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[KiBoy]

My bad feeling was correct after all.

Shorty after posting I got 2 goblin ambushes, one spear and 3-4 bows while the second was full hammers. Unfortunately they attacked shortly before I could finish the strategically placed cave traps, and such, my mechanics were the first to die. A couple others died too, as they were collecting wood ( I wish those freaking idiots dwarfs actually tried to run back into the fortress, not playing tag with goblins )

Despite that, I already had a small setup. There were 3 entrances to my fort. The main one and the caravan ones were locked. All that remained was a 1 wide path full of cages, which majority of the gobbos got caught it... Except 2 archers. For some reason they just stood there and didn't actually try to get in.

Being the genius I am of course I cancelled the alert and sent some random dwarves... That didn't end well. Fortunately the gobbos didn't have that many arrows... So we'll see what happens now.

[MrsStick]

Elven traders arrived, finally with the female leopard to complement the male I already had. Needless to say, I was stoked. Then I was less than stoked when a vile force of darkness arrived. I managed to trade for the two leopards they had before the siege was a problem (they really like killing off all of the chained alarm animals I have out there...which I won't complain about!). I let a squad of gobbos in, pulled the drawbridge, and stationed my military at the entrance of my fort. The traps took most of them, and I re-opened the drawbridge for the next squad. The bridge atom-smashed several into oblivion, and the next round to come in also was disposed of easily. I only lost 3 dwarves.

Side note: I have several caged trolls. Will they destroy buildings if I have them chained for target practice?

[Larix]

I fear the wall of text, but I gotta ask anyways, what are you building with all those mechanisms?

If/when i succeed, i'll be sure to put up the whole wall of text, but currently it's just a collection of unconnected parts. I'm trying to build another dwarven computer (the last official one was in DF2010), but of course much smaller and stupider. I'm mostly inspired by some stuff i read about microcontrollers, so i'm keeping program and data storage apart. And i'm not fiddling with silly concepts as, say, data buses. What do we need a bus for - we have minecarts!

[MrsStick]

Just had a FB make it into my fort...not sure how really. I think he was a flier, but was relatively easy to take out. He killed a war dog and blue peahen before I noticed him, killed one unfortunate civilian in his way, and then was taken out by two flying alpaca bone bolts. He dropped a bunch of frozen forgotten beast extracts, but I'm not testing those out. I only have one other dwarf in my military now that was involved - ability to grasp somewhat lost. We can manage that.

[Iamblichos]

Dear Gruntwhistle the Charm of Suffering:

I realize that you have suffered a great deal of discrimination in the past from your unfortunate resemblance to a giant hairy fly.  I also acknowledge that your habit of moving deliberately gives the impression of a deep and planning mind.  This planning nature was demonstrated recently, when you cunningly waited for all of my troops to go outside the front gate to welcome in the yearly caravan from the mountainhome before leaping out of the well and devouring one of my poor little haulers in the midst of her sponge bath.  You managed to kill one of my dwarves, something it previously took an entire goblin siege to accomplish.  Well struck, my friend.

Unfortunately, due to your lack of previous experience with +5 Legendary Axe Lords, you didn't realize just how fast those little guys could run in full steel.

Enjoy your future career as masterwork roasts and forgotten beast soap.  Largeropes endures.  Hail Hydra.

[MrsStick]

Ownrag has one working atom smasher. Unfortunately, the stuff taken from caged gobbos goes there so I haven't smashed anything yet. The second smasher is close to being done.

We've got another section of the roof for the walled-in pasture plus archery range (against sieges) going...it's slow but moving. I added another 10x10 section of floor on the top level, maybe 1.5 rows are done.

We had an axedwarf in the hospital who survived for 3 months without food or water. She has an ability to grasp somewhat impaired. I finally was able to successfully burrow several medical dwarves in the hospital and she has FINALLY gone from starving/dehydrated to just needing her right hand fixed. Diagnosis is complete and she's been cleaned and is being sutured; after being sutured and dressed, she'll be good to go with some well-deserved R&R time.

Night, all!

[pisskop]

End Year 01:

Wall is up, 4 bridges w/levers as well.  We can seal ourselves away from ground invaders now.  The total death count is 2 dogs, a camel, a cat, 3 dwarves.  One dwarf is suffering from a fractured foot, but has been walking around on it for months.  I couldn't spare him.

Weapons are copper but plentiful, armour lessso but still copper.  More than enough to help combat the near constant influx of harpys and ogre and wolverine men and giant wolverines.  Other, smaller critters come by, but because I am sitting on 2 haunted biomes and 2 untamed biomes I always have at least one issue on the map.

We ceased logging trees months ago when I sent my militia commander to constantly standby with 2 friends.  They have proven their worth.  cistern is dug out to catch the water, and we are engraving the decorative pillars before we fill it.  Because the water source freezes for 8 months out of the year we need a store of it.

A large migration wave would be welcome right about now, and I am considering just killing the elves.  We also could use more food.

The fog appears to cause bruising, killing small creatures outright while causing medium creatures to nap.  Large creatures haven't been too affected by it.  I did find out that my second evil biome does have cloud as well, although I don't know what it does.  Neither reanimates, so the majority of my defenses will be focused on the 2 level walls with towers and ramparts.  With all the ogres and stuffs I plan to put cheap doors under the bridges and trap them.

[ImagoDeo]

Ownrag has one working atom smasher. Unfortunately, the stuff taken from caged gobbos goes there so I haven't smashed anything yet. The second smasher is close to being done.

We've got another section of the roof for the walled-in pasture plus archery range (against sieges) going...it's slow but moving. I added another 10x10 section of floor on the top level, maybe 1.5 rows are done.

We had an axedwarf in the hospital who survived for 3 months without food or water. She has an ability to grasp somewhat impaired. I finally was able to successfully burrow several medical dwarves in the hospital and she has FINALLY gone from starving/dehydrated to just needing her right hand fixed. Diagnosis is complete and she's been cleaned and is being sutured; after being sutured and dressed, she'll be good to go with some well-deserved R&R time.

Night, all!

If you use the activity zone menu to mouse over an activity zone, you can press A to toggle active/inactive. That makes it very easy to switch between different dump zones while your dwarves are working on different dump tasks. Just be aware that the dump destination is locked in when a dwarf picks up an item for dumping, and they won't change mid-route.

[FallenAngel]

Using DFhack to embark with a tower in the area (as in, there's a tower on the premises) still enables undead sieges, so a crapload of zombies are sieging my fort. The local necromancers are listed as friendly, so I wonder if anyone is with the siege.
Either way, my military is awesome.

[KingBacon]

Just a minor magma flooding accident. Some of the forges and service tunnels are submerged in molten rock but no one was hurt. I just have to wait for everything to evaporate now : /

[MrsStick]

If you use the activity zone menu to mouse over an activity zone, you can press A to toggle active/inactive. That makes it very easy to switch between different dump zones while your dwarves are working on different dump tasks. Just be aware that the dump destination is locked in when a dwarf picks up an item for dumping, and they won't change mid-route.

That's how I got them to start dumping there...the problem is that there is iron armor and weapons there (I still haven't found iron in my fortress, just silver) and I do NOT want those smashed. So I've un-forbid them and am waiting for them to get picked up.

[MeMyselfAndI]

I'm trying to build another dwarven computer

Questions!

• Instruction width? Fixed-length? If so, what size? Variable-length? Other?
• How many registers? General-purpose or specialized? Accumulator? Load/store or register architecture?
• Harvard architecture? Von Neumann architecture? Other?
• Instruction set? Or at least what instructions you think you'll include?
• What RAM type are you using?
• What register type are you using?

[Agent_Irons]

If you use the activity zone menu to mouse over an activity zone, you can press A to toggle active/inactive. That makes it very easy to switch between different dump zones while your dwarves are working on different dump tasks. Just be aware that the dump destination is locked in when a dwarf picks up an item for dumping, and they won't change mid-route.

That's how I got them to start dumping there...the problem is that there is iron armor and weapons there (I still haven't found iron in my fortress, just silver) and I do NOT want those smashed. So I've un-forbid them and am waiting for them to get picked up.

What I do for this problem is have a dumping zone I can flush with magma periodically. It wipes out the xx(wool sock)xx and leaves behind the iron and steel.

[MrsStick]

Maybe I should go deep enough to get magma...don't have any yet.

Perhaps I should've left a wider road for the traders to enter/exit my fort. Humans left just as my dwarven traders arrived...my road is a windy 3-wide one lined with traps...maybe I'll get free stuff out of this if they scuttle the wagons...

[klefenz]

First goblin siege at OrganDagger went... messy.

I had no military yet, and since i have ruled drawbridges exploity for myself the entrance is clear. No traps, only a couple war dogs and a cave croc. They didnt last long.

So I did what any reasonable overlord would have done: EVERYONE IS IN THE MILITARY NOW!!

It was only one squad of lashers (i play modest mod, so lashes are not powerful) led by a swordsgobbo riding a jabberer, the croc dismounted him before dying.

I sen the human dorven waves against the goblin leader, 70 against ~15, and after losing a bunch of dorfs the guy was dead, an engarver killed him.

The final count was a dozen dorfs dead, a few animals as well and a bunch of injured.

If the tantrums calm down and I finish prparing the military i will fear sieges no more.

After that the rest of the gobbos retreated and i lost just a dozen dwarves.

[Edit] another siee came with war jabberers and such. This fort fought to the last dwarf standing.