Admit it, you did this on purpose.
(https://i.imgur.com/77sML5R.jpg?1)
Lots of humour in this post. Well written.
Though, uh, the images are kind of tiny. Even 5x5 tilesets have clearer text......Oops, didn't enable javascript. *enables* Now that's zooming in!
That's pretty fancy bucket indeed. Imported goods, I take? I'm not even sure, but now I want to import clear diamond buckets by the bucketful. (*Later sees trade screen and realizes it's probs a custom reaction*)
And yays for caverns.
Possessed dwarfs can be pretty crazy, jumping into a burning stockpile to get their items. Wait, I guess the fire burned out.
Your military commander should get to vacation for a month and maybe read a book.
I like to arrange the whole corpses of procedurals into a gallery of what the fort has slain.
My current favourite macro I have is for designating a designation or wall around a volcano. It's not useful, per se, but it is pretty cool.
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I recall some players like crowns. Good for monarch or military commander for RP, I guess.
And, rising troll necromancer? I guess the they must have become a noble who became a necromancer, procrastinated building a tower ("I live forever anyway I can do it later"), and got kidnapped by a rising troll to become an immortal baby-making machine.
The incineration should be your fault. After all, you live on a volcano. Nonetheless....Forest burns and reindeers die.
That's a claustrophobic hospital design, what's with the bridges and mostly empty space rooms. Maybe add an adjoining graveyard on the other side of the stairwell?
I'm always expecting something with magma on a volcano, but you never use any :v
I just queued 3 Traction Benches for each hospital wing. I might add a couple statues at some point. As for exploiting magma, suffice to say I'm working on it. I think you may be underestimating just how fast I'm actually moving. As of the last chapter, I'm only ~4&1/2 years in. Definitely in this for the long haul.
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Anvilmastered! A Mega Project in the making, coming to you as a rare play-by-play. Everybody loves them, but nobody ever documents how they get built *cough* Archcrystal What?
Anyways. Fresh off their first real battle victory, nature decides that I must actually fight for my Cavern.
(https://i.imgur.com/pj2Vt0d.jpg)
It spits fire, because of course it does. Everything in this land can shoot fire except me... for now
I wall-off the cavern since I don't need the fungiwood, and there were only a few scraps of silk to collect. Months pass while the Dwarves work on phase 2 of the magma forge operation. Eventually I notice that I had never set my military to Active/Training :-[ The schedule, labors, and equipment were all perfect, but they still only trained if they felt like it. Now they grudgingly train full time, and I am rewarded with several Weapon Masters :) I decide the time has finally come to establish myself as super wealthy.
One of the mods I run adds a simple but fun feature; archeology. There are fossils, treasures, and other things long buried. When processed, they can yield a variety of valuable loot, from gold coins to platinum crossbows. If you ever need to jack up your wealth in a hurry, this is the way to do it.
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All I need now is a squad of lashers wearing leather jackets and hats
One of my Smiths had claimed a magma forge earlier. I completely ignored it, because I've had like 7 Possessions now. Much to my surprise, this was actually a Fey mood! :D She finishes in short order, and Anvilmastered now has a Legendary +2 Weaponsmith. Maybe I got lucky and she made something good to boot.
(https://i.imgur.com/071gDTY.jpg)
... I am not proud of this :-[
Ahem. Moving right along. Despite her questionable choice of a signature weapon, I assign our new Weaponsmith her own forge and queue a bunch of Flails & Axes. At +2, her rate of Masterworks seems to be about 1 in 5. The path to all of our ores and metal bars is about 50 tiles (look, working around a volcano is a lot more difficult than you might think), so progress is slow. But soon enough...
(https://i.imgur.com/RukUUmS.jpg)
Just in time for the seasonal Great Fiend Spider siege. My militia has been making excellent progress, but I know that what I am seeing outside is only a fraction of their forces. The front gate is firmly shut as the spiders scuttle their way through the valley.
(https://i.imgur.com/X1ZOsnO.jpg)
It is terrifying
The spiders make their way to the front entrance, perhaps hoping to exploit a hole in my roof like last time, but to no avail. The pasture is completely sealed now, and the spiders can only scratch at the thick Dwarven glass. I also get to see the exact path that my haulers took on their way back inside. See if you can figure it out.
(https://i.imgur.com/obwuPGc.jpg)
Hint- they moved diagonally
My food & booze are well over 1,000 Urists now, so I am content to wait out the siege, especially since I am fairly certain the spiders will leave after a reasonable amount of time... Don't look at me like that. Every Overseer has cowered behind his walls in the face of overwhelming odds at least once :-\ The Dwarves work diligently, but are still kinda nervous about the monster spider army just outside. I'm somewhat micro-managing jobs during the siege, and happen across this adorable scene. Two of the militia fell asleep in their training room, including one guy with his War Boar next to him.
(https://i.imgur.com/T3c97qo.jpg)
The smelliest pillow ever
I receive notice that another ambush has been uncovered, more spiders. Which is odd, since you should need visual contact for that. I zoom to the location, and my blood runs cold. Bottom right of the roof; that ramp is a corner piece, a diagonal slit leading directly to the forges. Already, several spiders are homing in on the scent of exposed Dwarves.
(https://i.imgur.com/0yurK4Q.jpg)
Oh dear
I scramble to get a stairs and wall built in that corner from the inside. The militia is stationed as well, and the entrance to the forges is soon crowded with masons, military, and war boars.
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The calm before the storm
The breach is not sealed in time, and the first Fiend Spider squeezes through the gap, directly above the waiting militia.
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In the heart of the Fortress, battle is joined
The troops have properly Dwarven equipment this time, and nearly a year and a half of training. The Marksdwarves open fire, but I have not completely switched to metal bolts yet, and most of the shots bounce off the Spider's chitin. However, it has no room to shoot webs here, and the melee Dwarves are armed to the teeth beard.
(https://i.imgur.com/hjz2W5T.jpg)
"Spider goo for the Blood God" just doesn't have the same ring to it
Of course, it wouldn't be Dwarven combat if they didn't give their enemies a taste (lol pun) of their own medicine.
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At least 3 separate Dwarves tear into this monster like a fresh plump helmet
Even the war boars do their part; acting as another target and occasionally irritating the invaders.
(https://i.imgur.com/jy6sklF.jpg)
*Oink oink* mother %#&*!
The militia takes down 3 Fiend Spiders, and the breach is sealed. Victory! (kindof). I check the units screen, and there are at least 70 of the monsters crawling around outside. Ya know what? 3 kills is good for today, I can live with that. To celebrate, I cordon a small section of the volcano with clear glass windows (Dwarves actually retain LoS), for future parties.
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Soon, my lord Armok. I promise you glory
As the year draws to a close, the Fiend Spiders start their retreat. I take stock of my supplies, and grin when I see this;
(https://i.imgur.com/xcfe6nt.jpg)
10 masterwork-quality spiky ball of death, all equipped
It is the start of Dwarven year 261. A full 5 years have passed since the Dwarves founded Anvilmastered on the slopes of a mighty volcano. Our weapons & armor become increasingly powerful, our industries more efficient & connected. And of course, our War Boars make the stinkiest most cuddly companions. Here's to another 5 years, assuming I don't find yet another hole in my roof. Seriously, that's 1 per siege now, not a great record :-\
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Woo! Anvilmastered marches on. Just for kicks, here are some of the pictures that I didn't use in this chapter.
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Anvilmastered! Updated with all the consistency of a useful Fey Mood. When I left off, an army of Fiend Spiders has chosen the perfect time to invade; which is to say the moment that I foolishly dug out a massive fortification-hallway in one go. They chittered their way up the stairs to my forges, where I just barely managed to lock the doors in time. A week passes while I try to figure out something clever. I look over the invaders, and notice that like 12 of them are all piled into a single tile next to the door.
*internal monologue* They really want to get through... hmm. Could I? No.. but maybe if I'm fast? But how fast? Well I could move the supplies within burrow range. But what if it does work? Well I'll figure that out later.
(https://i.imgur.com/ANMIX5t.jpg)
Does this qualify as a Stupid Dwarf Trick?
I move a few rock blocks as far as I dare put them, then order the stairway sealed from the bottom. ... and it works. lulz :D I've lost a side passage, but regained control of my Fortress by trapping 30-odd Great Fiend Spiders in said passage. Score one for vertical building! (take that, massive 1-zed Forts). As my inner self mentioned, I'll have to figure out a more permanent solution at some point. For now, I'm happy simply getting my Dwarves back to work. On that note, the greenhous has been completed for a few months now, but I don't think I ever shared it.
(https://i.imgur.com/MYDef7S.jpg)
Nestled amongst the verdant slopes of Mount Anvilmastered. I'll figure out the actual name of this place eventually
The greenhouse is, as the name suggests, an entirely green glass structure, enclosing a huge outdoors farming area. You can also see the green glass floor which makes the roof of my grazing pasture, and a few random Dwarves up on the hills. My reprieve is short lived as another Fiend Spider ambush appears at the edge of the map. Although, this does lead me to believe that their full numbers don't arrive all at once.
I wonder if what I'm actually seeing is raids by multiple Spider civs, spread out across the weeks of Winter. It only seems like one giant raid because I usually never meet them until the very end. Something to figure out once I have built scouting posts. With the Forges blocked, the Spiders make a bee-line for the main hallway, fruitlessly scratching and gnawing at the heavy stone doors.
(https://i.imgur.com/uTOHezn.jpg)
I'm actually getting rather ticked off at this point
There is no way to wall them off from behind, I would almost certainly be ambushed outside. Maybe I can finally put the volcano to use? They are perfectly positioned under a corner. A bit of quick digging to the other side, and I have a magma drop in place just outside the main hallway, separated only by a couple of locked doors. Now I'm starting to feel like a Dorf. The Fiend Spiders panic (I assume) as a steady flow of lava appears behind them.
(https://i.imgur.com/bXmiJSr.gif)
REVENGE!!
There is a leftover wooden wheelbarrow in that hallway, and I think one of the Spiders actually tried its' webbing attack. The result is that the corridor is quickly filled with noxious smoke and delightful screams, as the spiders melt under their own boiling ichor.
(https://i.imgur.com/9g1LflM.jpg)
REVENGE!! (again)
Once the lava clears, I send my squads out to patrol. I kid you not, every other week I receive an ambush announcement, consisting of 2-4 Spiders. I really have aggravated the entire FS population by settling here. Despite my best efforts, I still lose a few soldiers and 1 useful crafter. These things are just too damn strong for normal military engagements. For the time and resources needed to train a useful Dwarf, I'd be breaking even at a trade of 50-1. As things stand, my Dwarves are dieing at a nearly even rate to Spiders killed, which is very quickly a losing !FUN! proposition.
One bit of intel I have ascertained after all this time is that Spiders are not fond of protracted sieges. As I near the end of Winter, I take a chance and remove the walls blocking the back entrance to the Forges. Thank Armok, the Spiders graciously wait for the hauler to clear out of there before scuttling down the stairs and off the map. Anvilmastered belongs to me, for another year at least. I sense that the Dwarves have a bit of urgency about them now; the fortification wall is completed in short order, as is the caldera I had started building nearby. The first of hopefully many 'putting lava somewhere else because reasons' projects has begun!
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As an aside, stuff like this serves as my inspiration
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To wrap up this chapter, here are the couple of artifacts produced. A wooden crown named 'The Sensitive Caves', depicting a Dwarf getting destroyed by that Forest Titan.
(https://i.imgur.com/juuuH62.jpg)
Anvilmastered protest art?
The other artifact gives me a legendary blacksmith (woot!), and finally acknowledges the fact that I am a monster. I think this is how the healing process begins.
(https://i.imgur.com/gwQX53P.jpg)
I will avenge you, I promise
With that, I begin the Spring of Year 262. Mind you, I arrived in Spring of Year 255, just to give you an idea of how these constant sieges have forced me to accelerate my plans. Also, Fiend Spiders are supposed to be end game, and I've been dealing with them since my second year. So I'm actually feeling quite pleased with myself, all points considered. And with no Orcs in sight (jinx), maybe I can actually accomplish something this year. Here's to hoping.
By Armok's blood stained beard. My dude is a badass! When he dies, whether from getting shanked or old age, can he have his stuff buried with him please? In a coffin made from his favorite material.
And can we see how many kills the military peeps have? :D
Yeah, I especially liked that shot. Your Dwarf is surrounded by a Beak Dog, Nightmare (evil horse), and Goblin; this 167 year old Dwarf is just swinging for the bleachers at anything that moves, lol. He gets his shin kicked out from under him, then while lying on the ground, kneecaps the Nightmare that kicked him. A custom coffin I can do, not sure how to how to include equipment in a burial though. Here is his kill tally and gear, including the most Conan/Skyrim/D&D awesome cloak ever made.
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Keep in mind that he is basically a great-grandfather, and came to Anvilmastered with no military skills aside from being super strong (compared to the average peasant). So to have become a Mace Lord and earned 7 kills at his age is quite impressive. Btw, as of those pictures, he has fully recovered from having his ankle shattered by an evil horse monster, and is currently leading a striking demonstration.
For the river, pipe magma directly under it, it will thaw it and get you water. That was one of two ways to get water in 40d before caverns. It's also possible to use a cave-in; falling ice will become water but that's a fair bit trickier to pull off. You're best off breaching the volcano one Z-level below and using a pump as it will pressurize the magma and make it flow a HELL of a lot faster than letting nature run its course.
Funny you should mention, that is exactly what I was planning for my first trap. I have not attempted a completely horizontal magma breach in quite some time, so that should be interesting, especially since my Miner workforce has become even more indispensable of late; which you can see below-
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- Just in case anybody missed it, you can click the images to blow them up full sized
Anvilmastered! A.K.A '8 months of Fiend Spiders, Goblins, and Orcs, followed by a few months of doing something productive' :( The military losses I have sustained thus far were necessary to buy me more building time for establishing defenses and infrastructure, but have drained my reserve of peasant labor. I've received two migrant waves since that last one got eaten, and after filling all the gaps in my military (several times), I now have 41 dedicated peasants in a fortress of 140. Mind you, the peasants are responsible for all furnace operations (smelting, including charcoal production), a lot of cooking & brewing, butchery & tanning as needed, and most importantly, hauling (raw ores, finished bars/blocks, new furniture) that makes a Fortress go round. When you break down the amount of labor required for a Fortress of this size, the work of 41 peasants gets used up very very quickly.
I know you're thinking 'surely there must be some marginal labor you can offset?'. Here's the breakdown;
Military: 30
Children: 25
Farming: 5
Mining: 8
Crafting-
Leather: 2
Clothing: 3
Metal: 7
Stone: 5
Glass: 1
Gems: 2
Each of these professions is barred from construction and most hauling. Out of desperation, I recently enabled Construction & Mechanics on my Miners, and they all but single handedly built phase 1 of the current river project over the course of this year.
(https://i.imgur.com/XKnoCu1.jpg)
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I offer 6 internet points to the first person who figures out what I'm doing here
I have decided that drastic action is needed. All smelting jobs are cancelled, all refuse collection is suspended, every single item outside the Fortress is forbidden (except logs), and I have forbidden every stray ore I can find. I really hope this will force my peasants to focus on the numerous dumping and furniture jobs. The results of this experiment will have to wait, because a Human Diplomat has arrived! I had given up hope of ever seeing them again. we have the usual exchange of news, and he departs. No more than a day later, I am ever so pleased to welcome the first Human Caravan to grace Anvilmastered in more than 5 years. Of course after so long, they have forgotten my trade requests, which I suppose is understandable. I once again ask that they bring me reindeer, and offer them a gift of ~12k urists worth of broken equipment and tattered clothing. I may yet get the homemade cheese I have sought for so long.
(https://i.imgur.com/XaxnCDg.gif)
They could have so easily moved like 5 tiles to go around the massive trail of goblin & monster corpses, but no
The caravan departs, but the Liasion and his 2 bodyguards stick around, just in time for Spider season. Anticipating them to arrive as early as possible, I usher everyone inside and close the gate, five days before Month 7. Assorted junk goes flying, along with 1 unfortunate War Boar who bounces off the side of the mountain.
(https://i.imgur.com/HB8e66Q.jpg)
oooiiiiinnnkkkk!
Sure enough, day 3 announces an ambush, uncovered by a brave scout piglet.
(https://i.imgur.com/0RHRGKo.jpg)
R.I.P. scout pig
Normally it wouldn't be anything to write about, but this particular siege is downright bizarre.
(https://i.imgur.com/Ug8GewX.jpg)
Many of these things are not like the others
By the time the last ambushes are announced, I am looking at ~15 elite, named Great Fiend Spiders, and ~130 Human slave soldiers, completely unarmed an unarmored. Ok, brief diversion for story time. I once oversaw an ambitious Beach Fortress. In the middle of year 2, I was visited by a Titan made of coral. I had just over 100 Dwarves and only a fledgling military. The Titan found its' way inside, and I thought the Fort was doomed as every Dwarf punched & kicked for all they were worth. Imagine my surprise when the Titan's skull is finally shattered, leaving a mere 3 Dwarves alive.
The point of the story is, I will not underestimate the lethality of a concentrated mass of unarmed foes. Unlike the Goblins before, these Humans do not stream in a nice line, but arrive in dangerously large, zerg-like formations. Although their attacks will only glance off my Dwarves' armor, enough hits will transfer enough force to eventually shred muscle and crack bone.
The lava dropper I had planned for my entrance is still just a slow leak, but it is all I've got right now. I open the gate; half a dozen Humans run inside and are cut down by the now-antiquated weapon traps.
(https://i.imgur.com/XMm2z9Z.jpg)
These weapon traps are so old, they've actually become blunt. Brutal
I need to be careful here; once an invader reaches a door, that door is captured, and unable to lock until the siege is lifted. Roughly 40 Humand and 10 spiders are now spilling onto the top of my pasture from the surrounding cliffs, as the first drops of lava pool above them.
(https://i.imgur.com/EPlSIY9.jpg)
Insert dramatic theme music here
I lock the doors and immediately see the Spiders start moving erratically, enraged that their Human slaves have stopped attacking. I can work with this. Kindof gaming the system a bit, but if I can lock & unlock the doors in bursts, I can whittle away at their numbers, eventually allowing my Dwarves to focus fire on the Fiend Spiders without being mobbed by 10 Wrestlers each.
Of course, because I am attempting to counter an invasion without sacrificing any Dwarven lives, guess who also shows up early this year?
(https://i.imgur.com/qPDVgUk.jpg)
Really? You had to come now? I mean... really?
Yup, that figures. I have at most, 3 days before the Caravan is in sight of the zerg army. I have no idea how long it will take before the lava flow even reaches the front yard, and with this many Humans remaining, the Spider Commanders mixed in with them will surely end me. I'm thinking this must be revenge for the Stupid Dwarf Trick I pulled earlier; when the Fiend Spiders took over the back tunnel of my forges, so I simply bricked the tunnel shut until the season had passed and they were forced to leave.
Once again, I have a wholly inadequate amount of time to think of something extraordinarily clever.
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A few bonus pics I didn't use;
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Wow, talk about a Necro. With 44.11 upon us and stable, I thought it only fitting that I give Zunkirton a proper sendoff. I actually had most of my stuff saved for the next chapter, but the time and effort needed due to FPS loss drained my interest extra fast. In my foolish eagerness, I made this site something like 6x5. I have several floors of a massive silo filled to the brim with ores & gems, and have barely touched all the available deposits. I also learned the Great Fiend Spiders are far more !FUN! than I cared to have, especially when I set my invader count at 200+. With a single year taking hours at least, all major projects have come to a standstill. With that, please enjoy the final recap of Anvilmastered.
We'll start with local centenarian hero, SpeciesUnknown. At the ripe old age of 186, he fell defending the Fortress from Fiend Spiders and their human slaves. Not only was he a mighty militia commander, he was also a grieving father & dabbling author. This Dorf's history is insane. I looked up his family, and all died before he was 60, barely middle-aged for a Dwarf. This only lists historical kills, but we know he had a ton more. RIP :(
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Truly a legend amongst Dwarves. At least his super badass artifact cloak won't go to waste
Next, my assorted projects; some kindof done, others finished but poorly. An arena built in the center of the tavern, waiting to be filled with lava (it stops being magma once it's above ground).
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Quite the view for visitors, if I ever got this place cleaned up properly
You remember the river that I've been kavetching about since day one? I finally brought it under heel.
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The spice filthy canyon water must flow!
Sadly, I never got to use it in a freezing trap, though I had the first one kinda built. Several lures on platforms, protected from the cold by bridges on all sides. Invaders go after the bait, bridges go down, instant ice cubes. Maybe in the next frozen wasteland I venture to. On a lighter note, I did manage to cap the volcano in appropriate fashion.
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This is a vertical pixel art of a Dorf & ladders. His skin is iron blocks, his hair is obsidian blocks, his teeth is gold blocks, his eyes are candy. The Dorf is obscured by the scaffolding.
I just remembered another reason I gave up on this Fortress. After years of work breeding an army of Giant Coyotes (as is a appropriate for a volcano like this), I discovered they can't be war trained :( Furthermore, you can't assign an animal that is not war or hunting trained. So I let them all loose, and they immediately wandered downstairs and got in the way of my giant minecart operation. Those black ovals are minecarts, because I screwed up my graphics early on.
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Giant Coyotes play around the tracks of our deep mining operation, because why the hell not
Speaking of which, I'm actually quite pleased with myself on the minecart front. Here we see the first layer of my silo, right next to the forges with a clear glass window section for eventually dropping guests. I want my smithys to be entertained while they work, after all.
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The proverbial heart of Anvilmastered. Also the literal one, if you're superstitious about volcanoes
Those tracks on the left lead outside, across the top of my barf-covered greenhouse (outdoor plants), and down to the wood furnaces. Charcoal is shipped directly to a loading dock near the forges. No more trekking a single charcoal halfway across and up the fort.
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Surprisingly efficient, all points considered
Looking through my archives, I vaguely recall having an elven siege at some point, consisting of like a dozen elves, and hundreds of ferocious parrots (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakapo) & camels.
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I'm sure this would be terrifying in real life. Anyone ever see 'The Birds' by Alfred Hitchcock? Really great movie, you should check it out
Here are the elves and their bird/camel army going to town on a couple of Fiend Spiders :D
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So there we have it. A half finished maze of a volcano, located squarely on the frozen peak of the world. Just a few tiles further east and I might have had perpetual sunshine, useful coyotes, and a functional river. Well, maybe next time. Of course, I couldn't leave off without seeing my arena in action, even if no bards are around to bare witness. This is the view that visitors would have been treated to. Say it with me now...
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BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!
A few pages of combat logs. Just a good old-fashioned free for all.
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I actually saw that Gnome's blood spray all over the War Jaguar as it started to wrestle with a Troll, lol. Good times
I consider myself an experienced player, yet Anvilmastered still taught me quite a lot. About embark sizes, checking the wiki of war animals before starting a breeding program, and the futility of reindeer; whose cheese is forever beyond my grasp. Still though, this was by far my favorite volcano ever. Until next time :)
This was several versions before Stress was introduced, so various forms of public executions were a great idea at the time. Both the Forge & Tavern windows connected to the ceiling, no risk of an outbreak there. As for War Birds; yes, Giant Great Horned Owls caused all manner of havoc. They weren't even all that deadly, but they would fly over my squads, down into the relative safety of the Dining Hall, which went about as well as you'd expect.
The Charcoal transportation featured gates on both ends. I would have made it indoors, but creating enough room would have disturbed the aesthetic of the Fortress. These pictures are a few levels above the main warehouse floor (yet another partially finished project).
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