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Well, I embarked in a place with a nice spring and a volcano in a defensible valley. I built up my defenses, started making a tower around my main entrance while every industry got going and… nothing. After five in-game years, I've not had a single siege, nor forgotten beast. Nothing, not even kobolds! I've got axe lords and elite marksdwarves just from constant training, a thriving iron and silver industry, a breeding pair of lions trained for war… and nothing to kill. I don't even have any criminals!

If this keeps up, I think it might be time to visit the circus, at least then I can toss the baron in there for demanding a black bronze bed.

Guys, not only did an owl explode mere minutes after embarking, but I accidentally dropped some miners down a hole and one lost it and screamed.

Amusingly the other one just dusted himself off and walked off like nothing happened, despite some of the dust turning mysteriously into magma spray.

I'm loving this new release with its new stuff, new plants, new trees, new exploding owls, but my FPS is crawling like its lower half had exploded in gore or something and it's only the second year.

EDIT: Okay, so it hit Late Winter and suddenly everything sped up. I suspect a horde of migrating cave things.

Well, I just sent a sacrificial dwarf down to go open the magma tube to start the magma forges, had everything ready to make a memorial for her… And she's still alive. She fell asleep in the middle of the lava flow, unfazed by the molten rock pooling around her. She has no injuries, no melted fat, no blood loss. All her equipment melted or burned off of her, but she's just wandering around the lava tank as it fills.

I have no idea what happened, but I suspect she might be a strange mutant.

EDIT:
Apparently her pick has refused to melt, but she's decided that swimming in lava is way more cool than digging. Or doing anything else. Go figure.
EDIT AGAIN: Aaaaand she died. Of drowning. How odd.

Quote from: misko27 on October 20, 2012, 06:21:16 pm

Yep, sounds weight based. Try tossing small animals into it to see of its consistent, then find the upper limit.

It's more likely to be based on disease resistance. In one of my current forts ,TwighlightWound, there's a fog that causes paralysis. Average dwarven disease resistance is more than enough to downgrade the effect to numbness, or partial paralysis. Weak dwarves however suffer from full paralysis and suffocate shortly after.

I don't think it's related to disease resistance, several dwarves with very weak resistance have walked through with no ill effects. it bears further testing.

My ideal ending is one in which everything is maximized, the above-ground fort is entirely autonomous, every dwarf is positively ecstatic... And then I train them all in weapon skills and have them try to crush the circus. Only when clown and dwarf blood fill the halls do I count the fort a ringing success.

My new elven adventurer, Ecafe Packwipe, has just been told he has to go kill the bandit leader, Captain Hathur Strokepants.

Oh silly name RNG, you make for ridiculous things.
Eventually though, Packwipe is going to go adventure in the cursed lands to go slay the evil goblins and night creatures and whatever else.

... And he joined me. No, seriously, he did. I have no idea how it happened, but I now have an Azure Devil (Smurf?) helping me with my adventures.
Apparently he looks like a giant fat scaly blue monkey that oozes poison.


Now to take on the world!

Strangely, most of my engravings in my latest fort are horrific scenes of a dragon burning and eating humans, or a volcano goddess getting steadily more and more pissed... Or rutherers. Or renditions of rutherers. Or renditions of renditions of rutherers.