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[MrsStick]

My fortress made it up to 134 dwarves last night, and I'd almost completed my WALL IN THE OUTSIDE AREAS SO WE DON'T DIE campaign when siegers came in through one of the two remaining holes. I have 23 dwarves now, but they're actually doing well at burying the dead. Which in my fortresses is always a questionable task.

[Bonesinger]

The vampire goblin king of my civ just arrived at my fortress with his entourage of 4 legendary marksdwarves.
With the bug of other races being considered like pets, i've caged him with my two tame dragons, though I am seriously thinking he should have a tour through my Pit o' Fallin' so I can get to know the next king

[ZzarkLinux]

Dwarf-to-zombie ratio is 15:28, and the caravan just made it inside unscathed.

I am tempted to trap a sponge man right arm sponge to eventually use for crossbow training. It's a tie between that or using a bunny-geddon for training.
Also plan to puppy drop my militia into apathy, so that the axedwarves can start farming various horse hairs and cow skins.

Magma is deep, and I haven't found it yet. Working towards a magma drop to prepare for the inevitable horde.

[pisskop]

bunnygeddon?  Sounds slow and tedious.

[GuesssWho]

Three goblin ambushes in a row, then elf merchants resulted in way too many deaths and the entertaining sight of a goblin horde chasing a single elf around for a while. Eventually the goblins fled after their general got a hurt arm.

[Pukako]

My military survived two sieges by staying inside and not diving off the magma bridge.

I finally sent them out to deal with a minotaur. The swordsdwarf immediately cut off both its arms, kicked it in the throat, and now the whole squad is chasing the monster around the map, Benny Hill style.

At least the minotaur is now 'armless...

[Nasikabatrachus]

Record of Ūzzuglar.
Kept by Tulon Tiristerith, its Champion.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Year 186. 23 Opal. Mid-Winter.

King Bellquakes screams for war machines and trinkets. In the belly of the ship, other plans boil. They make pig iron. They make pig iron to make steel.
Multiple clocks have broken. The bridge clocks break. The magma clocks will not function. The watchmen shout. We must dig and rebuild. We cannot wipe off the dirt without clocks.
King wipes off his red mouth and mutters. King must have steel. We will see to it before the clocks begin.

Year 186. 8 Obsidian. Late Winter.

Ducim found dead. He fished. He was a mayor. Many saw King Bellquakes walking away with red lips. Long may He live.

Kivish Ottandeduk gave birth to Dakost that day. The boy likes bumblebee mead and sperm whale leather. Kivish double-braided his mustache and beard. Long may he live.

Maybe we just walk with fleshy gloves.

Year 186. 23 Obsidian. Late Winter.

Sodel complains about the steelmaking. Sodel thinks we don't make enough steel. Sodel is right. We build new smelters on the Hall floor. We will bear the smoke. We know steel.

Many babes are born here. Soon the young will crunch the old as the dead crunch the live.

Ducim is finally interred. Work on the Kingstomb continues.

His majesty's Mad Count grows dire. He mutters of fine pewter and menaces with deep fire. We cannot make fine pewter.

The human does not comfort Zas.

Year 187. 1 Granite. Dew.

Ūzzuglar prospers.
We are 174. We have 81 young ones.
Many meat and fish. Many plant. The bookkeeper is  drinking now.
We have much drink, and we prosper.

Smoke besieges the furnaces and the smelters. Steel grows like a beard in the belly of the wives.

Stukos Rithushrir steers. Long may He live.

Night of 1 Granite.

Zon Tithlethkadol dropped dead from death. Doctor said he had too much death.
Cat Bim died too.
Must be careful.

[smjjames]

The vampire goblin king of my civ just arrived at my fortress with his entourage of 4 legendary marksdwarves.
With the bug of other races being considered like pets, i've caged him with my two tame dragons, though I am seriously thinking he should have a tour through my Pit o' Fallin' so I can get to know the next king

Royal succession doesn't work in this version.

[DreamCarver]

Royal succession doesn't work in this version.

Wait, so you're saying that you could kill the royal family and your civilization would be leaderless? All future embarks would not be able to become mountainhome?

[KingBacon]

Why am I getting migrants when my migrant cap is at 40? Sheesh. You guys come when there's a bunch of zombies and goblins standing about. Lost only three of the slags because I've been digging out a side access tunnel (had to rush it though.) Just gonna let you guys know, I will not retrieve your corpses.

[WanderingKid]

Royal succession doesn't work in this version.

Wait, so you're saying that you could kill the royal family and your civilization would be leaderless? All future embarks would not be able to become mountainhome?

You can mountainhome, you just lose your baron or whatever.  The king can still be enticed to arrive.

[Bonesinger]

Huh, turns out my goblin king was a mass murderer before being crowned, sort of.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

All those dwarf kills afterwards, I guess he declared war against all other dwarven civs.

[doublestrafe]

It's Groundhog Day in the fort whose name I never even thought to look at. A kobold thief got caught in the soil level, and decided to run straight through the locked door into my magma pump stack. Which wouldn't have bothered me, except that he then changed his mind and ran back, trailing flames, straight into the thick cave moss floor. Which is where my entire food industry, livestock and all, resides. Just before the first booze pot started to boil, the seasonal save hit.

Problem is, as soon as the whole room burns down and the last flame goes out, Dwarf Fortress crashes.

Watching the busy soil layer burn is kind of fascinating. I've done it several times now. There are ways out on three sides, and it turns out that livestock are pretty good at finding places to run--way better than dwarves chased by enemies, that's for sure. There's also an animal stockpile with a number of goblins and two minotaurs there; inevitably, one minotaur survives the wall of fire and escapes its cage, then is shot to death by an archer. I have no idea why the archer is there, besides that he can ignore the "stay on stone" burrow I set up. I'll have to check his preferences and see if it says "likes schorl, mittens, and smoke inhalation."

I guess I'll try using DFHack Liquids to douse the flames, to see if I can get past the crash. I'd hate to lose the fort to a bug.

[Sutremaine]

Butchering cats. Butchered Catten the cave dragon. Oops.

[smjjames]

Royal succession doesn't work in this version.

Wait, so you're saying that you could kill the royal family and your civilization would be leaderless? All future embarks would not be able to become mountainhome?

You can mountainhome, you just lose your baron or whatever.  The king can still be enticed to arrive.

Except that there is no king/queen because nobody replaced them. This will change next version though.