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[spazyak]

That is tragic

I think it would remind the soldiers of the fraility of human non-dwarven existance, is all. But your's is cooler.

Dwarf Fortress, where people that play with trains are more dangerous than people that play with spears

XD
On the plus side, my fort has an excess of meat now. Plus my archer squad if fully equipped with cat leather armor

[Larix]

That is tragic

I think it would remind the soldiers of the fraility of human non-dwarven existance, is all. But your's is cooler.

Dwarf Fortress, where people that play with trains are more dangerous than people that play with spears

What i know of DF healthcare i owe to minecarts.

[Linkxsc]

Spent about a year ingame expanding the aboveground portion of my fort vertically. Many stoneware bricks were used (cause I finally hot magma and started crapping them out of about 12 magma kilns, along with pots and other useful things).

Raised the main outer wall from its original 2 high with an anti-climber overhang to 5 high, and the main citadel was breaking 15z levels high....
game crashed, realized i hadnt saved in a couple hours of play

[ImagoDeo]

The 101-z pump stack project is looking to take more like 5-7 years rather than the initial projected 3. That's fine... Picksling is still technically just an outpost, and we're not looking for migrant waves until after that project and some others are finished. I just need to remember to keep designating screw pumps in the right order.

[StagnantSoul]

Tried to migrate my entire fort underground, using a section of cave moss for the animals, and only having hunters and woodcutters go above ground...








Five in game years later, I've ended up with a massive above ground castle with a decent basement.

[ImagoDeo]

DFHack's profession/dwarf skill management system seems a bit buggy. I was doing an unretire on a demon-besieged fort when it up and crashed after I tried to use the profession saving/applying bits.

Ah well, I never really wanted to go back there anyway. Too much death, too many unfulfilled dreams. Riddledfences was a fun time to get back into the swing of things, but Picksling is my baby now.

[NW_Kohaku]

A minor tragedy has struck again at Steamplains.  I swear, I'm not sure if it's jinxed or not, because I have yet to get a fatality, but I've never had this many accidents since the first time I ever had a serious fort...

I was completing construction of my secondary greenhouse, which is in the one regional tile of "tropical" land in an otherwise temperate map.  (I wanted a farm for tropical crops.) It's basically a wooden oval whose soil I dug down to the aquifer layer that I have yet to put a roof over.  However, it had turned out that a hanging natural soil ramp along one of the walls for some reason.  Seeing it was closer to the top than the bottom, I built some stairs down from the roof, rather than up from the floor.  When I channeled the tile, I designated the stairs deconstructed... and instead of pulling the log from the deconstructed stairs up with them, the dwarf chose to drop the log onto a hauler directly below. 

"Ol' Ed" (a dwarf who arrived at my fortress at the age of 155, and thus, someone who started out on death's doorstep,) was struck three times by a spinning log, although oddly, the first strike was deflected by a wool dress.  The second bruised the lung, and the third mashed the left hand into an unrecognizable mess.

Even more freakishly bizarrely, "Doc Dour" was actually on duty for once (after completing a threshing job), and did medicine without my having to turn off all sorts of things manually, or force some other dwarf to perform medicine for him while he took a break after taking a nap.

Because of the compound fracture in the hand, Ol' Ed is stuck in a traction bench for now.

For those who wondered about my militia captain, it turns out that I was wrong about what caused the end of the giant toad rampage - one of my squad leaders actually got down into the fight just long enough to shield bash the giant toad directly into a cage trap, so the cave croc did nothing.  The militia captain is now back at full strength after my untrained mayor sutured her injuries.

[Immortal-D]

Tried to migrate my entire fort underground, using a section of cave moss for the animals, and only having hunters and woodcutters go above ground...








Five in game years later, I've ended up with a massive above ground castle with a decent basement.

This made me chuckle

[fractalman]

Lost several dwarves to chain-reacting wearbeasts (having a faster computer also means less time to respond to unusual events).

The best mechanic wound up bedridden for months(?) before going berserk.

I probably should've channeled a spot out from under him.  Guess I'll have to train up a new mechanic. 

[Staalo]

In 250 The Mechanisms of Brightness of The Systemic Gem founded Greaterstockades. I finally managed to gen a world where the migrants are real historical figures instead of randomly rolled clones. I like my silly little neckbeards to have at least some flavor in them.

This time the migrants appear to be coming from a settlement conquered by goblins 175 years ago. These dwarves have been citizens of a goblin civilization from birth; why they have decided to return to dwarven culture after so many years is a mystery to me. During their years under goblin yoke they seem to have learned some very undwarven habits...

...like murder. Several of them have actually murdered their fellow dwarves in some personal dispute or another. I'm now very interested in seeing whether they'll continue their goblin ways in my fortress.

[NJW2000]

How did you get the historical migrants? Some people have all the luck...

[spazyak]

he, onee question, now that my fort has a huge amount of cat bones. What should i do with them?

[TD1]

Bolts or crafts.

[spazyak]

Bolts or crafts.

ooh, is there a way one can make a display or something for crafts. I want to make a memorial to the great kitty rail road disaster of 120

[NJW2000]

Dump then forbid. Or stockpile selectively.

Try decorating for a real reminder...