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[Aristion]

I've got a grizzly bear scared of a dwarf that chopped a tree down that it was on a few moments a go. 

[xaritscin]

FPS still an issue but tolerable, the flooded galeries are reaching 7/7 depth, y hope this ends with the cut in frames soon. the fort is still thriving, manufacturing bone armor and crossbows for the next step, no metals found yet. so will have to rely in good archers.

[Orange Wizard]

Should I test whether or not deconstructing the depot still steals everything from the caravan?

It does, in fact. One of my tantrumming dwarves smashed it and the elves ran away.

The tantrum was caused by a goblin siege in the second year (!), and I hadn't build a drawbridge or trained a military, so everyone who was outside the dining hall (with doors that I could lock, thankfully) was brutally slaughtered. The 14 survivors are now picking up the corpse chunks and cleaning blood off the walls.
The new combat mechanics are fantastic this version. Before the goblins came, I had four fatalities from woodcutters being crushed by logs. Watching upper bodies explode into gore from falling branches is beautiful.

[dirkdragonslayer]

I scared off my first caravan by accidentally angering them by asking to high of a price. While they were leaving, one of them saw two dead dwarven bodies under the drawbridge(a horrible accident involving a river otter and trying to build a wall over water) he dropped 3-4 anvils and a bunch of iron and steel weapons, then bailed along with his comrades who didn't notice. Also, while outfitting my troops, I forgot to give one pants and boots(due to being out of stock) and she punched a legendary miner unconscious, and then everyone else in the fort(about 20ish people) ran to tell the sleeping sheriff. He ignored them, and then the boxed a turkey to death, and got off free.

I also learned river otters are suicidal, and will wander into the small ponds that freeze around wintertime to die, and eagles explode upon hitting my fort's walls.

[Broseph Stalin]

Should I test whether or not deconstructing the depot still steals everything from the caravan?

It does, in fact. One of my tantrumming dwarves smashed it and the elves ran away.

The tantrum was caused by a goblin siege in the second year (!), and I hadn't build a drawbridge or trained a military, so everyone who was outside the dining hall (with doors that I could lock, thankfully) was brutally slaughtered. The 14 survivors are now picking up the corpse chunks and cleaning blood off the walls.
The new combat mechanics are fantastic this version. Before the goblins came, I had four fatalities from woodcutters being crushed by logs. Watching upper bodies explode into gore from falling branches is beautiful.

You should have left those bodies outside your entrance to stall invaders. Big babies see one or two mutilated corpses and they stop dead in their tracks.

Has ANYBODY successfully trained (NOT tamed) an animal? I always get "No Creature" cancellation spam

[ImagoDeo]

Has ANYBODY successfully trained (NOT tamed) an animal? I always get "No Creature" cancellation spam

Haven't tried training yet. Taming worked okay while they were in cages. Someone who's more experienced with mantis should go report this.

[4maskwolf]

Has ANYBODY successfully trained (NOT tamed) an animal? I always get "No Creature" cancellation spam

Haven't tried training yet. Taming worked okay while they were in cages. Someone who's more experienced with mantis should go report this.

It has been reported like five times. Please do not make another one.

This public service announcement brought to you by 4maskwolf.

[xxseuzxx]

so i was at my masterwork fortress..
and made the mistake of summoning a adamantine colossus,you probably know how fast and invulnerable that thing was.
it crushed my military ,it literally just broke all the bones of one of my most powerfull forgotten beasts and also destroyed my guardian of armok.
its pretty much a freaking physical god.
with enormous power,invulnerable,immortal and uncaring,so my fort is down to several pathetic recruits that are hiding in some abandoned corner surviving off the unfinished pasture and fishing along the canal and a walled vampire.

never have an adamantine statue in masterwork,by accident you may create something that is pretty much invulnerable

[Lielac]

Outpost Slygold, 201, 15th Granite - 1st Hematite; 7 6 dwarves

Spoiler: Journal of Lorbam Tradeclutch, expedition leader of The Truthful Walls (click to show/hide)

15th Granite, 201

We've arrived at the place Queen Ezum called Slygold. We intended to arrive on the first day of the new year but were slightly delayed due to an altercation with elves; I don't mind particularly, and luckily nobody else in the party seems to care.

There's black sand and a copious quantity of trees. Ech. I've asked Ustuth to clear most of them out so Adil can get started on the outer border, and Atis and Udib will begin digging our central rampway. (I do like the Mountainhome, but it's always been too labyrinthine for my tastes.)

17th Granite

Only one soil layer, more's the pity, but we did settle quite close to the mountains so as to avoid an aquifer. I've asked Adil to make beds for us all so we can sleep more comfortably, and called Udib up briefly to relay a request to adjust the currently-lowest level of the ramp system so we have a room to place the beds while the bedroom system is incomplete.

28th Granite

TRAGEDY

I sent Kadol out to find Ustuth. He came back shaking and said Ustuth had been crushed by a fallen log -- I don't understand how this could have happened, she was smart... but she was also perhaps too narrowly focused, it's possible she simply didn't notice where she was standing.

Kadol said Ustuth has cut down a fair few trees already. I suppose I'll just I'll ask him to make her a coffin. It's the least I can do.

17th Slate

Atis and Udib haven't completed the ramps yet. I'd hoped to have them dig out a storage room near the surface for food, but we can't drink milk; I'll have to hope nothing steals anything before we can move the food indoors.

18th Slate

Ah, finally, the miners return! We can set up the beds now... and Ustuth's coffin. (I hope we get a woodcutter in the summer, the outpost liasion said we'd get at least two waves of migrants...)

22nd Slate

Everything's in bloom now. The riot of color reminds me of the hillocks I once went to... ah, I so prefer the smooth grays and browns of stone. (I nearly mistook one tree's flowers for adamantine. I don't think Kadol will ever let me live it down.) At least we have cheese now.

27nd Slate

Ustuth has been laid to rest, and the preliminary digging is nearly complete.

1st Felsite

I suppose it's time to start digging the trapped corridor. Kadol's the mechanic, but it's simple enough. And deadly. Udib called it cowardly to not face invaders head-on, but he's hardly one to talk. I think he was joking, anyway.

1st Hematite

Not all that much happened in the last month of spring. The miner pair dug out the trap corridor and the wagon-only detour, and... that's about it.

Ok detailed blarghing out of my system, expect more in a few in-fort years

[AernJardos]

Werewarthog showed up and was promptly dealt with. Unfortunately the unsuspecting farmer who decided he really, really wanted to ignore all the delicious booze and go for a drink at the river right that very second was bitten (annnd I realized I had forgotten to set Burrows again. Whoops.) He was drug back to the hospital and treated as best as the ol' Doc could with no soap. Of course he decided to turn into a Werewarthog himself as soon as the trading caravan from home showed up. I ordered everyone to lock the hospital doors and nobody to break a bone for a few seconds. The traders successfully traded, and the werewarthog turned back into a nice farmer (who was actually ecstatic at the care given to him so far). So since he's an honest to goodness werecreature I made a squad just for him and dug out a nice little barracks and training room at the bottom of my moat/death trap. If anyone else gets bitten they can join the weresquad. It's not for drowning weres, it's off to the side, so anyone who attacks the fortress and falls in, plummets a few levels. Then the mayor (or whomever) pulls the lever to flood the holding cell. Then if they are still alive, apparently the guardweres will tear them to pieces. Then another set of levers is pulled, and the whole thing flushes down a waterfall and resets airlock style. Of course this is all theoretically since I can't seem to get the werefarmer out of the hospital.

[StrikaAmaru]

Bwahahaha! I did some mods on 34.11, including making everybody playable, and genned a world for testing. I now have a human civilization named "The Cheerful Realm of Beers".

I guess I'll play gobbos second...

EDIT: Unfortunately, I didn't set any extra nobles when I made all 4 civs playable, so playing as human or gobbo is going to get really sucky in about year 2 On the other hand, gobbos are either the worst or the best: no plants OR BOOZE whatsoever (otoh, they don't eat or drink either; may remove that), a lovely selection of weapons, and no animals save trolls, each costing 1p; I presume that's an error.

EDIT2: In world #3, only elves and goblins survived. Embarked as goblins, because F elves; was also granted access to ogres in the embark screen. I also discovered that I can't train any ogres or trolls - they aren't displayed in the 'z' menu even if they're all tame and can be seen via 'v'. Time to add pet tags. Oh, and trolls & ogres are fully clothed with large clothes, which I don't think I can make; best remove that, too.

[Flarp]

Watching my marksdwarf shoot an elven bandit out of a tree, then beat him to death after he broke his legs from the fall.

...man, this game has really made me a psychopath.

[BFEL]

LaboredJoy is currently under siege by a goblin.

One. Goblin.


EDIT: Who has now left, but there is now a serious problem as our brewers apparently have alzheimers or something and totally forgot to do any of the brewing I had on repeat 
Is this the brewing bug I keep hearing about?

Anyway, building emergency stills in the cemetery because they don't seem to wanna touch the one in the food prep area, and that's the only place where the space is readily available at the moment.

EDIT2: AAAAND they're ignoring those ones too. Fuckberries. Anyone know of a way to fix this, at least for the moment? Or am I gonna have to retire this and hope they make the booze through worldgen?

[da_nang]

I decided to try a fort in DF2014. Like my previous forts, I like having a good chunk of dragons on the map so I set out once again to a Smaller-sized region world with 60 megabeast caves (cf. 120 in DF2012).

And after a few years of worldgen, I think I've killed off every single civ in the world. 1050 years done in a few seconds.

GO DRAGONS 

[Lielac]

I decided to try a fort in DF2014. Like my previous forts, I like having a good chunk of dragons on the map so I set out once again to a Smaller-sized region world with 60 megabeast caves (cf. 120 in DF2012).

And after a few years of worldgen, I think I've killed off every single civ in the world. 1050 years done in a few seconds.

GO DRAGONS 

YYYYYUP

You need to crank up the initial civ number to have lots of dragons and surviving civs. I learned that the hard way. (I also learned that µ is a ruin.)