Hello everyone,
imgur seems to have eaten my photos for summer. So those are gone.
Kar made his artifact just fine, don't worry. He won't die from that. The poisonous glass spider lurking in the magma plumbing, now, that's definitely a danger.
2 more FBs showed up down in the caverns. I think the total is about 8 now.
I tried to wrap up dealing with the two sewer-loving FBs. One of them is walled off in the waterwheel room on 111:
The pet goose in there tried to go for a swim in the pretty water and managed to attract the attention of the 2nd FB, the aforementioned poisonous glass spider. For his sins he gets to starve with the FB. The spider chased the goose around a bit and is now camped out at the bottom of the magma plumbing on 110, the same level as the forges. You can see the bottom of the alternate staircase a bit up and to the right of the FB:
I've tried to ID and block off places where the plumbing opens up into the fort, but there are a ton of places where that happens, especially in the upper soil levels The mining areas had several convoluted paths involving different staircases and 1-tile ramps that would let the FBs into the fort, so I've just blocked off the lower mining areas. I don't
think that made it impossible for the dwarfs in the lower living quarters to get back into the main fort (and food stockpiles), but if that did happen they've got some food down there so there's some time before they starve.
The alternate staircase is not going well. It seems like the dorfs are refusing to dig staircases unless they are on the same z-level as the staircase, not sure why. They'll happily mine it out once they're on the same z-level. Alternate staircase is a bit east and north of the current 2-tile staircase.
Here's the current state of the fort. Not to shabby, aside from the FBs running around.
Thanks for being understanding about not being able to finish a full year. I did manage to make it to early autumn, so there's only a season and a half that needs to be played.
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