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[Ozarck]

Wonder, speaking of nestboxes, if The Toad has plans to let wild birds use tree twig tiles/pebble tiles as wild next boxes.

wild next boxes

wild next boxes

wild next boxes

you mean ... nests?

[pisskop]

Wonder, speaking of nestboxes, if The Toad has plans to let wild birds use tree twig tiles/pebble tiles as wild next boxes.

wild next boxes

wild next boxes

wild next boxes

you mean ... nests?

I believe the proper term for them is 'grown nest box'

[Baffler]

The end of the second year of Hallbeards, and not a single migrant has arrived. No message, just nothing. The first year I thought "Maybe they just didn't come in autumn because I arrived in early autumn, and they don't arrive in the winter, do they?" By spring, I was expecting an extra large migrant wave due to the wealth the starting seven had generated, but still nobody came. Summer came and went as well, and only the human caravan came to Hallbeards. By autumn, I was starting to worry. On a whim, I looked at d_init, and saw that...

I hadn't set my population cap back up from 4, from my last fort. In that time, the carpenter and mason had built a small town between them, and the miner had excavated an entire magnetite cluster, most of which was turned into gear for the two soldiers I took along, and the squads they will be in command of. I set the cap back up after smashing my desk with my forehead, and Hallbeards is looking forward to lots and lots of migrants, come spring.

[Kuikka]

Reclaiming Rivertrapped, human town. Day one, dangerous water animals. Sea lamprey dragged my armoured axeman from a bridge into depths. It also harassed carps and pikes and otters like a boss, until my liaison Innu (the grandson of current Empress) came, jumped into the moat and killed the beast... and then he went to conduct a meeting like nothing special happened.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

`Axeman' Ibubir, Peasant cancels Store Item in Stockpile: Interrupted by Sea Lamprey.
The Sea Lamprey slaps The Peasant in the lower body with his tail, lightly tapping the target!
Axeman' Ibubir, Peasant: I have a part in this.  I will take revenge!
The Sea Lamprey bites The Peasant in the upper body, bruising the muscle and bruising the right lung through the (llama wool cloak)!
The Peasant is having more trouble breathing!
The Sea Lamprey bites The Peasant in the tongue and the left cheek collapses into a lump of gore!
The Sea Lamprey bites The Peasant in the throat, bruising it through the (llama wool cloak)!
`Axeman' Ibubir, Peasant has been found dead, drowned.

The Elf outpost liaison Innu Famousan from Usmikbehal has arrived.
The outpost liaison grabs The Sea Lamprey by the upper body with his left upper arm!
The outpost liaison throws The Sea Lamprey by the upper body with The outpost liaison's left upper arm!
The outpost liaison releases the grip of The outpost liaison's left upper arm from The Sea Lamprey's upper body.
The outpost liaison stands up.
Innu Famousan, outpost liaison: I cannot just stand by.  There is no need to feel vengeful.
The outpost liaison kicks The Sea Lamprey in the head with his left foot and the injured part collapses!
The Sea Lamprey has been knocked unconscious!
The Sea Lamprey slams into an obstacle!

[taptap]

I dropped a "bridge" (few floor tiles) into cavern lake instead of deconstructing them one by one - forgetting that I was already preparing drainage right below - now I have a flooded underground construction site.

[Tacomagic]

Play the game for several years, just now realize that starting with 7 dwarves is a Snow White reference.

*Facepalm*

[TheFlame52]

Play the game for several years, just now realize that starting with 7 dwarves is a Snow White reference.

*Facepalm*

If it is, I'm standing there facepalming too.

[Ancalagon_TB]

I realized the Snow White reference last week and thought it was hilarious - and yeah, was groaning a bit for not getting it right away.

Mine:  I pierced the first and second layer of the cavern at almost the same time.  I walled in the tunnel leading to the stairwell going to the second level - one level is enough mkay?

... several months later, I get a warning that one of my dwarves is throwing a tantrum.  Why?  My fort is well stocked and comfortable, but he's apparently eating vermin, sleeping in the mud etc... Turns out he walled himself out, and then had to go down to the second cavern level to survive.  Somehow made it for a long time too, no monsters etc got him.  When we freed the mason, he rand upstairs, started dozens of fist fights, smashed things for a while and... well now he's over it it seems.  Next time I'll build a floor instead of a wall!

[the1337doofus]

I decided to embark on an ocean, and, of course, an aquifer. I spent at least 200 points on screw pump components.

Then I found out that apparently there was no aquifer. So when I could have packed extra food/picks/etc, I wasted it on unnecessary stuff.

*facepalm*
*facepalm*
*facepalm*
the1337doofus has been struck down.

[Eisenritter]

Play the game for several years, just now realize that starting with 7 dwarves is a Snow White reference.

*Facepalm*

You mean it's not The Lord of the Rings? 

[Ancalagon_TB]

Play the game for several years, just now realize that starting with 7 dwarves is a Snow White reference.

*Facepalm*

You mean it's not The Lord of the Rings? 

That would be 13 dwarves wouldn't it be?  Bilbo made it 14, so not unlucky

[warwizard]

Oh Dear I'm afraid I'm going to get to see what passes for a tantrum in 40.14 shortly:
'22' Etostetur, Dwarven Baby Deceased  crushed by a falling marble boulder.
Momma was patched up and grabbed her other 4 babies and continued working...
we are trying to pierce an aquifer and went to install a wall in flowing water, momma has carpentry labor enabled and shortly:
'19' Konostirist, Dwarven Baby Deceased  Drowned
'18' Idashustuth, Dwarven Baby Deceased  Drowned
'17' Uristimush, Dwarven Baby Deceased  Drowned

Momma is afraid from trauma, has three horrifieds from watching her babies drown and is drowing herself, so we may not see the tantrum from her...
her 5th baby is in 7/7 water the next tile over, so we have another horrified coming shortly.
The expedition leader is also there with the baby, so we may be seeing a bit of a problem soon, though not from daddy quite yet 12 blue words , 6 green ones and one red one from 19's death, so 4 more dead babies and possibly a dead spouse may take him from happy to miserable in short order.

The moral of the story turn off the masonry/carpentry skills on the momma carrying babies before asking dwarves to build walls in rushing water.

The name of the fort: Submergedbolts

[Bearskie]

Just unleashed my dragonfire trap on a goblin siege.  Which had the unfortunate side effect of melting my 3 supposedly dragonfire-proof dolomite bridge controlling the trap.  Im guessing the reason here is that continuous dragonfire is just too much for any sort of material :/

Luckily my 4th bridge is okay though, because it's the only thing between the dragon and a fort full of drunken dwarves atm.

[morlicar]

Play the game for several years, just now realize that starting with 7 dwarves is a Snow White reference.

*Facepalm*

You mean it's not The Lord of the Rings? 

That would be 13 dwarves wouldn't it be?  Bilbo made it 14, so not unlucky

LOTR: there were 7 dwarf kings decended from the 7 Fathers that Aule created and Eru adopted.  It come into play in the Sauron's final spell over the One Ring
3 rings for the elven kings under the sky
7 for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone
9 for the mortal men doomed to die
1 for the dark lord on his dark throne
in the land of Mordor where the shadows lie
One ring to rule them all
One ring to find them
One ring to bring them all
and in the darkness bind them
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.

(Poem by memory, so could have some details off)

[The Bard]

40.14 tantrum: it was inevitable.

Legendary Weaver went nuts, smashed her loom, then ran to the other side of the fort to punch a random woodworker in the guy 'til she threw up.

Said weaver is from an entire family of jerks who all miss this one nephew they left behind and NOTHING seems to cancel missing him out. This one alone has a screen full of blissful thoughts and she still went ballistic over her stupid jerk nephew. If I ever get him in a migrant wave, I'm going to burrow him on a platform above out caldera, surrounded by cage traps for Magma crab capture duty.