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[MCreeper]

And who is Adil Honortrumpets?

[Foxite]

I'm about to retire the fort (I'm going to keep a copy of the fort around of course) and investigate Fortunepalace in adventure mode, and hopefully find Adil Honortrumpets. Heck, maybe I'll even try to steal the artifact myself.

I'm very proud of my fort as it is, but I think that it has reached full maturity and there is very little for me to do anymore. I've automated nearly the entire workflow of the fort, and I have almost every industry running. I wouldn't mind living in it, I could take everything for granted You know, I wouldn't mind it aside from the fact that I'd be living in DF.

[Jazz Cat]

I finally got around to making some weapons and rudimentary armor for my militia. Just in time, too; about two in-game days later a web-spitting hill titan showed up.

Web-spitters are nasty. The damn thing wiped out over two-thirds of my entire military. But we managed to kill it, so BrightFuture survives... for now.

[nomoetoe]

Well things have certainly become interesting. Not only was my military nearly wiped out from the last siege, which was one of the largest I have ever faced, the goblins have already come back, It's only been like two seasons, not only that it's the largest invasion I have ever seen by far. There's over a thousand creatures in all, I have 30 mostly untrained soldiers, yeah. I think I'm going to lock the gates.

Oh now there is over 1200, ok now it's 1300

Ok 1400, and a few stragglers coming in now and again. I'm very spooked. I'm really regretting not turning the entrance into a drowning trap now.

[Robsoie]

On my fortified hamlet , as i use a 2x2 map i have still high fps despite having by now 100 dwarves.
While i was monitoring a quarry in the underground to get more stone to complete a building i had planned, suddenly the framerate was divided by 3 , leading to a very noticable slowdown obviously.

I was wondering what was going on as i was checking an no dwarf was stuck anywhere and there was no animal behind closed doors (as both are usual fps destroyer due to pathfinding going bad)

Then after a while


I already had one like this the year before, it was a squad of 5 or 6 elves.
But considering the very noticable slowdown, i thought it wasn't going to be 5 or 6 elves this time.

So after sending my military out, indeed there was an elven army , they came with some grizzly and some horses.

My dwarves atomised them


But probably half of that elven army and most animals ran away after half of their troops had been utterly destroyed, they finally understood that their super weak wood equipment was only going to get them all killed

My brave dwarves had saved my hamlet fps

[Foxite]

Following up on Adil Honortrumpets after finally retiring the fortress, he has been the mayor of The Gilded Helms for more than 50 years. The Gilded Helms is a child civ of my parent civ, so I guess you could say he had something to do with it.

But you know what? I looked at the artifact in Legends mode, and it turns out, that it was not made in my fort. It was made in Goldclasps, a hillocks controlled by The Relic of Speakers, another child civ of my parent civ, by Urvad Slingbear, who came to my fortress as a resident performer, and eventually applied for citizenship, after which he became a very skilled weaponsmith. But guess what - he is the son of Adil Honortrumpets! So, after all, it did belong to him! I'm going to see if I can accept a quest to deliver it to him in adventure mode. Hopefully the AI that's now in charge of my fortress shows less resistance than I did.

[TD1]

Tobul Fortressfinder was the first Queen of my civilization. I did some research before I founded my fort - her eldest son became a Necromancer and still lives in his tower 400 years later. Although she had many other children, few lived long. She coped, it would appear, by competing in armwrestling against the legendary Catten, who had won everything he'd ever competed in. This formiddable dwarf lost only once - to Tobul - before dying of natural causes at the tender age of 80.

I founded my fortress near my civ's original mountain range. Three years in, a child of eleven immigrates called Nim. Meanwhile, the renowned Bed Beater - a dwarf who killed with an artifact emerald bed - was beaten bloody by a troll. The troll came off worse, for though the bed had slipped from Beater's mighty grip, he still managed to bite through the leathery skin of the troll's head, and thus end him. The skeleton lies where it fell to this day.

The fortress, then, needed a new champion. Bed Beater's weapon of choice was now being used as its owner's resting place, supporting his weight as he healed. A new weapon, then, was required as well.

Nim stepped forward. Took a hungryhead's corpse from the cavern floor, and forged it anew into a shortsword. He is only eleven, yet still prepared to fight. The sword is dedicated to his ancestor, Tobul Fortressfinder.

He "likes thrones."

[Raikaria]

Just had a Dwarf with a mood; a Metalcrafter at that!

Thing is; I haven't struck metal. My only metal reserves are things I melted from trading...

A... Zinc spear? How good is Zinc as a weapon? Apparently it's the 3rd lightest metal in the game... so it would have been useless as a blunt weapon. But this is a spear.

Also; in my Savage Savanna; I've actually been catching wildlife! I have some Ostriches and Giant Wild Boars breeding now.

[Cathar]

At first glance Zinc has as much edge as iron. This might be a very, very good spear

[ZM5]

At first glance Zinc has as much edge as iron. This might be a very, very good spear

Shear values are what matter, and iron has zinc beaten out by a lot in that regard. MAXEDGE is just the maximum relative sharpness it can achieve, depending on the quality of the weapon - its the same for all metals iirc except adamantine.

[Pyrite]

Do you at least have a legendary weaponsmith now? If so, it's time to start buying steel anvils. Good steel weapons make a huge difference.

[Raikaria]

Do you at least have a legendary weaponsmith now? If so, it's time to start buying steel anvils. Good steel weapons make a huge difference.

Yep; got a Legendary Weaponsmith out of it. Shame a Zinc spear is apparently pretty useless. I mean, it's better than nothing.

Weird thing is my site claimed to have metals. Haven't found any metals at all yet. I've at least got a militia wearing Leather Armour and training Wrestling right now to get some basic training in. After I got some basic wrestling training I'll transition to training weapons.

Caravans are bringing very little usable metals; and I don't have that much wood to burn either. Still; the priority with what metals I have will be getting usable weaponry. Even if it's copper or bronze. I'll just ask for metals from the caravan when it shows up.

In other news; the Human caravan led a bunch of Giant Vultures in my cage traps. I have decided; since between Giant Boars; Ostriches and Geese, that I have enough animals for food purposes. So I am going to breed Giant Vultures as pets.

Because having a fort filled with Vultures cannot possibly go wrong. I can just imagine the Goblins showing up and they just see this swarm of vultures.

[Splint]

Make'em war trainable and fearless. The boars too.

In the years to follow, elf and goblin alike developed a fear. A fear, surprisingly, of the skies. For when they saw dwarven banners of war approach, accompanied by the snorting of fell and terrible boars of monstrous size, the skies held circling above them the great vultures of the dwarves.

And they had not come to scavenge the dead. They had come to create them.

[Eric Blank]

I got my one true adventurer queen and a second dwarf as militia commander. Unfortunately i havent been getting any more migrants or caravans, its been over a year.

[Pvt. Pirate]

that damn FB could climb (or fly?) and got to my probing staircase. needless to say, most dwarves died, before it got lost in my hospital. i locked the doors and walled it in. survivors: 12 of which 4 are children. but yay! migrantwave!
we're burying and finishing the defences.