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[Clover Magic]

One of the haulers broke her skull somehow.  Only her skull.  It's been stitched, set, and wrapped, but she keeps passing out from being stunned/in pain, and so I'm getting a lot of "I NEED TO GET MY BABY--Kuduk McWoundedHauler Cancels Seeking infant: Unconscious".

I hope it doesn't crawl somewhere inconvenient and die, that would be really sad for my first dwarf death.

[FrisianDude]

Oh... oh jeeze. One of my miners has transformed. Into a Dwarf descending certain mountains. Oh geeze.
I had, a few minutes before, spotted 'non-euclidean rock' in between dr. David.

Huh?

Something from masterwork I'm guessing.

It was a 'huh?' at the whole quote.

Yeah, masterwork. My bad, I opened the wrong thread. And Dr. David -> 'living stone.'

[smjjames]

My forts resident vampire got a posessed mood while in his eternity chamber, I'm scrambling (well okay, one designation) to let him out so that the mood can go through.

It may be a posession, but she is a Great Engraver anyway and at least she won't go crazy. Maybe I'll put her artifact inside her chamber.

Edit: Feh, I'll just designate that whole wall....

Edit2: Also, she has a bugged diagnosis in that she is listed as still needing treatment, but she doesn't. Not sure how that will play out.

[kesperan]

Time for a Fort mode / adventure mode crossover!

Icetomb, northern outpost of the Soaked Mechanism and recently crowned mountainhome, has fallen.

My first attempt at a glacier fort went badly wrong and tantrum spiralled into oblivion as the recently arrived elf queen died of thirst in front of her dwarven subjects.

I will reclaim this fort and make a great tomb of ice to house the queen, living up to the name of the fort.

First, I will make a hero of the Soaked Mechanism to travel north and deal with the minotaur who is now let loose from the dungeons and mop up any forgotten beasts that may have made their way to the surface.

Dakost Steelwall is the hero's name, and he lives in the capital city, where elves and dwarves mingle. So far in his first sojourn into the catacombs he has killed 25 renegade dwarves and elves and retrieved a masterwork bronze spear from an elven overlord, who was resplendent in the name Vadane Stylesparkle.

[smjjames]

There's a script in DFHack to adjust population counts.

use: region-pops boost

You can up/down the # of anything that way.  region-pops ? will give you a list of the options.

Really? MOAR SKYTHES!

Edit: It multiplys...

How do I use it to reduce the population of ravens?? Theres like over 12k of them.

[ImagoDeo]

Use a negative number instead of a positive one.

[smjjames]

Use a negative number instead of a positive one.

I know, but I need something else which I can't seem to figure out, kept trying the creature name, dunno. I keep getting an invalid boost factor error.

Edit: Tried region-pop incr BIRD_RAVEN -12000 and that ended up zeroing the region pop for ravens, although there are 10 currently on site. I wasn't actually trying to zero the population, just reduce it by 12k since it was over 12k.

[oldark]

You're doing it wrong.

Peasant
-Cotton Fiber Trousers-       , Torso

[VerdantSF]

Relicshield, pop. 168, Late Summer of 357 (Year 106)

Commander Dishmab's brother, Prince Urist II Shootwondered arrived with the most recent wave of migrants.  After a three-decade interregnum due to the Riots of 323, the monarchy was restored.  Mosus II Lanterngaze-Anguishedpages was more than happy to step down as acting regent, though the new king begged that she stay on as mayor to help run the kingdom.   

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Meanwhile, Lolor III and Edem IV welcomed their second child to the world, Edem V Claspletter!

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[fortydayweekend]

My first proper siege, 2 squads of goblins mounted on war jabberers, giant toads, olms and bats. I'm using no "normal" traps so trying to rely on military and fortress design. The only trap I have dumps the entire swimming pool on a tunnel leading to the trade depot. It's 5 z-levels deep and 13x21 on the surface, 3x3 at the bottom.

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After driving off the bat-riding pikemasters with crossbow fire, I let the first squad in the main gate. They took a few potshots at animals and dutifully made their way in the trade depot entrance.

This is 5 ticks after the bridge opened:

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Found a couple of flaws with the trap - the jabberers were unmoved and didn't drown as the water drained away too quickly. And the toads and olms were flushed down the gap but 12 z-levels wasn't enough to even hurt them. All but one goblin was killed pretty much instantly though. I need to be able to control the drain to hold water in long enough to drown jabberers, and maybe put grates down the bottom so they're landing on something solid instead of in water.

With all the crossbow goblins gone the jabberers were easy prey to the marksdwarves, and the toads and olms were no problem after the water drained away. The other squad retreated.

Lost a few animals, no major injuries, but in the confusion the meat stockpile filled up and so all of the recently-butchered dragon meat rotted in the butchery... not that we're short of meat but it feels like a bit of a waste

[VerdantSF]

With all the crossbow goblins gone the jabberers were easy prey to the marksdwarves, and the toads and olms were no problem after the water drained away. The other squad retreated.

Well done!  I think the 12-level dropped didn't hurt as much as expected because of the water, which cushions falls.

[Eidre]

Wow.
OK, this just happened 5 minutes ago.

Mid-life fortress of 166 beards; a dragon shows up and I burrow everyone and shut the outer drawbridges so the dragon will walk through my cage trap side entrance.

A lone craftsdwarf, Goden Machinewipes, an off-duty member of the Bronze Floors (crossbow squad) is caught in the open and, instead of prudently running down the trapped zig-zag corridor with her baby, instead faces off against the giant reptilian.

It tears her baby from her grasp and rips it apart graphically in front of her...wiping away a tear, she levels her crossbow, punching a hole in its foul guts...she then deflects its dragonfire once, twice, three times, and between each blast pierces it with another bolt, first in the leg, then the liver, and finally through its skull.  It falls dead at her feet.

Goden Machinewipes.  Only one kill: Thali Taxjade, the Luxurious Wealths (female dragon).

Well done.

[MarcAFK]

Not the dragonmeats

[MasterOfLazdumat]

"The Forgotten Beast Adur has come! A towering lizard with lidless eyes. It has a spiral shell and it has a bloated body. Its scarlet scales are oval-shaped and close set. Beware its deadly dust!"

Normally I wouldn't mess with a duster, but circumstances dictated otherwise. The monster squads arrive quickly with backup, two squads of five speardwarves and two squads of five marskdwarves. The scarlet shelled lizard shows up and starts knocking everyone around with dust, which turns out to cause full-body blistering, rot (temporary, which seems odd), and loss of vision. There are now eight sightless militia dwarves wandering around and Adur is sauntering up to the central staircase, when abruptly, down it goes. I figured it had bled out or someone had gotten in a lucky stab, but no.

One level up, behind fortifications, is Zas Alilfikod Kanshetbeth Goden, legendary marksdwarf and militia captain who has not killed anything in 13 years since getting a mild but permanent hemorrhagic fever from another FB back in 277. Zas always arrives late to the party these days, but here he was, and for the first time in over a decade, bam. One steel bolt to the brain. The thoughts say "took joy in slaughter," but I can only imagine him saying "hell yes, still got it" as he slings his crossbow over his shoulder and heads back to the barracks, trailing a little blood from his fever.

[ImagoDeo]

Use a negative number instead of a positive one.

I know, but I need something else which I can't seem to figure out, kept trying the creature name, dunno. I keep getting an invalid boost factor error.

Edit: Tried region-pop incr BIRD_RAVEN -12000 and that ended up zeroing the region pop for ravens, although there are 10 currently on site. I wasn't actually trying to zero the population, just reduce it by 12k since it was over 12k.

The number you input is the factor by which to reduce it. So you'd want to do

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region-pop incr BIRD_RAVEN -0.95
to reduce it by a factor of 19/20, leaving you with 5% of the previous original or standard population. You can't, apparently, reduce straight numbers, which would seem to make more sense.