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[Girlinhat]

It's alright.  This is Dwarf Fortress.  Context will not save you.

[candylord]

Is that how dwarven construction methods work?  I've been wondering how a chalk wall can resist a flood of magma, and how dwarven fingernails can dismantle a steel floor.  They must augment the construction with beard hair and liquor!  They don't actually consume the majority of the alcohol, they just store it in their bodies, reconstituted by intricate Liver Operations and later re-applied to produce goods and construction.  This is how they work the stone without tools, they use their Booze Glue pouch and squirt liquid cement onto the stone.  Similarly, the Booze Acid gland allows them to smooth and engrave stone.

It also explains why dwarves without booze tend to get lazier and lazier =D
as their inner booze resevoirs start to run low, they can't do nearly as much work!, its not (just ) because they're lazy =P

[phoenixuk]

I love that my topic degenerated into a discussion regarding the advance biological construction method of dwarves, but... could someone answer my other question? The one about having no leaders in my dwarf civ, will that prevent me getting a king permanently?

[Girlinhat]

I believe so.  Sounds like your civ is dead.  Are you getting any caravans or migrants?

[phoenixuk]

I'm getting caravans and i'm getting migrants (my population is currently 236, and i'm a barony with 10345883 created wealth)
I'm in the process of digging past the magma sea to get to the cotton candy, but still no king

[Syrup Roast]

I'm getting caravans and i'm getting migrants (my population is currently 236, and i'm a barony with 10345883 created wealth)
I'm in the process of digging past the magma sea to get to the cotton candy, but still no king

The king for your might have died recently, I guess.

[sjaakwortel]

my dwarven civ is even run by a drunk, noting special here move along

[Psieye]

Well technically, it takes several days to dismantle some walls.  Consider the timespan in fort mode.  Also, if so inclined, you could add an attack for the beard, but it would be rather limp and ticklish according to the raws.

Time to mod beard hair then.

[antymattar]

Wow! dude, sont get him angry or you will get an ambush with him in the lead. GUARD THE BOOZE!!!

[Greyejoy]

Wouldn't the concentrated booze in their systems cause them to explode when they get near fire or magma? Can this be modded in for a new challenge towards metal working? 

[Quietust]

my dwarven civ is even run by a drunk, noting special here move along

I can beat that - back in 40d, I had a fortress where my civilization had a "High Priest/Goblin Drunk".

[Teneb]

my dwarven civ is even run by a drunk, noting special here move along

I can beat that - back in 40d, I had a fortress where my civilization had a "High Priest/Goblin Drunk".

A drunken goblin priest? In a dwarven civ?
I sense...

[nanomage]

my dwarven civ is even run by a drunk, noting special here move along

I can beat that - back in 40d, I had a fortress where my civilization had a "High Priest/Goblin Drunk".

A drunken goblin priest? In a dwarven civ?
I sense...

Can't it be that dwarves are just overly drunk goblins? They swell from massive liver damage, their skin reddens, their livers increas in size and they die promptly after becoming a dwarfs - what's 160 years for a creature that would otherwise be immortal? This priest just haven't completed his transformatrion yet!
EDIT: "He'll be true dwarf faster than we finish off that barrel, i swear you Urist!"