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[Derpy Dev]

It's only really terrible if you're 100% trade dependent. And if that's the case, then it's time to expand your industries.

I enjoy the benefits and suffer the curses from only being near dwarves. I don't have sieges or kobolds, but I only have 1 trade caravan a year.

[Derro]

You can also artificially switch mayors after every production mandate.

[Iren]

A band of goblins arrived to siege my fort, startling one of my fisherdorfs and making him jump into a tree. Urist McDorfus got himself tangled in the branches and couldn't get back to the ground, so died of dehidration hanging from the damn tree. Afterwards one of my woodcutters felled the tree and the corpse of Urist McDorfus had to be rescued among a heap of wood logs. The engraver is still laughing after he was told to represent that in a wall.

[muldrake]

Yeah, in my experience, they usually stop banning the export of a certain good after a while. With mine, he banned the export of battle axes, then unbanned, after a while mandated crowns, banned export of those, etc.

I don't mind when some noble bans the export of stuff I'd never export in the first place (like battle axes).  I do think one of the most annoying mandates is for some weird craft that you can't specifically pick, so it's pure chance whether or not you get it before the time runs out.  This is also why I like putting a waterfall into a noble's quarters, along with a means of closing them off, with a nice artifact floodgate or at least a really nice one.

That way you can just close the floodgate and immediately turn them into a drowning chamber.

I've had reasonably good luck with noble mandates not being too onerous, though.

[Bumber]

I do think one of the most annoying mandates is for some weird craft that you can't specifically pick, so it's pure chance whether or not you get it before the time runs out.

This was fixed. There are now jobs for making specific crafts.

[StagnantSoul]

Went through, designating things for trade... Apparently I accidentally traded away all our charcoal. Two year's worth of cutting and burning. Gone. For a giant lemur.

[Ironfang]

Went through, designating things for trade... Apparently I accidentally traded away all our charcoal. Two year's worth of cutting and burning. Gone. For a giant lemur.

Ah, better start cutting and burning again. I hear elf tears help a lot with the process.

[Untouchable]

A fruit gatherer died of thirst by getting stuck in a tree and then another gatherer took the stepladder while he was up there. I completely forgot to make a second stepladder so that was a lesson learnt.

[Pvt. Pirate]

A fruit gatherer died of thirst by getting stuck in a tree and then another gatherer took the stepladder while he was up there. I completely forgot to make a second stepladder so that was a lesson learnt.

i never figured what my dorfs could use stepladders for, so i never built any... i'll change that on my next embark.

[SteelZsar]

My dwarfs just spent a year punching a giant bat to death. 30 of them. Literally a year.

Now all of them are legendary observant so... bonus??

[Mathel]

While trying to make a farming plot, I accidentaly made a pit of drowning instead, because I underestimated aquifer.
At least I made the drain first, so it did not flood the fort. 3 dwarves drowned when trying to haul stones, so I restricted the area and forbid the items.

2 years later, a fisherdwarf drowned in there for no apparent reason (The area was still restricted and all the fisherdwarves INCLUDING HIM were fishing in a murky pool until then.)

[Lohakar]

My dwarfs just spent a year punching a giant bat to death. 30 of them. Literally a year.

Now all of them are legendary observant so... bonus??

Clever grinders! :-)

[Derro]

My dwarfs just spent a year punching a giant bat to death. 30 of them. Literally a year.

Now all of them are legendary observant so... bonus??

I had something similar with a bunch of unarmed dwarves and an armadillo. Seven months into the battle, I had four legendary wrestlers/strikers and one unharmed, rolled-up armadillo. The dwarves would periodically pass out, but upon waking the punching would resume.

[ironsnake345]

I had something similar with a bunch of unarmed dwarves and an armadillo. Seven months into the battle, I had four legendary wrestlers/strikers and one unharmed, rolled-up armadillo. The dwarves would periodically pass out, but upon waking the punching would resume.

"I punched. And I missed. And then I punched again. And then I missed. I punched, and then I punched again, I missed both times. Then I was too tired to fight, and then I got sad. I had some ale, and then I passed out. I dreamed I was punching an armadillo. I missed."

[PimpFrog]

Well mine is not that interesting but I really facepalmed when I figured out that I made the bridge that was going to block the main entrance retracting instead of raising. Nevertheless my game crashed before I could see my dwarves perish