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[cochramd]

saw on youtube video that you could embark with training axes instead of copper ones to save points.
Removed copper axes. Never added training axes. Dur.

No need to worry

• Deconstruct your wagon to get 3 wood.
• Use one wood for building of carpenter's workshop.
• Use one wood for crafting of training axe.
• Enjoy your wood cutting tool and spare wood.

Better yet:

• Deconstruct your wagon to get 3 wood.
• Use stone for building of carpenter's workshop.
• Use one wood for crafting of training axe.
• Enjoy your wood cutting tool and 2 spare wood.

[Skribbblie]

What did we learn? That it's a bad idea to put someone in the danger room without neck protection, yes? Yes.

[AzyWng]

What did we learn? That it's a bad idea to put someone in the danger room without neck protection, yes? Yes.

You best protect ya neck and all that, eh?

[Skribbblie]

You best protect ya neck and all that, eh?

It is legitimately amazing how necessary cloaks are for a soldier.

[cochramd]

You best protect ya neck and all that, eh?

It is legitimately amazing how necessary cloaks are for a soldier.

Chainmail and leather armor provide neck protection. If you're not using actual armor on your military for some reason, then in addition to cloaks you can use dresses, robes, togas, coats and shirts to provide neck protection. Just putting that out there.

[khearn]

They must put a lot of starch in the collars of their silk shirts.

[AzyWng]

They must put a lot of starch in the collars of their silk shirts.

Ah, he never said that the neck protection was any good. Just that it was there.

[Skribbblie]

They must put a lot of starch in the collars of their silk shirts.

Ah, he never said that the neck protection was any good. Just that it was there.

If it's good enough to stop a wooden training spear, it'll do.

[cochramd]

Seriously though, put some real armor on those guys. You can get all body parts armored with or without using metal, and armor is going to do way more than any cloak will.

[FrisianDude]

tiny collapse in cavern as floor was not well secured. The spinner Kol Nakuststhintad has gone missing. Presumed fallen from -48 to -107 (!)  I can't look down widely enough to see where he ended up; if the flal didn't vaporize him.

[khearn]

If he was alive while he fell, he should have radioed back reports as he fell, mapping all the way to the bottom. He might have to have been conscious to do that, I'm not 100% sure. The cave-in might have knocked him out before he went cavediving.

I've used this technique when I've tunnelled into the top of a very deep cavern, so deep I couldn't see the bottom. I just marked the opening as a pit zone and designated a handy kitten as a cave explorer. It sent excellent reports all the way down, and apparently landed on its feet. At least, one leg got blown in each direction when it disassembled at the bottom. Most useful kitten, evah.

[Trappington]

tiny collapse in cavern as floor was not well secured. The spinner Kol Nakuststhintad has gone missing. Presumed fallen from -48 to -107 (!)  I can't look down widely enough to see where he ended up; if the flal didn't vaporize him.

Reading about this made me remember....

In one of my early fortresses, I was starting to set up a cistern.  I had channeled down the sides and was going to mine out the bottom, setting up a support before the last piece was mined out.  I then promptly forgot to leave a tile un-mined, which killed two or three of my miners.    In the attempt to recover the bodies and properly inter them, I repeated my mistake, killing off the last of my skilled miners.   

[FrisianDude]

I am SURE I have done things similar. Especially in my earliest attempts at well/cistern.


Also Dodokor was NOT prepared for this horde of Goblins, beak dogs and trolls. At almost 50 inhabitants of whom fewer than 20 militia...

[Quasar_42]

I had a brilliant plan for building a mighty lake fortress out of the water, then collapsing it into the water.

A year and a half, a few thousand logs, and four drownings later, I have learned that constructions behave exactly how they would in real life, they crumble into a pile of building materials.

I will be draining the lake shortly and taking back what is mine.

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

I will be draining the lake shortly and taking back what is mine.

Easier to embark on cold/temperate biome then wait for it to freeze.
I've done that on an ocean only embark before: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=149165.0