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Bunny

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Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« on: November 15, 2009, 01:15:05 pm »
I decided I wanted to see what else might be fun on the DwarfHeaven map, so searched specifically for the following features:

Aquifer NO
Flux stone YES
Underground river YES
Magma pipe YES
Other features YES

Found a lovely 5x5 spot ina terrifying location.  On embark things seemed okay.  No visible animals aside from those I had brought along, so we set to digging out the fortress.  The underground river turned up nice and quickly.  A little inconvenient considering the digging plans I'd started, but easy to work around.


Wait... maybe I should check the messages...


Oh dear...


Ohhhh dear...


There were 8 pages of this.


The water was a little bit infested...



Just a little...


Quickly swapped over the mining plans


Unfortunately the animals started pouring out in swarms.


My last surviving dorf managed to get a wall up.


Giant eagle!  Yay!


Miasma... and skeletal goats.





So anyway... I now find myself playing hermit fortress without ever quite having meant to.  I now have a named Giant Skeletal Toad on the loose on the surface, having survived about 8-9 escaping undead watery beasts, 3 skeletal goats and having avoided the eagle so far.  Lost all my livestock except one cat and one muskox.

The good news is, the food and booze supplies should last a while, now!

Wish me luck!
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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2009, 01:39:23 pm »
Good Luck :D

Ive always wanted to play a Hermit Fortress, however everytime I tried my last remaining dwarf would still somehow find a way to kill himself. ::)
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Quote from: Kilika on April 03, 2010, 11:21:40 pm
If someone is going to mess with my fort, they deserve to drown in poop.

Bunny

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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2009, 01:40:18 pm »

Yay!  Migrants!  Unfortunately they decided to walk past the skeletal giant toad on their way in.  Recruit them all!


Oh dear.  That toad is a bit hardcore.


Things probably could've gone better.

Shortly afterwards, my surviving original peasant died under attack from yet more skeletal goats.  So I am hermitting once again.
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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2009, 02:18:58 pm »
Need those gen parameters and embarking site, man! :D
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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2009, 02:58:09 pm »
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Need those gen parameters and embarking site, man! :D

I used the dwarf heaven site generator
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=32682.0

but instead of going to the embark site on that thread, I searched for desired location with the following specs...



That there is the site I went to.  Exact area. 

Have fun!  ;D
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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2009, 03:28:12 pm »
Ohshit.


There it is



Damn.


And then there were 3.

My dorfs don't go outside anymore.
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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2009, 03:39:30 pm »
Quote from: Bunny on November 15, 2009, 02:58:09 pm
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Need those gen parameters and embarking site, man! :D

I used the dwarf heaven site generator
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=32682.0

but instead of going to the embark site on that thread, I searched for desired location with the following specs...



That there is the site I went to.  Exact area. 

Have fun!  ;D


Wow, the hermatic land....
odd?
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Bunny

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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2009, 03:42:12 pm »
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Wow, the hermatic land....
odd?

Damn. :o  I did not even notice that before.  Spooky...
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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2009, 05:02:41 pm »
Quote from: Bunny on November 15, 2009, 03:42:12 pm
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Wow, the hermatic land....
odd?

Damn. :o  I did not even notice that before.  Spooky...

The plane of Omen.

I'm not sure what we're looking at here. But I think it's supernatural  :-[
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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2009, 05:10:06 pm »
The Dwarven gods are angry!
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Quote from: Meanmelter on November 23, 2009, 11:39:42 pm
"when in doubt, Magma"

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Miners are diggin out nicely, everything will go right, i hope. hell, what am i even saying? this is dwarf fortress. it wont go right.

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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2009, 05:58:19 pm »
Id think theyd be laughing quite pleased with themselves about now actually =P
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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2009, 06:05:43 pm »
If this isn't challenging enough for you, when you reclaim the site the underground brook creatures will be respawned... but any existing brook creatures from before will still be there.

For best results, abandon and reclaim several times in a row before getting down to business. :)
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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2009, 07:49:27 pm »
Every time I plan a hermit fortress the hermit ends up going insane because I crushed his friends to death with a microcline cave-in.
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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2009, 09:55:22 pm »
Quote from: Bunny on November 15, 2009, 03:28:12 pm
And then there were 3.

My dorfs don't go outside anymore.

Three?  Up from one? (twice)  I'd say you're doing quite well.  Maybe with enough sacrifices to Armok, he'll help you kill that named skeletal giant frog.  Good luck.
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Re: Unplanned Hermit Fortress
« Reply #14 on: November 16, 2009, 12:10:03 pm »
Yeah, for some reason no matter how quickly the dorfs die, the homelands keep on sending more.  Most don't make it in the door before they get eaten by SOMETHING.  Last lot fell prey mostly to a giant skeletal eagle, although the toad got a couple too.

I'm starting to wonder about the dorfs back home, actually.  Are they just shipping al the nutjobs and/or criminals off on us to get rid of them?  Political coup?  What?  Why would you send 8 new dorfs to a fortress worth bugger-all when 17 dorfs died there within the space of 18 months?
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