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[AzyWng]

One of my dwarves made a roast.



(Stack of 78. Weight: 46Γ. Value: 140400☼)

Said roast currently comprises 20% of the value of the fortress. It's too bad it's not a masterwork.

In my fortress as well, I have reason to suspect that my food (both uncooked and cooked) is the main source of "produced wealth" in my fortress.

[Dozebôm Lolumzalěs]

How does one reproduce the "all the flour ever" roast, or the "all the fruits/leaves", or... and so on. It SEEMS like a Planepacked, but I'm doubting the kitchen job would act exactly like a mood...

Or wait! The kitchen job sometimes, IIRC, continues even if one of the ingredients is forbidden! The dwarf simply gets another! So it may act like moods...

But they won't accept it if it's not in their burrow. Sigh. Off to experiment, I guess?

[Robsoie]

While i was busy building a citern in order to make a well near my cavern barracks, so my soldiers garrisoned there wouldn't have to walk in possibly dangerous area to drink from the cavern seas or walk up all the way to my surface and aquifer water, i encountered this bugger.



It's been a long time i had not seen one in my fortress caverns.

Hmm, made me think, gremlin ... water , i'm happy those creatures do not work like that in DF

[PDF urist master]

The Forgotten Beast Akon has shown up! A huge quadruped composed of coral. Beware its Deadly Dust!

Needless to Say I wasn't fighting that. I was originally going to lure it into a cave in trap, but then this happened:



This is the beast's screen:



I've never seen a group of troglodytes beat the shit of a forgotten beast to the point of it running away. Unfortunately the beast came back and won round two.

[Graknorke]

I had a very multicultural siege show up carrying musical instruments and books, and then they wandered across the site and off the other side, beating up some cats on the way.
I have no idea what was going on there.

[spazyak]

I had a very multicultural siege show up carrying musical instruments and books, and then they wandered across the site and off the other side, beating up some cats on the way.
I have no idea what was going on there.

they thought they would forcefully enlighten your dwarves but they found you too closed minded and gave up, didn't stop them from teaching some cats a lesson or two.

[Graknorke]

Hey I'm not racist! I have plenty of human friends and citizens. I respect them as soldiers.

[InsanityPrelude]

So I wasn't able to regen that spire volcano site I mentioned before, but the 3x3 patch of land Eldergilt sits on is even better.

Let's see what all we have here: limestone, lignite, magnetite and tetrahedrite within the first few z-levels; sphalerite, galena, gold and silver further down. And the first artifact in the fort is a silver mace. Jesus H. Christ. If there were surface magma it'd be Dwarfhalla.

Also, my civ is at war with the elves. I've never had that happen before, so that should be entertaining.

Edit: Also, the first book written in the fortress is "Probing and Other Travesties." 

[martinuzz]

My Chief Medical Dwarf, one of my starting 7, just became a student of a visiting Historian whom I'd just granted permanent residence.

The game popped me a yellow message to alert me to it.

Awesome!

[Zuglarkun]

Still on 40.24 and Facehugged is on its 27th year now. I'm hoping to break 50 years just so I can confirm whether moss does grow on constructed blocks as the wiki alludes to in its easter egg section. The construction for the mega obsidianizer to use against underground threats has ran into some problems with the lack of gabbro to make mechanisms with. I've been loathe to dig out any more space than necessary as the item count for rocks and blocks is already horrendously high, I've even skipped the water reactor, mist generator and tree farm plans entirely in favor of manual dwarf labor and better FPS (with FPS fluctuating at a reasonable 30 and upwards). 4 gabbro a year from the trade caravans just isn't going to do it, so it looks like its time to embark on another mega project. I may have to start production on rock crafts just to export all these excess stone though I doubt that will improve FPS by much.

In other news, roc breeding and dragon breeding are in full swing now, with 4 breeding pairs of each with good stats. I've been culling all the infant dragons with poor stats for awhile now, and my bone stockpiles are overflowing with dragon bones and dragon skulls. Now that I am at the point where I have a sizable megabeast farm going, I have to decide what to do with all these excess rocs and dragons. I' pretty set on dragon turrets, but have yet to envision a use for the rocs as my small military can already handle the goblins pretty well by themselves. Perhaps I can pit them against the syndrome carrying forgotten beasts and clowns? Ah, first world problems.

[Ysyua]

Just got a 10-person multi-racial performance troupe with mostly elf names (I think). They all have combat skills. Works for me!

[stormyseasons]

Just hit year 2 in latest 42.03 fort. Accidentally uncovered first cavern, dug all the way down to the magma, leave df running while lunching... and I come back to realise that my lovely little fort of less than 100 dwarfs is crawling at 2-4 fps. turning temperature off does nothing. Sealed cavern access, magma accesses all blocked by smelters and forge impassable tiles.. Best guess is the various fruit/leaf/snow spatter murdered fps like whoa. .. If only dfhack 42.03 were out and I could run clean map all.

[Robsoie]

Looks like i just got my confirmation that when it happens a megabeast siege does not replace gobs siege, a bronze colossus just arrived on my site.

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I'm on the 9th year of my fortress, so the less i can say is that i actually pitied that bronze colossus, because after so many years, my military is full of iron armored legendary soldiers, the guy just had no chance to come alive from what was going to happen.

Melee quickly happened and as i thought, the poor bronze colossus was annihilated, and to add the insult to the injury, it was one of my non-legendary soldier that actually stroke the death blow, a wrestler and his axe (that just gained enough axe skill from that fight to become an axedwarf)


funnily , in his kill list, despite he's in the military since a couple of year, and faced a goblin siege already, that colossus is his only kill.

The statue left behind was very cheap, weak colossus cheap statue, makes sense.


As we were in the age of that bronze colossus, his destruction made it change to another one, the age of goblins

And a few moments after that, a new goblin siege happened


This time they came with only 60 gobs/trolls/beak dogs , nothing in common with the huge 280+ strong enemy siege i got previously, i guess the fact that since those 9 years, there are by now more than 500 gobs/trolls/beak dogs troops that were destroyed on my fortress grounds does not want them willing to send much more to their certain death.

The battle was a bloodbath,

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lots more proportion of trolls than usual, but it would not save them


The clash between the troops was bloody, well lot of gob and troll blood was flying i mean


and my military made very short work of that goblin siege

I'm glad i have an atom smasher ready to deal with the clean up, considering i start to get near to 800 dead creature and their non-numbered items , i don't get to deal with thousands of item lag.

[martinuzz]

I was just getting annoyed with the sheer amount of non-permanent guests is my tavern. For some reason the vast majority just won't go home. Some have been there for 5 years. There's about 40 of them, which isn't very beneficial for my fps preservation efforts.

Sometimes, there are those days when the universe just throws you a solution in your lap.

I now has a Cyclops in a cage <evil grin>

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Did you know that you can separate your dwarves and permanent residents from your temporary guests, by using a civilian alert to forbid the tavern? The temporary visitors don't give a shit about alerts

[Graknorke]

I've noticed a lot of guests not going home. I even told them they weren't allowed in the tavern so what do they do? Go to the library and start fights instead.
This is a dwarf fortress damnit, if you're not going to help with any work you can get out.