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[Amperzand]

I'm being besieged by the undead. Based on their Arnold-like physiques, I assume them to remain absurdly strong as in previous versions, and I don't really have a military.

Tell me, do zombies get grabbed by cage traps?

[Henry47]

My Fortress seems to be slowly sliding into madness. Many of my dwarves live in incredible luxury, yet others sleep on the dining room floor while corpses rot in the hallways, despite my vast new graveyard. The dumping of corpses from the frequent short-lived sieges, as well as past forgotten beast massacre, has taken its toll on the mental health of my dwarves, with many of them now haggard from the stress. My newly elected mayor(the old one was punched in the head by a tantrumer) is worse, having become "utterly harrowed with the nightmare that is his tragic life".

While my military is now more than capable of dealing with pretty much anything, the real danger comes from within. The more violent dwarfs have now tantrum enough to train their fighting skills to levels where they can kill dwarves with a few punchs. In this year alone i have lost more than a dozen dwarfs in this way, with the most high profile victim being my queen herself!.

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I was also attacked by a cyclops, but it did not last long.

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[Spehss _]

Tell me, do zombies get grabbed by cage traps?

Pretty sure they do, yeah. Not very fun a way of dealing with it, but yeah, that'd probably work.


Fort news, after going to all the trouble of setting up Roundsack's reservoir and even irrigating a farm via pumping water onto cavern floor to get mud, rather than build a farm in the soil layers, and now I'm finding that there's very little metal. Disappointing. I did get to enjoy the spectacle of a pump operator climbing across a chasm above the caverns, which the reservoir drained into, so that he could get back into the fort after spill-back pushed him into the current. That was entertaining.

Getting bored of the fort layout, suppose I could destroy it and start a new fort elsewhere. Or maybe in a new world.

[Amperzand]

Thank you muchly for the info!

My current way of dealing with the siege is to turtle forever, so I'd say grabbing some zombies for future use against living enemies is, comparatively, pretty fun.

[AzyWng]

My first major accident happened.

I decided to deconstruct my Tavern, as it was just too costly an investment.
However, in marking the entire building for deconstruction, I failed to take into account that dwarves don't care about the order in which they remove things, right up until the point where it kills them.

I have 3 dead dwarves now, 2 died in the accident and 1 died after going mad from dehydration.

It was during this moment of weakness, when The Fire Nation a group of goblin invaders attacked! Blast!

In the wake of this sudden invasion, the equally sudden realization that I had no idea what I was doing struck me like a turkey bone bolt to the neck. I promptly retired from my position as Overseer and left it to some other unlucky soul.

[Amperzand]

Amusingly, just as I finished setting up an entirely non-fun, trap-based solution to the zombies, and a dwarf was taking down the wall between them and me, the siege decided to leave.

...Hah! Cowards! :V

[AMTiger]

I messed up and everyone died

[SimRobert2001]

I messed up and everyone died

Yes, but the how is what is fun.

[Henry47]

I messed up and everyone died

I eagerly await the day this happens to me

[Bakaridjan]

I really need to focus on keeping everyone happy for awhile. I've got a lot of stressed dwarves and I just had my first lethal bar fight. A miner sent a bunch of dwarfs to the hospital and killed my original tavern keeper. I sort of like that dwarf, so the miner is now exploring the third caverns by herself after getting patched up. Her father was my first military commander who was also a favorite and who died fighting off Goblin hordes at the door to the fort. I thought about sparring the miner due to her father, but when I looked at personality screen she was saying "I won't change my mind." "Find then, I won't either." She's starting to get hungry though, we'll see who compromises first.

Overall it seems like the new personality needs need more careful management. I'm surprised how many unmet needs my dwarves can have. So far I've tended to go with one dwarf/one job. As long as it's a half-way decent fit and they can advance it normally works. Now my dwarves want to make crafts, practice military skills, think abstractly, pray and maybe a couple of other random things.

[Bakaridjan]

Double post, but I just had to share. It seems that tavern brawls are really upping the fighting skills of my average dwarves. I just had and engraver take down a Giant Toad totally bare handed. The Toad never hit him and after 4 pages of pummeling it gave up the ghost.

[RickRollYou2]

I've never had a bar fight--does anyone know how they start? Do I need unhappy dwarves (much like the tantrums of old) and dwarves with certain traits?

On a side note, I only just got the courage to experiment and found out that slaughtering your guests doesn't seem to do anything to deter more from coming, which seems like a pretty cheap (if cheaty) way to get armour and weapons.

[Innocent Dave]

I've never had a bar fight--does anyone know how they start?

Seems you need the alcohol to be flowing, which means you need to set up your bar in a certain way - see other threads for details, but it seems to require designating the bar from a meeting area rather than a table, and having booze, cups, and bardwarves available.

[kingu]

I've never had a bar fight--does anyone know how they start?

Seems you need the alcohol to be flowing, which means you need to set up your bar in a certain way - see other threads for details, but it seems to require designating the bar from a meeting area rather than a table, and having booze, cups, and bardwarves available.

Not so sure about that. I have a fully functioning tavern with booze flowing and two bartenders serving and my fort gets no fights at all.

[Foxite]