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[GPeter]

Holy Mother of god, this isn't finished so far, what an epic tale, discovered it now, and read it entirely in one go (My boss will be pissed if he discover i've been reading this instead of finishing those reports), PT fuc***g W this, looking forward to see those elves die again! Awesome history bro.

[Sethatos]

Thanks! Glad to have you on board!

I managed to get a couple of raids to work, I just had to uncheck the details like capture livestock, and have them just attack. The militia commander is only a novice tactician but legendary in everything else and fully equipped in adamantine, so his plans are brilliant apparently.

[TheFlame52]

I've noticed that military dwarves tend to be good at everything without any skill invested. I think it's the high stats from training.

[GPeter]

I've noticed that military dwarves tend to be good at everything without any skill invested. I think it's the high stats from training.

Nothing like that, It's the great power of dwarfness, no other creature can overcome the dwarves in anything! It's a natural "greatness".

[EDog]

Signed up today to say, this is awesome! I've heard people floating the idea of a 1000-year-old fort before, for dragon breeding, but I never thought I'd see someone actually try it! (I think dragons had a 1000-year childhood back then.)

Anyway, you've inspired me to try it myself and I've started up a 2x2 fort with 40 dwarves. I'm only at year 7 and I'm already running into problems. Many of my dwarves are overall unfocused or distracted, they won't use my (small, non-specific) temple to pray even though they're upset about not praying, and I also can't get anyone to marry--they won't even idle in my shared bedrooms! Without any active meeting areas! How do you deal with this?

PS if there's a guide out there for keeping all your dwarves' needs met, please point me towards that. I haven't been able to find one myself.

[Sethatos]

Signed up today to say, this is awesome! I've heard people floating the idea of a 1000-year-old fort before, for dragon breeding, but I never thought I'd see someone actually try it! (I think dragons had a 1000-year childhood back then.)

Anyway, you've inspired me to try it myself and I've started up a 2x2 fort with 40 dwarves. I'm only at year 7 and I'm already running into problems. Many of my dwarves are overall unfocused or distracted, they won't use my (small, non-specific) temple to pray even though they're upset about not praying, and I also can't get anyone to marry--they won't even idle in my shared bedrooms! Without any active meeting areas! How do you deal with this?

PS if there's a guide out there for keeping all your dwarves' needs met, please point me towards that. I haven't been able to find one myself.

Thanks! It'll be a while before it reaches 1000 years but here's hoping.

My dwarves seem to pray pretty regularly without any trouble, but I also have a temple for each god, so maybe that helps? I'm not sure. The temples also have very high value furniture that's been decorated for centuries so maybe that draws them in more frequently.

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Marriage was trickier because when I started the fortress in 40.24 I had to set up the pre-honeymoon suites and disable meeting areas to get them to idle in the bedrooms with each other. You can't do that now because they need to go pray and listen to stories and what-not or they get distracted. When I upgraded the fortress to 42.something-or-other, tons of marriages happened because I'm assuming the relationship threshold for marriages was lowered and a lot them suddenly met the criteria to get married.

Now they seem to form romantic relationships fairly regularly, and marry, but I'd say make your meeting areas like taverns and temples small so they can interact with one another. And give them plenty of time to idle and socialize.

Although, I will say I'm having trouble getting children born since upgrading from 43.05 to 44.09. Haven't had a child born in almost 5 years which is concerning since we don't have migrants. Anyone else having this problem in 44?

Edit: Nevermind, just had a baby born.

[Ggobs]

Have you hit any caps?
The fort is old enough you could be hitting memory caps. Every creature that has every existed is remembered forever and at some point there cant be more creatures created.

[Sethatos]

Have you hit any caps?
The fort is old enough you could be hitting memory caps. Every creature that has every existed is remembered forever and at some point there cant be more creatures created.

The only caps I've seem to hit are the artifact cap and the surface had run out of creatures to spawn so we just get rattlesnakes popping up there now. Like I said, we just had a baby born so maybe they just need more time to idle.

[Sethatos]

So for fun I've been sending out the militia commander and his squad to destroy the leadership of elven and goblin civilizations. I was a little freaked out when I was this:

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Didn't realize they could march right up to a demon leader and end him

[Sethatos]

And now 3 different civilizations are attacking at the same time...

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[Immortal-D]

I like the ending of that last combat log; meticulously killing Trolls 4 at a time.

[Sethatos]

Thanks!

It's absolute mess outside the fortress now...

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[Sethatos]

Squads are splitting to deal with elves on one side and goblins on the other...

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[TheFlame52]

And now 3 different civilizations are attacking at the same time...

When I updated Bastiongate to the new version, every stuck siege and caravan showed up all at once. Humans, goblins, and animal men versus dwarves and fire imps.

[GenericUser]

Didn't realize they could march right up to a demon leader and end him

This is the fortress whose armies took on the HFS and thrived, fighting the way through to one demon should be nothing!