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[Naryar]

All this speaking of crundles...

If half the creatures in your caverns aren't crundles and if you do not have 15 of them at once on your map, then you can expect the game to fix that.

Then when you cage-trap all the exits in your caverns, your crundle problem will become a oh my fucking armok there are so many crundles all my cage traps are full and they are interrupting my dwarves trying to get them oh no not another troglodyte batch, i haven't even killed the third last batches of troglodytes

[utunnels]

That's because you killed everything in cavern one. So should I impregnate my giant jaguar or not?

Oh.
Now I have a new goal: kill everything on this map.

[TheFlame52]

My weaponsmith/armorsmith finally finished the steel armor for my melee squad. The lowest quality armor is fine, and I'm okay with that. Now my military will have protection - not that most of them need it.

EDIT: The king and his entourage have arrived - but all I see is the outpost liaison, here to stay. No king, no legendary soldiers, nothing.

[Huntthetroll]

A legendary +5 clothier, with hundreds of masterworks to his name, was just taken by a secretive mood.  How much more skilled could he possibly get?

Edit:  The answer is "no more."  Apparently you don't get any skill boost if you're already legendary.

[Button]

That's because you killed everything in cavern one. So should I impregnate my giant jaguar or not?

doit

[BesorgterZwerg]

Region-pops says there are no more giant jaguars.

How can you check that?

[TheFlame52]

DFhack.


But it looks like I'm going to have to do this again later, because they're both female.

[Larix]

While looking up stuff for a gameplay question, i found this:

Any object, everything from swords to socks to stones to scorpion corpses, can jam the floodgate this way. Once the object is removed, however, the floodgate will grind shut by itself.

I had to try this out and it's true. A floodgate will "hold" a close signal and will _instantly_ close once an obstacle is removed. That allows a small uncomplicated "blast door" to shut a passage very quickly as reaction to an incoming "activate" signal like a creature-sensing pressure plate:

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 R☼
 ║
#M#
#║#
#╚#

R - roller, driven through the gear assembly (☼) switched by the input signal. There's a minecart on top of the roller, until the roller receives power.

M - Minecart sitting in the tile of a floodgate. The floodgate has received a "close" signal and can't currently close because of the cart.

To the south, the track hook stops the cart by sending it into the wall.

Operation: if a signal is received, the gear engages, powering the roller. The cart on the roller is propelled south and collides with the cart sitting in the floodgate's tile. The roller-propelled cart stops on the tile just north of the floodgate, the cart in the gate starts moving and frees the tile, allowing the floodgate to shut. The gate closes the game step after the cart has left.

I tried this out with a suboptimal setup (too much distance from roller to gate) and got a signal-to-shut span of ten game steps. Building it like above could reduce time to five steps. Obviously, it can only be used to seal passages where you can set up rollers nearby and may leave a cart or roller assembly "outside" where it'd be exposed to enemies or collateral damage from, say, defensive magma flooding.

[BesorgterZwerg]

Thanks, i can delete my fort now. No giant desert scorpions...  But i got 19.000 USELESS crundles.

[KingBacon]

So many stones to quantum stockpile, so few dorfs. I better get migrants this season. (I'm so used to having .34 and getting 50+ migrants in the first wave )

[TheFlame52]

I have over 3,000 lead bars, so I'm building a giant lead pyramid to house my starting seven in the afterlife.

[Detros]

I was just getting my fortress stabilised when spring came and a wave of 28 migrants came, tripling the population of my fort. I have no seeds to plant food so everyone is probably going to starve.

Get some Herbalists, collect berries, herbs and fruits. Use stepladders for fruit trees to get up the branches.

[TheFlame52]

An giant pterosaur with fire came, so I closed the gate. It was caught by the trap, let's see if it works on fire-breathers too. It looks like it will, IF ANY OF MY MARKSDWARVES HAD AMMO

EDIT: My weaponsmith came off break and made ammo. The beast was shot to death. I'm going to place a repeating spike trap in the place where the FBs always stand so I can kill them without marksdwarves, if I want to.

EDIT2: I caught a male jaguar! Not a giant one, so they can't have babies, but it's the thought that counts. My giant leopard gecko also gave birth to fully-grown babies, so I'm going to go raw-diving and give them a child caste.

[3x3]

Trapped some naked mole dogs and some troglodytes, and i don't know how to do with them.

[TheFlame52]

Train the naked mole dogs, they can be domesticated. The trogs are worthless, use them for target practice for your marksdwarves.