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[Mrhappyface]

I just embarked on a kobold cave. They're friendly too!
Any ideas worth sharing?

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[ClkWrkJester]

Fill it with toys.
Then let a FB loose in it so they're not lonely.

[Vindictus]

Dig a tunnel so deep it reaches hell, and a tower so high the ancient, abominal gods of the stars might walk down it.

Then abandon fort, wait a few in-game years, and see what happens.

[Note- I dont think toady has a 'Built too high' set up. It would be fun if he did though.]

[Necro910]

Dig a tunnel so deep it reaches hell, and a tower so high the ancient, abominal gods of the stars might walk down it.

Then abandon fort, wait a few in-game years, and see what happens.

[Note- I dont think toady has a 'Built too high' set up. It would be fun if he did though.]

Have massive waves of

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mimes

come out, and give all of your dwarves curses instead of syndromes! 

[Loud Whispers]

Create a kobold nature reserve.

And kill everything that dares enter it.

And put your trade depot inside it.

[Mrhappyface]

I genned the world to have no demons.

[Vindictus]

Do you have a bottom layer?

I think if you have a bottom layer, then it doesn't matter if the rest of the world has demons, you can still dig too deep. Not sure though, so don't quote me on that.

Hmm... Science... Gen a world with no demons, no caverns, and about three/four levels before adamantium. Then dig through the adamantium layer. If you get a demon zergrush, then it doesn't matter if you gen demons or not. If you don't, settle hell to make sure.

[acetech09]

Umm, all I see is tons of querns and rings everywhere - something blue - and no kobolds...

Can you upload the save?

[Quietust]

Hmm... Science... Gen a world with no demons, no caverns, and about three/four levels before adamantium. Then dig through the adamantium layer. If you get a demon zergrush, then it doesn't matter if you gen demons or not. If you don't, settle hell to make sure.

Just tried - it gave the usual message for discovering the Underworld, but nothing came through afterwards.

[Grumbledwarfskin]

Hmm...do Kobolds ever send sieges, or just thieves?

On the one hand, the "friendly" kobolds encountering a single kobold thief from the same civ will result in a loyalty cascade, so you'll want to isolate them from kobold thieves if you want to keep them alive.

On the other hand, in my experience with bugged "friendly" goblins on reclaim, they'll stay friendly exactly until you get a siege. When you get a siege by their civ, they'll become "hostile". I lost a few dwarves that way to a goblin that I'd let live in one of my bedrooms, since it was friendly and not getting in anyone's way.

If you move in with the kobolds, live side-by-side in peace and harmony, and get a kobold siege, you'll be living side-by-side in pieces pretty quick if you haven't armed and armored your civilians in case of betrayal.

A "hostile" will attack an "invader", so they still lead to a loyalty cascade that results in only one remaining "invader" or one remaining "hostile" when two groups meet.

One caveat: since thieves and ambushes don't trigger the change from "friendly" to "hostile", any goblin/kobold that survives a loyalty cascade caused by a thief/ambusher will not change from "friendly" to "hostile" when a siege happens, since they don't care at all whether their former civ is attacking anybody. They'll still trigger loyalty cascades in invaders they meet, but won't turn on you.

[Ieb]

Kobold's don't actually siege though, they just send ambush squads. Do those cause Friendly units of the same civ to turn Hostile? Also, wouldn't any soldier killing a kobold result in them becoming an enemy of the kobold civ and then start attacking the 'bolds that are just loitering about?

Anyway, since that cave leads to at least the first cavern layer, it's only a matter of time until a FB arrives from there to do some rampaging, since the 'bolds will be fair game for them to attack besides your dwarves and livestock.

[Masked_Hunter1825]

Do what is right, and put the kobolds out of their misery.

[Mrhappyface]

I'm actually terrified to go outside. I walled off all the wagons as soon as I could cause of skeletal giraffes and rhinos kept coming.

[Masked_Hunter1825]

Let the kobolds try and defend you. Less kobolds the better!

[GreatWyrmGold]

I'm actually terrified to go outside. I walled off all the wagons as soon as I could cause of skeletal giraffes and rhinos kept coming.

Capture the kobolds, put them in an enclosure with nest boxes, and start a captive breeding program to allow them to survive in the world?

Better yet, mod them to be tameable and not need to eat, tame the whole lot, and give them out as pets to your dwarves. Or maybe remove the [PET] tag after taming them and make them into valuable fortress citizens. The possibilities are endless!