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[Puzzlemaker]

So... warm area.  New fort.  Summer hits.  Everything dries up, EXCEPT FOR THE RIVER.  Where all the fish are.  And hippoes.  An UNGODLY amount of hippoes and fish.

Blah blah blah cancels drink:  Interrupted by Carp/Hippo!
Blah blah blah Drowns!

The river is running RED WITH BLOOD.  And its my only source of water.    

Edit:  You have got to be... I lost one of my miners to those carp.  Holy crap, this is... wow... Hopefully some migrants come soon...

[ February 07, 2008: Message edited by: Puzzlemaker ]

[Mr.Person]

quote:Originally posted by Puzzlemaker:
<STRONG>So... warm area.  New fort.  Summer hits.  Everything dries up, EXCEPT FOR THE RIVER.  Where all the fish are.  And hippoes.  An UNGODLY amount of hippoes and fish.

Blah blah blah cancels drink:  Interrupted by Carp/Hippo!
Blah blah blah Drowns!

The river is running RED WITH BLOOD.  And its my only source of water.      

Edit:  You have got to be... I lost one of my miners to those carp.  Holy crap, this is... wow... Hopefully some migrants come soon...

[ February 07, 2008: Message edited by: Puzzlemaker ]</STRONG>

I think Toady commented at some point, "I think I made fish too extreme."

[GameHat]

Heh, that's why every fort should begin with copious amounts of alcohol!

[Puzzlemaker]

Okay, so I savescummed, as I lost... everyone.

Now, I lost another... 4.  This is... arg.

[Btwilley]

Make a channel into your fort and put a grate up before you connect it to the water and you will have "safe" water to work with.

[Puzzlemaker]

I was trying to do that, but my miner got EATEN BY FISH.

[Tyrving]

Heh. My latest for is a bit of a challenge start, that is, very little in the way of supplies. Two dozen booze, some meat and turtles, a handful of seeds, and not much else. It's also located along a desert river.

Anyway, upon embark, my hunter (I chose a hunter over a metalsmith due to the scarcity of food, and though I know there's magma, it'll be a while before I get to doing anything with it. I think I made the right choice.) IMMEDIATELY squeezes off a round at a group of hippos that was WAY too close for comfort. It was a heart shot, and it scattered the rest of the hippos. Very cool way to start a fort.

[Kylaer]

My question is, how did he make fish so aggressive when giant tigers run away from dwarves?

Edited for clarity: As in, what mechanism? What tags? They don't appear to have any special ones...

[ February 08, 2008: Message edited by: Kylaer ]

[Armok]

Because the are CARP! Freekin hardcore CARP! The king of the beasts!

[sorbius]

Yeah I started on an evil major river and everything was going good, until I notice the river was FULL of blood..... I was like WTF! what happened.  I check the unit list and there's a PAGE of dead beak dogs....eaten by carp...I was frightened and very glad I was 3z levels above the river.

[Puzzlemaker]

Update:  Yay for migrants!  More people for the... carp... to... eat...

OHGODWHY!?  WHY MUST THEY EAT ALL MY PEOPLE?!?  WHYYYY!?!?!?!?

Edit:  There are 12 pages of fish and hippos.  12.  Pages.

[ February 08, 2008: Message edited by: Puzzlemaker ]

[frostedfire]

get a few marksdwarves and install a floodgate-ed pit-like area.  open floodgate, fish come in, close floodgate, water dries up and marksdwarves get their practice  

[Fenrir]

quote:Originally posted by Mr.Person:
<STRONG>I think Toady commented at some point, "I think I made fish too extreme."</STRONG>

It's "I think I made fish too hardcore."

[Markham]

In real life, you eat fish.  In Dwarf Fortress, fish eat you!

[Skanky]

In real life, you drink water. In DF, dwarves drink alcohol.