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Someone told me today Leonardo DiCaprio had a tree named after him...Uvariopsis dicaprio.

I divorced my wife and sold my home and live on a (very) small sailboat (28feet/9meters). I am happier than I have ever been. I don't earn much but I spend even less, so I am rich. Most Friday nights I can have a glass of red wine and some crackers with brie cheese, sitting in the cockpit, just relaxing, pure bliss. Harbor fees are very cheap compared to rent or a mortgage.

To finally cut the cord to "the American dream" has been the most liberating thing I have ever done. I refer to the moment as "my little death", it was that significant in my life.
That people would choose to trade their lives away, working for some corporate giant (I worked for Pfizer) for 30-40 years, hoping that when they retire they are still healthy enough to reap the rewards of their benefit packages, is hard to fathom. Thank the gods I got away when still a somewhat young person.
 

This has kept me from chasing excess, maybe it would work for you also.

This proved super helpful. My laptop wouldn't seem to play below 10 fps, but I ended up going with 20 fps (instead of 100). Soundsense does seem to match up better with the game when played at lower speeds. Playing at slower speed showed me some inefficiencies in my fort; dorfs taking routes that were not the greatest, so I added some tunnels. It is also cool because I never realized how much you really miss when the game is played at "bursts" of 100fps. At 20 fps I can see what each dorfs is carrying and doing, and although the game plays much slower, it seems more engaging. I am not sure if I will go back to 100 fps at all or any time soon. Weird I never got around to trying this yet...

The artifact instrument exists somewhere in the wilderness. It may or may not be possible to find it in exported Legends data, but if it isn't, it's probably possible to find it with DFHack (manually and/or by writing a script). You'd then have to send an adventurer to that wilderness tile to search for it. I don't think you can send fortress expeditions to places other than certain types of sites.

It would be amazing to try to get it back. So there is a tile with a kea on it, and if you kill the kea it will drop my instrument? The fact that it could not just be on the ground but also in the sky, probably would make it incredibly hard to find. But I guess one could bait it with other nice stuff. That would be very fun to work on if I knew the location to within maybe a couple of embark sites. Hunt for the great white kea.

Sadly, this is all I know and I have no DFHack skills, but I will look into how hard it would be to find this tile.

I am a big fan of vampires and my latest world has the coolest story line 


Only 1 vampire in the whole world. He is 400 years old, and the druid leader of the elves. To my amazement, him and one other elf are the only elves left in the world, all the others read as "reanimated elf". There is a goblin tower very close to the last elven stronghold that holds its leadership of two. I noticed this screenshot was one of the first ones after I made the world. Have his surviving children been reanimated to undead since I started the world? I think there might be little time before this vampire burrows somewhere.

I understand that the vampire would have survived, but who is this other elf? Its not a vampire, and its not reanimated. So why is the druid not turning the other elf into a vampire or killing them? Is the vampire herbalist keeping one elf alive to slowly feed from? Who knows...

The vampire's skills are pretty amazing



What is also note-worthy is that the vampire is obsessed with foot races, despite losing all but two races. There are 10 listed foot races, and in some events the vampire was already 300 years old.



My main concerns:

1) Keep that last elf alive and safe from golbin necromancers.

2) Have a dwarf of my choosing infected with vampiric blood.

3) Create a squad of 5 vampiric speardorfs to;

4) Contain or kill the druid vampire elf and rule the world.

Such fun! 

Edit: oh wow, seems like 99% of dwarves also read as reanimated. This might become more difficult than at first thought. Seems necromancers once again are causing much trouble...

My favorite way to deal with keas (or other flying pests) is to have Crossbow Dwarfs in the area. 
Examples: patrolling, traveling to & from barracks, or training in barracks/archery targets outdoors near areas the pests frequent.

I have been enjoying trade caravans come by and have their guards kill keas for me, my dorfs run around after them to collect iron bolts and then sell their own bolts right back to them for some extra dbs 

One of my dorfs made a legendary musical instrument, my first. He even used glass in its manufacturing, it was so glorious. A human trader offered me 60k db for it....what a treasure. Of course I would never dream to sell such an item.

Then this happened...


I hate keas for their intelligence.

The way between the tavern drawbridge entrance and the instrument had 3 war dogs chained up, the last one literally standing in the square in front of the instrument. I received no (timely) warning and apparently war dogs don't attack birds. I have two black bears, will they attack thieves? What does a war dog do? My dorfs can kill keas quite easily (see corpse pile), but the dogs seems useless, even for warning? I guess next time I will station a dorf next to my treasured artifacts? The world I created is covered in keas for some reason.


Now the tavern is becoming overrun with pond turtles. If I had filled my tavern moat by pump or through a grate, would I have avoided turtles getting all over my water wheel and inside my tavern? or are they just part of the biome once the water connects to river. They rot quite easily and are becoming a nuisance.

Thanks!

EDIT: I solved the pond turtle problem by building a small fishery/restaurant next to the tavern and now I serve local pond turtle stew. Stew is served in the turtle shell...fancy..

I would love having palanquins in the game. My noble dorfs shouldn't have to walk everywhere.