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[Teranar]

So my current fortress was going to be a utopia, a demonstration of how I've come along at fortress design and how awesome I am. So I embarked at a location with flux, magma, hidden fun stuff, and high rain and trees, and since it was being built into a haunted mountain range, I brought a dozen war dogs and a soldier dwarf.

Now almost a year has passed. They're all dead except the farmer dwarf. See, there's an exposed chasm chock full of undead swallowmen and the such, and they killed 6 dwarves, 12 dogs, and now there's just one crazed dwarf, left all alone and has walled herself up behind a wall of traps, and while she's gotten the initial structure built, but the liason left upset because he was chased around by skeletal ratmen, the caravan ran away, and its just her in an empty fortress at the maw of hell.

I'm gonna see how far this goes! Will the final survivor of Taxedhammers, Ezum Urvadlotol, finally go insane? Will migrants come to this DEATH TRAP?! Will I remember to update this thread?

[Teranar]

First update (That was fast):
She's NAMING some of the skeletal Cave Swallowmen.

[Opirian]

In all fairness... aren't all fortresses death traps?

[dornbeast]

In all fairness... aren't all fortresses death traps?

Well, yes, but usually it's the orcs, goblins, and occasionally the elves and humans doing all the dying, rather than the dwarves.

[Demonic Spoon]

Most forts have all the dwarves die, though sometimes it's through old age. Very rarely though.

[Teranar]

I'm giggling because everyone but ONE dwarf died, even with all my prep and planning for the worst, I had a dedicated axedwarf along. Also she's currently trying to survive the winter. Undead got tired and instead a pack of wolves showed up to die on the stonefall traps.

Usually my fortresses fall from things like Megabeasts and Sieges in the winter when the moat freezes over and they walk across unopposed. And the force trying to reclaim it gets squashed by the megabeast.

[Gergination]

Most forts have all the dwarves die, though sometimes it's through old age. Very rarely though.

If the only thing killing them is old age, you're never going to have all of them die given dwarves incredible propensity to breed.

[Albedo]

It's like learning to ski - if you don't fall down, you're not learning anything new.