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[derekiv]

I just noticed that out of my 10 figurines, 3 of them are about dwarves that live in my fortress.
One is about my starting 7 miner settling at my fort, one is about my mayor getting his position, and one is about a soldier dehydrated from injuries before I got a source of desalinated water.
Dwarf fortress has gotten local.

[Sphalerite]

You'll see the same with statues.  I recently had my mason spam out a dozen statues to decorate the dining room.  Half of them are of the mayor.  One is of a war dog killing a kobold.  Several are of various historical figures.  It seems to use the same code as engravings to generate the descriptions, but unlike engravings you can move the statues around and place them where you think they'll be the most appropriate/hilarious/ironic/whatever.

[Bryan Derksen]

In my current fort I wound up with a dozen high-quality statues of cows, so I set them all up in my entrance hall. I think one of my masons may be cow-obsessed. I'm eagerly looking forward to a statue of him "embracing the cows" so I can put it in with the others.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

I was making some statues and got 6 of dwarves, 1 of a star, and a fly.

How do you make a statue of a fly? And how does it weigh 1200+?

[userpay]

I was making some statues and got 6 of dwarves, 1 of a star, and a fly.

How do you make a statue of a fly? And how does it weigh 1200+?

One big as hell fly.

[lanceleoghauni]

Dwarven Microscopes for detail studies.

[Akura]

I was making some statues and got 6 of dwarves, 1 of a star, and a fly.

How do you make a statue of a fly? And how does it weigh 1200+?

One big as hell fly.

That reminds me about how one of the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae had either a bee or a fly painted on his shield. Apparently, he did it because at the close range that a Greek phalanx fights, a bee covering the entire surface of a hoplite looks like a dragon or some other fierce monster.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

It seems that you rarely engraved your walls or mass-decorated your trade goods. The statues and figurines simply take the same descriptions you find with engravings and some of the decorations. Contentwise, there is nothing new to see:
* Symbols of the civ or the fortress
* Images relating to the history of the fortress/the dwarves within
* Images of animals/items a dwarf likes or dislikes (with or without the dwarf in question)
* Images about the history of the region the fortress is located in (that one is the most fun; currently I am mostly engraving, and I got  lots of sasquatch kills human engravings)

Deathworks

[ReverseWill]

One is of a war dog killing a kobold.

That's what I want to see while I'm eating, a big ugly war dog tearing a piece out of some cave-dwelling mutant. Makes the +dwarven cheese+ taste better.

[Thornet]

I was making some statues and got 6 of dwarves, 1 of a star, and a fly.

How do you make a statue of a fly? And how does it weigh 1200+?

One big as hell fly.

Just you wait. Soon a forgotten beast fly will show up and be pissed that your mason carved his eyes too big or something.

[Ves]

Urist McMetalsmith constructed a statue of a Group of Dwarfs Refusing Urist McSherrif, to mark his removal from the position of Sherrif. What the statue forgets to mention is that the only reason Urist McSherrif stopped being a Sherrif was due to the handicap of being dead, and the only reason he died was because after saving everyone else's lives by fighting off a pack of troglodytes he succumbed to infection.

[Biag]

Urist McMetalsmith constructed a statue of a Group of Dwarfs Refusing Urist McSherrif, to mark his removal from the position of Sherrif. What the statue forgets to mention is that the only reason Urist McSherrif stopped being a Sherrif was due to the handicap of being dead, and the only reason he died was because after saving everyone else's lives by fighting off a pack of troglodytes he succumbed to infection.

Why do you think they refused him? Nobody likes a dead sheriff.

Personally, I keep seeing statues and engravings and figurines of elves shooting dwarves. Apparently there was a very big war between dwarves and sylvan elves a hundred years back... but they engraved it all over the trade depot room. Thanks guys! That'll really intimidate the elven traders!

[GRead]

Personally, I keep seeing statues and engravings and figurines of elves shooting dwarves. Apparently there was a very big war between dwarves and sylvan elves a hundred years back... but they engraved it all over the trade depot room. Thanks guys! That'll really intimidate the elven traders!

Except now is the perfect time to turn your trade depot into a death trap. Lull them into a false sense of security, and then when you turn the faucets on, they get to die amidst the graven records of their races crimes against dwarf-kind.

[Max White]

I just noticed that out of my 10 figurines, 3 of them are about dwarves that live in my fortress.
One is about my starting 7 miner settling at my fort, one is about my mayor getting his position, and one is about a soldier dehydrated from injuries before I got a source of desalinated water.
Dwarf fortress has gotten local.

Let me guess, you stopped worldgen early?
The earlier you stop worldgen, the more localized the merchandise due to less historical events going on.

[Deimos56]

Oh... oh Armok.
Emtha The Lion of Apes. Whatever it is, it's apparently spent the last 1050 years melting things that have lived on the rather nice plain I decided to set up a fortress on, because I can't get an engraving, statue, figurine, or coin that doesn't feature him wrecking everyone's shit. Except for one engraving about goblets and how addicted the mayor is to them. I think it should have been in the mayor's room instead of Emtha Mcmeltstheworld, though.

Editted for correct forgotten beast name.