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[cog disso]

I rather like the oddball nature of the engravings, although I tend to wind up with rather uncreative engravers who really like engraving mechanisms, buckets and barrels on the walls.

[DrGravitas]

Could be worse, I'm getting all kinds of engravings and statues of an Elf who did some exploring long ago. I plan to burn the artifact wooden casket covered in his images as an effigy commemorating the inaugural event of my soon-to-be complete volcano-extractor...

[fivex]

I have engraved pictures of a hill titan wandering arround in a time before time all over my fortress.

[Jacob/Lee]

I had my engravers, way back when in 40d, make engravings of my expedition leader surrounded by purrign maggots, look terrified. The funny part, it was engraved some six paces away from his bed, he would wake up, get up, scream in horror when he saw the maggots in the engraving then roll of his bed.

[Imakuni]

I had my engravers, way back when in 40d, make engravings of my expedition leader surrounded by purrign maggots, look terrified. The funny part, it was engraved some six paces away from his bed, he would wake up, get up, scream in horror when he saw the maggots in the engraving then roll of his bed.

You don't know how hard I laughed at this. And I don't know why, either. 

sigged.

[V-Norrec]

In my area, the only thing interesting that has happened and appears on both of my masterwork items with an image engraved into them (I have a third but it's just a ring... with rings of wood on it, damn dwarf be crazy) is a tiger killing a dwarf about 1000 years before this embark. . . it get's old of seeing that stupid named tiger killing the same dwarf over and over and over again.

[cliftor]

I have a repeating favorite story my Engravers like to revisit too.  It's always "<<Someguy>> is traveling.  This engraving relates to <<Someguy's>> fleeing into the Incinerated Swamps during his <<Xth>> journey in the year <<Y>>".

The weird thing is that it's all kinds of people who've made this journey all throughout history, humans, dwarves, whoever, from as recent as the founding of my Fortress in 1051 to hundreds of years prior.

I have no idea what the significance of the Incinerated Swamps is, or indeed if it's the name of the place I embarked (didn't pay attention).  For my next fort, I'll definitely be looking for it on the world map, I'm honestly curious why my engravers seem so excited by it and why so many stories are attacked to it.

I'm not going to abandon this fortress until I finish my glass tower, though.

[sockless]

I got an engraving of a masterwork engraving once. Other than that there seem to be a couple of giant tigers and lions or something that keep popping up in my engravings, with them killing and mauling lots of different people.

[Psieye]

Two points:

1) I hear that dwarves who hate tradition won't record history in their decorations. Try giving these dwarves the engraving/statue jobs and see what they make.

2) Instead of world gen'ing a history, end it at year 2 and make an adventurer. Go do some epics in the region you will be embarking. Then retire/kill him and start your fort in said region. Engrave the epics you got up to yourself.


In my "Year 3 embark" fort where I ended up engraving the entire (low-height) mountain I embarked near, a lot of them ended up being about masterwork creations of various sorts. I was making thousands of masterworks. It got boring for me, but I'm sure some adventurer would find it fascinating to see this mountain of a thousand masterworks.

[mal7690]

Well my professional vandal is alternating engraving the might of the metal-changing crafters (3 iron artefacts made from silver.  No joke, one of the more entertaining bugs I've found) and horrors from beyond (3 forgotten Beasts and 1 titan so far have visited.  The FBs are hanging out in the caverns and the titan flattened a siege and left.)

[Samuel]

Two points:

1) I hear that dwarves who hate tradition won't record history in their decorations. Try giving these dwarves the engraving/statue jobs and see what they make.

2) Instead of world gen'ing a history, end it at year 2 and make an adventurer. Go do some epics in the region you will be embarking. Then retire/kill him and start your fort in said region. Engrave the epics you got up to yourself.


In my "Year 3 embark" fort where I ended up engraving the entire (low-height) mountain I embarked near, a lot of them ended up being about masterwork creations of various sorts. I was making thousands of masterworks. It got boring for me, but I'm sure some adventurer would find it fascinating to see this mountain of a thousand masterworks.

Actually, I'm rather enjoying learning more about this Marsh Titan. With any luck, my engraver might some day engrave how he died.

Or the titan will come back to the swamps and kill everybody. That'd be fun, too.

[Deathworks]

Hi!

My testing a while ago seems confirm that anything that happens within the named subregion (like "the putrid swamp") can be the subject of engravings.

If you want to have only engraving dealing with your fortress, you should probably settle in a single-tile subregion - of course, if you are unlucky, that region was visited once by an elven hunter who will then fill all your floors and walls :) :)

If you want to have a lot of fun with your engravings, I recommend creating large subregions (like large forests) and settling there - preferably, of course, when different races lived in that area. This way, you can get a lot of hunting and fighting.

In one fortress that was a bit away from wars, I had engravings of some monsters, I think yetis. It was interesting to see that there were several yetis and several people they met - sometimes, a person even met different yetis.

It will be interesting to see how the new town structure affects engravings. The thing is, in the old version, settlements counted as named subregions themselves, so no matter how many settlements there were inside the forest or hills or mountains you settled in, you NEVER got engravings about what happened within their walls. Only the ambushes outside them were recorded.

Deathworks

[hachnslay]

the only thing they ever engrave in my oldest fortress is the toppling of the wagon ...

[Ze Spy]

I keep getting Engravings of a Salt Titan Killing a miner

92 engravings of that and still counting

[shlorf]

My third fort was in the same region as my first fort. 80% of engravings related to the flight of a dwarf from the first fort into the Axe of Notching (the region). At least a few engravings and some images on artifacts showed my last adventurer Reg Slingwrung, who killed many hydras, dragons and titans.