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Molten cheese. With some magma one z-level underneath it it should have a nice sticky consistency. And all the enemies will die a greasy death by drowning.

I have to second Footkerchiefs advice. Learn to cook well. It's useful in that you don't have to rely on burgers and greasy delivered pizza once you live in your own place. And the girls love men who are able to prepare them a nice dinner. It really improves the quality of your life.
Speaking of pizza: Learn to make your own pizza from scratch, it's fun, cheap and tastes a million times better than anything you can get delivered or out of the freezer.

Could you try it with a smaller area? Like, say, just the British Isles?

I'd really like to see a more detailed version of Dwarven!Britain.

You could, but without the possibility for a custom temperature map it would be quite silly. There would be glaciers in Scotland and scorching deserts and jungles in Cornwall or vice versa.

So its getting less realistic for smaller maps. A heightmap of the whole northern hemisphere would be perfect. Now lets see if I can find one...

Jutland? What about poor Wessex? Dull, maybe, but hardly a den of evil.

Well, that's what they want you to think.

Stuff 'em in a room while they are still fully equipped. Once you've got more than 15 gobbos in there pump in some magma through the ceiling. Then watch as they all flee until they can go no further and burst into flames. Pump the magma out of the room, wait a few minutes and grab all the shiny goblinite for melting. Added bonus: No corpses or crappy gobbo clothing to dispose of. Clean and simple. 

Hey guys,

I think I just managed to build a new kind of waterclock.
In my current fortress I was annoyed by the large amounts of forgotten beasts (5 or six distributed among all three cavern layers). The first layer is completely filled with water, as are big parts of the second one. The third one contains more dry soil and a conveniently placed magma pipe. What intrigued me was the fact that directly above the magma pipe the caverns were only separated by floor tiles, with no "solid" rock in between. So I hatched a plan: Drain layers 1 and 2 directly into the magma pipe. A quick cave-in later the dwarven waterclock was born. (See Illustration)
What I thought what would happen (all the water from the first two cavern layers rushing down and completely filling the third cavern) didn't. Instead I have a slow but steady stream of 7/7 tiles of water dripping into the the center of the magma pipe. Each 7/7 hitting the magme creates a huge plume of steam and a single tile of obsidian, which immediately drops down to the bottom of the magma sea and somehow vanishes. Therefore the pipe is not being capped by the usual crust of obsidian, which means the clock will keep ticking until the upper caverns run out of water.
The Impact on my FPS isn't even as hard as i thought it would be. DF still runs at 30 fps, although every drop hitting the magma slows it down a bit for a fraction of a second.

Well there you have it: Precision timing using all of the four classical elements plus SCIENCE!

So it looks like the outpost liason wants my fortress to become an official colony of my civilization (See pics).


Has anyone else encountered that yet. I searched the forum but didn't find anything. My guess is that this is pretty much analogous to getting a baron. But it seems that this time I can choose one of my own dwarves as the new baron.
So to elaborate on the background: I had my fortress running for a few years, but didn't bother assigning a sheriff/captain of the guard. Then I figured I would actually like to have a dungeon master to tame alls those jabberers. They usually don't come to the fortress without a justice systen, so I appointed some useless dwarf as captain of the guard and a few minutes later this message pops up. (It actually happened twice since the game crashed after the first time and I had to use an old save. So it is reproducible.)

If anyone is interested I will report back with the results once something interesting happens.

I also love how he says "Merit deserves a reward", since the last dwarven caravan got slaughteres horribly by a bunch of goblin invaders.

It proceeded to deconstruct buildings which made surviving slightly difficult. It seems that I ran into a bug where a monster arrived as a diplomat correctly but the buildingdestroyer tag made it smash everything by accident.

Just assume he's the clumsiest diplomat ever and go with it.