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[Davichococat]

Okay, I embarked on a seemigly 'nice' area. Metal(lotsa), river(a river to me is very important, and I mean VERY, because I'm too lazy to farm, so fishermans ftw), and clay.

I just started preparing the fortress. Then I set my miners to mine, and I just saw an alligator trying to kill some moose men. Pools of blood are spattered everywhere. Then I remember of something, damn it the fisherman is fishing on the stream! I remove him of him's job, him is fine. But soon I think that alligator(s?) will run to my dwarves and they will scream in pain.

How to deal with these? Fish is my primary food source.

Well, at least I got free meat(these corpses weigh 170!11!!!1(too bad the wiki has no information on these things))

EDIT: Now its these badger boars killing my livestock :/... Heelp.

[dagger]

Temp recruit your miners into a squad and clean house.

[Davichococat]

Temp recruit your miners into a squad and clean house.

Hmm... But they are only 3 with copper picks... Also the 'Miner' labor is the most important on my fort... I don't want to lose these, and that boar killed my chicken on a single strike on the fat... That 'scratch' opened a major artery and the chicken instantly bleed to death.

Also they keep coming, when the alligators travelled off map, the boars appeared.

And the river is carp-infested, my miners have no swimming skill and as I said fish is my primary source of food.

[dagger]

Maybe wall (or fortifications) in the banks or use traps on the major axis of approach? Not sure....

[Davichococat]

Maybe wall (or fortifications) in the banks or use traps on the major axis of approach? Not sure....

Would that work?

Also my expedition leader is on the hospital... :/

EDIT: And a miner died. It's still summer.

EDITEDIT: Great, another miner on the hospital(expedition leader was miner too). Now I have to wait these damned guys to heal. I need an solution quickly.

[Flying Dice]

My last embark had seasonal infestations of badgermen and badger boars. I solved that problem with enough bolts to darken the sun(hinthint), and provided tons of meat for my butcher at the same time.

[Davichococat]

Argh, I will abandon. Also a miner died of infection, this is surely an unsucefull fort.

Thanks for help though.

[Zesty]

I have to ask, if you don't farm, then what are your dwarves drinking?

[Avo]

Do the dwarfy thing. Seal yourself off from the world, build farms and pretend that the outside world is just a myth until  you get an army.

[Hyndis]

Do surface farming and drink from a pond until you get a proper fort dug. Build a wall around your starting area for protection until you get a proper fort dug out. You can use the stone from digging to build the wall.

[Davichococat]

I have to ask, if you don't farm, then what are your dwarves drinking?

Water.

Still on my most sucefull fort everyone drinked water. There was 50 dwarves, everyone was ecstastic(I don't know how to spell this ._.) and fort was going very well until I got invaded by a ciclops. Then the result was ~10 people on the hospital and 4 on the tomb. But fort still was running well after.

It was 2 years old(nearly 3) and all I got was a goblin snatcher.

[tolkafox]

All you gotta do is make a crossbow, some bolts, and assign a hunter. Crocodiles can't attack your dwarves if they are the ones running in fear from an invisible bolt shooter.

I've embarked in hostile areas many times. Hunters kill all.

[Zesty]

I have to ask, if you don't farm, then what are your dwarves drinking?

Water.

[ahonek]

Don't dwarves work slower without booze?

[Naryar]

Yes they do, and they take more breaks as well.