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[Aklyon]

All options are exited via ESC instead of space. That is annoying.

push esc to get to key bindings and change Leave Screen to Spacebar, then push s to export to txt. works for me.

[Lordinquisitor]

I think i will now embark on a cave- Dwarven Exterminatorteam!

Also i love it that you get magma (And most likely a great water reservoir) on every embark location. Often great sites where ruined for me because there was no water/magma.

[Knight Otu]

Created a world to year 187.
First fortress ended with a crash, not sure why, so I can't really report it. Decided to take a few adventurers out.

The first one got the quest to kill - in the same city - a

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gila monster fiend in the same city - the local law-giver

. Obviously, there's only way that could turn out. When I first searched him, I got messages of cave creatures stumbling into webs and the like. Traveled away, re-approached the city, and got the option to travel near a creature. Only saw a child, but it continued to move away. When I got back to the city, the first thing I see is

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creeping eye corpse parts, rotting

- maybe there's a cave entrance in town, but I didn't find it. The adventurer finds his predictable end at the hands of the townfolk when I attack the law-giver.

Checking legends mode, I see another new historical figure besides my adventurer...

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a shadow banshee. Apparently she

killed that child I had seen.

The second adventurer, I sent to a nearby cave. Stupidly, I fail to find the entrance, and suicide, and embark with a few dwarves on the cave. Ohh, there is the entrance. I militarize my miner, and send him in, fighting a few trogs along the way, and watching a trog kill a gremlin. There's a few

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cave fish men

, but I don't engage them. The local minotaur comes out to play, kills a cat, severely wounds a dog, and scares several dwarves. I militarize them all and give the kill order.

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Oddly enough they succeed. I think it was a fish cleaner or fisherdwarf who threw the lethal punch.

With a third fortress, I meet with a strange occurrence - the miners dig ramps for wagon access, and suddenly they seem to be stuck to them. Militarizing them doesn't help. A third adventurer goes in to examine, but finds the ramps in working order (having read the bug thread, it seems to be related to a posted bug).

Now I'm on my fourth fortress. I had some concern that dwarves might be a tad too dedicated to jobs now, flashing with thirst, but so far it has worked out.

Legends mode of that world has

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A bronze colossus that died, as the only regular megabeast death. It was killed by a heliotrope brute.
A humanoid mountain titan composed of solid salt.
A waxwing plains titan of yellow spessartine.
Gila monster fiends, heliotrope brutes, teal demons, monitor demons, and grime devils in various numbers.
The grime devil, despite being killed in the year 72, had 278 kills, mostly elves.

[McWaffle]

I started making sculptures first thing to decorate my fort a bit, so naturally the sculptor chose to make...

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Vomit Demons

[GRead]

The new materials are pretty hardcore. I mucked around with the arena, and out of something like 30 fights, my bronze armed dwarfs *always* killed my iron armed dwarfs. the worst injury was a severed nose when one of the iron guys got lucky. The only times iron won out is when the fight was otherwise uneven.

Also,

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 It appears the only way to kill a bronze colossus at the moment is melting him, either with dragon fire or magma. I think this is a bug, but damn that's rough.

[Rainforce]

I started making sculptures first thing to decorate my fort a bit, so naturally the sculptor chose to make...

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Vomit Demons

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THAT IS AWESOME DO WANT

I want to wait until the release is a little less buggy, at least in fortress mode.

[Lordinquisitor]

Also combat takes much longer. I fought an axemen with my adventurer and we coulnd`t hurt each other- Thanks to our bronze armour.

We both could only inflict some bruises..

Though, the idiot axemen only wore an leather cap. But my idiot adventurer failed to wound his head, even though the sword was able to penetrate the cap easily.

In the end the axemen died because i inflicted many, little, bleeding wounds to his head.

[Slackratchet]

Not being able to build a farm on top of soil is actually a bug; that should get fixed soon enough.

Toady's delirious from sleep deprivation now, though, and I'm not much better. Might be awhile, but hey, at least we got the site up and running again.

(Works better than ever, too)

Cool, thanks for the info Baughn.

[A-chana]

Started with a fortress, found I didn't know what the heck I was doing. Stared blankly at the military screen while some rhesus macaques robbed me blind, then sent the failure of a military commander to chase around a groundhog for a month while a couple random migrants showed up (in the first summer!) and laughed.

Checking around in Legends mode right now. There seems to be some sort of war between a goblin civilization (which is mostly/entirely? human and dwarven, oddly) and a dwarven civ over a dispute over formalized agreement. It's been going on for over half a century, and hopefully I picked the dwarven civ at war with them.

Even better:

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Opeya Spurtingguts the Vomit of Snots was a jackal brute (in this case, a humanoid jackal covered in toxins) who crawled out of the Underworld in the second year and took up residence in a place with two cyclops running around, using "force of argument" to take over a goblin civ in the meantime.

She fought with the two cyclops constantly over the next couple of decades, eventually killing one in year 28. Sadly, the other one killed her shortly after in 33. This cyclops is still alive in 1050, having killed two one-eyed demons and a bunch of goblins and dwarves. I hope to meet her.

Meanwhile, I just learned of a forgotten beast that is a humanoid pile of vomit that emits poisonous vapors and is named Spothrib the Spurting Phlegms. He has yet to escape the Underworld, and obviously it is my duty to fix this problem.

I like what I'm seeing so far.

I played around with the arena, too. Had coelacanth fights and dragon fights and I threw some dwarves in magma for fun (they last longer now, but they unfortunately bleed to death before I can see how melted they can get).

[Folly]

Less than 2 minutes into my first new fortress, and I already have a log in the middle of the wall I was trying to build which the dwarves refuse to move.

Otherwise I'm loving the new version. Arena is a lot of fun. All the new military options will take some getting used to...equipping soldiers seems especially difficult.

Edit: after saving and exiting, then loading back up, the dwarves happily moved that pesky log out of the way.

[Slackratchet]

Yeah, my first fortress starved to death because I couldn't get anything planted underground and I got 20+ vagrants immigrants before I even got my first caravan.

[*Poster*]

* Farming on soil issue confused the crap out of me and caused the death of my first fortress.
* Holy craaapppp immigrants immigrants immigrants I get some every. Single. Season. I got some even after my fortress started going crazy/starving/drowning due to mining hilarity.
* The interface improvements are already a big step forwards. Due to playing so much of the old stuff it's actually taking a bit of time to get used to, but I definitely have no complaints about the progress made.
* Not seeing a performance hit yet, except in worldgen.
* Made a Large Island. It's an absolutely beautiful world that has loads of stuff I love. I don't know if I will ever again make a non-Island realm. Oh, and there's a moderately sized island known as The Adorable Continent. I imagine it to be full of kobolds.

[Lordinquisitor]

Actually i like the steady, little waves of migrants. You get stuff done much faster- Now if i`d only had the Dwarven rapist..

[Ampersand]

Farming isn't impossible. I just diverted a pond into my farm, and voila.

The only issue aside from the farming problem seems to be the invulerability of the Bronze Colossus. Before, it was too weak, now, it will not die. However, you can render it almost entirely helpless by severing both hands and feet.

I wouldn't rely on that though.

[Master]

Actually i like the steady, little waves of migrants. You get stuff done much faster- Now if i`d only had the Dwarven rapist..

No fortress is complete without at least one rapist!