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[xaritscin]

rearmed two of the militias with spare dorfs and started to dig the spire, fortunately, i havent found the hollow part yet. so i got to produce a large quantity of ore. built another workshop for strand extraction. but im having problem with the large amount of corpses and stuff that was left after the FB attack. i have a refuse stockpile almost full too.

refuse stockpile is full now, dwarves are so busy they dont dump it into the quantum storage for elimination. loosing more dwarves to the sequels of the FB attack. had to finish the training of the militia in order to cover the lack of workforce.

[Spehss _]

My dwarves are getting a bit uppity about our lack of a well. One has just produced an artifact green glass chain to go with our artifact gold bucket.

That would make a sick-ass well. It would be off the chain. _{^{He. He. Puns.}}

[xaritscin]

received another goblin siege, prepared the militia for 10 axes and 10 crossbows, i hope this helps me. got a migrant wave and population is at 70+ again. this should clear more of the stuff to do. no problems except for the death spiral, many dwarves are dying due to syndromes i guess.

finally breached hell, at last. it was a long time messing around, i got good amounts of adamantine but i was too much bored with it. and FPS were killing me. now i just watch the demons ravage the underground as they reach the surface.

it ended in flames of glory, a shame i wasnt able to seal the entrance before they escaped.

[utunnels]

I butchered a crundle but before the dorfs brought its scale into the safe room, the scale animated.

I sent all dorfs after it. It attacked a miner who was attacked by a dog skin before. The fight was fierce. The miner got his teeth smashed and he felt vengeful for joining the conflict. He then chopped the scale zombie into bits using his copper pick.

Well now the miner was stressed.

[Larix]

Procrastinating on the big test, i spun something off my toggle memory cell. While i couldn't come up with a decent way to make it smaller or more powerful, the core principle looked like just the thing for a powerless ring counter (could be used as a program counter or somesuch):

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z+1     z+0
▼▼╗     ══###
#.║.    #####
.#GH╗   ##▲▲#
..#.^   #####

G - Grate over down ramp (engraved with EW track)
H - Hatch over down ramp (engraved with EW track)
^ - pressure plate on flat NS or SE track

Of course, there are several more of those covered pits; the cart proceeds from Northwest to Southeast through the counter.

There's one hatch and one grate over each pit, all operated by the same pulsed signal. Between signals, the cart is in one of the pits, bouncing back and forth. When a signal arrives, the hatch opens, cart exits, takes the corner to the south and proceeds to the next station. There it'll stand on the grate, since grates have a 100 step delay, so they haven't opened yet. After ~100 steps, all grates open - and all hatches close. The cart falls off the grate into the pit below, but cannot leave because the hatch's closed already. Another 100 steps later, the grate closes and the counter is ready for the next signal. It's important to use grates (or floor bars) for this purpose and not bridges - bridges toss stuff around and can throw the cart off the pit instead of dumping it inside.

Output signals would be sent by pressure plates on the tiles southeast of the hatch. This ensures that the on and off signals are far enough apart to operate a bridge, floodgate, grate or bars (the tile just outside the pit is a checkpoint and the cart crosses it in a single turn, which _toggles_ 100-delay buildings instead of "cycling" them).

For added weirdness, retracting bridges can be built over the tiles just outside the pits. When retracted, the cart will simply round the corner. When extended, the bridge obscures the corner and the cart travels in a straight line, allowing cart extraction, aborting processing or implementing program "jumps". I built SE track corners instead of straight NS track directly north of the grates to enable alternative pathing.

Tested and proven.

[Arx]

I just got a migrant with one of the least useful skills for a just-started agricultural fort: gelding. No other useful skills.

I only have one breeding pair of each animal, I'm already likely enough to be screwed by orientation. I don't need to geld any of them.

Oh hey, I do have a use for him. Office work ahoy!

[Wooster]

I had a dwarf die of old age. Of actual old age. No violence. No vampires (which was my first suspicion). No Unfortunate Accidents. No inexplicable encounters of the hairy kind. Just peacefully passed away of being too old.

It was such an unexpected death (and it was my broker-bookkeeper, to boot) that I had to use deathcause to make sure.

[Splint]

I had a dwarf die of old age. Of actual old age. No violence. No vampires (which was my first suspicion). No Unfortunate Accidents. No inexplicable encounters of the hairy kind. Just peacefully passed away of being too old.

It was such an unexpected death (and it was my broker-bookkeeper, to boot) that I had to use deathcause to make sure.

It's always stunning when that happens isn't it?

[the1337doofus]

I had a dwarf die of old age. Of actual old age. No violence. No vampires (which was my first suspicion). No Unfortunate Accidents. No inexplicable encounters of the hairy kind. Just peacefully passed away of being too old.

It was such an unexpected death (and it was my broker-bookkeeper, to boot) that I had to use deathcause to make sure.

It's always stunning when that happens isn't it?

I think it really does say something about the community that we're all surprised when a dwarf bites the dust from natural causes.

...Probably that we push our little beards waaaaay too hard. Or that we're all a bunch of psychopaths.

[Quartz_Mace]

I had a dwarf die of old age. Of actual old age. No violence. No vampires (which was my first suspicion). No Unfortunate Accidents. No inexplicable encounters of the hairy kind. Just peacefully passed away of being too old.

It was such an unexpected death (and it was my broker-bookkeeper, to boot) that I had to use deathcause to make sure.

It's always stunning when that happens isn't it?

I think it really does say something about the community that we're all surprised when a dwarf bites the dust from natural causes.

...Probably that we push our little beards waaaaay too hard. Or that we're all a bunch of psychopaths.

Definitely the latter.

[da_nang]

Best way to deal with a fire-breathing hill titan with breached defenses as well as fire and smoke everywhere, anyone?

[Nikow]

Best way to deal with a fire-breathing hill titan with breached defenses as well as fire and smoke everywhere, anyone?

Carve cave-in on his head. Or just cave in trap in other chamber and lead him there.

[Iamblichos]

In 127, Woundmerged was founded by the Knife of Stroking of the Creative Furnaces.

In 129, 35 dead dwarves and goblins invaded, accompanied by two necromancers and a necromancer's consort.

In 129, 35 dead dwarves and goblins and a necromancer and his consort were caged, stripped of all valuables, and flung into magma to ride their wooden cages into hell.  The final necromancer escaped.

When come back, bring pie.

[trekkie5249]

Just started a new fort after plenty of time without playing. Got it off to a fast start and got basic utilities set up and it's already stable food-wise with some good farms. Also I got my first artifact from a child in Autumn. I was so excited until...

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-_- well you'll be useful? in 10 years or so.

[Kuikka]

My military was beating zombies, decided to check how's the forgotten beast doing in the basement, and came back to see the result on the surface.

Combat bug struck again: none of my guys was fighting anymore and everyone were eventually butchered like sheeps. It should have been an easy victory.

SIGH.