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[Mrhappyface]

Is it possible for a fort to have a happy ending? If you do, post some ideas please...

[nanomage]

Is it possible for a fort to have a happy ending? If you do, post some ideas please...

yeah, it's when everyone dies happy

[slink]

"And they lived happily ever after ...", followed by Save, Exit, and Create New World (or Start Playing, if you have a world already available that you want to use).

[Langdon]

Use DFusion+DfHack and this method (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=69682.msg2103316#msg2103316) to "retire" your fort without having to abandon. This turns it into a Mountain Hall that you can visit later in Adventure Mode.

Not really a happy ending, more like "dwarves stand around doing nothing but at least we're not dying horribly".

Not until later, anyway.

[Tanase]

Is it possible for a fort to have a happy ending? If you do, post some ideas please...

I don't know what game you're playing, but MY Dwarf Fortress never has happy endings.

[NecroRebel]

A happy ending is when you send in the clowns, and then shoo them out again. After that, you build a monument in the circus, and that's your happy ending.

[Mrhappyface]

Use DFusion+DfHack and this method (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=69682.msg2103316#msg2103316) to "retire" your fort without having to abandon. This turns it into a Mountain Hall that you can visit later in Adventure Mode.

Not really a happy ending, more like "dwarves stand around doing nothing but at least we're not dying horribly".

Not until later, anyway.

So they'll just slowly starve/dehydrate to death due to the fact they never tend the farms/stills?

[Reelyanoob]

Use DFusion+DfHack and this method (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=69682.msg2103316#msg2103316) to "retire" your fort without having to abandon. This turns it into a Mountain Hall that you can visit later in Adventure Mode.

Holy crap I didn't know that could work. Do you get your dwarves back if you use Just Embark to "reclaim" the site (Or a regular reclaim)?

[Flying Dice]

For some reason, a Dwarven Happy Ending sounds less like a good thing and more like the name of some obscure style of execution.

[nanomage]

For some reason, a Dwarven Happy Ending sounds less like a good thing and more like the name of some obscure style of execution.

I think it means getting everyone to ecstatic and then making the entire fortress cave in into the SMR

[Musashi]

The only sort of dwarven happy ending I can conceive is the one where I abandon the fort before anything especially horrific starts happening.
Yes, forceful exile is the "best" solution. This is the dwarven way. That, or you could play long enough to have everyone die of old age, but I think it's seriously more depressing for all parties involved. And boring. Infinitely more boring.

[Flying Dice]

For some reason, a Dwarven Happy Ending sounds less like a good thing and more like the name of some obscure style of execution.

I think it means getting everyone to ecstatic and then making the entire fortress cave in into the SMR

Maybe if they were all so drunk that their breath ignited the entire fortress as it fell into the magma sea, causing a massive explosion and subsequent earthquake.

[metime00]

A dwarven happy ending is when you make the place self sufficient, wall it off from the world, and run it in the background for 100 in game years, checking up only to reassign children to jobs of the dwarves dying from old age.

But where's the fun in that?

[Langdon]

Use DFusion+DfHack and this method (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=69682.msg2103316#msg2103316) to "retire" your fort without having to abandon. This turns it into a Mountain Hall that you can visit later in Adventure Mode.

Not really a happy ending, more like "dwarves stand around doing nothing but at least we're not dying horribly".

Not until later, anyway.

So they'll just slowly starve/dehydrate to death due to the fact they never tend the farms/stills?

They behave like towns/hamlets. Remember worldgen stops running when you start playing so they never starve even if they don't have food available.

By "later" I mean having your adventurer drag a bunch of bandits over to slaughter everyone.

Holy crap I didn't know that could work. Do you get your dwarves back if you use Just Embark to "reclaim" the site (Or a regular reclaim)?

They become "friendly" units when you reclaim the site, who also never eat or drink unless you use Runesmith to make them fortress citizens once again. One nice side-effect is that you can bring adventurers and retire them on the site, so when you reclaim later you can potentially have your old adventurers as members of the new fort.

If you read the thread Rumrusher also has a method for switching from adventurer mode to fortress mode afterwards (you just need to do it on a previously existing fort, and make sure your adventurer has the same civ number as the fort owner).

[Jelle]

A dwarven happy ending is a dwarf returning to the roots of his origins. They must become one with the blood of the mauntains. All must be thrown in semi molten rock.