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[cochramd]

Two delicious magma crabs in cages caught, camulus has.
What to do, what to do....?

Catch more, as many as you can before someone launches a siege against you, unleash them upon your foes, post results.

[Lielac]

On the 21st of Opal, 203, the dwarven village of Dentbridge saw its first dwarven death. As should probably be expected, it was a miner working on the HFDP, whose fellow miner dug the ground out from under her. Oops. Olin Wheeledwhispers, first of the founders to die, you will be missed. At least you didn't have a lover to drag out of the gene pool with you seriously dwarves should be able to remarry after their spouse's death grumble grumble grumble

Now it's the 2nd of Obsidian of the same year, and I'm getting the mass grave level ready. Oh, and this is the same fort where I got a king in the second year because v40 hates me.

[TheFlame52]

Two delicious magma crabs in cages caught, camulus has.
What to do, what to do....?

Are they both genders? You can breed them and use them as living turrets.

[Lielac]

Village Dentbridge, 203 Obsidian 16 - 205 Granite 01: 54 74 84 90 91 beards

Spoiler: Winter (click to show/hide)

203-12-16: Olin Wheeledwhispers has been laid to rest. To lose a founder so soon is a tragedy, but her blood shall be but the first herald of the goblins' doom. Also, she should've mined the damn block herself.

To prevent further tragedies along this line, I'm slightly modifying the way I'll be mining out the HFDP. Verrrrry slightly. I'm poking holes in the side of the exit staircase so every level of the HFDP will be accessible to exit from and enter into as the mining process continues. It's not like it's hard to put in a little extra time to block those back off, and it means I can be a little more careful with turning each layer's markers into actual "channel this now thanks" designations.

203-12-17: Eral Merchantthrone I don't know which animal you're trying to feed but KNOCK IT OFF.

203-12-21: Designated the HFDP roof bridges to have their mechanisms put in for their pressure plates and the failsafe lever in the dining hall. Also designated the turtling bridge for the entrance to the outside, but I'll need a few more mechanisms to make it usable.

Also, I found the animal Eral was trying to feed. Silly llama, don't go jumping on top of walls! Your death is your punishment.

203-12-22: Oh god there are dwarves in the HFDP with wheelbarrows harvesting its stones. How the hell did they even get the wheelbarrows down all those stairs I mean WTF

Spoiler: Spring (click to show/hide)

204-01-01: Oh god so much masterwork spam hello

Going to remove the artifacts from the dining hall and plop them in the king's quarters. Sorry, plebs, keeping the king happy is vital.

204-01-05: Oh son of a fuck there's a mayor I'M NOT READY

204-01-10: Elves! C'mere, you lot, I need to rob you blind

204-01-12: Or actually no, given that I have fifty billion shittons of useless crafts and only the earrings are forbidden for sale, I think I'll be nice to the elves this year and trade properly. I like how forbidden trade goods are marked purple in the trade screen; is that a new feature in v40 or a DFHack thing?

No, wait, better keep rings out of the trading too, the mayor likes them. Uuuuugh definitely gotta throw that crap into the magma ASAP

204-01-17: Ushat Woundtrails, Animal Dissector has given birth to a girl OH DEAR GOD THE FIRST IN-HOUSE SPROGGET

204-01-22:



... oh, SHITFUCK.

And I have a gaping hole in the wall because I needed some way to let people in while the outer bridge was being hooked up SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT

Vutok, you're the only-- no, wait, there's enough dwarves with discipline to make up most of a squad ok LET'S GET THIS SHIT ROLLING. FOR ARMOK!

Luckily, none of the people I just enlisted are part of a romantic entanglement.

Etur Urnsplashed is the first to fall. DON'T LEROY IT UP, FOR FUCK'S SAKE

And then the giantess kills a random-ass thresher who was just trying to run away. Fare well, Erush Blockadeshocks.

204-01-23: USHAT WOUNDTRAILS GET OUT OF THAT CONFLICT FOR FUCK'S S-- oh the dogs made you give into pain ok then, Ushat can punch you in the head if she feels like it but I swear to god if Urvad gets used as a baby shield

You know what would be really fantastic? If Vutok would get her vengeful ass up here and use her axe to maximum effect. But noooo she dropped it when she got turned into a militia commander I hate this

Oh my god now Thikut Rackcoven is in on the action YOU'RE ONE OF MY ARTIFACTORS YOU STOP THAT

204-01-24: There are 13 dwarves and two dogs piled on the giantess. I don't think she's getting up any time soon.

ysssssssssssssssssss one of my miners joined of her own volition finally some skull-fracturing is happening MINE THAT SKULL FOR ARMOK

204-01-25: "[Doren Martyrgalley] strikes The Giantess in the head with her (copper pick) and the injured part is cloven asunder!" -UGLY CACKLING- FUCK YES FINALLY

Now for cleanup. Apparently mothers drop their babies while overwhelmed by horror, or maybe that was just because Ushat was punching the shit out of a giantess.

204-02-01: Huzzah, all that's been cleaned up. Back to your regularly scheduled digging of the HFDP and making sure there's enough booze.

204-02-04: oh god microcline the horror THE HORROR

204-02-14:



Oh, wow, I'm just shaking in my ☼cat leather high boots☼. Caverns are blocked off; the fire's liable to cause minor FPS death when the FB gets looked at funny but whatever.

204-02-22: Ral Woundtrails has grown to become a Peasant. HELL YES.

204-02-23: Some migrants have arrived. fffffffffffffff

204-02-26: +19 beards. Huzzah. And their deluge of pets and livestock too, of course. TO THE CHOPPING BOARD WITH THE CRITTERS

204-02-28: Doren Martyrgalley, Miner withdraws from society...

Oh, come on, you're already a legendary miner! What's the point? Vesselmanors needs it more than you do! But nooooo...

204-03-10:



yesssssssssss something I can place without a display case

Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)

204-04-01: Mining on the HFDP continues apace. I started smoothing the walls, too.

And the dining room is continuing to acquire chairs and tables, and I set up a leatherworks for shirt-trouser-shoe making.

204-04-06: We're at -25 from the surface with the HFDP, which is I think about 23 levels of actual fall damage. The whole thing will extend down to -41 from surface, which is 39 levels of fall damage. Insta-gib? Insta-gib.

204-04-17: Human caravan! Sweet!

... And there's a new mayor. And she likes barrels. Shit. If she forbids the export of barrels I am going to lock her in her fucking room and let her starve. Or maybe just replace her.

204-04-27: Some migrants have arrived. Oh god not again.

204-04-28: Oh good only 10 of them.

204-05-11: There are magma crabs harrassing my dwarves. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS

204-05-13: OH SHIT THE MAGMA CRAB SET MY LEGENDARY GLASSMAKER ON FIRE ok not for long phew also I find it hilarious that he was annoyed about being set on fucking fire and choking on the smoke that resulted. Some dwarves are fucking hardcore. Aaaand he's off to put away those cobwebs he found. At least he stopped bleeding. His upper body fat's gone, though.

204-06-12: First casualty of the actual death pit: one chimpanzee. I counted seven (7) "splits in gore" messages, for the left rear foot, head, left rear leg, right rear leg, right front leg, left front leg, and right front foot, in that order in the log. INSTAGIIIIIIIIIIB

Although there appear to be three chimp corpses in the HFDP, none of which are rotten, soooo... -shrug-

204-06-17: -disgusted noises- The mayor's still got barrel exports prohibited. Fuck you, Sazir Boltburied.

Spoiler: Autumn (click to show/hide)

204-07-01: 10 z-levels to go on the HFDP. The fucking mayor is still prohibiting barrel exports. I want to smack her.

204-07-09: Caravan. Luckily, I have enough crafts from dealing with the king's mandates to be able to not use prepared meals as my currency this season.

204-07-12: And a magma crab got all the way up to the food stockpile. Iteb Tourbody's lower right arm is mangled beyond recognition. GRAND. I'M BLOCKING OFF THE MAGMA FORGES FOR THE MOMENT.

... two magma crabs got up that high. Christ almighty. KILL IT WITH FISTS

THREE MAGMA CRABS JESUS WEPT

204-07-13: Amost Sackbranded is a little bit on fire and just does not give a fuck. Kubuk Steelblunted, though...

204-07-14: Magma forges safely blocked off. I'll deal with building them properly once the HFDP is fully dug out.

204-07-16:





Note her lack of any creatable item preferences. If I gotta have a baroness, I'm at least gonna have a pleasant-to-deal-with one.

204-07-19: Mistem Planstandards, Glazer has been taken by a fey mood! Mehhhhhh. Especially since she's going to become a woodcrafter.

204-07-28: A fecking willow amulet. Ugh.

204-08-19: Some migrants have arrived.

Notable migrant for his amusing surname: Monom Crystalclods. Who named him, Peridot?

204-09-10: "The Chimpanzee slams into an obstable and blows apart!" MOTHER. FUCKIN. INSTA. GIB.

204-09-21: The HFDP is very nearly fully dug!

204-09-26: I'm gonna smooth the floor of the HFDP for shits and giggles.

Spoiler: Winter (click to show/hide)

204-10-02: The HFDP floor is smoothed. I shall now turn my attention back to the magma workshops.

204-10-27: The magma workshops are in place, properly placed to prevent magma crab or fire imp infestations. RELEASE THE MAGMA

204-11-04: While the magma flows into the channels below the workshops, my dwarves fill the stockpiles set up around the workshops. Clay, sand bags, bars, and ores are all ferried down to z-level 24 in preparation for the true dwarven activities to begin.

204-11-07:



It is terrifying.

204-11-28: Melting all that metal crap I've been pulling off the caravans for the past two years. Bars bars bars bars bars

204-12-19: Fikod Swimgalleys, Hunter has given birth to a girl. Yeeeeeeeeeeee

205-01-01: Yet another year! Only a couple deaths, and the FPS is nice and steady around 30 which is damn well good enough.

[Bastus]

Finally got around to start construction of my pumpstack. "Only" 62 z-levels long. Guess I can smooth the whole thing while I wait for the parts for the pumps.
Guess I will need some more glassmakers for this on.

[Camulus]

Are they both genders? You can breed them and use them as living turrets.

By the gods, they are!

*planning commences*

[Max™]

...perhaps I went a little overboard with the digging and smoothing and engraving.

Looks great though.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The little block of ramps and fortifications should be right by the edge of the map and the ramps are unusable so only wagons can go up that way. Assuming I'm not mid-flood it should be clear enough for wagons to get in, I intend to move the original 20 into that block of stone in the middle of the moat (it links underground to the rest of the fort, the covered pastures are visible as the big flat magma-covered surface at the bottom left) and get everything set up so I can raise the pop cap a bit higher, maybe 80 or so since this fort isn't a mountainhome or anything, it's just there to serve as bait for the last few zombie armies so I can laugh uproariously as The Face of Armok barfs his love all over the place.

[cochramd]

Magma crabs can actually be neither tamed nor bred, but that's what hacking the raws are for.

[TD1]

Careful where you tread in the primal land of the raws, though. I tinkered with the most foul and awful of all beasts - the raven.

Giving it webshooter is a bad idea.

So many dead.

[cochramd]

Careful where you tread in the primal land of the raws, though. I tinkered with the most foul and awful of all beasts - the raven.

Giving it webshooter is a bad idea.

So many dead.

Why? Why would you do that?

[SOLDIER First]

science knows no ethical, moral or logical boundaries

[cochramd]

So preoccupied with whether or not you could that you never stopped to think about whether or not you should, huh? Let me guess, nature found in a way in the end?

[Daris]

Year 38.  Population 123.  I finally filled out my third melee squad.

I had to route my river underground.  I embarked at the river's source, and the spread-out source streams meant that there was no practical way to build a walled courtyard without completely enclosing the source streams but not the river's outlet.  The method I used to accomplish this was to put the river underground and wall off the now-dry riverbed.  I hope nobody in the hundreds of miles downstream this river used to run was depending on that water for anything.

The elves keep dropping by to talk about the tree canopy in my neighborhood, but they remain silent about the downstream ecological disaster.

[TheFlame52]

Are they both genders? You can breed them and use them as living turrets.

By the gods, they are!

*planning commences*

1. Release both magma crabs in a sealed room
2. Let them breed until satisfied
3. Unlock door, magma crabs flood out into cage-trapped hallway
4.
5. Profit!

[Iliithid]

PTW