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[Mount]

In case someone hasn't pointed it out yet.. GCS's DO actually have gender.  I got an INCREDIBLY lucky start point when I gen'd this map (bottom left corner, full to sand and loam and no giant spiders  *shudder* but I got to watch a hapless hoary marmot get nommed.  The GCS hasing the marmotburgr was male.

Which makes me wonder...  can you breed these loathsome beasties??  Or more horrifyingly.. can they breed on their own in the wild?!?  My god, it's like Australia..

[Shad0wyone]

To gen or not to gen, that is the question.

I already have 9 region folders, so do I risk my sanity? Hmm, I already got rid of that by coming here in the first place... I need to delete a folder or two, I don't even use 4 of them.

[Hagadorn]

...Which makes me wonder...  can you breed these loathsome beasties??  Or more horrifyingly.. can they breed on their own in the wild?!?  My god, it's like Australia..

Hey! A GCS wouldn't last 10 seconds in Australia... Hell, even some of our SHEEP will kill you...

[Mount]

...Which makes me wonder...  can you breed these loathsome beasties??  Or more horrifyingly.. can they breed on their own in the wild?!?  My god, it's like Australia..

Hey! A GCS wouldn't last 10 seconds in Australia... Hell, even some of our SHEEP will kill you...

What really terrifies me are the weresheep...

[mjo625]

I started with my local area one to the right and one down from what OP posted. Started right next to a GCS. I managed to capture it, only losing a stray mule in the process. I'd like to thank the kobold thief who alerted me to its presence in the first place.

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You can see the remnants of the kobold in the centre, I built that bridge and surrounded it with cage traps. As a dwarf was loading a trap on the left side, the spider saw him and the nearby mule. The mule was quickly dispatched, and the dwarf escaped across the bridge. The GCS gave chase and was caught in the trap on the right side. My wagon was still standing at the time of the image, directly beneath the depot.

However, I was since raided by troglodytes, naked mole dogs and ratmen simultaneously. Mason and Carpenter dead, Woodcutter severely injured. They pretty much camped right where the depot is, so I had to order everyone inside and wall off. The decay of the corpses sent a miner into a tantrum, he quickly murdered the crippled woodcutter, and then crippled my only farmer.

I've just entered winter, 4 dwarves alive, one perpetually miserable, one with a head. I tell you, this place is cursed.

[Broose]

This place is amazing, did anyone else get a friendly kobold cave with theirs?

[Mount]

This place is amazing, did anyone else get a friendly kobold cave with theirs?

Possibly.  Apparently, 90% of this map's -3 z-level is an aquifer in my iteration, so I haven't been able to do much exploratory digging... 

well, OK technically, I've done a lot of exploratory digging.  Over several restarts, as my miners keep drowning and leaving their picks at the bottom of a brand new lakebed that was meant to be my workshop area. 

[Broose]

I discovered mine as soon as I embarked. I did make my site bigger than on the screenshot, though. So that might have something to do with it.

[Shad0wyone]

I got everything except a chasm and magma pool, don't need them though, bottomless pit and magma flow is enough.

[Augustus]

After losing two forts my dwarves decided to try something diffrent this time. 

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Why kill spiders when they can roam happy and free!

[Slashcko]

how hard is it to just make a square then "iterate" the corners until its a circle?

using a script for drawing a circle seems.... redundant.(and that's putting it nicely)

also, stop using tilesets, kids!

tried the script with the latest official version, got this

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perfect happy circle!

What's the point of not using a tileset? Does it make you feel hardcore?

[barny]

First goblin ambush on this fort. I decided to train 10 legendary wrestlers the from the immigrant wave this past season, and then once they reaced legendary wrestler status to train them to be swordsdwarfs using obsidian swords crafter by the legendary (via fey mood) weaponsmith. Wearing goblin bone armor, the competent swordsdwarf/legendary wrestlers charged the first of 2 ambush squads, and annihilated it without so much as a scratch.

Before:


After:


The GCS took care of the 2nd squad, unharmed. Then, I got another immigrant wave! Sadly, they spawned RIGHT next to the GCS. Through clever use of traffic areas, only 1 dwarf was killed.

[Virtual Russian]

Love this site, thanks a million.  However I am having some major problems with a bug or something.  I can't build magma forges or smelters.  I have a great fort all made and I have everything ready for the magma forges but there is no option to build them.  I'm on 40d(40d11 doesn't help my FPS) and use the mayday pack.  I am on a reclaim, had lots of "fun" with GCS first go.

If anyone has a fix for this I would love to know what to do.

[Augustus]

Does anyone else take the time to wall in the lava?  Fire imps are my most hated enemy!

[barny]

Does anyone else take the time to wall in the lava?  Fire imps are my most hated enemy!

Not really, just dont build a fort next to it. On this map I made mine in the valley. Walling it off also seems to put you fort in more of a direct danger of the imps, and in this case, a GCS as well.

On a side not, I really just made a mistake. I has another 10 immigrants train with the legendary wrestler/elite swordsdwarfs, and they all died within the season =(