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[kilakan]

No they aren't.  A lot of the really small pieces of creatures are flat out unkillable.  Skin, hair, skulls, beaks ect are all unkillable last time I played.  Basically anything that can't be chopped into smaller parts are immune.

[Sirbug]

I see. I abandoned fort anyway after my legendary swodsdwarf died of thirst.

Out of this story, we got ourself a pretty silly historical figure. An emu head. I wonder where will it go on in life.

[PyroTechno]

No they aren't.  A lot of the really small pieces of creatures are flat out unkillable.  Skin, hair, skulls, beaks ect are all unkillable last time I played.  Basically anything that can't be chopped into smaller parts are immune.

You can still smash them with blunt weapons. Try using silver maces or war hammers.

[Sirbug]

No they aren't.  A lot of the really small pieces of creatures are flat out unkillable.  Skin, hair, skulls, beaks ect are all unkillable last time I played.  Basically anything that can't be chopped into smaller parts are immune.

You can still smash them with blunt weapons. Try using silver maces or war hammers.

So, hammers are still the best to deal with undead? I didn't get a chance to use them anyway.

[Chevaleresse]

I think maces work better, since they are slightly more effective at pulping.

[pisskop]

Pulping/shredding tissues is supposed to be cause by excessive bruising/cuts respecively.  So maces having larger contact areas make them better choices.  And since spears dont do much cutting and swords/axes are prone to loping off limbbits, blunt contact is best contact.

[SyrusLD]

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In my latest fortress, I'm about to hire the clown car for some fun. I've never actually done it before, although it's been long since spoiled.

But first, I must dress all 60 bachelor dwarves (read: military dwarves) in their finest clothing (read: full-body adamantine armor).

EDIT: 

...

The solution to this problem is obvious.

All of the spear traps. All of them.

Going by experience, menacing spikes - especially if it is 1380 (138 traps) of them - do quite a decent job. Upright Spikes linked to a lever in your dining room...lots of FUN for the FUN!

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Just be aware, there can be funny creatures which are so hot they could melt (certain?) metals. It is very important to not use non-fire/magma(?!) safe mechanism either. I just used bismuth bronze and bronze for the spikes and iron for the mechanisms, mostly because I almost ran out of bismuth bronze and bronze. Bismuth bronze and bronze seems to withstand every clown I had so far. At least as long as they don't start throwing around their firey stuff.

The whole clown-murdering area is securely isolated from my fortress by 2x5 iron bridges. The entrance to the circus was closed off by a brave dwarf who build a steel bridge over it before they could emerge, I have a secondary green glass bridge right in the trap-room to give more chances to stop them.

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The spider room was for a previous try on caging the clowns. Works quite nicely until they decide to roast the spider. Seems like they don't make a difference for wild or tame/trained spiders either. If I had an idea what to do with caged clowns I might utilize it again. Still, wish I knew how to make it secure for the GCS...

Violentlash. Such a wonderful place.

Wargolds currently possesses over 800 steel spears (I let the forges go on auto for a bit too long).

Spoiler: Spoilers for certain end-game content (click to show/hide)

Can someone say clown grinder?

Re: this.

Spoiler: Spoilers for certain end-game content. Don't say you weren't warned! (click to show/hide)

So, after setting up a hall of upright steel spear traps linked to a lever set to be pulled on repeat, I summoned the clown car.



 

So, how 'bout them hell colonies?

EDIT: The hell colony project was suspended indefinitely after a second wave of clowns murdered the build team. They continue to path into the hall of spears via the new staircase - which I can't complete the fortification of.

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Same damn thing happened to my exploration squad I send down there.

Two or three webspewers spawned and killed two of my swordmasters. Why did it have to be webspewers? (I'll be honest... I savescummed that. It just felt too cheap.)
Also had my clean up crew run into my room of spikeyness and get the corpses and other "parts" - totally forgetting that the bridge-seal was still open to the funny place. Two vomit-clowns almost made their way to my bearded squishy things before the bridge closed up the hole again - they had reached the second to last stair up (yeah, I have stairs from the funny place to my fortress)! After that it was quiet for a long time and I decided to send down that beforementioned squad, with no good results. Still considering building something down there, like an archery tower or such.

*[see below]: I was considering somehow putting them down into the funny place. Sounds like quite a difficult thing to do though, hm...

Besides that, well, Violentlash is in its 39th year now, going quite strong. The berserk goblin is slowly but surely going back to non-stressful stress levels. No signs of her becoming non-berserk though, then again, she is still at 200+k stress. I still doubt she will turn back, buuut...who knows!
Next year I'll just slaughter the elves coming to my fortress, maybe that'll make them unhappy at last...
Cave dragon breeding is going good, not like they are really useful at such young age, but ... maybe I'll just slaughter them or something. Still haven't gotten around to unleashing my flood of cave crocodiles - maybe I should figure out a way to safely release all my goblin/troll prisoners ... and then release my crocs on them!*

And I'm STILL waiting for jabberers to pop up in my cavern (there's only one 8| )...I so wish to breed them...hrrmphhh...

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My plan right now is to train a ridiculous number of military dwarves (100+) and send them to subjugate the fun place.

This plan will end horribly, but that's okay. It gives me an excuse to fill my legendary memorial hall.

Also, I find it amusing that we still talk in code behind these spoilers.

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Yep. :p
Sadly I had no advancements on any spoilerish projects.

I had a special visitor come to Violentlash, I guess he has heard of my attempts of war on the elves as well as all the other wars my fortress has been waging...


Really wonder whether he came in peace, but I know he surely came with the full intention of bringing "unbelievable peace" to my fortress and its inhabitants - no matter how futile his attempts.
Sadly he was killed by a crossbow-goblin of the siege that was still outside. That steamy body was quite ... fragile and disintegrated quickly into many parts.

May he rest in ... uhm ... pieces.

[Calidovi]

May he rest in ... uhm ... pieces.

There's no joke I can make for this, sadly.

[pisskop]

I bet that FB is pretty steamed about how quickly he died.  I would be

[Calidovi]

Yeah, it's a shame you didn't get to know him. He always gets bigger when things heat up, you didn't let him cool off and let him solidify his thoughts.

[Dunamisdeos]

There is some crazy sh** going down in the caverns at BLAZECOOK. Keep in mind that the dwarves haven't actually breached the caverns anywhere near this site. Also, it is year 02.

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Since then two more carvings have been made of separate events detailing a battle between some mole-men and the aforementioned olm people.

[Walrusking]

First time embarking on a Cold biome. Hoping the chill doesn't kill my dwarves in a few seconds. The flat landscape is rather nice though, and currently going through the routine aquifer struggles.

[FriarVicaris]

A dwarven caravan that was in my fortress tried to leave while my drawbridge was raised and opening the doors was forbidden. I also had a retracting drawbridge that was closed at the moment, but somehow the caravan's trade camel, and with it, all of their goods fell down the death pit below the drawbridge. I didn't notice the camel's death at the time, so I just opened the doors, raised the drawbridge and the caravan just went on their way without reclaiming any of their items.

It wasn't until I noticed a cloud of miasma that I saw the corpse of an even-toed ungulate and all the goods on it. It's probably going to bite me in the ass later on, but I took all of the items down the death pit and smashed the camel's corpse with my atom smasher.

[Staalo]

I have been trying out peregrine falcon breeding and so far two batches of chicks have successfully hatched. Everything should be good then; only that I now noticed that the only female is actually asexual. This leads to a disturbing suspicion that what happens in the falcon pen between the female and the three males isn't entirely consensual...

I have also been trying to breed and tame Voracious Cave Crawlers but it looks like my trainers can't actually train the offspring up to Tame level. Is this because the crawlers are born as full adults?

[SyrusLD]

I have been trying out peregrine falcon breeding and so far two batches of chicks have successfully hatched. Everything should be good then; only that I now noticed that the only female is actually asexual. This leads to a disturbing suspicion that what happens in the falcon pen between the female and the three males isn't entirely consensual...

I have also been trying to breed and tame Voracious Cave Crawlers but it looks like my trainers can't actually train the offspring up to Tame level. Is this because the crawlers are born as full adults?

Yes, I have the same problem with my cave dragon breeding. Still not sure if they will ever become tame?
My three animal trainers are all legendary 3 already, mostly due to the Crundles I keep catching, training and butchering.