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[weiserthanyou]

I just started a thriving little fort with a population that hit 40 then a single werekangaroo brought it down to 7 uninfected and 2 quarantined infected. Over the course of six months, two migrant waves, and one dead liaison. I'm incredibly lucky that there was a monthly werekangaroo battle royale, since my fort has had only two qualified soldiers with decent equipment.

Is this common fare for extremely savage areas or just unlucky?

[Torla]

I expelled certain ware-lizards from my fort at some time. Then, years later, i requested some workers to a newly founded hillock.  The worker turned out to be the were-lizards that i expelled that have immigrated to the new holding. Most of the fort was killed. Next time I'll nickname them "BAD" before  sending them away.

[Kat]

Found one of my citizens has the mannerism of:
"When he gets excited he often tells stories without any real point."

[Naturegirl1999]

Found one of my citizens has the mannerism of:
"When he gets excited he often tells stories without any real point."

Can you tell us one of these stories?

[Sanctume]

Slowly getting started on Bloodline Fort #2, Bridgeburn. 

Started with 16 dwarfs this time, and coincidentally, 8 males and 8 females. 

However, I plan to set 6 civilians to run the fort, and 10 military squad. 
I am also basing the squad from The Malazan Empire series, Bridgeburner squad. 

3 current female dwarfs should be males. 
So I ran a transform-dwarf script and it did not seem to work at first. 
After a save and reloading later, I notice the script worked because that one female is not male and with a gender orientation of men 2, female 0. 

I will need to train 2 knife users for my assassins, so I plan to create-item a couple of steel knives. 

My next fort will most likely be a similar theme because there are plenty other characters in the Bridgeburner squad. 

[Loud Whispers]

I just started a thriving little fort with a population that hit 40 then a single werekangaroo brought it down to 7 uninfected and 2 quarantined infected. Over the course of six months, two migrant waves, and one dead liaison. I'm incredibly lucky that there was a monthly werekangaroo battle royale, since my fort has had only two qualified soldiers with decent equipment.

Is this common fare for extremely savage areas or just unlucky?

It's extremely common for any world with a decent amount of history and quantity of civilisations. It's easy to greatly reduce the impact of rogue were-creatures by minimising Dwarf exposure to the surface world (outside of protected areas anyways), as well as having some kind of sentries over the surface world (guard towers sealed off from the surface, accessible only from towers inside your fort are ideal. Animal sentries are also cheap and disposable, and can be placed in towers or in the surface). Once spotted most were-creatures just run away, but if they are spotted inside your fortress or near a lone fisherdwarf/lumberdwarf, there's going to be blood

[Ant]

After my previous fort fell to the greedy digging for blue metal, new fort was established to the far end of same slime-riddled tundra. Second year a blast from the past arrived to haunt the fledgling fort- a werewolf mayor had somehow escaped both clowns and his confinement. He casually shredded few newcomers and then turned tail. Currently struggling with need to cut down several trees and fever/blood vomit inducing slime, and caravans turning back as soon as some  sludge rains.

[9joseph9]

After my previous fort fell to the greedy digging for blue metal, new fort was established to the far end of same slime-riddled tundra. Second year a blast from the past arrived to haunt the fledgling fort- a werewolf mayor had somehow escaped both clowns and his confinement. He casually shredded few newcomers and then turned tail. Currently struggling with need to cut down several trees and fever/blood vomit inducing slime, and caravans turning back as soon as some  sludge rains.

Have you thought about building a road out to the edge the caravans usually come from and then making a covering over it to your depot?

[Kat]

Found one of my citizens has the mannerism of:
"When he gets excited he often tells stories without any real point."

Can you tell us one of these stories?

"This one time when I was mining, I came across this very interesting siltstone boulder. I was surprised to come across such a specimen, even after all these years of mining. I said to my mining partner 'Hey, look at this' and he looked over and agreed that it was indeed a fine specimen. Now the thing about the boulder is, and this is why it was so interesting and why my buddy agreed, the thing about the boulder was, that it was exactly the shape of a boulder. Exact in every way. A boulder-shaped boulder. Imagine that!"

[Sanctume]

In my project to mimic a squad from The Malazan Empire, I was able to successfully apply transform-unit script to change the gender of 3 dwarfs from female to male.  And followed by set-orientation. 

Next task, fastdwarf to dig rooms.  But I end up spending time to smooth floors also.  One of the drawback for this is that my layout looks similar to Fortress #1. 
If I'm going to do this 50 more times, I will need to dig a variety of designs to break the habit.

[Ant]

After my previous fort fell to the greedy digging for blue metal, new fort was established to the far end of same slime-riddled tundra. Second year a blast from the past arrived to haunt the fledgling fort- a werewolf mayor had somehow escaped both clowns and his confinement. He casually shredded few newcomers and then turned tail. Currently struggling with need to cut down several trees and fever/blood vomit inducing slime, and caravans turning back as soon as some  sludge rains.

Have you thought about building a road out to the edge the caravans usually come from and then making a covering over it to your depot?

They are coming, slowly but surely. In fact I dug pathways to common entrypoints, and am currently digging for freezing traps in case of invasions. ATM I am mass-exiling those ingrateful bums who don't adapt to relatively spartan way of living, since caverns are no go zones due few webbing FBs and living animals on surface a rarity, food is pretty one-sided. I am going for a web farm eventually but am lacking an immortal target.

Should have spared one werewolf, would have been better than nothing.

[Urist McLaptop]

Im starting a demon hunters fort. The surface will consist of three circular sub fortresses in the form of the unholy trinity sigils of the goetica. Lucifer, leviathan, and belial. Then each Z-layer will be built as one of the 72 sigils for the goetic demons, straight down into hell. The entire fortress will be dedicated to containing, killing, and invading hell.

[TD1]

Im starting a demon hunters fort. The surface will consist of three circular sub fortresses in the form of the unholy trinity sigils of the goetica. Lucifer, leviathan, and belial. Then each Z-layer will be built as one of the 72 sigils for the goetic demons, straight down into hell. The entire fortress will be dedicated to containing, killing, and invading hell.

Dude, you need a GF.

[9joseph9]

Im starting a demon hunters fort. The surface will consist of three circular sub fortresses in the form of the unholy trinity sigils of the goetica. Lucifer, leviathan, and belial. Then each Z-layer will be built as one of the 72 sigils for the goetic demons, straight down into hell. The entire fortress will be dedicated to containing, killing, and invading hell.

That sounds badass, and I curious to see how successful it turns out. Once you've established a foothold into hell, do you have any plan to send an adventurer down there? Are you aiming for demon genocide, or do you plan to use them in any way?

[callisto8413]

CraftRiddle has taken a page from Kruggsmash and I have decided on a month where most jobs and military training has been turned off.  Not sure this 'Spring Break' is helping with stress as most of the populace seem to be using the time to sleep, eat, drink, and haul.  But I guess that is better then breaking stuff, starting fights, and punching pigs.