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[Sizik]

Sweeeeeeeet.  What kind of fps are you getting?

Sorry about the channeling thing at the obsidian farm.  I had a totally misguided notion of how to get trees and grass to grow up there.  Do whatever you want with it, just be careful: I kept accidentally causing caveins while I played around with the save.

If you have a layer of walls (natural or constructed) underneath, it should stop any cave-ins from penetrating through to the rest of the tower.

[Scaraban]

because that could cause great fun....

[billybobfred]

So, what is up with the military, anyway?

If we disbanded it because nobody was attacking us, that's fine, but if it vanished due to a glitch, I'll want to know how to set it back up.

[Graebeard]

There was an old bug in the early 31.xx days, I forget exactly how it worked, but appointed nobles who died sometimes couldn't be replaced.  I think that meant you couldn't assign squads since there was no captain of the guard.  I don't know if there was ever a workaround for it or not.

[billybobfred]

There was an old bug in the early 31.xx days, I forget exactly how it worked, but appointed nobles who died sometimes couldn't be replaced.  I think that meant you couldn't assign squads since there was no captain of the guard.  I don't know if there was ever a workaround for it or not.

Oh, that's why. ... Yeah, I think that's what's happening here, since it says I need someone who can appoint the leader, and there's no captain on my 'n'obles screen.

1st Hematite
Eh? There's a mandate?


Oh. I actually already saw that, I just... thought it was finished already?

Well, hey, he wants goblets?


Give him goblets. We have well more than enough gold to make a few goblets, mirite?

7th Hematite
Aaand he's now banned the export of tables. Because why the spore not?

11th Hematite
Another layer of the ribbon done.

Some mason can't find one of his socks or some such crap. I don't know. He won't tell me what the thing is, only that he can't reach it. Bawww.

12th Hematite

Oh. Oh my.

Badgers.

(at least it's safely trapped in the caverns, right guys? ... right?)

17th Hematite
I've also built a sculpture garden by the orthoclase block factory, so dwarves will hang around there and be readily available for work and such.


Isn't is beautiful? I'm thinking of also putting a dining room next to it...

Oh? That microcline room over by my quarters? Well, that's going to be my tomb. ... What? I like black bronze and microcline.

26th Hematite
So, I've noticed there's adamantine in the magma sea, and I'm wondering if, perhaps, the tube might continue upward... Above the boiling danger, if you get my drift.

But I'm not even sure how I'd go about checking.

Also, where'd we get our gold? I'm starting to run low.

1st Malachite

Shut.

UP.

[billybobfred]

Oh, and as for FPS, I turned the counter back on and I'm getting 20-25. Is that better or worse than before the upgrade?

[Graebeard]

Way better.  I was getting 7-12 during my turn.

12th Hematite

Oh. Oh my.

Badgers.

(at least it's safely trapped in the caverns, right guys? ... right?)

There's no direct way into the fort from the caverns (I think), but there was a FB that got in a while back.  I've heard that sometimes they can cross z-levels diagonally.  It's possible that we've got some openings like that flyers could use.

Also, first badger FB I've seen.  I really, really hope he doesn't get in.

Also, where'd we get our gold? I'm starting to run low.

There should still be a bunch you can mine in the first few levels below ground.

[billybobfred]

11th Malachite
Another level of the ribbon done... or, wait, did I do that one last month? I should start writing this stuff down. Well, the one I'm thinking of this time is 77 Urists above ground.

19th Malachite
As I complete Z+78 of the ribbon, I notice I've made a slight error in designing it. I've been advancing the front end exactly as intended, skipping internal squares and all, but I've not been doing the same with the rear.

... Actually, now that I look at previous levels, it seems that previous leaders haven't been advancing the same way I have. Dangit. I thought I understood this thing.

I believe there's a fort bylaw prohibiting me from advancing any higher this year, so I'll be working on improving the five levels I've added.

How, you ask? Four words: Solid. Gold. Dining room.

[billybobfred]

11th Galena

See that?

If anyone's wondering how forgotten beasts got into the fort in the past, that's how. I'm sealing it up.

... At least, I hope that's how. The alternative is that there's a second hole in our defenses.

16th Galena
A human caravan has arrived. I doubt they'll have anything worth trading for, but let's at least look, yes?

19th Galena
Okay, aside from all the seeds, dye, sand, booze, meat, and cheese that I can't resist getting with our overpriced golden goblets, that is.

We don't need any of the stuff I just bought, but I got it anyway, because I can.

23rd Galena
There's, um, a blob of vomit running around in our quarry. I guess there's a hole I don't know about.


That's the only one I could find... but it's only a way in if you can fly. I don't think vomit can fly. Can it?

4th Limestone
The monster is sealed away. But we paid dearly.


Our inexplicable inability to create an army pacifist ideals meant that the only option was to get it into a dead end and wall it off. Our cowardly tendency to run in a random direction at the sight of danger reasonable concern for our own safety made this a difficult task. But we're now safe from Dungda Spugacvutu Cishsimo.

[Rose]

* Japa falls to his knees, puts his fists into the air, and screams "NOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo........................."

[Reelyanoob]

Our inexplicable inability to create an army pacifist ideals meant that the only option was to get it into a dead end and wall it off. Our cowardly tendency to run in a random direction at the sight of danger reasonable concern for our own safety made this a difficult task. But we're now safe from Dungda Spugacvutu Cishsimo.

How about tunnelling the ceilings thin over the map-edge entrances to the cavern, then drop a multi-z-level chunk of cast obsidian / natural stone through that ceiling. Done right, it will totally block up the entrance safely without having to send guys down there.

The other alternative is to magma fill the cavern, layer by layer, dumping water in to fill with obsidian. This would make the whole area available for digging out. I'd leave the map entrances areas intact though, so you can try and catch GCS or similiar.

Great to hear the FPS really did help.

[billybobfred]

There were already guys down there, is the problem. That's how I found out about the FB in the first place, actually. "People cancel stuff: interrupted by Forgotten Beast" and all that.

[billybobfred]

23rd Limestone
Sizik II, our manager and mason, has been taken by a fey mood.

8th Sandstone

Uh. What?

10th Sandstone
We're allowed to export tables again. You know, if anyone wanted to do that.

24th Sandstone
Now he wants me to make crap out of billon. Billon? Really? Ugh. How about some coins, then?

Oh, we don't actually have any bars available. lousy goddamn worthless bookkeeper

2nd Timber
Oh. Oh. I see. After I went to all that trouble to get some copper to make our billon with, we've got no SILVER.

9th Timber
Okay. If Ingish Keskalshedim doesn't shut up about his lost sock or whatever, I'm going to sporing atomsmash him.

15th Timber
The solid gold dining room is officially done.

And, to be honest, that's all I got. Here's the map.

Anyone have any ideas, or should I just be done?

[Graebeard]

Great additions.  I particularly love the nether cap bed and coffin.  It would be pretty sweet if a corpse left in a nether cap coffin froze solid and never decayed...

And, to be honest, that's all I got. Here's the map.

Anyone have any ideas, or should I just be done?

Well, I was going to turn the obsidian farm into a floating garden by building/removing floors over all the cast obsidian and either removing all those obsidian walls or replacing them with windows.  If you really are done do you mind if I wrap up your turn for you?

[billybobfred]

The coffin's not nether-cap, it's black bronze. My dwarf likes black bronze. And statues. So he really likes black bronze statues, I imagine.

Though, maybe the coffin should have been nether-cap... I'm half tempted to load up the save just to replace it, now... nah, I'd have to redo the DFMA map. Here's the save.