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[stormyseasons]

Cheese thread. From a Cheese man, in a mirthful location, in my Flora n Fauna mod location.

Which I didn't realise was there until I got the notification 'Urist has cancelled store item in stockpile: webbed'. >.<

[Garath]

sounds yummie

[zwei]

I embarked to waterfall location - I was lucky enough that two trees blocked worst path and so wall blocking it off completelly was painless to build.

Fast forward fort falling to siege, being succesfully reclaimed.

Then I needed trees. So I designated all of aboveground to be cut.

Two trees blocking waterfall-path-of-death were cut down and woodcutter to to the other end to cut down some more trees. Cue in march of death of dwarves trying to bring logs to stockpile.

[SAFry]

I had 5 legendary hammer dwarves, The 5 Hammers (if only you could set unit names!), and I found some Adamantium so I decided to make them all Adamantium hammers and shields as their uniforms. Over the years (yes years!) I noticed how tough some of the FB fights were and how my weirdo hammer dwarfs kept resorting to biting and hitting the FB with their crossbows.

Eventually I had this incident where two FBs made it to my deep caverns base camp at the same time, one was intercepted by the 3 remaining Hammers and their new palls, the other ran straight into my war dog kennel. Basically the dogs tore their one apart while the Hammers took ages to finish off theirs.

Turns out that as Adamantium is so light it makes an awful choice for crushing weapons as it has no mass. I basically had given them the equivalent of wiffle bats to fight with. When I realised it made me think of that bit in Shaun of the Dead when they were trying to beat that zombie to death with pool cues to the tune of Queen - Don't Stop Me Now. Video made me LOL http://youtu.be/SnTR-cG5W1I

[Blackadder]

This. He just walks up and punches him, and this happens on the first hit.

[AWdeV]

Hahaha.


Metalcrafter. Secretive mood. Likes scepters. Nice. He ignores the normal forge, preferring instead to descend into the black heart of my vault and work Armok's Gift into a supremely glorious artifact on the Golden Anvil Tamefamine! Praise be to Armok! What metals will your loyal servant use?

We have Platinum. Gold. Electrum. Silver. Fine Pewter. Black bronze, bismuth bronze, steel, iron, bronze, copper, billon, lay pewter, lead, zinc, nickel, the choice is yours!

What. You're not getting anything.

Likes Pig Iron.


...


Make Pig Iron.


She rushes off. Up the stairs out of the vault, through the maze, past the dining halls, up 4 levels, into the stockpile and back.

I can't even try to planepack this because her route takes ages!

This had better be the awesomest Pig Iron scepter ever or I swear to all the gods of brutality and bloodshed I will brain you with it. You need it.


edit: not bad. Kinda cool. Heavier than I expected. Weighs more than a black bronze morningstar or the artifact birchen cabinet.

[Count Dorku]

Digging out a Dwarven particle accelerator in my latest fort, I accidentally hit 'dig downward staircase' instead of 'channel'. This would have been merely inconvenient if I hadn't then foolishly dug out a square under the staircase in the middle of the room (although I managed to get *most* of it channelled out properly).

Naturally, the miner who ended up bleeding out was friends with all of my starting seven, although the red arrows seem to have calmed down for now.

To honour his sacrifice, I've put him under the other dug-out staircase, which was next to a wall so it didn't fall down when I dug it out, and have constructed a menacing spike to sit on a platform one level above. Every goblin to get skewered on the spikes will be a sacrifice to my first casualty.

[CarpeDiem]

Umm, +baby roast+ anyone?

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[WillowLuman]

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[Garath]

you know dwarfs are a bit weird, then you find that...

[Scruffy]

I had some fun with magma again. I was filling my magma corridors under my new magmaforge (pretty close to surface since it was an volcano embark) and noticed that they didnt seem to be filling up. Initially I didn't pay much attention to it but soon I noticed that something strange was going on and then I remembered that I opened a hole in the corridor wall to let my incompetent mason McTrapped out and forgot to fix it. All the magma had flown down my main staircase and flooded multiple levels (hospital, catacombs, noble quarters..). Well, I didn't lose many dwarves so I just pulled the lever to close the magmaflow but.. nothing happened. Seems like my floodgates were not magma-safe (instead I had built magma-safe aquaducts right next to it.. )

Luckily I had build 4 waterwalls around my main staircase that I used to fill my qistern. I started pumping water (and ended up flushing a screaming liaison and 4 cats plummeting down 13 levels) and managed to save the topmost flooded level. I somehow got it contained though I lost half of my rather large fort.

A few years after I started the water flow again and ended up flooding my meeting hall. Turns out that while I had mined/channeled out all the obsidian walls I had missed one floor on top of an obsidian wall.

[Garath]

mechanisms in objects relating to magma also need to be magma safe

[Sus]

"Welp, looks like I need to go fell me some cave trees. What's the worst thing that could be lurking in there, anyway?"

*ka-GCS*

Seriously, it was like the damn thing was just waiting down there, just beyond my line of sight, for the hapless fool who would puncture the cavern wall. Are Giant Cave Spiders supposed to be psychic?

[bukitodinos]

how is the well dry?

WE ARE RIGHT OVER THE FUCKING AQUIFER

[Count Dorku]

Looked away from my fort for a few minutes, and came back to find my poor hapless dwarves being butchered by giant keas.

Ouch.