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[Loud Whispers]

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Silentthunders as of the year 40-something. The courtyard is finally completely floored over
Just need to get the surroundings paved over, then I can build more up and dig more down. 5 z lvls a day makes for a really long staircase.

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Anyway guess i have to start a new one, and since Splint and Loud whispers helped me with the last fort, im naming the first to humans after them.

Aw thank you :3

Teach me how to fortress like you.

Hmm... Well this fort started out like this:

[1] Secure building grounds (clear trees, build workshops).
[2] Manufacture weapons.
[3] Cry self to sleep whenever creatures show up in the hopes you survive till migrant wave #1/
[4] Build booze stockpile + stone quarry + clear forest as much as possible.
[5] Stick to keeping Dwarves alive and adding things spontaneously, joining all together.
[6] Dwarf Fortress

Finaly had a fort die due to !!FUN!!. It all started while building the castle, one idiot made a huge cave in killing 3 people, cue everybody throwing tantrums, and going beserk. Loudwhispers was the last to survive, Splint died trying to subdue 6 beserkers.

I died the way I lived, clinging onto the edge of life, being dragged down by insane hairy midgets.
Wait, what?

[Fishybang]

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Well, im not to sure what to say about this one.

[knutor]

FC2FCd, or AOE dump, to autodump logs, and save some hauling time, using DFHack's Autodump.  Accidentally screwed the pooch, and labeled my supports for dumping, and a dwarf just pulled one up.  Tripping a 2 chunk, cave-in trap!  Oops

[Eric Blank]

My werewolf test subject went bonkers. I have no idea what was eating him besides "He was unable to find somebody in charge to cry on." There's a reason you're in quarantine, idiot.

Well, now he can babble senselessly in the peace of his empty 3x3 cell. But maybe that's exactly why he's babbling insanely.

Now if only I had access to runesmith and could cancel his insanity. Now all he's good for is infecting the populace.

In other news, my smelters have failed to meet the demand for iron from my weapon adn armor smiths. A minor setback. Migrants, though, will be a massive advantage if they make it inside without being murdered. And as long as nothing else gets inside with them...

[laularukyrumo]

So I started up an embark. Pretty standard looking. 3x5, cold, split taiga/mountain biome. There's a volcano, lots of magma-safe stone, fire clay, and even galena and malachite.

What I wasn't warned about until checking the unit list, though, was the presence of FOUR legendary dragons, with no less than six dragon eggs, chilling in a little niche cavern by the stream.

[EdtheHammer]

My first contribution to this thread, I'll just leave this here

[MrWillsauce]

Is that a statue of a half-dwarf half-crab?

[Eric Blank]

Zoiddorf doing a jig

[MrWillsauce]

Wooboobooboobooboo

[MythagoWoods]

Up to combat log page 20 of my Marksdwarf beating a cave crocodile to death with an artifact larch bow.  Luckily the crocodile has his limbs broken from my stone traps as he chased a child into my fort so he can't land a hit on my dwarf but still... this is slow and unusual punishment if you ask me.

Okay, my hammer dwarf came by and crushed it's skull.  21 pages of combat... sheesh.

[CheatingChicken]

I have a minecart track set up to dump useless refuse into the moat around my fortress.

It seems that having this up and running, it is NOT a good idea to send out men to pave the ground of the moat.
I just lost a mason. He died by having a whole minecarts worth of vermin corpses and various body parts dumped on his head.
Not a nice way to die

[UristMcDonald]

First forgotten beast of this fort. Had a Titan earlier who killed 2 guys by stinging them in the head and knocked a third into a river, so I was worried. Sent both of my squads (10 melee dwarves and 6 marksdwarves) to get him. Army lines up on the banks of the underground lake the beast is swimming out of. He charges. A crossbow dwarf runs up...

The Hauler hits the Forgotten Beast in the back left leg with his Palm Crossbow! The severed part flies off in an arc! The Forgotten Beast has been slain!

That was anticlimactic... :/

[Urist McLaptop]

All hail the peons!

[UristMcDonald]

First siege ended with three dead: Two fishermen who got crushed by the bridge (I wasn't too sure of my defenses as they hadn't been tested yet against a real invasion, so I ordered the bridge shut too soon) and a baby who was dropped by his mother in panic. The bastard goblins charged him and hacked him apart with axes... Half fell to cage traps outside the fort, the rest made it to my main hallway. Three dozen maces, axes, and spears attacked them out of the walls. Some goblins stood their ground and were instantly destroyed. Others tried to dodge and fell off the bridge to their deaths. One was hit by half a dozen maces, which threw him into the air... He landed in a cage trap. Those goblins who were lucky enough not to make it into the fort fled. Huzzah!

[Fishybang]

Well, Loudwispers, you and Splint just had your first child, a strong and tough baby boy. When hes old enough hes going to follow in his fathers footsteps.