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[alway]

So... I found a... something... made of slade. When I discovered it (along with a sea of magma of course) I got the message "You have found a curious underground structure." Upon reaching the slade to mine it, it appears to be un-minable. Which leaves me with 2 options: A: search for an entrance into this structure and B: mine out all around it so it caves in to see if it was hollow.

EDIT: HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP HOLY CRAP!!!! UBER SPOILERS AHEAD

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I mined out one level of it, and finding no entrance mined up a level. What I found was amazing... A temple which seems like something out of an Indiana Jones movie, full of zombie and skeletal antmen, reptile men, and amphibian men. In the center is a masterwork Adamantine short sword. Advernture moder's will have a blast with this! Also, there are miasma clouds all over the place, probably from the zombies. Oh ya, and one square away from that short sword is a "glowing floor." Hmm... Perhaps mining this out was not the most well thought out plan. Edit 2: also there are serpentmen in there and a curious creature called a "Crundle."

[Max White]

So the first thing I did was dig STRAIGHT DOWN in a massive stair case. I hit coal. OK, lucky break I thought! Kept digging, and kept hitting good things over and over again. Soon it dawned on me.

OH GOD NO!!!! Toady has heard us bitching about looking all over for a single good site in an entire map for good minerals, and even then looking hard in that site for anything and so has given us exactly what we wanted with MASSIVE amounts of ore! This is horrible! The art of looking for veins is dead! The biggest challenge of DF is over!

Then I kept digging down, and hit a chasm.

At this point in time I took back everything I ever said about D2010, THIS GAME IS SO FREEKING AWESOME! I love it! So very much! An entire underground water way complete with some critters running around. So very happy and exatly what I expected to find when I first started playing Dwarf fortress.

Then I kept digging down, and I hit a lava ocean.

And I cried of happiness, because this is still in development, even though it is perfection in itself.

Toady is a god, anybody who says otherwise is heading for the lava chamber.

[InsanityPrelude]

The military interface is cool, if a bit confusing. Why aren't my militiadorfs training?

[Shinziril]

Some testing in arena mode has shown that it seems to be basically impossible to kill a bronze colossus with weapons.  Specifically, four different highly-skilled, adamantine-clad dwarves with adamantine weapons (and then, out of desperation, a giant with an adamantine two-handed sword) have managed to do nothing more than give it red wounds over its entire body.  It's still conscious, although the dwarves are skilled enough to avoid its attacks.  It's missing both hands, both feet, both its ears, and its nose, and has a break/fracture/slash open on every single part of its body . . . and it's not dead.

EDIT: Wow.  It broke the giant's hand, making it drop its sword.  True to life, trying to scratch bronze with your fingernails doesn't work too well.  The colossus is managing to severely damage the giant . . . I think it's going to kill it.  And the colossus still won't die.

[Max White]

So what your saying is that if we kill a BC, we have basically won.

[GRead]

Just had a single ogre eradicate my entire fortress before the first season was up.
No, he wasn't a killing machine, my fortress starved to death wrestling him for most of the season with 6 dwarves and 6 dogs piled on his exhausted, unconscious bulk punching and biting with no apparent effect. It was like that time they tried to choke a zombie fox to death...

[Dante]

Wow, I'd ...forgotten... how awesome the Forgotten Beasts were going to be. Spoilers:

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An enormous blob of water. A green glass scorpion. And I think I found the shelled-blob-of-vomit from the devlog!
A bloated, skinless hedgehog, which I think I've seen before, on the side of the road.
And, courtesy of the Random Number God, a giant tarantula which is a perfectly normal giant tarantula and nothing more.

Almost everything is associated with water, which sort of makes sense in the context of the new underground, but gets a bit repetitive. Even the fire-breathing ones.
Also, about one in ten Beasts is made out of salt.

The titans are, perhaps, cooler. I got a three-eyed hummingbird which "moves its will in accordance with the truth of things", and a huge scaly elk with "a look of unbelievable peace".
...and a glacier titan that was a blob of flame, and got killed by an elf in year 5.
...and a two-tailed skunk with poisonous vapours.
...and an eight-legged quadruped composed of star ruby. Eight-legged. Quadruped.

And finally, a brush titan that "moves about carelessly" and breathed fire, which can't have been a winning combination. 

So what your saying is that if we kill a BC, we have basically won.

There seems to be a bug with several of the non-regular-flesh creatures, in that they can't be killed with conventional weapons. You can kill an iron man, but not a blizzard man, and the bronze colossuses and skeletal anything just won't go down. Ever.

[bombcar]

What weapon skill will allow a miner to attack with the pick he is carrying? I need military miners to dig dig dig, in a mine, though we don't know what we're digging for.

[PsyberianHusky]

HOW DO I FARM, MY DWARVES ARE GONNA STARVE UNLESS WE CAN LIVE OFF HORTICULTURE AND TRADING ALONE, AND HORTICULTURE CANNOT BE BREWED 

[Alkyon]

So, now that I did my "Dig until my dorfs die" fort, I decided to try a real fort.  I chose an island far, far away from any glaciers, and I got this:

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-8338-roadpick

Yes.  The entire ocean is frozen.  The ponds are okay though.

In other words:  I love this hilariously inconsistent game!

[AussieGuy]

HOW DO I FARM, MY DWARVES ARE GONNA STARVE UNLESS WE CAN LIVE OFF HORTICULTURE AND TRADING ALONE, AND HORTICULTURE CANNOT BE BREWED 

You have to make soil into mud by putting water over it (its a bug)

[varnish]

I'm not sure if this is something unique to the new version, like a minor bug of some sort, but my bookkeeper just spent two months working in his office (not unusual), with a barrel of rum in his left hand (Slightly unusual). After the two months, he got up, went to the stockpile, and drank some more. Urist McBukowski?

[Aklyon]

And I cried of happiness, because this is still in development, even though it is perfection in itself.

Toady is a god, anybody who says otherwise is heading for the lava chamber.

He speaks the truth!

[Shinziril]

Upon further testing, it seems Bronze Colossi are vulnerable to being submerged in magma for a moderate period, or enough bursts of dragonfire.  A Fire Man even managed to wound one, although it died within a few seconds.  While they seem to be unkillable through weapons, melting them works nicely.

[Clover Magic]

Registered just to comment on this!  Long-time DF player, and I'm loving the new version.

Thoughts on bronze colossi and other things:

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Played with arena mode for a while.  Megabeasts are hardcore.

Discovered dragon fire can and will melt bronze colossi, about the only thing that will conventionally take it down.  However, it melts so slowly that it will likely kill the dragon it's set against--even launching 10 at once against 1 BC, it still managed to kill 1 dragon and wound all the others before it went down.  D8

However, dragons are now completely magma-proof.  Swimming in magma with my dragon was pretty awesome.  I also looked in the raws, dragons have the [trAINABLE] tag.  Does this still do what it used to?  If so, War Dragons?  Your last defense against bronze colossi!

Some typos/bugs noticed:
-Unicorn entry in raws has a baby name tag.  The babies are set to be named "elk fawns".  Those are some magic elk.
-Had a female dwarf.  Under her preferences, she was listed at "whenever possible she prefers to consume she".  Hmmn.

Other things I noticed:
-Extremely extremely laggy FPS, but the DF Accelerator is a good fix until the d# merge.  At minimum doubled my FPS, so I now play at 80+ instead of the 30 or so it crawled at.
-Dwarves, I'm not sure if related to willpower or not, will now work longer periods of time before stopping to do other things.  One fortress I was even concerned about my miners starving to death as even with blinking arrows screaming "I'M HUNGRY/THIRSTY/SLEEPY!!!" they would not stop mining.  Craftsdwarf did this too, unsure if others as well.  Research is required.
-When you open underground caverns, prepared to be spammed with about 38407398473 "You have struck ____!" messages.  For every single stone, ore, and gem in the cavern walls that the game announces.  With customizable announcements and no pausing for striking messages, though, this is only a minor annoyance in that it may flood your announcements screen and you miss something more important.  However, zoomable/dated announcements are win.
-Labors sorted make life so much easier.  Soil bug makes it harder, as now it takes having to find my caverns before I can even start farming, which, with the reduced embark points, is a serious concern, as you bring tons of seeds but not so much meat/fish/plants.
-Hi lots of skilled migrant waves!!!  I like you. <3  Greatly helps with labor shortage in the first year.

Them's mah newbie thoughts.  When I get paid I will send a donation Toady's way, this update is amazing.