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[kopout]

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!

Remember that magma crabs lay eggs so you'll need nest boxes

[Lielac]

Town Dentbridge, 205 Granite 01 - 205 Hematite 19: 91 111 beards

Spoiler: Spring (click to show/hide)

205-01-01: I have a surplus of leather clothing. It is terrifying. Ok that's a lie it's pretty awesome. Currently getting dwarves to melt all sorts of stuff in the glorious magma smelters.

205-01-02: what the asshole mayor has dinged people as criminals for exporting barrels WHAT FUCKING BARRELS ugh at least she's ambivalent and not furious

205-01-07: There is an elven diplomat here. What. Why. There is no caravan. Elllllllvessssssss

"disrespected the trees in this area"

"stunted kind"

"let this be a warning to you"

oh is that so

Rifafa, BITE MY ASS.

205-01-12: I'm actually putting beds and doors in place for the individual bedrooms :O This is especially important because if a dormitory and hospital overlap, dwarves won't sleep in the beds the hospital has claimed for its own. (OH. EM. GEE.)

205-01-15: Hello, elven caravan! I'll be nice and actually trade with you, though I fully expect to get sieged by you lot later.

205-02-13: We're partway through digging out the second quadrant of bedrooms. Also, we appear to be out of melt-designated items.

205-02-15: Some migrants have arrived.

205-02-17: +20 beards! Oh god I seriously need to start pairing dwarves off

205-03-04: Wow, didn't notice until just now that the baroness had a kid. It coincided with the migrants, ok

Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)

205-04-05: Finally dragging all the wood inside the walls. Please no siege please no giants please no titans

205-04-09: A human diplomat from Dur Thram has arrived. Ok then.

205-04-11: oh god so much puke everywhere

Also the human caravan popped up.

205-04-19: GODDAMMIT DF CRASHED

[Splint]

Playing one 34.11 with Meph's warlocks, and I start out with some challenge establishing the soon-to-be dreaded barrow of Sorcerydangers (a fitting name from the RNG. Much less fittingly, the group is called The Narrow Slut apparently. Should have changed/checked that before embark that.)

While I had two initial ghouls, one with four arms and one with two functioning heads, I found to hunt boars for raw materials to make serviceable weapons for the ruling spellcasters such as myself, I needed a normal ghoul to lead more ghouls in battle. So with some quick thinking, I had some intestines dried and processed into rope, and had a witch make the rest of the parts for the bench, while another made the necessary implements. Both prisoners who dragged the wagon here later, we have a single ghoul: Doren.

Doren was made from a human man whom had a name once, but I never bothered to ask what it was. It wasn't Doren, as that's a dwarf name I gave the resultant ghoul. he responds to it, so I haven't bothered seeing if he recalls who he used to be, or if by freak coincidence, that happens to be his real name. I couldn't in good conscience let this ghoul lead without proving he could mercilessly kill, so without hesitation i ordered him to butcher the orc we had. I'm having its soul stored as we speak.

There are, at present, six rooms carved out for our private use. Bach and Armbrust have complained about doing minion labor, but the ghouls can't figure out which end they're supposed to use, nevermind follow digging orders. I'll have the ghouls fashion some simple beds for us, and Aurelia to make doors, so we needn't look upon the passing ghouls. They're useful, but their haggard appearance... It disturbs me.

Alas, such is the fate of those who degenerate so. And zombies. At least skeletons don't have bits of flesh clinging to them, or their teeth. In the meantime, said ghouls will be sent to hunt the next creature of sufficient mass for raw materials.

EDIT: Boars are decently sized creatures. Never once did I think i would see one have it's head removed by the frenzied shaking of a biting degenerate man.

[cochramd]

I've got a weaponsmith in a strange mood, and he's picked platinum as his material. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for a warhammer......

[Splint]

Welp, I got two (technically four, counting the captives,) migrants.

One is a witch. With two captive children in tow.

The other is a ghoul. Who is married to a witch. So somewhere out in the world is a woman who liked the dead a little too much, and someone who does unspeakable things to children who is in my dungeon. Amazing what some happenstance can do to my outlook on my fellow horrible people.

Boars slain. Next task? Skeletons. I need more diggers.

[TheFlame52]

Remember that magma crabs lay eggs so you'll need nest boxes

No they don't.

[Splint]

Remember that magma crabs lay eggs so you'll need nest boxes

No they don't.

I can confirm that they do not in fact need nest boxes. Had a bunch linger on the map long enough for exactly one magma crab baby to be born. I was quite confused afterwards.

Work has begun on prisoner processing and management, first by digging appropriate spaces, along with a place to plop the shrine needed to make my skeleton dig crew. And a cook. A skeletal cook.

He will be the envy of all but the finest living chefs.

EDIT: Where the actual fuck does a child hide a pitchfork on thier person? I mean, I'm not complaining since I need something for my new skeleton to fight with and it's better than nothing but... How the hell?

[cochramd]

I'm not going to lie: I had to savescum a few times to get my artifact platinum warhammer. But, I feel no regret in doing so.

I can barely wait for it to get its first kill....

[Bakaridjan]

Well, I told myself I was going to wait for the update before beginning a new fort, but here I am again.

I've got a Vampire in my fort for the first time in a long time and would you believe it, she's the mayor! I suspected it when she first got elected and I was looking over her description, now we've just found my militia commander (and one of my original 7) drained of blood. So, now I just need to decide what to do with her. I have a few weredwarfs in isolation. I could see who wins in a battle werecoati or vampire. Do I need to arm the Vampire to make it a somewhat fair fight?

[Lielac]

City Dentbridge, 205 Hematite 01 - 206 Granite 01: 111 118 ]119 120 121 122 beards

205-04-01: Ok, where was I... All the way back at still having dwarves smoothing out the boulders on the surface??? Okay, screw that then, I'm just gonna autodump all the logs and wash my hands of that madness.

There. Now my life is suddenly more pleasant.

Spoiler: Summer (click to show/hide)

205-04-09: The human diplomat is here. Hoorah. (Meh.)

205-04-11: And the caravan! Unfortunately, the mayor doesn't seem to be getting ousted like she was last time. Come on come on come on I don't want to trade with crafts again ah fuck it if she pops a trade prohibition on me again I'll just glare at her.

205-04-17: Oh thank god Dobar Inkrooter got elected mayor this time too. WE ARE RESCUED FROM THE TYRRANY OF BARREL EXPORT PROHIBITIONS.

205-04-22: Finally building paved roads around the outside of the wall. Begone, trees!

205-04-23: Some more migrants have arrived.

205-05-14: There's a lion harassing my civvies while they build the roads. Combat logs--

"The Lion scratches The Wax Worker in the upper arm, lightly tapping the target!"

Lightly-- tapping-- oh for fuck's sake Catten Crestmountains STOP PANICKING THE CAT CLEARLY JUST WANTS TO PLAY

205-05-15: OK NEVERMIND CATTEN'S BLEEDING FROM THE HEAD BECAUSE THE LION BIT HER

205-05-16: The lion fucked off after that, but I'm still sending the militia after the ones currently on the map. And I think I'm gonna give them some hunting dogs.

Fucking fucker lions what the fuck do they think they're doing

Also a baby happened

205-05-17: At least there's a fisherdwarf punching a lion. That's pretty awesome. So many lost teeth...

Aaaand one of my wrestlers caught up with the other lion. And also one of my miners. GET 'EM, BOYS

-ugly cackling laughter- Mmmm, lion steaks. And miners making necks fly off in arcs.

205-05-18: Ok, they're just gonna be punching that lion in the head for all eternity, aren't they. Or not, it's dead now.

205-05-28: I knew I was going to regret creating that statue garden. Some ass just organized a party.

... On the other hand, fewer dwarves with cave adaption so yay...?

205-06-12: First possession. Hoorah.

205-06-21: There is so much puke coating my fortress. Dear Armok why.

Spoiler: Autumn (click to show/hide)

205-07-01: I think Toady changed how quickly cave adaption sets in, because holy shit that is a fuckton of puke.

205-07-02: A vile force of darkness has arrived!

Uh-huh. CLOSE THE DEPOT AIRLOCK WHILE I MAKE A CIVILIAN ALERT BURROW

205-07-03: Ok now open the gate again I want these fuckers to fall to their death and amuse me

205-07-05: They're comiiiiing

205-07-08: Two of them didn't die and are now weeping over their commanding officer's corpse or something. Ugh. No dwarven caravan this year.

Also four of the dead siegers were dwarves. Joy.

205-09-12: Ok, I am officially bored of not having dwarves marrying left and right. TIME TO CREATE SOME GODDAMN ARRANGED MARRIAGE SUITES.

205-09-20: Marriage suites created but they're kinda shitty so EVERYBODY IS NOW ON SMOOTHING DUTY HOP TO IT.

Spoiler: Winter (click to show/hide)

205-10-04: Babby +1

205-10-28: Still smoothing everything oh god but I think we're more than halfway through

205-11-16: One more babbu!

205-11-25: The bedrooms layer has been entirely smoothed.

205-12-24: Another babyyyy

206-01-01: Yay another year survived

[Bakaridjan]

Who knew? Vampires and berserk werecoati get along just fine. I guess they are both knight creatures, but I assumed the berserk tag would change things. Once the coati turned back into a dwarf I put them into a military unit together thinking that maybe that would encourage the vampire to attack when the dwarf turned again. Instead the dwarf immediately attacked the vampire, which was a foolish thing to do. So now I've got a vampire locked in a room with a rotting dwarf corpse. That will probably speed her mental descent up a bit, but I don't want to let her out again because she's thirsty now. I probably should have just put the vampire into a military squad and ordered her to attack the coati when it changed, it might have been a more interesting fight at least.

[Kneenibble]

I have had a problem lately, and I wonder if anybody can help me understand why it happens.

Most of my fortress is built intertwined among the second and third cavern layers.  Dug into the pillars, beneath the cave floor, &c.  In spite of that, there is only entrance into the cavern itself -- I've been very careful about that.  It is a hallway lined with weapon traps that gets a regular military patrol.

Monsters like creeping eyes, blind cave ogres, and even a forgotten beast have been getting into my fortress through the cavern floor into the rooms beneath.  Can enemies dig now?!  Because the cave floor was solid when I dug out the rooms in the z-level underneath, but after the attacks, I notice single tiles of open space that weren't there before.  I thought I was safe...

[PyroTechno]

I have had a problem lately, and I wonder if anybody can help me understand why it happens.

Most of my fortress is built intertwined among the second and third cavern layers.  Dug into the pillars, beneath the cave floor, &c.  In spite of that, there is only entrance into the cavern itself -- I've been very careful about that.  It is a hallway lined with weapon traps that gets a regular military patrol.

Monsters like creeping eyes, blind cave ogres, and even a forgotten beast have been getting into my fortress through the cavern floor into the rooms beneath.  Can enemies dig now?!  Because the cave floor was solid when I dug out the rooms in the z-level underneath, but after the attacks, I notice single tiles of open space that weren't there before.  I thought I was safe...

When you cut down a tree, even a giant mushroom like the ones in the caverns, and there is open space below, there will be a space exposed where the tree once stood. This is a known bug mostly encountered on the surface. In the future, try not to build right below trees.

[Kneenibble]

When you cut down a tree, even a giant mushroom like the ones in the caverns, and there is open space below, there will be a space exposed where the tree once stood. This is a known bug mostly encountered on the surface. In the future, try not to build right below trees.

Ah!  Thank you.  I was chopping the colourful mushrooms there to make sex beds, now that I think of it: I guess I didn't notice the spaces opening up.  An easy enough thing to plug up from now on.

And just for my own peace of mind -- monsters are still unable to dig, right?  Right?

[cochramd]

I got impatient with Tusungushil; there was a tapir who had been shot repeated with dying (with masterwork bone bolts, at that) and deserved a mercy kill, as well as some crundles who were harassing my furnace operators. Anyhow, something more interesting going on in my fortress is my attempts at husbandry:

As you can see, I've got a pair of tigers that will hopefully breed and numerous wild boars (which I have modded to be milkable). These boars are actually the 3rd and 4th batch I've captured; the first and second only managed to produce 3 piglets between them, all of which were female. It's quite frustrating, but my hunters seem determined to wipe out all the wildlife (a notion I am not entirely agains) so captive breeding like this will be the only way to preserve these animals for future use. Also, I enjoy adding creatures to the "Overall Training" screen and increasing my knowledge levels.