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[DreamThorn]

Ignore my PM, I've changed my mind.

I will play my turn.

[DreamThorn]

What version am I supposed to use?

I tried 0.31.13, but it wouldn't even recognize it as a saved game.

I tried 0.31.18, but then the King's bed was made of nothing, and when I tried to check the health of a dwarf that was standing in lava, the game crashed.

[TurkeyXIII]

I used 0.31.16, but anything after that should work I think.

I had no problems loading it in .18.  The crash is due to an FB syndrome that's affecting just-about everybody.  Workaround is to not look at the health screen, or at least save immediately beforehand just in case. http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=650

[DreamThorn]

Thanks, I see that I was looking at the king's bed's room, so the actual bed is made of tower-cap.

It seems the forgotten beast goo is causing the numbness, but the bleeding might be caused by all the magma puddles.

Since the previous ruler built this huge arch thing, I will focus on filling in those levels with more construction, so that we have room to build the higher levels.  I will of course try to add some levels as well.

[EDIT: Typo caused a grammar fault]

[DreamThorn]

Wow this fort is slow.  I played more than an hour yesterday and only progressed to the 18th of Granite.

The liquid lava is starting to "dry up", but both the Doctor and the manager (Sizik II) are now resting their wounds.  Hopefully the rest of the medical staff is up to the task.

The manager at least managed to order the creation of more glass blocks, glass statues and some other necessities before he went to rest.

I decided to get me some marble blocks for the new constructions; set up a marble stockpile and some mason's workshops, but when the miners started mining the marble they spotted a forgotten beast and ran away.  Nobody was harmed and the fortress is still safe.

I found that the arch was incomplete, but there was a stone-and-blood floor connecting the two ends to the center, so I put up some walls to make certain that no-one falls off.  Made an observation deck in the middle with glass block walls and doors leading off to side platforms.

I found a huge stockpile of corpses and skeletons on the bottom floor, non of them being butchered at all.  Turns out dwarfs have some kind of ethical aversion to butchering sapients, and all the corpses were of more-or-less sapient creatures.  I think cyclops skulls would make nice trophies, but that's not going to happen.

Tried to spiff up the king's quarters a bit, since he was still complaining.  I see everything in there is made of clear glass, but somehow the clear glass statues are not as valuable as the obsidian statues.  I guess we need a more skilled glassworker.  So I put in some of our best obsidian and marble statues, troglodytes in golden cages, clear glass windows and some cool cabinets, but he's still not impressed.  Not impressed at all.  I think he wants more metal.

Coming right up, yer majesty!

[DreamThorn]

Hi!

This fortress is too slow for me.  Someone else should play it.

Do you want the save, or should the next player start at the beginning of the year?

[TurkeyXIII]

A lot of people are going to find it slow.  I vote you upload what you've done, and/or consider Sizik's suggestion.

I was thinking, if the framerate gets too low for most people, we could double the dwarves' speed and have people only take half-year turns.

[DreamThorn]

Ok, I'll try Sizik's suggestion.

[Sizik]

According to the wiki, [SPEED:400] will give you dwarves that are twice as fast.

[DreamThorn]

It turns out you should just scratch me from the list.

When I originally asked to be added I was willing, but now I am playing X-Com: Terror from the Deep, and cannot get myself to play anything else until I finish it.

Sorry.

[Sizik]

Could you upload your save so your effort was not in vain?

[Sizik]

Oh well, next is Graebeard, if he can.

[Graebeard]

I can start in 2 days or so if that's cool.  My turn just cam up on another fort right now.

[Sizik]

So... any progress?

[Graebeard]

Yes!

Here's an overseer shot of the fort:

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Pretty impressive.  I hope I can add something interesting to this beast.

It's pretty slow going right now.  I pulled 5 fps when I first loaded it with 45 idlers.  I decided to run dfcleanmap to see if that would speed it up.  Managed to squeeze another 2 out and now I'm going at 7.  I think that's do-able.  Also, I may have to do something about the 40 children.  It's the holidays, so I'm thinking something Hansel & Gretel.