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[nightwhips]

Danger Room......made out of menacing spikes instead of training spears...

and then i AFKd for a bit to let them train....= endless cycle of training/dying <- then haulers go to remove corpses and die as well -.-

In Soviet Dwarf Fortress, game exploits you!

[Liber celi]

Genned my first world in 34.xx today. I set the time limit to 5000 years.
When I check the legends screen, I notice the surprisingly high number ( ~360) of artifacts.

Turns out, every single one is a legendary book, written by a mole monster (demon, i guess) who is also the leader of a human civ. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
The whole classic literature of this World are "vicious" essays about Making Love to Diseases, Being a Mole Monsters and the Superiority of Man OR essays about the mentioned essays OR essays about the essays about the essays.
I think some of them are even named like that...
This mole monster is the only person in this world who can write! What does it even think it is doing?

[Grax]

Genned my first world in 34.xx today. I set the time limit to 5000 years.
When I check the legends screen, I notice the surprisingly high number ( ~360) of artifacts.

Turns out, every single one is a legendary book, written by a mole monster (demon, i guess) who is also the leader of a human civ. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE.
The whole classic literature of this World are "vicious" essays about Making Love to Diseases, Being a Mole Monsters and the Superiority of Man OR essays about the mentioned essays OR essays about the essays about the essays.
I think some of them are even named like that...
This mole monster is the only person in this world who can write! What does it even think it is doing?

I think you told a story of a world of time-traveller.
"Mole monster" were the one scientist of the survived race of moles who travelled to the past and stucked then.
So he wrote a lot of books in a hope that even though one of the books will somehow somewhen reach the far descendants and he will receive help from future.

[Aoi]

The whole classic literature of this World are "vicious" essays about Making Love to Diseases...

Where is this world, and are they accepting new migrants?

[Aspgren]

The new "rivers have edges" thing has a downside. I mean sure dwarves who fall in a river can easily climb out of it. Hooray!! .. but there's a problem.

See I embarked near a river with a waterfall. I built a bridge over the river and told my two woodcutters to chop down trees on the other side. So far so good right? Well at the edge of the waterfall the water level is a mere 1 or 2 because of the powerful torrents and the massive fall. Quite natural, right?

 Well dwarven logic dictates that a low waterlevel is completely passable. Something they wouldn't even have thought about before the ramps along the river edge were implemented. So they both took a shortcut through the waterfall and ended up 10 z levels down in a crushed mess. I facepalmed as I watched their blood being swept further down the stream.

[Kogut]

A known and reported bug.

[olopi]

my marksmen standing behind fortifications, the enemies before them, none of the Dorfs was shooting, they had bolts!!

[Nemica]

my marksmen standing behind fortifications, the enemies before them, none of the Dorfs was shooting, they had bolts!!

Had the same thing, just with an archery tower. Down on the ground was a bowman. In the tower were my marksdorfs. One of them. Died. From arrows to the knee. But no, they didn't shoot back.

[Flying Dice]

The new "rivers have edges" thing has a downside. I mean sure dwarves who fall in a river can easily climb out of it. Hooray!! .. but there's a problem.

See I embarked near a river with a waterfall. I built a bridge over the river and told my two woodcutters to chop down trees on the other side. So far so good right? Well at the edge of the waterfall the water level is a mere 1 or 2 because of the powerful torrents and the massive fall. Quite natural, right?

 Well dwarven logic dictates that a low waterlevel is completely passable. Something they wouldn't even have thought about before the ramps along the river edge were implemented. So they both took a shortcut through the waterfall and ended up 10 z levels down in a crushed mess. I facepalmed as I watched their blood being swept further down the stream.

For now, just use dfhack to deramp the area near the waterfall, or floor it over, or wall it off, or etc.

[rtg593]

started building a floor tile bridge across a gap, changed my mind, designated it all to be removed...

Yup, someone removed the supporting floor tile while 3 other dwarves were removing tiles further out.

[Aspgren]

The new "rivers have edges" thing has a downside. I mean sure dwarves who fall in a river can easily climb out of it. Hooray!! .. but there's a problem.

See I embarked near a river with a waterfall. I built a bridge over the river and told my two woodcutters to chop down trees on the other side. So far so good right? Well at the edge of the waterfall the water level is a mere 1 or 2 because of the powerful torrents and the massive fall. Quite natural, right?

 Well dwarven logic dictates that a low waterlevel is completely passable. Something they wouldn't even have thought about before the ramps along the river edge were implemented. So they both took a shortcut through the waterfall and ended up 10 z levels down in a crushed mess. I facepalmed as I watched their blood being swept further down the stream.

For now, just use dfhack to deramp the area near the waterfall, or floor it over, or wall it off, or etc.

Nope. I just set the riverbed to "restricted" and the dwarves happily started using the bridge instead.

[rtg593]

The new "rivers have edges" thing has a downside. I mean sure dwarves who fall in a river can easily climb out of it. Hooray!! .. but there's a problem.

See I embarked near a river with a waterfall. I built a bridge over the river and told my two woodcutters to chop down trees on the other side. So far so good right? Well at the edge of the waterfall the water level is a mere 1 or 2 because of the powerful torrents and the massive fall. Quite natural, right?

 Well dwarven logic dictates that a low waterlevel is completely passable. Something they wouldn't even have thought about before the ramps along the river edge were implemented. So they both took a shortcut through the waterfall and ended up 10 z levels down in a crushed mess. I facepalmed as I watched their blood being swept further down the stream.

For now, just use dfhack to deramp the area near the waterfall, or floor it over, or wall it off, or etc.

Nope. I just set the riverbed to "restricted" and the dwarves happily started using the bridge instead.

I'm having the same problem right now, cept it's a 17 z drop...

I'm damming the river at the map edge, instead;-)

[Spinal_Taper]

Build a reservoir to hook up to a brook. Never noticed the brook was stagnant somehow until it was all done.

[rtg593]

Just spent 20 minutes working out what the different colors meant under the Units List, since there doesn't seem to be a wiki page for it. As I'm posting a new thread on it, asking if I got this right, I noticed Dwarf Therapist has the colors laid out in the same basic arrangement.

Face palm.

Then noticed the skills/attributes wiki page breaks it all down with the same color-coding.

Double face palm.

[wastedlands]

Survived my very first goblin ambush, only to have the dwarves tantrum because I hadn't been paying attention to their food needs.