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[Grendus]

My last fort got lagged out, so I started a new one. Same basic design, but with chalk instead of limestone. No copper, but even more iron so it's an even richer site, if that's possible.

I'm waiting either for my first orc siege to end or for my soldiers to finish training to the point where they can kick the orc's out. I also just struck coal, so I can start steel production in earnest. It's so much easier than wood.

[Canadark]

My giant glass bridge finally reached the island on the other side of the map, where I'm going to start building the REAL fortress. It's only one tile wide right now though, and the plan is to make it five tiles wide in addition to walls.

[Mindmaker]

Seaching for iron.
Training most of my last 20+ immigrant wave into wrestler cannonfooder for the next orc siege.
And decorating all of my stuff with orc bones.

Still not sure what to make off this fortress though.

[Rozenbuddy]

found tetrahedrite while digging out my -20 level bunker. Yes >:].

[Mindmaker]

Well finally somehing interesting (or not):


The secound one is better, unfortunately just iron and some stupid cannonfooder champion took it:


Since I have 20 champions and I'm tired looking for it, I just hope the guilty one dies off in the next orc siege...

[Jetsquirrel]

im churning out glass windowsand tiles and making a tube into the sea to cast walls to make my underwater dwarf civ

[Telcontar]

My dwarves are currently locked into their home, for fear of the orcs outside (homegrown, not the Orc-mod orcs).

Till they go away, ain't much going on.

[Beanchubbs]

Finished building all the villas for my champions and the best champion tomb/shrine to Armok ever. I have a three tile wide corridor, with a pyramid built over it and the sides are channeled out, leading into the tomb for honorary members of the elites of The Armored Balls of Conquerors. When the enemies are slaughtered by the traps, tamed dragon, and military, the blood runs down into the tomb and splashes apon the coffins. Being built next to the pyramid is an almost finished 100x larger than life statue of one Urist McGimpypants, who, lets say, earned his name through an unfortunate string of events. Also finished my walkway into the fort hanging over a waterfall with a epicly elite barrack right next to it. And finaly, finished the "extra-curricular" activity rooms for my military units. Namely a shooting range filled with at least 5 goblins at all times, an arena where I place all rhesus macaques/elves/orcs/gobbos/other creatures. The arena has also from time to time been converted into epic face offs between dishonorable dwarves and injured orcs.

[Sysice]

... Alright, I give up. How did he earn that name?

[Count Dorku]

Currently, I'm loading captured goblins from a defeated siege into the Arena of Doom and wondering what to do with the human merchants who are trying to hide, whimpering, inside my base. (Is there a Kill Stupid Merchant button?)

[TheDeadlyShoe]

Desperately seeking the cave river, because the flood of wounded is from these constant lizardman/frogman sieges is going to crush me without a good bucket-source. 

[Quantum Toast]

Just had one of my smiths go strange and make a platinum gauntlet (left) named "The Inky Crew". And the Baroness had a baby.

Other than that, not a lot going on. Finally managed to track down an artifact throne I thought I'd lost, turned out I'd set it up in the dining hall without noticing. From now on I'm having all artifacts (except The Shameful Volcano, a cougar leather buckler, which I think one of my champions must have taken) stored in a vault below the fortress. I might turn it into a museum sometime, there's a statue in there I could set up a garden from.

[Beanchubbs]

... Alright, I give up. How did he earn that name?

My most sad story was of Urist McGimpyPants  

Thinking of him and his many adventures brings tears to my eyes. His first battle was against an entire goblin ambush squad, 2 of which were dwarves captured in world gen. Every other squad I had was either on break or drinking/eating. He Killed every enemy in the ambush. His legs were broken and his arm was mangled. A few years later, he was back on his feet, perfectly fine. Him and his two personal bodygaurds granted to him for being so heroic, were ambushed by 2 goblin squads, and 3 crocidiles. His two bodygaurds killed the crocs, but were subsequently killed by crossbow bolts to the throat and head. He was pushing one of the squads back against the river, where the carp were dragging them down and eating them, when he himself got knocked in. Just then, my legendary squads arived and wiped out the rest of the gobbos. Luckily, I had a channeling for just in case something like this happened. We rescued him and nursed him back to health, again. He survived a few more ambushes, all with severe inuries and recuperations. He died in an orcish siege by bolt to brain. R.I.P. Urist McGimpypants.

[jryan]

I used the great suggestion in another thread and made an unavoidable museum out of my buildable artifacts and the surge in good feelings has lead to a baby boom. I've filled my 2 bed nursery.  One in every 6 members of my fort is a child.

[NewoTigra]

In the first month I hit a huge deposit of iron and a magma pipe right underneath where I was placing my workshops. Bit of a wealth explosion.
Its been 9 years of game time since then, and I have been under constant siege the ENTIRE FREAKING TIME¹. It's beginning to get annoying. No immigrants at all, making it the opposite of every other fort I've played.
I do, however, have a legendary+5 armorsmith, and several sets of masterwork steel armour, each studded with silver. If only I had some soldiers to wear it. Only one couple in the fort, with 5 kids so far. Each of the 7 starting dwarves is legendary in multiple skills, so I don't really want to lose any of them. Once the kids grow up I can maybe start a military. _{(Yes, that means that 5 out of 12 dwarves in the fort are kids, 42%)}

For the meantime it's just a waiting game, that and the massive floating _{(held up by a single staircase)} platforms of Doom that cover the entire map.
Currently assembling orbital magma cannon and making sets of masterwork silver armour² for when I have a fortress guard.

¹orcs, + civ forge mods = lots of sieging races.
²because I can. And I'm a bit bored.