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[Corai]

Custom profession names to fix the plurals. I feel like I've started a trend because I've noticed a rise in people playing DF humans in the last month or two.

Same, i've been asked by several people for my modbolds so they can play as them.

[Splint]

Custom profession names to fix the plurals. I feel like I've started a trend because I've noticed a rise in people playing DF humans in the last month or two.

Same, i've been asked by several people for my modbolds so they can play as them.

Why play as them when playing as humans/dorfs and FIGHTING them is more fun?

[Drazinononda]

Play as giant sponges. Which of course requires giving them spongy hands and removing [IMMOBILE].

Then turn your fort into a food factory that exports only food made from tallow. Extra points if you Prepare Carefully and name your fort "Crustycrabs" and your legendary cook "Squarepants."

[Argus_Mccray]

I nearly lost a fortress a few days back to a massive fire. I was playing on a high savagery biome, so I had all kinds of weird animal people wandering in and out all the time. I put up lines of cage traps to catch goblin ambushers that kept showing up, but one group of hamstermen decided they were going to make a mad dash into the cage traps en masse. I was annoyed enough that I decided to pit the hamstermen into the volcano on my fort. Well, I failed to notice that the volcano had a ramp on its edge (from where I channeled to get my magma forges working) and the !!hamstermen!! had just enough time to climb out of the magma before dying. I learned a valuable lesson there regarding ramps. I also learned another, equally important lesson: cave moss is flammable. The !!hamstermen!! that crawled out of the magma ignited the cave moss on the floor, causing a rapidly spreading fire that ended up killing 3 dwarves. Thankfully, Urist McCoolheaded was able to get a door to seal the burning section of the fortress before it spread too far. And that's how I nearly lost a fortress to a hamsterman fire.

[Darkgamma]

I've technically lost a fortress due to the fact that the dead rose and the living thrallified, and I dumped corpses beside my bone carver workshop in the centre of the fort. I'm down to two dwarves walled off and surrounded by suppresed aquifer.

[Supersheepman]

I'm being attacked by some sort of water titan with a trunk and a poisonous sting. I'm not sure if I should be worried.

[Slayerhero90]

I'm being attacked by some sort of water titan with a trunk and a poisonous sting. I'm not sure if I should be worried.

Not at all.

A baby's punch could kill that thing.

[Supersheepman]

I'm being attacked by some sort of water titan with a trunk and a poisonous sting. I'm not sure if I should be worried.

Not at all.

A baby's punch could kill that thing.

Actually, it's just killed two of my soldiers, a baby, and an alpaca. Every time someone hits it, it sustains major injuries, but the stinger is a bitch. It breaks bones, and that's before the poison even gets into the bloodsteam. I think marksdwarves are needed.

[Darkgamma]

Or ballistas. Everything's better with ballistas.

[Supersheepman]

Or ballistas. Everything's better with ballistas.

Unfortunately, my uber-ballista battery that covers my entryway is under maintenance right now. The titan picked a fine time to attack, didn't it?

[Darkgamma]

Eh, that's horrible then. Wall off the ballistas and repair them, then carve out fortifications out of the wall. Ballista batteries hiding behind walls are always extra cool.

[Scruffy]

Eh, that's horrible then. Wall off the ballistas and repair them, then carve out fortifications out of the wall. Ballista batteries hiding behind walls are always extra cool.

And try to get rid of the siege worker's eyes so they don't get scared and start screaming like little kobolds when they see an enemy moving towards the fortifications.

[misko27]

And try to get rid of the siege worker's eyes so they don't get scared and start screaming like little kobolds when they see an enemy moving towards the fortifications.

...
I never thought of that.

[crazysheep]

But that strategy has been around for ages, didn't you know?

[Smashness]

Someone should go ahead and change the title of the thread to "Ballista discussion".