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[Awessum Possum]

The goose is getting fat.

So I was thinking, Christmas is on the way right? So I should do something Christmasy with one of my games...

"This is a orthoclase mini-forge all craftdwarfship of the finest quality."
    

The challenge: Create a fortress for the manufacture of toys. All toys must be exported as offerings to any and all caravans that arrive (except maybe the elves, give the elves coal.)

Bonus: Embark in a cold biome and name your ruler Santa.

Dwarf(Elf?)bonus: Embark with elves instead of dwarves.

SuperDwarfBonus: Properly clothe Santas little helpers, trousers, green skirts, green tunics, and green hats.

Enjoy.

(PS: Is there any stone that shows up as red when built into a wall?)

[drakon136]

Hmm, interesting idea. Might plan on doing this.

To answer your question, I believe Bauxite is a red stone.

[proxn_punkd]

Kaolinite is also red.

[Kepplerr]

Realgar, Petrified Wood, and Cinnabar are all red as well.

[Loud Whispers]

Though Cinnabar is an ore of mercury... Make your Elf slaves workforce well out of it :]

Jolly candy spike traps all round perhaps?

[Lemunde]

More bonuses:

Cook traditional Christmassy meals. Lots of turkey. Roasts made from dwarven flower, sugar, strawberries and prickleberries. That sort of thing.

Create a sort of magma hearth with a nearby stockpile of socks.

Create an exclusive pasture zone and raise at least eight reindeer.

[tommy521]

Though a noble prospect, it's kind of already on the wiki

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Urist McHoHoHo
Embark in a glacier biome
Take at least 3 craftsdwarves to serve as Santa's Elves.
Export as many toys as possible. These are your only permitted trade good.
Bonus: Use this Christmas-themed tileset: [[1]]
Bonus: Cycle nobles frequently, use their mandates as people's wish lists.
Mega Bonus: Use Olivine, Serpentine, Bauxite, Kaolinite, Cinnabar, Petrified Wood, Realgar, (red and green) to build your fortress.
Dwarven Spirit Bonus: Edit the raws to embark with elves utilize elf slave labor to craft your toys.
Mega Dwarf Bonus: Embark with a group of elves, choose the fattest elf to be Santa. Clothe him in reindeer wool clothing, dyed red, with accents of un-dyed wool. Feed him ☼Longland Flour Cookies☼ and reindeer milk. Build a brick fireplace and burn coal for a warm cozy fire. Train Santa to be a legendary pump operator to make him flash red.

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Challenges

[Awessum Possum]

Though a noble prospect, it's kind of already on the wiki

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Urist McHoHoHo
Embark in a glacier biome
Take at least 3 craftsdwarves to serve as Santa's Elves.
Export as many toys as possible. These are your only permitted trade good.
Bonus: Use this Christmas-themed tileset: [[1]]
Bonus: Cycle nobles frequently, use their mandates as people's wish lists.
Mega Bonus: Use Olivine, Serpentine, Bauxite, Kaolinite, Cinnabar, Petrified Wood, Realgar, (red and green) to build your fortress.
Dwarven Spirit Bonus: Edit the raws to embark with elves utilize elf slave labor to craft your toys.
Mega Dwarf Bonus: Embark with a group of elves, choose the fattest elf to be Santa. Clothe him in reindeer wool clothing, dyed red, with accents of un-dyed wool. Feed him ☼Longland Flour Cookies☼ and reindeer milk. Build a brick fireplace and burn coal for a warm cozy fire. Train Santa to be a legendary pump operator to make him flash red.

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Challenges

Darn! Would have thought that would have been in the stupid dwarf projects section.

(Also better still don't decon your wagon, that way you can chain your reindeer to it.)

[MehMuffin]

You could also require that mining only be done to get stone, and your dwarves need to live on surface houses made of of patterned stone and wood.

[Kepplerr]

And if you happen to see any wild yetis...

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[Loud Whispers]

You could also require that mining only be done to get stone, and your dwarves need to live on surface houses made of of patterned stone and wood.

Mod in Gingerbread blocks :]

[Tharwen]

Stack trees to make a massive christmas tree.
Give each dwarf a burrow full of booze that you assign them to on Christmas day.
Also, make it aboveground.

[acetech09]

I posted nearly the same idea in an older thread, and was going to preform that in about a week*, with a few additions:

-Build the fortress out of olivine, cinnabar, bauxite, and garnierite.

-Buy raw resources off of the caravans, and offer craptons of goods to them and see how big the caravans will get.

-Make reindeer trainable. War Reindeer!


Granted, I'm not christian myself, and don't mean to promote christianity over other religions... if you really want you could use chalk and cobaltite for your buildings instead... or orthoclase and cinnabar...


* I would start it now but there were some new items released in eve online that I'm still busy capitalizing on trade from... turning 200% profit margins with nearly no effort. Once the prices stabilize on them, I'm gonna start a DF fort again.

[Plutocrat]

I posted nearly the same idea in an older thread, and was going to preform that in about a week*, with a few additions:

-Build the fortress out of olivine, cinnabar, bauxite, and garnierite.

-Buy raw resources off of the caravans, and offer craptons of goods to them and see how big the caravans will get.

-Make reindeer trainable. War Reindeer!


Granted, I'm not christian myself, and don't mean to promote christianity over other religions... if you really want you could use chalk and cobaltite for your buildings instead... or orthoclase and cinnabar...


* I would start it now but there were some new items released in eve online that I'm still busy capitalizing on trade from... turning 200% profit margins with nearly no effort. Once the prices stabilize on them, I'm gonna start a DF fort again.

I laugh when i hear Christmas is a Christian holiday, is so secular where I am the government uses happy holidays and most people are like "Jesus who"?. If you wanted to play a Christian Christmas Dwarf fortress you should mod in a baby cradle and then put it as a pasture with a bunch of animals and the like. Then three wisemen must get locked in. Everyone must wear cloaks/robes. What where the gifts they had frankensense, mir and gold? Well there is gold in DF.

[Di]

(except maybe the elves, give the elves coal.)

And goblins. Goblins get plenties of bolts, any time a year.