For starters, I updated the save in the OP. I neglected that duty for too long, three years.
As for fort news,
- A forgotten beast bone mace was made by a hell worker. It is now wielded by the captain of the guard, who gets all my artifact equipment. He also has a rutherer bone axe.
- My second weaponsmith made an artifact adamantine sword. It sits unused for now.
- Someone made a third gneiss bed. What am I going to do with all these beds?
- Two dwarves died of old age, one a legendary planter, the other a legendary mechanic. They will be missed.
- I've captured (but not caged) a mud blob with poison vapors. They cause unconsciousness and dizziness. There may be other effects, the test subject did not live long.
- The wild GCS have begun breeding.
- I'm running low on food to make into meals. Actually, maybe I should stop, especially without anyone to sell to. As for meals, I have food for years.
- The siege was broken, everyone either wandered into cage traps or left. One troll walked into a weapon trap and his lower body was sent flying
ten squares. - My dwarves are running out of clothes to decorate with one-eyed brute bone.
- I've begun cutting gems. My gem cutters suck.
- There are no more dwarves with stress above 200k. Things are getting better!
You know this is big news because it comes with a screenshot. For about a month, my dwarves
ran out of bricks. I've been using so many stone bricks that despite three mason's workshops producing stone blocks non-stop for years, twenty dwarves building floors still managed to chew through the entire stock in about a year. Incredible.
So I built a second row of mason's workshops, although it might be hard to tell with all that grey and black. That is my gneiss quarry, which was first used to mine that galena in that layer. Then, since I had so much of the stuff, I started making everything from gneiss. And then I smoothed the whole quarry to train engravers, because I could.
This whole update covers about a year and a half. Time passes quickly when there is nothing to fill it.
EDIT: My dwarves just ran out of gneiss again. Better mine more.