every so often.  Though one group managed to stick a passing worker in the guts with a pike before getting wiped out by traps and a passing patrol of sword dwarves.

The worker took his wound well.  Got clear of the fight and walked himself into the hospital, retching all the way.  Got the wound examined, cleaned, and bandaged, and then headed back out to work.

And finally got a second artifact weapon... an adamantine war hammer.   

The Queen has been appointed Hammerer and equipped with it for meting out justice to those who fail to fulfill mandates.  She never makes any, but her niece the duchess more than makes up for it!  (Make shields, make bolts, make shields, make bolts, etc. etc. etc.)

[cvar]

Started a new fort to play with minecarts!  Cheating a bit so that I can fiddle with minecarts and not fiddle with farms/goblin imports.

The quantum industrial complex thread gave me the motivation to try it finally and I've been d'awwwwing nonstop at the little smiley faces pushing carts around.  Need just a touch more planning so that it doesn't look so messy next time (I have a track that runs from the farms/clothier down to the main complex and it pretty much just explodes out of the wall and crosses the main hallway.  Tempted to set it to push and not guide.)  Also need to work out where I'd include the still(s)/kitchen that doesn't clutter up my work area.  I may just have a stockpile up top run down to a different z-level that has the meeting hall/dining room next to the stills/kitchen and dumps plants/meat in a quantum stockpile between them.  Hell, that's probably a good solution for soap too.

Given that my last attempt with minecarts kept setting dwarves on fire (two peasants, legendary miner and the armorsmith I'd embarked with and I still only had 2/7 magma where I wanted my forge at!), this new fort is a great success.

[Ace_Warbringer]

Rulonol "Mutedmountains" grows!
stats: Dwarves: 121, 1 seige, and many thieves.

mostly kept the peace with the neighbors, as my millitary is quite up to standard yet. the upper fortress is under construction, as this is an attemps at a huge stone megafort, I dont want to breach the caverns just yet. Figure I got 1 maby 2 lvls until I do.  more chalk than I know what to do with, most upper areas are getting paved (chalk blocks + collored areas to break up the white).
Building a catapult battery for training.

still havent picked out a hammerer yet, cause nobody quite stands out. (yes I am a Masocist, No Mandate Shall Be Ignored)

later General plans include Cast and smoothed walls of obsidian.

[Bigheaded]

Elves just arrived to trade, i was looking forward to them as i needed to "buy" (steal) their wood.

They decided to wade across the water need a waterfall, rather than move a teeny bit further along and use the bridge (literally 7 spaces away).

They got pushed over the waterfall and they are currently drowning/dead from the fall.
the poor elves 
On another positive note, i get to steal their stuff!

[Eric Blank]

My damn sheep are killing each other in the pastures. They all got stuck in the top-right corner after being sheared and now they won't leave, and are fighting over the little patches of grass.

The upper magma forges are now operational, but won't see much use until I can come up with an efficient means of getting all the ore to them. I think I'll need minecart routes. The glass furnaces, in the meantime, will be seeing a lot of use.

Dumat Avuzallas, Stray Gremlin Hunter (Tame) cancels Store Item in Barrel: Incapable of carrying.

I had no idea "incapable of carrying" was even a thing. I also don't know WHY this little guy can't carry it, or what he's trying to carry. Or why a tame animal is storing items in stockpiles; they don't do that...

[Teneb]

The FB syndrome I mentioned earlier has shown it's advanced stage: full loss of function on lungs. My entire fort just suffocated thanks to a FB that didn't manage to kill a single pet (or dwarf) during it's rampage.

[Eric Blank]

An adequate weaponsmith just made a stack of masterwork adamantine bolts for my archers to turn into individual bolts. What are the chances of getting a masterwork item out of an adequate worker? Small, for sure.

[Clover Magic]

[Loud Whispers]

So my Dwarves decided to bury Äs, the necromancer who caused the raven bomb disaster. Äs was a former Dwarven King of the civilization, and was buried in 7 pieces within a brass sarcophagus. I'm not certain they found all the pieces.
Old traditions never die, even after 400 years of life after death.

[Mr Space Cat]

So I just had my first "falling dwarf scouts out the lower levels while falling down a volcano and finds adamantine" moment that all DF players really should have in their course of playing. One of our two miners was apparently dumb enough to fall in to the volcano from a random WTF cave-in from removing a floor tile over the crater. Twenty real life seconds later, "Raw adamantine! Praise the miners!"

Praise the miners indeed. His sacrifice will not be remembered, I didn't even know his name. 

What makes this even better is the fact this was intended to be a disposable experimental fort for testing a reaction to make chain-swords. Adamantine chain-swords, here we come!

[MrWillsauce]

So I just had my first "falling dwarf scouts out the lower levels while falling down a volcano and finds adamantine" moment that all DF players really should have in their course of playing. One of our two miners was apparently dumb enough to fall in to the volcano from a random WTF cave-in from removing a floor tile over the crater. Twenty real life seconds later, "Raw adamantine! Praise the miners!"

Praise the miners indeed. His sacrifice will not be remembered, I didn't even know his name. 

What makes this even better is the fact this was intended to be a disposable experimental fort for testing a reaction to make chain-swords. Adamantine chain-swords, here we come!

I embarked on a volcano mountain. I had six dwarves fall all the way from the rim of the volcano into the sea before the first migrant wave. Somehow one of the pickaxes never fell in with any of them, and the survivor used it to carve out a meager for by herself.

[Splint]

So I just had my first "falling dwarf scouts out the lower levels while falling down a volcano and finds adamantine" moment that all DF players really should have in their course of playing. One of our two miners was apparently dumb enough to fall in to the volcano from a random WTF cave-in from removing a floor tile over the crater. Twenty real life seconds later, "Raw adamantine! Praise the miners!"

Praise the miners indeed. His sacrifice will not be remembered, I didn't even know his name. 

What makes this even better is the fact this was intended to be a disposable experimental fort for testing a reaction to make chain-swords. Adamantine chain-swords, here we come!

On chainswords, already made them They are AWESOME when done properly (that is slice the shit out of everything to OP levels. Like a chainsword should.)

So, I've decided to commit heresy and play as elves. Taking all bets on how long I'll last.

[Lich180]

Blessed are the cheesemakers.

He just migrated to the fort, and gets all secretive all the sudden. Claiming a craftdwarf shop, he demands shells.

In this place, no one can go outside long enough to fish. So we drill a hole into the aquifer, and have some other migrants start pulling turtles out of the aquifer.

How the hell did a turtle get there? I don't know. All I know is there won't be a corpse running around the fort.

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3 shells, and this is made.

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Hanging rings of shell, bands of shell, no other fancy stuff. At least there is a legendary bone crafter now... and I can have meat added back to our menu, and have some crap fancy trinkets to trade to the caravans.

Oh, and the husk/thrall elimination system has been tested.

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Perfect.

[Gentlefish]

Oh sweet buttery lobster jesus. I want my dwarves to make a mask. You lucky son of a gun.

[zubb2]

I have been trying to get all the furniture in my fort and I might have to put my fort in lockdown while I get everything organized and some "Spartarns" danger roomed.

I do have some soldiers but they are mostly wrestlers with one armed dorf "The Manager" the only noble I care about who is the leader of the fort.

Well I do care about the bookkeep but that job is probobly the safest job in the fort.

"The Manager" has a crossbow and insufficiant ammo because he wont carry more and he might have iron mail.

Bout it.