I *wish* my dwarves made more morbid engravings... I guess the fact that my fortresses usually run around ~200 population for twelve years and only get a dozen or so dead makes the engravers too...
hrrm...
Does the happiness of the engravers effect what they draw?
*lights flash*
Same here. I had two legendary engravers carving up every floor in my first fortress, where a third of the population were killed by goblins before the army showed up one at a time and got slaughtered (possibly because the two axe lords decided not to bother bringing their axes - one brought two shields, though), only for the commander to go mental because his lover was dead and charge out there, singlehandedly dismembering about five of them, then starved to death while mourning.
The next couple of raids saw dozens of dwarves killed while either running out to pick daisies or forgetting their armour, and were only seen off when 21 unarmed workers piled on top of two goblins, and a carpenter strangled two more to death. In the same period, a miner went mad and maimed a farmer, then killed one of his only two remaining friends, and was then brained by his other remaining friend. Someone else suffered a mood gone wrong, went insane, kicked two dogs to death and finally passed out from exhaustion just long enough for the surviving dogs to chew his head open and bleed him to death.
And what did the engravers commemorate?
About a month into the first year, I removed a dwarf from a post and reinstated him again while getting used to the admin screen. So, I covered every surface I could with engravings, and about 40% of them were:
"Urist McAxedwarf was removed from the post of militia commander." "Urist McAwedwarf was appointed militia commander". "Urist McAxedwarf was removed from the post of militia commander." "Urist McAxedwarf was appointed militia commander".
GET OVER IT. Sheesh. This is the same guy who first endangered everyone by sitting around doing nothing during an attack, then saved everyone's lives at the last minute, then gave up on life and died in a doorway. A legendary axedwarf? A flawed hero? Nope. We want to tell the world about a minor administrative error!
Another quarter or so were about some human taming some giant eagles, which was apparently the only thing that ever happened in the history of the world.
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