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[Graknorke]

My champion with an artifact adamantine helmet got killed by a towering crab forgotten beast with his own masterwork bronze shield..... The forgotten beast grabbed it after cutting off his arm with its pincer, then bashed him in the head with the shield and it exploded in gore.... ZE ARTIFACT DID NOTHING!!!

For blunt damage you want as heavy a material as possible. So definitely not adamantine.

[Drecon]

Apparently, after slaughtering the first wave of defenders, the goblins went back to regroup. Now, my population is halved and everyone is unhappy and throwing tantrums.
If I get to salvage this one it would be an accomplishment.

EDIT: so in the end, one guy went mad and I managed to bury the dead before anything really bad could happen. I seem to be stable until the next siege.

[Chevaleresse]

Segfaults.

[YAHG]

Using lnp premade setup, I assumed it would have an anvil..

Tons of iron ore flux and coal. Glorious but no anvil. Was flattening out my entrance area and managed to trap everyone but one miner in the air, so I deconstructed the floating wagon. Still no joy, dig out that last tile. Miner down I repeat miner down! That fort didn't make it.

Another try with my trusty anvil and 7 steel axes I loose almost everyone to a goblin in invasion before my first caravan.

Next attempt the goblins get there really fast but they must've just been passing through I frantically wall in leaving 2 idiots outside. Luckily no combat .

[Chevaleresse]

I just got an artifact hatch cover called Anguishnobles.

I think the application is obvious here.

[Thor]

After a particularly intense fight with a Kobold band of archers, one of their bowmen's head became disconnected from its body and stuck in a tree. It promptly re-animated and is now giving my dwarves evil stares so they wet themselves with fear.

Edit:  These nasty looks have now lasted a full 2 seasons as noone will shoot the head out of the tree.  No idea how to proceed with this one, any ideas anyone?

[Chevaleresse]

A FB pulled some sort of in-and-out thing where it showed up, prompted the announcement, and promptly wandered off of the map again. Someone else's problem, I guess.

[Eric Blank]

After a particularly intense fight with a Kobold band of archers, one of their bowmen's head became disconnected from its body and stuck in a tree. It promptly re-animated and is now giving my dwarves evil stares so they wet themselves with fear.

Edit:  These nasty looks have now lasted a full 2 seasons as noone will shoot the head out of the tree.  No idea how to proceed with this one, any ideas anyone?

Acquire a blind dwarf, set him to woodcutting duty and designate the tree to be felled. Try to convince some militiadwarves to deal with it.

[ZzarkLinux]

Now that things have calmed down with the zombies and stuff, I turn my attention to the husks.
This will be my first time attacking a husk and expecting to live, so I better be careful.

Spoiler: Preparation (click to show/hide)

Okay, that part looks goods. The militia is ready and ..

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

WTF is with these interruptions ?!?
I'm sealed off from the surface, and still all I get is "Urist has given birth" and "Urist cancels mining: interrupted by forgotten beast" and "Urist cancels give food: No food available" and "Urist is throwing a tantrum" and "Urist enjoyed throwing something recently" and the mist generator stops because of it all.

Oh, and in that last picture: WOW I have a lot of kids. I really need to start that Dwarven Kiddie Pool thing sometime.

[mirrizin]

A siege came, and went after a horse dodges a crossbow bolt. I can only imagine the goblins were thinking "Wait, the horse is that badass?

But alas, my fort is so full of magnetite and hematite that I can't swing a pick without hitting it, but...there's no coal. And trees are very scarce.

This is a dilemma. I'm torn between doing what I can with charcoal and starting a mini colony near the magma sea to smelt some bars. Le sigh.

Elsewise, things are coming along. I'm also wondering if I should start my big megaproject now or wait until the fortress is more prosperous. And where shell I put the dining room? Big questions, man. Big questions.

[Borge]

A siege came, and went after a horse dodges a crossbow bolt. I can only imagine the goblins were thinking "Wait, the horse is that badass?

But alas, my fort is so full of magnetite and hematite that I can't swing a pick without hitting it, but...there's no coal. And trees are very scarce.

This is a dilemma. I'm torn between doing what I can with charcoal and starting a mini colony near the magma sea to smelt some bars. Le sigh.

Elsewise, things are coming along. I'm also wondering if I should start my big megaproject now or wait until the fortress is more prosperous. And where shell I put the dining room? Big questions, man. Big questions.

Dig to the caverns and cut trees down there.

[Nikita]

Dug through an aquifer while it was frozen. Unfortunately there was no underground soil - only sand. Had to survive by fishing.

Then the river froze again.

Averted a drought by timely application of aquifer speed plumbing.

Also, the bucket brigade finally made enough mud for a farm so I planted the plump helmets.

[Torrenal]

Welcome, King WhatsurName.  Your rooms are right over here.
Welcome Liason.  You want a WHAT?!  Sheesh, ok, carving out your rooms will delay Candy mining another month, you realize!
Welcome Forgotten Beast Sasp Slangorusmo.  @#%^#^!  Why are you guarding the Candy!?  And why are you made from stone?  Completing proper defenses there will take at least 2 months...  Deadly spittle?  So... no melee..  Made of brimstone, so arrows are probably out.  Tack on another couple months or so for Ballista on a proper ballista range to be prepared....

...

Someday.

Someday, I will mine that candy.

//Torrenal

[BenLubar]

My second encounter with a werecreature. The first one killed a migrant mother and her child and is now sitting in its own refuse stockpile inside a mausoleum.



It walked down along the river and left before my military could get there. A few fisherdwarves spooked, but no injuries.


My dwarves elected a 12-year-old as mayor.



Apparently she likes bitter orange wood wood. Before that, it had been the original expedition leader (he was mayor since the fort decided it was no longer an expedition).

[LMeire]

I managed to embark right on top of a marble mountain with dozens of magnetite deposits, to the East there's a 5z tall forest with sand and fireclay layers and a brook. Not even my second year and I've got a small squad in full-steel- I almost feel bad for the goblins.