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[Michaelsoftman]

I also found a cave with this site, I made it a 7x7 embark area, which covers the area you are all using, and an extra row to the south and east.

As soon as I started a message with a cave popped up.

So I designate my miner to start digging, then OH GOD THE GCS

They all died except for my miner.

Edit: I used Dwarf Companion to view all the creatures...  There are SIX GCS all hidden somewhere.  Dear Lord.

[Martin]

6? Damn. I only know of 2. I've excavated the entire pit, and there's only one hiding in there. The chasm has a bunch of hidey places but almost instant death digging into one of those with a GCS in it. My embark is actually smaller - one fewer north and west. Maybe the others are to the south?

[Michaelsoftman]

Could be, embarking more to the south and east gave me a 7th GCS.

My embark area has the entire chasm in it, not just part of it.  Maybe that could be why I have more.  One GCS was just sitting out in the open though, on the east side of the chasm, it killed some groundhogs.

Also I bet there's one or two hiding in that cave...  I must explore it though and retrieve all of the useless trinkets strewn about it in!

[Aggiedog]

I understand there is a 179 z-level on this map. Does anyone know where it is?

[kotekzot]

there are 3 GCS (1 male and 2 females) in my miniature 5x3 map. how can i profit from this? i assume they will breed if tamed, but will they produce silk? one way would be to chain them up behind some fortications where the siegers are going to pass i assume?

[Hydra]

To me the GCS are a bit of a problem really. It seems they ate one of my hunters once (guess the sight of HUGE SPIDER WEBS wasn't enough for him to figure it might be an idea to trace back his steps and stick to poking fluffy bunnies), and now a large number of my dwarves keep wanting to pick up stuff somewhere near the GCS, even though I forbid all the other items, so I assume there is some stuff I can't find lying around there that they want to pick up.

One time a GCS followed a dwarf back to the fort, and I managed to kill it by stationing all of my wrestlers (12 of em, all of them legendary or champion) on top of it, but even now civvies want to go out and retrieve stuff. If I forbid them to go outside, I get spammed with those "cannot grab item bla bla: forbidden area" messages.

Any ideas? My fort itself is starting to become really nice. Biggest sofar, and my central staircase has 4 waterfalls falling through it, something I'm pretty proud off.

[mjo625]

Let the civilians go out and grab the stuff with a heavy military escort. If they run in to trouble they should turn back with the "Urist Dwarf cancels pickup equipment, interrupted by horrible monster" then your military can take it out, and then the civilians will be able to get their greedy little hands on a dead dwarf's clothing.

[Phazer]

or.... send in elfs as meatshields. while the monster eats the elves you can pick the stuff up.

i dont know how you can do this but it would be awesome

[Michaelsoftman]

or.... send in elfs as meatshields. while the monster eats the elves you can pick the stuff up.

i dont know how you can do this but it would be awesome

Just make the elves angry until they try to attack you, and hope their military crosses paths with the GCS.

[sonerohi]

I understand there is a 179 z-level on this map. Does anyone know where it is?

z-levels refers to the distance from the very bottom of the map to the very top. In this map, it is somewhere near 179 (from what the export image screen tells me).

[Aggiedog]

I understand there is a 179 z-level on this map. Does anyone know where it is?

z-levels refers to the distance from the very bottom of the map to the very top. In this map, it is somewhere near 179 (from what the export image screen tells me).

Ah, thanks. Is this for the whole region or the selected map?

[Martin]

You're misreading it. My 5x5 embark goes from 123 to 171. That's only 48 levels. Expand it a bit and your maximum might be 179, but your minimum won't be 0, maybe 120 or so.

[Red Fortune]

I looked at this map with reveal.exe, is anyone interested in the results? Or has someone already done it?

[Hydra]

I did check out some pieces to make sure I embarked and actually had sand (because it seems that when you gen it only marks a part as "soil" but not exactly what type of soil, I had loamy sand on my first attempt so no glass). But yeah, sure, I'm curious

[Augustus]

One of my champions just wrestled a GCS into a chasm. lol :p