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[klefenz]

I accidentally made a race of troll cocks that would war with everyone and wield giant phallus-like clubs.

The club in question:

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I read that archaeologists often find ancient stone dildos in dig sites, but they don't report them that often.
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[brokegamer]

I read that archaeologists often find ancient stone dildos in dig sites, but they don't report them that often.

They're usually referred to as "fertility symbols" but yeah, even ancient double ended dildos have been found. Boy this got off topic.

[the1337doofus]

So apparently bridges, walls, and moats don't stop flyers. Death toll: 1 thriving fortress.

[klefenz]

So apparently bridges, walls, and moats don't stop flyers. Death toll: 1 thriving fortress.

Bridges can stop flyers if they block the entrance.

[yaymeh]

Today, we mourn the legendary Woodcutter Athel Osadalth who after many years of service and slaughtering thousands of trees was finally overwhelmed by his enemies. Two of the sneaky little bastards teamed up, growing right in front of the ramp that he used to walk back to the fortress and blocking his way back home. Hungry, thirsty and tired, he still fought on bravely until the very end, killing one random tree after another the whole time, but it was impossible to find the one who kept him from his family between all of them in time. He was found this morning by a new novice woodcutter, lying starved on a gigantic pile of wood. He will be remembered for many generations by the enormous new wood stockpile the miners had to tunnel out to bury him a midst the trophies that he accumulated during his last battle.

[Sutremaine]

Hungry, thirsty and tired, he still fought on bravely until the very end, killing one random tree after another the whole time, but it was impossible to find the one who kept him from his family between all of them in time.

Nice dramatisation.

Assuming you notice in time (eg. 'Hunting Small Creature' in the Units list, oddly hungry/thirsty dwarf in the health screen), you can figure out the blockage by starting from the last known fortress-connected position. Place something, check that the build items list contains a fortress's worth of stuff, but don't actually order anything to be built. Then move the cursor into the felling area until your only materials are a bunch of wood and maybe a few random other things. That'll tell you where the blockage closest to the fortress is, which is probably easier than starting from the trapped woodcutter. Doing it that way, your building item options will change from 'a particular bunch of wood' to 'a different bunch of wood'.

You're not limited to raw materials -- statues, traps, or other furniture will work.

[Doktoro Reichard]

Finished building an amazing dust creator flooring over the 3rd aboveground level of my fortress. Then I wen there and started to build retracting bridges. When those were built. I then began deconstructing the floors that kept the entire structure in place.

Only after breaching the roof, the farm, the goblet and clothes store, the old goblin pen and the obsidian chamber did I realize my mistake:

Bridges don't support floors.

[ColdOneK]

When I realized you need to assign high boots, gauntlets, gloves, and socks twice for the dipshits militia to equip 2 of each

--also I trained some elk birds - elk birds screwed spored and had kids - kids hatched - mothers died from starvation(apparently a bug)
some kids were trained at various levels - some were tame - some just reverted to semi wild on their way to the butcher
didn't care - tame ones were bred for leather
naked mole dogs couldn't be trained for war and reproduced slowly - useless for industry

do it yourself - it's easy - better with cave crocs - more offspring = more leather = more !!FUN!! - only seen them as mounts though - never seen gcs - only webs
leather is better then cloth - less of a headache to maintain an industry with - if you get the right animals
and it protects haulers better
not to mention masterwork elk bird leather gear probably psyches out cocky goblins that come with them in sieges enough to.. you know get them to not run from the 50 strong army of Master level dwarven warriors...clad in full steel - no candy because that would be...cheating 

[Sutremaine]

--also I trained some elk birds - elk birds screwed spored and had kids - kids hatched - mothers died from starvation(apparently a bug)

Elk birds are grazers. You can rescue the mothers if you get to them quickly enough after the chicks hatch, but there are better ways of getting eggs or horns.

[ColdOneK]

no you can't - once a grazer gets to starving, i've never been able to save it
for elk birds, its a bug - its even referenced as one on the wiki

I could care less about bones/horns/eggs - I breed massive amounts of them for the leather
since it's less of a headache then growing pig tails/rope reeds - witch I still do for funzies
leather is a much easier industry to manage then cloth - if you're lucky with with what you catch - you don't have to take the time to specify between yarn/silk/cloth with the manager

I get crap tons of fish - meat - plants - 1300 meat - 500 fish - 1400 - plants - 600 drink - 1200 other
I usually embark with brooks

It's also convenient never having to worry about them dying of old age - lol - only the males live long enough
I build nest boxes where they graze btw

[Tarzanello]

When I realized you need to assign high boots, gauntlets, gloves, and socks twice for the dipshits militia to equip 2 of each

You do? Oh crud. Welp, that explains quite a lot actually D:
Thank you kind sir, you have spared countless of dwarves the deep sadness that comes with asymmetry, in clothing and body shapes alike.

[gunpowdertea]

When I realized you need to assign high boots, gauntlets, gloves, and socks twice for the dipshits militia to equip 2 of each

This.
And the sad thing is: I have been playing for ... some years (five or six) and I found this mentioned in passing a couple of months ago.

[ColdOneK]

First fortress I got to survive long enough to start making masterwork steel items and the pricks were only putting one of each on
I'd noticed because I wanted to give my militia commander the masterwork steel mace, while the other guy got an exceptional quality one
he'd only had 1 glove, and 1 high boot
however, he had Armorable or w/e the artifact iron left gauntlet and a masterwork steel gauntlet because he was told by his uniform to do so = ./facepalm

[PDF urist master]

so this just happened. A GCS sprayed some webs onto my weapon traps and my mace lord happened to walk through it on her way to kill goblins.

quick question. can I assign a crutch to her?

[Sutremaine]

Eventually, if she doesn't die of infection.