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[Sutremaine]

They brought me a breeding pair of giant jumping spiders before, and have brought me spiders before as well. They shouldn't need to grab a random silk material, they just need to use the silk sources they have. But I guess that's just not how it is.

Jumping spiders don't make webs.

[AzyWng]

Second seige occured.

No deaths except for the goblins (which seemed to be comprised mostly of goblin archers).

[Vahir]

I just dealt with the messy aftermath aftermath of a were-mole attack. It was easy enough to kill (Turns out enough unarmed peasants can kill just about anything). Then the survivors transformed, carved a bloody path through the fortress, were put down, their killers transformed... Ten minutes and 30+ corpses later, the snowball's come to a stop.

[AzyWng]

Next time a werebeast turns up, just have everyone hide until the beast transforms into a dwarf/human/tree huggerelf. Then send out the troops.

[Henry47]

My dwarves were peacefully fitting out some luxury bedrooms, when to my horror the words, "The dead walk. Hide while you still can!" Appeared on the screen. I swiftly followed the announcements advice, and all my dwarves were soon inside behind my raised drawbridge. My Tavern, however, was undefended, and while my dwarves fled into my main fort, several revellers(including my outpost liaison), remained. Fortunately there were not a particularly large number of zombies, so eventually the visiting soldiers managed to kill all the non-animal ones, although with a few losses. 

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You can see here the separation between the tavern and the main fort

My necromancer also made it into my refuse stockpile and raised the hair of several butchered animals, which is now hanging out in my external courtyard, there are also a few zombie animals roaming the plains, i am wondering whether it would be a good idea to send my(iron clad but fresh and badly trained) military to clean them up.

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The Necromancer was able to get past the outer walls and drawbridges due to the roof being uncomplete, but fortunately it was complete on the inner walls, so no dwarves died

[nickbii]

My necromancer also made it into my refuse stockpile and raised the hair of several butchered animals, which is now hanging out in my external courtyard, there are also a few zombie animals roaming the plains, i am wondering whether it would be a good idea to send my(iron clad but fresh and badly trained) military to clean them up.

Bad idea.

There's a bug, so undead hair cannot harm or be harmed by your dwarves. Since your dwarves will insist on fighting it to the death they'll die of exhaustion.

So you need to totally isolate the hair and necromancer from your dwarves, and figure out some way to snipe the necromancer without letting your lovable little alcoholics fight themselves to death by attacking undead hair.

Solutions to hair include a) atom-smashing with a drawbridge, b) collapsing the floor on it, and c) DFHack's exterminate command.

[Henry47]

The necromancer fled the map midway though the siege, and my military seemed perfectly capable of killing the undead hair.

[khearn]

So I guess they weren't having a bad hair day.

[Glitchy]

I captured a gremlin today. I was unaware I could tame it as it was intelligent (can speak) or that I could capture since it was trap avoid, but from the report it was apparently  taunting my war dog. Who then proceeded to beat crap out of the gremlin till he fainted on a cage trap. lol. Guess that's one way around the trap avoid tag.

[Valera_Programist]

My fortress captured? !!!

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[FrisianDude]

the bugger, assuming he's human, probably just inherited a title belonging to a human group. Just check the groups of your starting Dwarfs, they're probably not members of the Venerable Fellowship and therefore not his subjects.

[askovdk]

The FPS at  Booksave was getting bad on the laptop, so it has moved to my main machine.
Still noting spetacular, but I used the event to make an upload to the archive as well.

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-12622-booksave-booksafe

[Zito_Wolfram]

Well, i had some immigrants, and instantly one of them is elected mayor. HE HAS NOT REACHED THE FORT.

[NESgamer190]

The fort of kingsilver is up!  There's definitely the usual neighbors, but the big thing that is deviating from my usual forts is that the elves are at war with my dwarves, and I suspect elven sieges to manage will be due.  Wonder if I'll get elven visitors who want to be citizens or not...

[martinuzz]

Luck smiles at me.
Started a new fort with pop cap 10, and twiddled my thumbs in hopes of getting a married couple with the 3 migrants, to get a clan fort going.
I was slightly disappointed when none of my migrants were married.

Then came spring year 2.

Wow, 4 of my starting 7 got married. Double clan fortress is a go!

(How I managed? I did not make a temple, library, or tavern, or any personal rooms, and left my dwarves chilling in a 3x3 meeting zone. Highest friendship / relationship gain appears to come from having no job and standing next to another dwarf, not from socializing.

Oh yay, even better still! Two dwarves formed a grudge! Haven't had a grudge in ages. Too bad it's not a grudge between two of the clan couples.