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[Mercenare]

Danng, this sucks. Alright. Is their anyway to incite goblin attacks?

[ShinWalks]

Danng, this sucks. Alright. Is their anyway to incite goblin attacks?

Get a population above 80 and create lots of wealth, and the sieges will come soon enough.

[Ibid Straydrink]

Bogeyman suck, you guys. I've lost at least two dozen adventurers to them because of a.) no place to gather companions near my starting locale, or b.) a glitch that causes the hero to suddenly be separated from his companions while quick traveling... is there a raw entry that I can delete, or a part of my computer I can place a high-powered magnet on to destroy these game-wrecking bastards forever?

[Acperience]

Well to keep companions by your side, just make sure they are within vision range of you when fast traveling and don't use the sleep function while fast traveling.

you can also try hopping into a river to avoid them for a bit. or get within a town's borders and they go away.

[TolyK]

well, first of all I meant expedition,  was thinking about caravans sorry 

it actually depends on what else you do. technically the civs would be in an endless war, but if you kill someone from your own civ that should negate it. but anyways, why not try 

hehehe I just wiped out the ONLY kobold civilization on the (small) map, only to be pushed into a 10-urist fall into water by the LAST SURVIVOR! damn.

You can... wipe them out? That's... AMAZING. I didn't know that kobolds even had sites.. how did you do it?

yeah, they live in caves. I just went in there and killed any who tried to come up. I even led a bronze colossus in there and got it stuck (webbed and can't unstuck) in the path to the surface. I then proceeded to kill off everyone but one. damn.

I checked, it has no leaders, is their anyway to make it get leaders x.x

No.  Your civ is dead.  Your dwarves are the last in the world.  If you want to have a viable external dwarven civilization, you need to start over with a new world.

well, unless for some reason you survive and get a ginormous population (over 200 I think) you won't get any leader. however you might get a king if you do. do it, for !!science!!

[Ibid Straydrink]

@Acperience: Ah, that is definitely good to know, so thank you. All the same, if anyone knows how, I would like to delete the raw, or better yet cut and paste it in an e-mail to Toady with an ASCII image of a frog's head.

well, first of all I meant expedition,  was thinking about caravans sorry 

it actually depends on what else you do. technically the civs would be in an endless war, but if you kill someone from your own civ that should negate it. but anyways, why not try 

hehehe I just wiped out the ONLY kobold civilization on the (small) map, only to be pushed into a 10-urist fall into water by the LAST SURVIVOR! damn.

You can... wipe them out? That's... AMAZING. I didn't know that kobolds even had sites.. how did you do it?

yeah, they live in caves. I just went in there and killed any who tried to come up. I even led a bronze colossus in there and got it stuck (webbed and can't unstuck) in the path to the surface. I then proceeded to kill off everyone but one. damn.

I checked, it has no leaders, is their anyway to make it get leaders x.x

No.  Your civ is dead.  Your dwarves are the last in the world.  If you want to have a viable external dwarven civilization, you need to start over with a new world.

well, unless for some reason you survive and get a ginormous population (over 200 I think) you won't get any leader. however you might get a king if you do. do it, for !!science!!

This interests me. How does one find these caves? Just by chance when exploring? I've never really found anything in Adventure Mode except for quest-related lairs.

[TolyK]

well you can't normally "see" them on the map. in d_init.txt in the data folder (I think, someone please confirm) you must change "make caves visible" or something like that. in my graphics set they look like grey pieces of lingite.

and it should also give you a message that you have found a cave.

in the navigation menu thing (distances and directions to places such as towns and such) you can also see caves (if near enough?)

ask around in towns also.

[Harmonica]

Do you think it might be possible to set up some walls and cage traps and maybe cut away some ramps to make it safer? That forgotten beast might be a problem, but if you get a chance have a look at it. Some of them are much weaker than they seem and break apart if you so much as look at it. But there's plenty of them who aren't so watch out!

Anything is possible. I have a military facility set up which all traffic into and out of the caverns currently runs through, but I haven't dealt with the river yet. I'm going to build a pump room soon. My military dwarves just happen to be pump operating experts so on their days off they get to handle that side of things...

The forgotten beast is giant humanoid made of ash.

These aren't my biggest problems though, currently the mayor's son who is friends with half the fortress has gone fey and I think he wants red zircon gems which we don't have (as well as a list of 8 other things).

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

In the last fort I got very far in (read : 2 years) I got an ambush on my second year (which was the end of that fort). In my fort now I've gotten three years in and have only had kobold thieves. No gobbos at all. I'm on late spring of my third year.

[TolyK]

save now and go wall in

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

Why? I've got a wall, danger burrow, team of marksdwarves who can go in a tower to shoot the gobbos from above. I've also got a huge courtyard in which ambushes can't get in without being caught in a cage trap, which alerts me. Then I have an inner wall with said tower and two series of doors. Pretty sure I'm safe. Also have hammerdwarves, macedwarves, and dwordsdwarves.

[TolyK]

oh, got it
have fun! (wait, no MAGMA MOAT?!?!? or even a ditch? well, hows about sacrificial cats sentries?

[Jacob/Lee]

Do you think it might be possible to set up some walls and cage traps and maybe cut away some ramps to make it safer? That forgotten beast might be a problem, but if you get a chance have a look at it. Some of them are much weaker than they seem and break apart if you so much as look at it. But there's plenty of them who aren't so watch out!

Anything is possible. I have a military facility set up which all traffic into and out of the caverns currently runs through, but I haven't dealt with the river yet. I'm going to build a pump room soon. My military dwarves just happen to be pump operating experts so on their days off they get to handle that side of things...

The forgotten beast is giant humanoid made of ash.

These aren't my biggest problems though, currently the mayor's son who is friends with half the fortress has gone fey and I think he wants red zircon gems which we don't have (as well as a list of 8 other things).

You would think that beasts made of ice and ash would melt/get soggy until they died when they touched water.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

oh, got it
have fun! (wait, no MAGMA MOAT?!?!? or even a ditch? well, hows about sacrificial cats sentries?

Water moats. As in two. And a war dog who will alert me to thieves with the [TRAP_AVOID] tag. Cause I have cage traps too.

[Ifeno]

I have 2 questions.

1.  So my army has been training for a good 2 years now and most of them are still recruits.  Why are they training so slowly?  My friends troops got to legendary within a matter of months.  He didnt use a danger room either.  Oh and i refuse to use a danger room myself.  Im determined to train them the old fashioned way =P.

2.  I have no burrows active but my miners still refuse to mine out the room below,  They mined out the downward staircase but they wont continue mining the updward staircase.  There's tetrahedrite ore in the spot that i want them to put the upward staircase.  How can i make them mine out the room?