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[Haika]

I think Cotton Candy should be allowed, only if you release the clowns. As that's what /should/ happen.

Meanwhile, think I might try the desert embark. Is it alright to switch to a 2x2 embark? Get the spike in the corner. Been dealing with some FPS issues lately, and want to keep things smooth.

[Featherblade]

Remembering that the challenge forbids workshops outside the spike, how will you create a magma smelter without years of intensive work on a pump stack to haul magma near the surface? (Unless you don't coinsider a furnace to be a workshop, but where's the fun in that?)


If you can spend the time to set up an elaborate liquids system, then you deserve free smelting. Whether the effort is worth the reward is up to you.

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These are just the suggested embarks, so feel free to move slightly around to suit your need. If you embark on the VERY south eastern part of the map, you will actually get no surface grass, unlike the little splodge available before- just remember that before your horses and things die.

[Ghills]

Is there any way you can post the worldgen info?

[Featherblade]

Is there any way you can post the worldgen info?

Put the World Gen parameters up on the main post.

[Haika]

Well started this out in the south eastern most point of the desert spike. Been a rough season and it's not even summer yet.

I started with a hunter, but didn't get the hunt job turned off quick enough, so he went out and emptied all the bolts we had into a camel. And didn't even manage to kill it. So I drafted him to the military as I had planned in the first place, and sent him after the wounded camel. Was going well, but he couldn't finish the creature off, even though it was covered in wounds. Then the camel got back up, kicked the poor hunter in the hand breaking it, and thus dooming him the death of the water only injured.

I brought about 30 logs with me, so we are ok for now on that route. I've started digging into the spike, and moving things inside, as well as getting a dining room worked out to combat the moods that are now wavering because the hunter seemed to have two friends and two grudges, so everyone gets some sort of mood change.

Forgot about the horses, so they are now starving. I've set them to be slaughtered, if nothing else, should be some hides and bones at least. I didn't bring any other grazing animal, but I've got a decent dog pack, and quite a few egg layers to keep us fed. However, I know migrants will bring more grazers, I can kill the ones that arn't pets, but those pets I'm not quite sure what I'm going to deal with yet.

[Corbine]

I wonder, how would one generate cliffs like this? Or even cube mountains?

[nanomage]

i've played this for a year, addind "No adamantine mining without vein breach" rule.
My expedition leader has written a small report on how things have gone so far, although nothing really interesting happened.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Granite, 9:
Somehow we arrived to the steep slope of the mountain, our wagon cracked and there is no wood on sight.
first, i order all seven of my dwarves to haul our stuff down to the surface.
We should find some wood down there to chop and make beds of.
Luckily we have a patch of graas for our horses to graze upon

Slate, 9:
We breach caverns at -107 and i send a woodcutter to chop some wood and accompanied him myself.
Troglodytes!
The beasts have attacked us, ambushing me in a small group of two monsters. One troglodyte was able to flee the fury of my axe, but the other was so horribly
injured that it will surely bleed to death somewhere in the caves.
Lorbam Hameruled, despite being a mere bookkeeper, beat another vile beast to the death with nothing but his bare fists!
All hail Lorbam, we'll open a new barrel of booze in his honour!
We have harvested 10 logs, which is enough for us to make comfortable beds worthy of dwarf's sleep.

Early and mid-Summer 9:
Having enough wood for beds we proceed to establish a food industry, as our supplies are low and migrants keep coming.
We make a small underground farm to grow cave wheat and helmet plumps and kill two cats because my dwarves seem paranoid about cats trying to take over their minds.
One nervously looking dwarf named Vucar didn't even allow me to bury the cat's bones. Instead, he said he's gonna hunt  some camels with those bones and we will
all have enough meat to eat in the whole our lifetimes. When i asked him whether he know how to shoot he answered it is not more difficult then making soap. Strange guy!

Late Summer 9:
With farm running we are safe from hunger and sobrity.
We can not use magma until we raise it to the surface according to the Laws of our fortress, so we have to find a way to acquire trade goods and armor for soldiers without it.
Luckily, I was some time ago trained to be a jeweler, and we have loads of rough gems scattered around. We also have some useless crutches and splints and quivers  so i guess
i'll just set some gems in them and sell them back to the mountainhomes for metal, wood and booze.

Sandstone 9:
Our explorers have mapped all three cave systems and hit magma at -209 and our masons have finished the lowering gate to our fortress.
Sophisticated machines move a huge section of wall up and down with great force.
It can be deadly as the hammer of Armok if one finds it lowering upon his head!

Timber 9:
A caravan from mountainhomes brought us supplies, 21 logs and some metal in exchange for crutches and splints.
21 logs is enough for everuone and 10 logs will be left to start our metal industry.
We must find a way to equip our troops until goblins have found out about our outpost.
My smiths tell me we have some copper and silver ores literally below our feet and we could make copper armour until we get enough steel.
We have a bronze axe, serving well in hands of Tekkud Stibmerinod, our militia commander, and we have a bar of iron from the caravan, which we will turn into another axe and hand to Solon Sarveshthabost, a veteran warrior who can teach out recruits a lot about combat and scouting.
My smiths also tell me that silver makes excellent bolts and if we start forging them, our poor wannabe-hunter Vucar might actually kill something with his cat bone crossbow.
All the dwarves keep laughing at him but always help him finish off a wounded camel.

Moonstone 9:
O woe is mine!
Our hero bookkeeper, noble Lorbam Hameruled, has been posessed by some unknown and malicious force. He keeps muttering to himself as he wanders back and forth in the dining room ignoring his old friends. But what can we do to help him?
We have a meeting together to find a way to save him and we have recalled that he had been an apprentice leatherworker
before joining us as a clerk. We have built what we think is a leatherworker's shop for him and he looks revived now!
He grabbed a tanned camel hide and some bones and although he continues muttering utterances his face looks much brighter now as if he had a clear goal in mind.
I believe he will be able to return to his life.
Meanwhile, we have set up basic smelting industry powered by wood bought from caravan. We should have one or two armor sets by next summer.

Opal 9:
Lorbam is sane again! It was a legendary artifact, Nothissut Shakethtilesh, "Grievebled the Torrid Trusses", a one-humped camel leather flute that haunted
his mind and sought implementation in our world through his hands.
It lies how on my table, encircled with bands of one-humped camel leather and it has an image of gauntlets on it, it one-humped camel bone.
Wow.
I wonder how such a small, ugly and useless thing could endanger mental health of my friend. It's awfull and it can happen to anyone of us.

We start work on our 12z- high main entrance, which will be in future protected by spikes and bridges. Right now it's going to be just a high and narrow trapped path.

Our hunter Vucar and axedwarf Tekkud seem to have become friends after numerous camels they had felled together. Thanks to them, we have really no shortage of fresh meat to cook.

obsidian 9: a camel have invaded the fortress. It was however more scared than we and our axedwarves made a short work of it. This should teach us to place traps in the entrance though.
We have now copper mail shirts and helmets for our two axedwarves. While can't yet fight goblin hordes, this seems sufficient armour to breach caverns again and replenish our wood stores.
I think with spring an elven caravan will come, and they also will bring us some wood.

[Haika]

My first year is done as well. Screenshot time:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

This is the long winding entrance in the very base of the spike I made. With the floodgate panic door. Eventually I plan to fill the long passage with traps to defend myself. But right now only a few litter the hallway. The stairs right outside the entrance was my first attempt at reaching cave water. When the hunter first got hurt, I thought I could save him, but my miners wern't skilled enough so it took too long. And this shaft has since then been abandoned. Might use it to pump water or magma or something in later.


this is the main workshop level for now. Lower left is wood and stone processing. Along with a furniture stockpile. To the lower right is food stockpiles and the plump helmet farm. Above that on the right is the bird coop. Upper left chamber is the general dorm, and temporary tomb area. I've started hollowing around these floors to try and make as much soil as possible become mossy and grow trees. The stairs to the left are the shaft I took down to breach the first cave layer. Between the birds and the food area is my well. About 40z levels of a channel down to water and a fortification blocked area that I created down in the cave. Lost my experienced miner doing that too, because the fool fell a couple Z levels and crushed his skull somehow.


Above the main floor is the dining area, a large mined out area for moss and trees to grow. And the refuse and butchery area, with smell/miasma vents in the side.


Yet above that is my trade depot, and my temporary 'everything' stockpile'. Eventually this will be split up as I make more workshop areas.


and finally is my as yet uncomplete first bedroom layer. 7 z layers above the trade depot to try and keep down noise. Should work out pretty nicely once we get it furnished.

[Lielac]

Ooooohh! I'll be taking that cliff embark, yes I shall. Looks awesome!

[Roboboy33]

How do i get the rar that i downloaded into my saves?

[Featherblade]

I wonder how such a small, ugly and useless thing could endanger mental health of my friend. It's awfull and it can happen to anyone of us.

Nothing interesting has happened? This alone makes the scene all the more real! I hope to hear more from your expedition leader. 
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My first year is done as well. Screenshot time:

Nice, it looks like you're working with the spire fine. I always spend way too much time planning fort defence, then getting nothing done. What's good is all that unmined interior of the spike could potentially house those magma/water pumps, if you don't want to place them outside. Then you could give underfloor heating to those bedrooms!
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How do i get the rar that i downloaded into my saves?

Download Winrar (it's nagware, so it will ask you to buy it, but doesn't force you to.) and use it to extract the .rar file. It will provide you with the region save.

[nanomage]

here's the report fot the Year 10.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Granite:
We are short on wood again, and again i have to send our woodcutters into the caverns.
This time we have two axedwarves with them though. Let's pray to armok all will be well.
Our masons start working on the archery range above the narrow path into the fortress to shoot at advancing enamies from it.
We had a meeting yesterday to decide how it should be named, and we agreed that the best name would gbe simply "highway".
Yes, Highway. With a capital letter it is even better.
"Ye know, Urist, we have a Highway leading to our town"
"Wut say u, Urist, and what is particularly high about it?"
"Hehe, Urist, high enough for your limbs to fly half the way back up if you fall"
Splendid!

Slate:
Twenty more migrants have arrives with lots of livestock, among them two hunters of high skill and expertise.
Ineth Domothrigad, one of them,was unluckily injured in a cave-in, looks like we should elect a diagnostician and establish a basic hospital.
Tekkud, our militia commander retired from his military duty to heal the wounded.

Felsite:
On the first of felsite one of our newcomers became fey. He is a bone carver and right now he is working on Draltha bone something awesome.
Grave news i have, too.
A troll has somehow made his way to our halls, I guess it's because someone forgot to close the cave drawbridge.
That costs us life of Oddom Eshtanalis the farmer - the beast killed him before the soldiers came to the rescue.
Спи спокойно, дорогой товарищ.
Elves have arrived with loads of wood and tamed giant tiger and giant leopard.
We were able to buy everything we needed - wood, fruit, booze and the aforementioned beasts, for just two totems.
The Highway and archery range are now finished, and i ordered to pasture a puppy on the Highway to let our marksdwarves know about any invaders. The wide gate is now closed and everyone is forced to take the narrow and dangerous path.
Another troll attacked us, but this time we were more lucky and careful and dispatched it easily
We now our famous for our Legendary Bone Carver Kol Abanedos and his artifact Nunur Rash the Crevices of Death, a draltha bone crown. It is adorned with hanging rings of draltha bone and menaces with spikes of draltha bone and tethrahedrite. It also has an image of feather trees in two-humped camel bone because most of the draltha bones were wasted. However, one should be very vigilant to notice the difference, so we can pretend they are in draltha bone two, just that draltha was a bit young.

Hematite:
I ordered the elven wood to be made into beds for newcomers and charcoal for metal industry.
Wounded hunter has been saved, his life is once more out of danger. However, he has some very bad "Overly Pink Frakcha", as Tekkud says. It will take much time before he can shoot again.

Malachite:
Yesterday night someone has brough a note book to my room. I was surprised to see that it is a thorough historical and scientific work dedicated to the military application of miner's pick. I should discuss it with my military advisors.
Tales spreading of the riches of our fort continue attracting migrants to us. We are now forty nine.
I have also approved the orders to forge full metal, albeit copper, armour for a standard infantry squad of ten dwarvers.

Galena:
The forgotten beast Anan has come. A gigantic antelope with lidless eyes. It has huge mandibles and somehow the very moment of its arrival I was aware of its noxious secretions. Our brave soldiers attacked it and beat it down with no death casualties. Olin Asenilik the Axedwarf has been injured in battle and Tekkud says he has "Overly Pink Frakcha" too. He is alive however and while doctors do not allow him to drink booze, he congratulated the hero Led Rakustradol, who landed the fatal blow and beheaded the beast.
Human caravan arrived bringing us lots of timber in exchange for some totems. We continue forging armor and harvesting wood in the caverns.

Limestone:
Minkot Stukonoltar the farmer has been peculiarly secretive lately and has now presented us Sidkisat Fullut Riril "Charemptied the Rabble of Fellowships" the horse leather trousers, decorated with horse bone and horse leather and menacing with spikes of horse bone and brown zircon. She says he was inspired by Nothissut Shakethtilesh the camel leather flute to make her pants and she looks at our bookkeeper in a very strange manner when she says so.

Sandstone:
We continue forging armor and harvesting wood in the caverns.

Timber:
Id Dodokber the woodcrafter has made an artifact fungiwood ring after having been working for a couple of weeks. A nice thing, with images of mountains and dwarves travelling and labouring, but noone agrees to wear it. Me neither.
We have also a big shipment of ores and metals from Mountainhome. Imported steel, bronzes and raw materials will allow us to arm and armour our soldiers properly.
I approved the smelting project which will yield us 14 bars of steel, 40 bars of bismuth bronze as well as 8 bars of ordinary bronze and 2 excess bars of iron.

Moonstone and Opal:
These months brought us much death and suffering. Wild beast from the caves attacked our dwarves. Datan Rithsoder, Geshud Zonnum and the baby Egem Shegetmafol were killed in rampage of giant toad, giant cave spider and cave crocodile. Спите спокойно, дорогие товарищи.
After the murderous beasts were dispatched, even greater danger arose. Raca Afiene the forgotten beast has come to bring death to our lands. It's a gigantic mud blob exhaling poison. I decided to raise the drawbridge despite my dwarves contemplating about their beloved socks and thongs lying there in cave.
We mourn, but we should live on. There would be no use for the dead if the entire fort went emo and died. We must remember our dead, but never forget we are still alive.
A goblin babysnatcher tried to sneak into our town, but he could not hide from our vigilant guard puppy and was promply shot and killed.
The Highway in now guarded with two cage traps in addition to puppy and marksdwarves.

Obsidian:
Our farmers have established a poultry yard with 10 or 12 guineafowl hens in it.
Armor sets for our soldiers are ready. Each one has a set of copper armour, bismuth bronze high boots and a steel pick.
We have also got another artifact leather flute. Zon TobulKadol the Axedwarf has made Nilunaran "WearSculpture", a water buffalo leather flute. It is decorated with bismuth bronze, forgotten beast bones, leather and gems. On the top of it it has an image of Sidkisat Fullut Riril "Charemptied the Rabble of Fellowships" the horse leather trousers on it. They definitely  are obsessed with leather flutes and trousers.

It would be difficult for me to post screenshots because the fort spreads numerous z-levels up the spike, but i'll pick some and edit the post once i get familiar with the post image feature.
EDIT: this is going to be tonight at best

[Vicomt]

How do i get the rar that i downloaded into my saves?

Download Winrar (it's nagware, so it will ask you to buy it, but doesn't force you to.) and use it to extract the .rar file. It will provide you with the region save.

Rather than use Winrar (which, as you say, is Nagware and thus sucks), use 7Zip. It's free, no nagware, and will unpack (but not pack) .RAR files.

sorry for the OT, but I've become a 7zip evangelist and nagware hater in recent years

BTW, I've started my own fort on the cliff.... it's not cliffy enough so I'm cutting it down to vertical. hopefully there's enough marble on the map to sheath the entire cliff face.... I like marble.

[nanomage]

yep, year 11 report

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Granite:
nothing special happened

Slate:
I issued an order to make a crossbowdwarf squad as our fortress guard and arm them with bone crossbows.

Felsite:
Elves have only brought us a jaguar this time. Still, we can use their wood, 79 logs

Hematite:
On the 12-th of hematite, the Giantess Mela Equuyi Amare has come to our lands. The beast has strangled our guard dog to death before getting caught in the cage trap.
This time we will pasture a guineachick on the hughway instead.
//editor sidenot - actually the dog had time to launch an attack, and it was dodged. Just bad luck that the giantess didn't fall 12z down.
Giant cage decorates now our meeting hall

Malachite:
Elections of mayor have been held. Kadol Erithkat the manager has become the town mayor, and i remain just a historian.
She's an old friend of mine and i think she has the hang of how to manage dwarven fortresses.
The squad under command of Vucar the hunter has been reformed into Fortress Guard.
The new mayor ordered construction of fashionable huge rooms for herself and her captain of the guard who happens to be her lover as well.
//editor sidenote - thats just an incredible coincidense. Incredible! by the way, is there a way to get them married asap?   
On the 24 of malachite, Kogan Mersethzulgar the carpenter was taken by a fey mood.
Unfortunately we have run out of wood and opening the first cave is too dangerous because that poisonous mud blob settled there.
Mayor asked me to find a way to quicky open another cave system, chop a mushroom or two and seal it back.
However, i have a plan that would allow us to work safely in the caverns and i'll try to find a good place for it.
The same day, more migrants arrived and among them famed Oddom Standardbrain, High Master Armoursmith from the Mounttainhome!
I'm so pleased that such a great master of the art metalworking has chosen my fortress to be his home!

Galena:
On the seventh, Kogan the fey carpenter began his work. We have chopped 3 mushrooms for him.
Instead of sealing back the cavern entirely, we carved a portion of it for ourselves, walling it from the southern tunnels and creating steep edges to the west.
No land animal can go through and we have time to think about flying critters.
Happy at the though that the cavern is now dwarven, mayor ordered it to be smoothed.
5 days it took Kogan to make an artifact and we now have Thadrober Girustigest, "Crowdwiped the Scintillating Glosses",
a spore tree bin with ring and decorations and an image related to the foundation of our fort. And another image of Nilunaran "WearSculpture", a water buffalo leather flute.
On 15-th the human have arrived with a caravan. There was nothin to byu except wood and this time we just gave them away goblin's clothing.

Limestone:
We have started the training program for our "goblinite miners". They will train their affinity with picks digging through immense amount of soil.
On 28-th, another forgotten beast mud blob has come. This has only one tail and does not exhale poison, but it is in the same cavern system twith the first.

Sandstone:
Another wave of migrants came to our fortress. Olin Chancedpost, well-known  expert in weaponsmihing, was among them.
Our new medical dwarf examined the two injured with "Overly Pink Fraktcha" and said they are okay now.
We launched a party in his honour and removed the traction benches where the two spent a year of their lives.

Timber:
12th timber Ral Urmimathel the Clothier has been posessed!
17th timber another forgotten beast, blob made of snow, invaded our caves. It can't fly though and it has no special attacks. We'll wait if see if we can just ignore it.
Dwarven caravan has arrived to replenish our supply of ores and metal.
19th Timber Ral Urmimathel has finished working and presented us Aditmilol Keng Zutshosh, "Walledmessiah the Steam of Bewilderment", a rope reed fiber loincloth.
It has multiple decorations, rings and spikes and images of our queen ascending to the throne and a bolt.
I've missed meeting with the liason because i had urgent business down in caves, but heard rumours that our town will be promoted to the centre of barony.
Strangely, noone wants to tell me more about this.
The snow blob was not able to harm us but it was scaring dwarves from above the cliff, and Vucar sent his crossbowmen after it. A single bolt turned the monster in a huge pile of snow.
Oh wait, it has always been just a pile of snow!

Moonstone:
That's news i can scarcely believe! Today mayor has called me and handed me a queen's edict promoting me to be the baroness of Gearedfold!
Half of the town witnessed it and were applauded loudly.
It's so much i can do for them now!
First i'm going to order myself luxury rooms then issue a ton of useless mandates and set up a jail for losers who fail completing them.
on 22nd, The Hill Titan Ongslun Smugnosost Slosno Sagus, a gigantic quadruped of solid salt with deadly spittle has attacked my subjects.
Kadol SpearRiddled, the Hammerdwarf from the caravan guard whom i asked to guard the entrance for a winter or two has confronted and

Opal:
killed it!
Very nice of him.
I have forbidden the export of crystall glass on this occasion.
On 7th, miners Rakust Dodokmegid and Rith Degeldeleth have married.
On 11th, the huge chromite humanoid Uxu the forgotten beast has invaded the first cavern system, delivering a company to two mud blobs that live there.

Obsidian:
Erib Urdiman the beekeeper has given birth to a girl and 100 dwarves inhabit out town now.
22nd: The goblins ambushed us! two of them got caged in our traps, one got stuck on the highway, and the other two ran into the fortress pursuing the guard guineachick! We should have tied it.
In the narrow tunnel after the Highway, Shem Mebkeshal and Tekkud Shoregates confronted them. Pick mastery proved deadly art of war and both goblins were dismembered quickly.
The last one who stood on the highway dodged the flying crossbow bolt and fell down. He was lucky however as he fell not on the ground but on the slope of spike and only broke both legs.
This didn't save him however as our marksdwarves quickly stuffed him with bolts.
27th: another ambush and a snatcher showed up in the same time! On of our dwarves punched the snatch down from the highway.
But Medtob Ilushbomrek, our broker ran foolishly toward the ambushers and died dodging their attack into the depth.
Спи спокойно, дорогой товарищ!

I start thinking of carving a one-shot magma piston now, and with a little magma i can really make some stupid megaproject.

EDIT: i've updated it with the news from granite, 12, because then my expedition leader has gone stark raving mad and i guess we will not hear from her anymore.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Year 12
Granite: Another two snatchers appeared and one of them wounded Iden Likotinal the Cheese Maker severely. Don't know if he survives.
We should design a clever way to gather the remnants of those who jump from our Highway.
It was all so much disappointing that I decided to kill someone with my trustworthy axe. First i picked a peasant as target, but he seemed too fat to hack at, so i went for a weaponsmith.
I almost succeeded at hacking his leg away but he rolled away from me. Too bad. Well, Armok lets them live then, maybe next time.
My subjects looked at me strangely after that incident and mayor insisted that i'm too valuable for the fortress to work as a woodcutter.
What is she thinking of herself after all?
I have ordered to wall off the area beneath the highway so that those who fall would be unreachable for goblins but accessible for my subjects.

[slink]

I generated a fresh copy from the worldgen parameters and ended up settling on the Medium Challenge.  I meant to do the desert one, but misunderstood the location.  That's okay.  Anyway, the Medium Challenge location is reproducible and stable from a fresh worldgen.