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[Uthric]

How do you deal with the Boredom between the fun of starting your fort and the first few goblin attacks?

I had many a fort deleted because i got bored before the goblins arrived to entertain me.

[Roraborialisforealis]

Antmen. Paying attention to my dwarfs feelings.

[Hitty40]

How do you deal with the Boredom between the fun of starting your fort and the first few goblin attacks?

I had many a fort deleted because i got bored before the goblins arrived to entertain me.

Start a megaproject. Read forums while you wait(assuming you are using SoundSense). There's plenty of things you can do.

[Girlinhat]

Instal a mod that has weak, fast-acting enemies.  I'm working on something similar, that will include some 5-20 generic civs that attack almost immediately, but the creatures are of limited size and weaponry.  15 civs at once gives you some 800 siegers total, if I remember right, but you should be able to only add the ones you want *shrug*.

Aside from that, I mostly do chainmaille, or some GBA (re-running Fire Emblem Sacred Stones currently) or start designating huge labyrinths for dwarves to party in.  With ogres.  Party ogres.  Great Success!

[Hitty40]

Instal a mod that has weak, fast-acting enemies.  I'm working on something similar, that will include some 5-20 generic civs that attack almost immediately, but the creatures are of limited size and weaponry.  15 civs at once gives you some 800 siegers total, if I remember right, but you should be able to only add the ones you want *shrug*.

Aside from that, I mostly do chainmaille, or some GBA (re-running Fire Emblem Sacred Stones currently) or start designating huge labyrinths for dwarves to party in.  With ogres.  Party ogres.  Great Success!

You know, I'd love to see that mod. Party ogres, that's epic.

[Girlinhat]

Actually no party ogres in the mod.  That's just what my dwarves do when they finish the dungeon.  And by "party" I mean "OH GOD IT BIT MY LEG OFF!"

The mod is just several animal-morph people, like fox-morph and wolf-morph and whatnot, applied with a generic creature variant copy-paste and put into generic civilizations without too much worry.  They're fundamentally identical, except the wolf-morphs bite a bit harder than the goat-morphs, and the badger-morphs love to rush into battle... and the cat-morphs tend to hunt fireflies instead of dwarves.  I find this last bit to be acceptable, and refuse to change it.  They arrive fairly early, all during one season, and come with spears and swords.  The idea was "I like to kill things, but I don't like losing soldiers.  Why not just mod in a horde of weaklings to fulfill my cathartic bloodlust?"

I'm still fine-tuning it, as the avians have trouble holding weapons and other quirks.

[elf-fondling human]

I sit there. And stare at the screen. INTENTLY.

Then I get bored and watch anime/freakazoid/mylittlepony. Sometimes I just play minecraft between.

[Roraborialisforealis]

MAGMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Pre dinner mayonnaise is good for you.

[cdrcjsn]

I selectively breed animals for certain traits.

I look for huge/muscular/fat varieties and cull the rest.

[Lexx]

I plan out future sections of the fort whilst trying to incorporate the layout of the terrain in it. Towers that rise out of small hills with bridges connecting between them is fun. last fort I had with that made each tower sealable off independently from the underground network/each other via use of bridges and moats. Each with finished food/booze stockpiles to allow at least one tower a chance of survival should something befall the fort proper. Allowing those inside to rebuild once the danger has passed.

[KtosoX]

I try to get as much resources as possible before the goblins start coming. Cutting trees, gathering plants, killing the wild life. Raping the land is both fun and profit!
Designing the outside parts of my fort takes time too... 

[Angel Of Death]

Dig down to the caverns. If you're running Genesis Mod like I am, they should be extremely dangerous.

[King DZA]

Not dying by the various forces of nature usually keeps me occupied until i'm busy
not dying by the hands of foreign enemies.

[peri609667]

Not dying by the various forces of nature usually keeps me occupied until i'm busy
not dying by the hands of foreign enemies.

Protip: build traps.

Congratulations, you're now invincible.

[Chattox]

Train up a basic militia squad of about 10 dorfs, nothing unusual.

However, I also like to dig out a secret passageway leading to a hidden room, often in a side passage that leads behind something that isn't often frequented by other dwarfs, like some kind of stockpile or something. In here, I train the dwarven SAS. A crack squad of 3-4 dwarfs hand picked for manliness and bad-assery. They get the best equipment and train on live targets. When they get sent in, you know the defecation has collided with the oscillation.