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[Splint]

The Mountain of Order has been pushed northwards, into a chilled swamp. The war with the Alfr has left the dead too many to count, on either side. But we fear not their coming. This swamp will bear witness to their doom.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

I have witnessed... something amazing.  My first artifact, a blacksmith went into a mood and created a GOLD ANVIL.  Surely it's a sign... but of what?

EDIT: artifact is named the Boats of Spite, so maybe not a good sign?  It IS a haunted biome, though the undead ice wolves leave me alone and I return the favor.

Better than my platinum battle axe, at least you can use it.

[Tarqiup Inua]

I have witnessed... something amazing.  My first artifact, a blacksmith went into a mood and created a GOLD ANVIL.  Surely it's a sign... but of what?

EDIT: artifact is named the Boats of Spite, so maybe not a good sign?  It IS a haunted biome, though the undead ice wolves leave me alone and I return the favor.

Better than my platinum battle axe, at least you can use it.

I wouldn't underestimate it. Must be a pretty good blunt weapon.

[Splint]

Work on our new home in this place begins. The Hauld declares that Glymjateme will serve as the Hersir of our warriors, of which presently consist only of him and Brundi. The lumberjacks set to work clearing the way for a shelter, felling trees with haste and disdain for the alfr, whilst  Shasttol labors with haste to forge weapons for them. The alfr are devious, and will be unlikely to wait to slay us.

It didn't take long for the foundations of a longhouse to be built. It will do as a communal home until more dwellings can be built, after which it will likely serve as the Hersir's abode and a place for both he and his men to train for the inevitable.

[martinuzz]

The first grandchild was born, and a dwarf just grew up who likes giant bat leather. She's gonna be one happy camper in my fort where every dwarf is batman. Primed her for a leatherworking mood.

[mirrizin]

I've decided to continue with the fort, despite the fact that I've lost half my dwarves. Hopefully we'll recover swiftly.

You can read the story of the were-beast's arrival, and the events which lead to the loyalty cascade, here: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=156525.msg6841980#msg6841980

Had a similar mess with a 200+ dwarf fort. The bloodbath took it down to 97, and after that the framerate became so abysmal (I can only guess due to miasma clouds?) that I gave up and retired.

[mirrizin]

Last time I had a big bloodbath (tantrum spiral instigated by a giant olm attack) I sat back for and let the game run for an hour or so while I ate dinner, then came back to find one survivor, and rebuilt from there.

This time I just didn't have the patience for it.

The fort was pretty close to retirement anyway. And so I retired and then decided to go explore it as an adventurer (something I haven't done before) which was kind of fun, though the area around the fort is still really laggy even in adventure mode.

[spazyak]

Field testing DF-Linux running natively on an android tablet.

Currently on a 4x4 embark in a small world with 72 dwarves. Holding steady at 22fps, but available RAM is dipping dangerously low.

Going to install Ironhand graphics pack, and dfhack for unit testing, then scrap this fortress and play on a 3x4 or 3x3 embark.

thanks I got this working, Spazyak246 cancels getting up:Playing dwarffortress
If you get that working please msg me how

It's working right now actually.  You need an android tablet with atom cpu, that is rooted.

The basic process:

Root your android tablet
Install a VNC client. (I use bVNC free)
Install busybox (I use meefik's version)
Install LinuxDeploy
  Set up and deploy a linux distro in LinuxDeploy
Start your chroot linux with LinuxDeploy
Connect to the Localhost over VNC with the VNC client
Install a web browser with apt-get
Download DF Linux and extract it some place inside the chroot.
Configure DF linux for 2D mode (VNC doesnt do opengl!!)
Disable sound (It doesnt work right on android devices.)
run df

Things to check:

My tablet comes factory with zram enabled, with a 256mb compressed swap activated. If your tablet has less than 2gb of ram in it (like mine!), then zram swap will buy you some wiggle room. Just be aware of its consequences.

Due to my tablet's small ram size (1gb), I set the GUI mode to XTERM, and edited my xsession file to use twm. (tiny window manager)  This uses only about 5mb of memory to draw windows in the vnc desktop, but you need to be good with the console, because that is the only way to launch things when set up like that.

I works. I can reliably play for 2+ hours on battery, tested.

[Random_Dragon]

Well, I got cocky. I was passing some time in fortress mode after retiring a rhinoceros man adventurer that conquered most of a civilization, I'd embarked in an evil biome planning to seal the dorfs off once they had the means to sustain themselves. After a zombie fox and red panda got their asses handed to them by a few civvies, I decided I might send out my macedwarf after some zombie deer, to prevent them from interrupting us.

Needless to say, one guy in civvie clothes with just a copper mace got his ass whupped. So I promptly had an "oh shit" moment, squaded up the other six, and immediately had them bumrush the undead. Which ended exactly how you'd expect.

[Splint]

Kobolds can grab pairs of items. One has stolen Brundi's boots. As in both of them. Right out of the forge.

[Random_Dragon]

I've done it. Properly, this time. The idea is simple. 7 dwarves, cast out into a barren land where most of the trees are dead, with little vegetation, where it rains blood and slime, and the dead haunt the living. If that isn't bad enough, there's an aquifer a handful of levels down.

1 copper pick. 1 rope, 1 bucket, 1 boulder. 21 leather. 10 stone blocks. 15 wooden logs. 25 plump helmet spawn. And a token amount of food and drink.

7 dwarves are faced with a sadistic choice. There is little of value to them on the surface, and the aquifer precludes digging deep. So they dig in, drag all their supplies inside, and shut themselves off from the outside world. Just enough material to build a well using the aquifer, basic furnishings for their rooms, and nothing to grow but plump helmets.

And if they survive long enough, every scrap of leather will have to go into making armor that won't wear away like clothing will.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

Kobolds can grab pairs of items. One has stolen Brundi's boots. As in both of them. Right out of the forge.

I always station a sqaud new the entrance and trade depot so they don't have a chance at all.

[Greiger]

Spoiler: rant (click to show/hide)

Lost a fort to a bullshit werebeast again.   attacked summer of year 1, right after the first migrant wave.  The werebeast was killed but so was half the fortress, 5 of the remaining are almost certainly going to turn.  I managed to quarantine a few who could still walk that I wasn't sure of with burrows but despite a (lockdownable) hospital zone and no other labors enabled the hastily drafted doctors (ie the entire remaining fortress population) refused to take any of the immobilized dwarves to a hospital bed and the game won't allow me to simply off the poor bastards before they turn.  Which would be the sensible solution.

I don't have enough dwarves remaining to get the crippled guys walled up completely before the next full moon since I wasted so much time trying to get healthcare hauling to work.  But that's the last option I have.

Yep sure enough only three got walled in in time.  Third fort in a row lost to werebeasts before even seeing the first goblin.  Guess I'll just be disabling them in worldgen until either a stable df hack version is released that lets me off fortress residents, or Toady gives us the ability to either mercy kill or move wounded. 

Never been so pissed off at this game before in nearly 10 years of playing.  at least before when something bad happened I felt I could have done something about it and learn from it.  But a werebeast?  on month 3?  I don't even have a dormitory yet, let alone defenses.  And the one military dwarf I embarked specifically to counter this bullshit, just got torn to shreds effortlessly like all the rest.

[martinuzz]

A masterfully written book that concerns the worthlessness of decorum has given a lot of my dwarves a "finds maintaining decorum a silly, fumbling waste of time" in their profile. I wonder now, if that will prevent a dwarf from getting bad thoughts from being naked. They still get bad thoughts for wearing old clothing. Making all clothes rot away is gonna take some time though, so I won't know for a while.

EDIT: hmm I could ofcourse just give them The Emperor's New Clothes as a military uniform.

EDIT2: Wahahahahahaha it works! It even got rid of the uneasy to be wearing old clothing thought! In the long run it will probably cause a bad thought for not being able to make acquisitions though.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

My kea slayer squad lost a stupid marksdwarf in a goblin siege.
I didn't notice they ran out of ammo until I saw a random elite marks entered a martial trance and charged forward to bite the goblins (too many beak dogs and trolls followed).

I replaced him with a human mercenary.

 R.I.P.