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Here, Toady, have sixteen thousand dollars. NO PRESSURE THOUGH!

Amazing The generosity of everyone here is just incredible.

So I'm giving DF a few search criteria for a starting position, and by the time it's examining location 11/257, it's found one that's all green, meaning all my criteria fulfilled. Still I can't just cancel and go for that one, I have to let it sit and laboriously work through the rest of the search. Wouldn't it make sense to enable the ESC key to cancel out of a starting position search whenever you want to?

As it turns out, goblins aren't very interested in killing emo dwarves. They just... walked right past them to the fortress. Where they were torn apart by war dogs. I seriously underestimated the awesomeness of war dogs.

Soon after we retired this fortress because a) it was just becoming clear that we'd "won" in that it would take a very long time before anything would bring the fortress down (I'm perfectly aware of the fact that every fortress fails at some point) and b) because we were getting single digit fps. 7x7 embark area and around 120 dwarves. Not good.

Thanks for all the advice though!

Lazy question: has some friendly soul already made a package of this version with a tileset? I'm currently playing with Raving Rodent's resplendid set of tiles, but I seem to be too dumb / lazy to get it to run with d12.

This is a little odd.

I'm being besieged and so I gave the "soldiers can go outside" order to make my civilians run indoors. Knowing that dwarves can be a little headstrong sometimes, I checked to make sure everyone really went indoors, and what do you know, they hadn't. Two dwarves were casually hanging out by the brook, unconcerned by the vile force of darkness approaching them. What the hell are you doing, I as[k]ed them, and turns out they're "conduct[ing a] meeting".

One of them is my expedition leader, and the allknowing wiki told me that sometimes dwarves come to the expedition leader to whine voice their concerns. However, the leaderdwarf has a perfectly great office for that kind of thing. So I do what I always do when my dwarves disobey, I [A]ctivate them and station their squad somewhere. Only this time, even that didn't help. The two emotional dwarves are sitting out there all alone by the picturesque brook talking about their feelings and their hopes while an infernal army of darkness approaches in the background. Now I've always liked dwarves for their stolidness, but Mister Leaderdwarf is a Legendary Recordkeeper and I'd much rather have him stay alive. Anything I can do?