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[Lielac]

Outpost Gildspark, 201 Sandstone 8-10: 18 beards

The caravan from the Mountainhome arrived nearly a month ago. I made a few meals with the cheese from the milk I brought on embark, traded for more food, and promptly bought out all of their non-plump helmet food. Greedy bastards insisted on a 100% profit margin on every trade, but I still profited. Prepared meals are fucking overpowered and I love it.

Also, I have my mason churning out rock blocks to build an outer wall. I think I need at least a 1-high plus an overhang, if I'm remembering correctly. Goddamn climbers.

[escondida]

Slightly disappointed in myself for letting Honourguard's lone captured Giant Cave Spider that I lost two brave Web Collectors to, starve to death in its cage before I could tame it.

Eh? GCSs don't graze (and therefore eat) unless you mod them. Also untamed animals--even grazers--don't actually eat. It may have died from previously-inflicted wounds or old age, though.

Time in my fortress has slowed down quite a bit, thanks to pathing. Alas, it won't get any better until construction dwarves stop having to path across the hilltop to the ramparts of my increasingly absurdly tall outer wall, but oh well.

[Lolfail0009]

Slightly disappointed in myself for letting Honourguard's lone captured Giant Cave Spider that I lost two brave Web Collectors to, starve to death in its cage before I could tame it.

Eh? GCSs don't graze (and therefore eat) unless you mod them. Also untamed animals--even grazers--don't actually eat. It may have died from previously-inflicted wounds or old age, though.

Hmm, then it was likely age, because my Web Collectors did fuck-all to it

[94dima94]

0m 0s - the dwarves stop the wagon and start building the fortress.
0m 8s - a sasquatch walks up to the dwarves.
0m 15s - Your settlement has crumbled to its end!

[Lielac]

Outpost Gildspark, 202 Granite 19 - Felsite 7: 18 39 beards, 23 FPS

202-01-19: The elves came. We stole what we wanted from them. Unfortunately, they didn't bring any cloth I might have actually traded with them except all my prepared meals were in barrels. Oh no, I'll actually have to make a farm for plant fibers, the horror.

202-02-22: I've designated the beginnings of this fort's Happy Fun Death Pit using the marker option. Which, BTW, is very useful. Huzzah! Ooooooh, I could use it to designate the whole damn shaft and change from marker to standard one level at a time... (can you tell I'm catching up from an old version?)

202-02-27: Some migrants have arrived. Welp, I really need to make beds and chairs and tables now. And expect my first mood. And probably my first sproglings.

202-02-28: There is a family of historical migrants that's been coming in pieces since the first migrant wave. I might need to go through and retroactively make them all part of their mother's line... hrmm...

202-03-02: 21 beards later... I only have one child. THANKFULLY.

202-03-04: Dealing with the historical migrants' surnames now. There are two groups, according to their mothers; they don't share a maternal grandmother, thankfully...........

SMACK ME SILLY THEY'RE ALL ONE FAMILY, I DIDN'T CHECK IF ONE'S MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER WAS ANOTHER'S MOTHER. WELL THEN.

Spoiler: Legends mode detour (click to show/hide)

Ugh, I should go into legends mode and export to see what Urist Thronewound's mother's surname was, so I can go all the way back to her. Off to do that, then. Luckily, I've been doing backup saves in case I want to put up maps later; I'll just retire a 201 map and check legends from there.

... So the whole great clan is the Factionceilings, from the grandmother of the children of Urist Thronewound. Olin Factionceilings had a mom too but she's dead and therefore can't immigrate to complicate my matrilineal shenanigans and therefore doesn't matter.

Also I'm looking at the Factionceilings matriarch and she has a lot of kids who died at 12 or 13. Yipes.

Also, one of my married dwarves migrated without her husband. I looked him up, aaaaaaaaand he died in 184 to a giant hyena. And she's been getting intermittent thoughts about being sad due to missing a loved one. DF stop making me feel things for pixels

202-03-05: Finally finished the renaming and the sorting of my spreadsheet; now I can get back to the actual goddamn fort.

... I'm regretting embarking on a 3x3. My laptop may be better than my desktop, but I don't think it's actually that good. Ah well.

202-03-07: ... 23 FPS. Felsite of the second year. WELP. I'm going to go to bed, post this tomorrow (today for you lot reading it), and then find another embark in the same world after I retire Gildspark. Dwarves can migrate out of retired forts just like other sites not under the player's control, right?

[GiantCaveMushroom]

The goblins decide to send a larger sieging force. They bring elf recruits.

The elven diplomat arrived at the same time as the goblin siege. The elven diplomat left the area unscathed and uncaring of the siege.

I suspect collaboration between the elves and the goblins.

[Urist McVoyager]

So yeah, for the first time in this game I'm going to jump off the Dystopia cliff and make a fort worthy of Dwarves. I've decided that the non-elected nobles will all have to be survivors of battles, or, more likely, survivors of the medical training program. I've already had two injured dwarves from that system. One broke an arm. The other his lower spine. He can't walk anymore. Unless I get a quadriplegic with various other parts rotting off from some kind of FB syndrome, I think I have my Duke.

[Urist McLaptop]

So I start in a normal biom. I'm going good, ran low a bit on the drink at one point but I made a still. My first interesting thing that happened is my FISHCLEANER got possessed. He made some crappy yak bone animal trap engraved with beans, I just left it at the makeshift craft dwarf area I made real quick (later converted to a book keepers office) but lo and behold, a were mongoose appears. He kills one dwarf and another one as he runs toward the burrow I set up inside the fortress. While everybody is huddling in the corner of the fort, I had set the artifact trap in front of a door I locked, he bled to death. Apparently these heroes did enough damage to him. I saw that a fisher dwarf was hurt but I made a huge mistake by ignoring that. Right in the middle of my fort, he turns and goes berserk. I draft everyone and even the children get in on the action. Many of them are injured and I have learned my lesson. I halt the tombs I'm building above and make a long building. I go over each dwarf and each one with injuries I Mark QUARANTINE. I lock them inside and I wait for them to die. Several children and founding dwarves will die in that building. Altogether the werebeast will claim ten of my 32 dwarves. I make tombs for the fallen heroes, and eventually for the quarantined. I will dump the body of the human that brought me this plague into a ditch so that all may gaze upon his corpse. The dead will be honored, a workshop will be engraved in their memory, and the fortress will move on.

[Nikita]

Note to self: allow the goblinite to come within the walking distance of the main entrance before killing it, unless you want your haulers to spend the next 2 months hauling troll socks halfway across the map under the burning sun (and filling your moat with vomit)

[Immortal-D]

So I start in a normal biom. I'm going good, ran low a bit on the drink at one point but I made a still. My first interesting thing that happened is my FISHCLEANER got possessed. He made some crappy yak bone animal trap engraved with beans, I just left it at the makeshift craft dwarf area I made real quick (later converted to a book keepers office) but lo and behold, a were mongoose appears. He kills one dwarf and another one as he runs toward the burrow I set up inside the fortress. While everybody is huddling in the corner of the fort, I had set the artifact trap in front of a door I locked, he bled to death. Apparently these heroes did enough damage to him. I saw that a fisher dwarf was hurt but I made a huge mistake by ignoring that. Right in the middle of my fort, he turns and goes berserk. I draft everyone and even the children get in on the action. Many of them are injured and I have learned my lesson. I halt the tombs I'm building above and make a long building. I go over each dwarf and each one with injuries I Mark QUARANTINE. I lock them inside and I wait for them to die. Several children and founding dwarves will die in that building. Altogether the werebeast will claim ten of my 32 dwarves. I make tombs for the fallen heroes, and eventually for the quarantined. I will dump the body of the human that brought me this plague into a ditch so that all may gaze upon his corpse. The dead will be honored, a workshop will be engraved in their memory, and the fortress will move on.

*sniffle*, that was beautiful

[Urist McVoyager]

Horrible, horrible dystopia. Everything happened all at once. First, I had my first accidental kill in my medical training trap. Then the dwarf caravan left. With some bracelets the mayor had prohibited the export of. When we have a full justice system with fewer chains than "offenders." Six dead, several more in the hospital. And we got migrants.

This is so much Fun I'm less laughing than staring speechless. And I'm nowhere near finished since I have 80 people left alive.

[Lielac]

Outpost Dentbridge, 202 Felsite 21 - 203 Limestone 4: 7 20 41 49 beards

202-03-21: I re-embarked right next door to Gildspark. The land's nice! Sand, and clay, and trees, and no aquifer... (An aquifer in one corner would have been fine, but I couldn't arrange for one. So I'll survive with just a brook for my power needs.)

It'll be interesting to see how long it'll take before I get migrants from Gildspark. I'll be able to tell who they are because they'll already have nicknames.

Spoiler: Summer 202 (click to show/hide)

202-04-13: Digging continues apace. Also, I dug out a little bit of a beginning dining room, and designated a same-size starter food storage room directly under it. They'll eventually be expanded to my usual 30x30, but for now they're just little 12x12s until I have more people to house.

202-04-15: Goddamn fowl keep climbing trees and the dwarves keep complaining about not being able to put them back in their pasture. Sigh. Off you go, Vutok, chop down some trees for me please.

202-04-20: The "convert between standard and marker" designation thing is super useful for segmenting my living quarters floor into managable pieces.

202-05-06: Whoops, forgot to make beds, now five of my dwarves are sleeping in the dirt.

202-05-08: Some migrants have arrived. Whoo! 7 in total, all randomly generated. Are the first two waves always like that?

Spoiler: Autumn 202 (click to show/hide)

202-07-01: Doing some crude labor specialization with Dwarf Therapist, "assign skilled labors", and going back to specify which unskilled labors really are fort-wide. Also, it's autumn and I've sent my grunts out to gather the crap out of plants. And adjusting my kitchen. ()If it's brewable, DON'T FUCKING COOK IT.)

202-07-04: Huh. Plant gathering appears to work by which plants are closest now, not from the top-left of the map down. Much better!

202-07-11: Hah. Some dorf just became a herbalist. Have fun with that, dear.

202-07-15: -facepalm- Forgot to build a trade depot. WHOOPSY-SHIT. Welp, there goes most of the food.

202-07-19: Greedy bastards wanted a 100% profit margin. I'll give you a 100% profit margin to the face. Also I didn't actually lose too much food from that silly mistake, which is good.

Also, more migrants. Good lord.

... There's a single dad with a pair of kids. Er. Okay then. They're getting their stepmom's name if their dad ever marries.

202-07-20: And I learned what dwarves feel after witnessing my dogs kill chimpanzees: nothing. Nothing whatsoever. Iiiiinteresting.

202-08-25: My first mood! My carpenter, to boot. Fuck yes.

202-09-18: Thikut Rackcoven, Carpenter has created Lecadenseb, a date palm wood cabinet!



So it's about some dwarf with a goblin name. Meh. It's going in the dining hall to make everyone happy.

Spoiler: Winter 202 (click to show/hide)

202-12-19: -disgusted noises- So the cancellation spam I'm getting about tame fowl is because the fuckers can fly now. Why can they fucking fly now?

Also, my FPS drops by 50% when it rains. Ugh. At least I've struck quite a lot of magnetite.

202-12-26: Tulon Kindnesscrafted, manager is taken by a fey mood! NEAT.

Spoiler: Spring 203 (click to show/hide)

203-01-01: Spring has arrived! Meh. I'm building a butchery and tanner's shop, and I'm trying to get some dorf to do a round of shearing before I start butchering for the bones Tulon needs. Oop, there's the job going, thanks ever so gruntdorf

203-01-02: Oh, hey, dwarves properly deal with pre-slaughtered carcasses! Those chimps the dogs have been murdering did not die in vain!

203-01-07: Tulon Kindnesscrafted, manager, has created Atzulasteb, a limonite earring!



So glad I added the display case. This would be a frustrating artifact to be worth 20400☼ otherwise.

203-01-15: The elves are here for me to rob blind trade with! Hooray!

203-01-24: shhhh I know which depot I'm actually using (I'm deconstructing the first one now, though)

203-02-18: Agh! I forgot to set up a still and there are dwarves drinking from the brook MUST FIX

203-03-02: Just wondering if migrants would arrive this season, and they do. Awesome!

203-03-06: +21 beards oh god. Also one of them brought a cat. Luckily, two of the new migrants are gelders, so I'm gonna just castrate the two male cats I brought with me on embark before that girl kitten grows up and turns into a cat factory.

203-03-13: I'm making the outer wall 2z tall with an overhang. Should be enough protection as long as I remember to keep the trees down. I'll put a paved road down or something, probably. Eventually.

Spoiler: Summer 203 (click to show/hide)

203-04-01: Building the overhang out of wood logs. There is no way this could possibly turn out badly. Wandering away from my computer to get food is also a recipe for perfection.

203-04-14: Human caravan! yesssssssss come to mama she has trade goods

203-04-28: oh god more migrants

203-05-01: Ok, so it was only 8. And as many animals OUT COMES THE BUTCHER'S KNIFE

203-05-08: Man, no goblins yet? Did I not embark near enough to them? Hmm...

Nope, goblins can harrass me. Ok, I'll just have to be patient. Might as well start hooking up the HFDP roof before anyone visits, anyway. And digging it out. Definitely gotta dig it out.

My embark, BTW, has 144 subterranean levels. Yeeps.

203-05-12: I wish there was a "change priority on already-existing designations" option.

203-05-16: Ooooooh, quartzite.

203-05-18: Hell yes, hit marble, flux layer + PRETTY PRETTY WHITE EVERYTHING

203-06-02: Finally hit semi-molten rock! Ok, time to poke exploration holes into everything ever.

203-06-06: "You have discovered an expansive cavern deep underground."

"You have discovered a magma pool."

"You have discovered a downward passage."

None of these are candy and this displeases me.

203-06-07: Urdim Minedbranded, Craftsdwarf is taken by a fey mood!

Showmood... Goddammit, he wants a glass furnace. I'd better be able to get at least temporary magma stuff done soooooon

203-06-10: "You have discovered a great magma sea." Heheheheheh. PUPPIES FOR ARMOK

"You have discovered an expansive cavern deep underground." And holy shit is that three different magma pools

"Raw adamantine! Praise the miners!" PRAISE

203-06-14: And that's all three caverns. Now to do enough pokeholes that they're entirely revealed, and I can get back to the HFDP.

203-06-21: Holy shit I have 30 levels for the HFDP this is awesome

203-07-04:



...

what the fucking hell

So. That just happened.

Stocks screen:

[Sirbug]

I'm sending my recruits from recent migrant wave to fight troll in a honorable duel. So far none has proven their worth and troll keeps running around with breastplate in hand.

By the way, why are corpses stockpiled and not put in coffins? Is this a new bug?

[NJW2000]

Just made a new fort, Traillanced. My civ is called: the Messianic Hammers. It's in a sinister biome, with all races and a tower for neighbours. Also, slightly smaller embark so less lag, and I am resolved to atom smash stuff, which I have never done before. This is making me quite happy, but does anyone know what a fort named "Traillanced" should be themed after?

[Urist McLaptop]

Just made a new fort, Traillanced. My civ is called: the Messianic Hammers. It's in a sinister biome, with all races and a tower for neighbours. Also, slightly smaller embark so less lag, and I am resolved to atom smash stuff, which I have never done before. This is making me quite happy, but does anyone know what a fort named "Traillanced" should be themed after?

Spears and spike traps. Cover everything in spike traps. If their is an open tile, spike traps, and dwarves use only spears.