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[doublestrafe]

Carving gothic arches into a solid chunk of obsidian from the top down is hard. Planning the scaffolding is just ridiculous.

[Lord Shiteblast]

Carving gothic arches into a solid chunk of obsidian from the top down is hard. Planning the scaffolding is just ridiculous.

Architectural projects are where it's fair to savescum imho.

[Pyoro]

@Pyoro: It should be obvious for Catten.

Ah, I see. As I've never had this happen before in fort mode, I wasn't aware that a message would pop up. Well, it doesn't matter anyways, Catten went bersek too

[Pvt. Pirate]

my fort is going to be destroyed alongside its world as my OS refuses to boot, so i have to reinstall soonish and cannot migrate any files as i have very limited access to them

[therahedwig]

Made a fort to build a bridge over a sea. After managing to survive the web slinging mountain titan (by... locking it up in the dining room), only had two adult left, 6 children. They turn depressed and of course it takes forever to get any bodies put out of the way. First migrant wave, the bodies actually get moved, but the migrants turn depressed too, because they're apparantly moving away their family members.

After half a year, 40 dwarves, of which 15 children. Not ideal, but things are looking up.

Then a 30 piece goblin invasion comes in. Whelp.

[Dragula]

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And that was that...

[doublestrafe]

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And that was that...

That's the sort of RNG thing that makes me feel that turtling is an entirely valid strategy.

[therahedwig]

I am pretty sure that werebeasts in the first year or so are hardcoded? I've never had a fort since world activation that didn't have a werebeast in the first year. I turtled for mine last time, it's just not worth the hassle regardless of whether my military could've handled the thing.

[Dunamisdeos]

I always have turtling as an option. I don't use it unless I must, for instance if my entire military has failed to repel an invasion.

[Sver]

I am pretty sure that werebeasts in the first year or so are hardcoded?

Not really - I suppose they just have some very lax attack conditions. Honestly, they are one of the most powerful threats in the whole game, either ignoring or turning around (looking at you, infected militia) most types of defense, barring the exploity raising drawbridge and the (not so exploity) cave-in bait trap. Personally, I just set them to 0 in advanced worldgen, so that I'm not being forced to turtle.

[Pvt. Pirate]

my fort is going to be destroyed alongside its world as my OS refuses to boot, so i have to reinstall soonish and cannot migrate any files as i have very limited access to them

during OS install, i could select to import old user profile and files. i was even still able to boot the old OS install - my dorfs are still there!
*Celebrates by dancing and praying in the temple of Armok*

[Pvt. Pirate]

I always have turtling as an option. I don't use it unless I must, for instance if my entire military has failed to repel an invasion.

i only use it if my traps fail and i never have a good military.

[Staalo]

Managed to again get one of those worlds where dwarven civilizations are nearly dead and most of the living dwarves are assimilated into conquering goblin civilizations. As a result my "last dwarven hope" -themed glacial fort is getting migrant dwarves with goblin names and cultural values:

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They also come in with histories of murder and even toddlers have combat skills. I'm predicting some ethnic tension in the future for this fortress...

[Pvt. Pirate]

Managed to again get one of those worlds where dwarven civilizations are nearly dead and most of living dwarves are assimilated into conquering goblin civilizations. As a result my "last dwarven hope" -themed glacial fort is getting migrant dwarves with goblin names and cultural values:

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They also come in with histories of murder and even toddlers have combat skills. I'm predicting some ethnic tension in the future for this fortress...

"You shouldn'whittle your life away on working." very dorfy....





NOT

[Staalo]

Interesting. The first migrant wave consisted entirely of a goblinized mother and her six children (Yes. Sigh...). Most of the family has goblin values but one of them, five year old Ūsbu Malignsloth, values craftsdwarfship, hard work and other dwarven ideals and has no inclination for murdering at all.

Must be the black... er, white sheep of the family.