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Heliomance

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My First Stupid Dwarf Thing
« on: June 20, 2009, 05:17:43 pm »
My fortress is getting along nicely now, got everything set up as I like it, and I'm considering embarking on a Stupid Dwarf Thing. My first thought was to keep it simple and designate half a ton of engravers, then smooth and engrave the entire exterior of the mountain I'm on. Other suggestions for a first project welcome!
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Re: My First Stupid Dwarf Thing
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2009, 05:20:25 pm »
How tall is your mountain?
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Re: My First Stupid Dwarf Thing
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2009, 06:11:24 pm »
Make a Trader Kill box... those are quite fun...
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Military dorfs are the busiest if their partner is also in the military, Military children are my forts future, also its hilariously tragic when a mother carrying her child into battle gets hit, and the baby dies....
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Re: My First Stupid Dwarf Thing
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2009, 06:48:52 pm »
But I like my traders... they bring me shiny things...
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Re: My First Stupid Dwarf Thing
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2009, 06:51:25 pm »
Fine, Make it an Elf Killing box, same thing.. :P
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Military dorfs are the busiest if their partner is also in the military, Military children are my forts future, also its hilariously tragic when a mother carrying her child into battle gets hit, and the baby dies....
I fixed that up for you.

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Re: My First Stupid Dwarf Thing
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2009, 07:01:41 pm »
As for the mountain, it's 7 z levels high at the tallest point, and covers a good two thirds to three quarters of the map. I think I went with a 6x6 embark; there's a lot of mountain.
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Re: My First Stupid Dwarf Thing
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2009, 07:39:30 pm »
Carve out a fortress right underneath the mountains skin... then get rid of the last layer, revealing your immense fortifications and ballista crews, bonus points if you make it all collapse epicly not killing a single dwarf DURING a siege
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Military dorfs are the busiest if their partner is also in the military, Military children are my forts future, also its hilariously tragic when a mother carrying her child into battle gets hit, and the baby dies....
I fixed that up for you.

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Re: My First Stupid Dwarf Thing
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2009, 08:50:01 pm »
Make a kitten blender.....You know you want to. ;)
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Re: My First Stupid Dwarf Thing
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2009, 09:02:54 pm »
Would be quite interesting, aye... trouble with that is I've been far too efficient with slaughter orders thus far to have enough kittens around. Maybe once my computerised entrance defense system is up and running - just need to hook up some more mechanisms, shouldn't be too long - I'll start actively trying to cause a catsplosion.
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Re: My First Stupid Dwarf Thing
« Reply #9 on: June 21, 2009, 07:45:00 am »
you could set up loads of cat cages on the walls to the entrance, link them to levers then once a siege comes along, BOOM! catsplosion and they all get distracted trying to kill the cats so you can slaughter them with one dwarf.
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Re: My First Stupid Dwarf Thing
« Reply #10 on: June 21, 2009, 05:09:12 pm »
Quote from: warlordzephyr on June 21, 2009, 07:45:00 am
you could set up loads of cat cages on the walls to the entrance, link them to levers then once a siege comes along, BOOM! catsplosion and they all get distracted trying to kill the cats so you can slaughter them with one dwarf.
its a kitten powered defence shield! stop all those nasty bolts from killing your archers just flood their spot with cats!
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Re: My First Stupid Dwarf Thing
« Reply #11 on: June 21, 2009, 06:50:01 pm »
Quote from: Akhier the Dragon hearted on June 21, 2009, 05:09:12 pm
Quote from: warlordzephyr on June 21, 2009, 07:45:00 am
you could set up loads of cat cages on the walls to the entrance, link them to levers then once a siege comes along, BOOM! catsplosion and they all get distracted trying to kill the cats so you can slaughter them with one dwarf.
its a kitten powered defence shield! stop all those nasty bolts from killing your archers just flood their spot with cats!

God that would solve so many problems... Dwarves getting shot being #1 and kittens clogging my cpu with pathing is #2, Boredom is a close 3rd 
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Quote from: Gergination on June 19, 2009, 07:10:02 pm
Quote from: Efun on June 19, 2009, 07:02:52 pm
Military dorfs are the busiest if their partner is also in the military, Military children are my forts future, also its hilariously tragic when a mother carrying her child into battle gets hit, and the baby dies....
I fixed that up for you.