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[TheFlame52]

I finally decided to destroy my depot to chase away the merchants that have been loitering. Now I can sell double the old clothes!

On another note, my annual copy-save-retire-and-check-legends reveals that goblins have secured tribute from my civ's capital. There is also an army led by a demon marching on the capital, so I fully expect everyone to die. War with the humans and goblins has worn down my civilization. Perhaps Bastiongate's gate will be the last bastion of dwarfkind.

And as I'm typing this, lion tamarin men ambush! Luckily they are revealed by the cage trap border. I thought they were going to leave me alone, but I guess it just took them 12 years to get here.

EDIT: Just caught a male GCS. I think I'll use it to trap forgotten beasts. Also my broker got a mason's possession, I hope he makes something cool.

[Verviedi]

I saw a blind cave ogre in the caverns and tried to block off the area, but it was too late. The blind cave ogre charged towards the nearest miner...

And was one shot by a pick to the brain.

[utunnels]

Blind Cave Ogre has given birth to a girl.

[Uzu Bash]

Now 5 years has passed, and I have security tightened up, at least as well as you can on the surface. I'll have to rely much more on military than anywhere else. I've restricted my elite unit to aboveground training, and they're still getting nauseated by the sun. If the first visitor is a titan like I expect, the topsiders are certainly fucked.

If the humans don't bring me hide root this year, I'm seizing their caravan. I know they have it, they've sold me the dye and more than half the cloth and thread they sold me was red.  I think it would be funny if they tried to hole me in and became the target of a rampaging beast. My siege operators are standing by.

[utunnels]

An Elk bird starved to death while trying to hatch some nonfertile eggs...


I pulled a wrong lever and all blind cave ogres escaped. The dorfs had to kill them before they broke anything.
*face palm*

[Pirate Santa]

Very slowly training up an armorsmith and a weaponsmith, its going to take awhile.

Did a test release on the clown car, initial drop was 0 fps, before stabilising at 2-3 fps. Trying to come with some way I can improve that.

[taptap]

2. I'm trying to get my cook to use all the dwarven syrup and royal jelly I have.
4. I'm going to make a huge dining hall so my dwarves can make friends.

Any success with 2? (For making friends dwarves prefer small dining halls )

[Meneth]

I breached the first cavern and found a Giant Cave Spider. I put up a door to hold it off while I built some cage traps, but I forgot to lock the door. The dwarves (and I) panicked when the spider showed up in the middle of my workshop. I figured I was in for a slaughter, but my farmer kept her cool.

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Looks like we'll be having spider stew tonight! 

[Staalo]

Second year of Moonpalace. The only weaponsmith got attacked by a wereass and was maimed within an inch of his life. Miraculously he was spared from infection and made a full recovery. Immediately after healing he went into a secretive mood and created Scarredyawns, an electrum war hammer.

I've got a good feeling about this fort.

[TheFlame52]

2. I'm trying to get my cook to use all the dwarven syrup and royal jelly I have.
4. I'm going to make a huge dining hall so my dwarves can make friends.

Any success with 2? (For making friends dwarves prefer small dining halls )

Yeah, I set the kitchen to only take syrup, royal jelly, and another ingredient, then let the cook make a meal. I used up all 500 units of syrup.

EDIT: It finally happened. My tantruming legendary clothier beat up a furnace operator, killed a pet cat with a flying roast, tried to beat up a giant leopard gecko, and was killed by said gecko. It is a dark day.

[Naryar]

Remember the story of the cave dragon in my fort a few pages ago ?

While I was building a mold for Obsidian Cast Fortress, another cave dragon happened, it killed another cat (like the first one), killed another of my original seven and is yet again hanging out in my dining room, chilling. Currently ignoring the dwarves. Exactly like the first one.

Hell I was training the first one for war, then i see another cave dragon next to it. I seriously thought the cave dragon multiplicated magically or something.

What the fuck is up with these cave creatures ?

The good news is that i'm in the first year and i'm about to have a breeding pair of cave dragons. The bad news is that the other one is semi-wild (even if he is in a cage) AND i can't get my animal trainer to train it more.

[TheFlame52]

Designate a pen, then set it as an animal training zone. That was my problem way back in year 1 of my fort.

[4maskwolf]

He won't train it more if it's in a cage.  Caged animals will only be trained when wild.  You'll have to let it out if you want to train it more.

[TheFlame52]

Just to be safe, I'd leave it in the cage until it goes wild and then retrain it. One of my animal trainers was attacked by a giant sparrow she was training when it went wild. Luckily, it was killed by the rest of the animals before it could do any real harm.

[Naryar]

Not training, not training, not training again. I tried everything and I am far from being new at animal training.

Just to be safe, I'd leave it in the cage until it goes wild and then retrain it.

I'm doing that. But meh. Why does my proficient animal trainer not train that cave dragon constantly ? Both of them now ? Dragon's free, he has an animal training zone.

Edit: Now I set up an animal training area, pasture for cave dragons AND meeting area, and it's working. Gee, I wonder why it didn't worked when I set up an animal training area and pasture for cave dragons

but NEST BOX TIME