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Literally just had one ruin my entire fortress because he got scared by a giant buzzard then came close to my outdoor refuse area. If necromancers can't control themselves why aren't they hostile? It's like having someone come to a grocery store then start lighting fires for no reason then running back in to light more fires. Is there a way i can disable them? I know i can get migrant necromancers and the thought that they can just doom spiral my fortress because they can't stop themselves from raising undead kinda makes me not want to play.

Vampires i can understand but something that spawns non stop hostile zombies for literally no reason at all sounds insane.

I always wanted to allow elephants as pets and edit general costs of creatures available on embark but last few times i've done it... horrible horrible things have happened haha. I thought it was as simple as putting the [domestic] tag but adding that to elephants causes boiling leather to randomly appear and humanoid meat to be available on embark.

So i've gone the way of no traps and an army instead, its great fun but holy crap does it get boring! right now i sit there apon my huge stockpiles with everyone idling and my army covered in adamantine just waiting for a damn siege or anything to break the boredom. When a siege comes i send my 12 bowmen to the top of my 5 story tower of flying death and get my 20 hammer champions waiting to pour down the stairwell if any get through- they usually dont even make it to the damn entrance due to my marksmen slaughtering them.

So, i was thinking- man it would be friggin awesome if there was like antmen swarms or something like sieges but it happened constantly- and yes i did piss off the elves and the gobbos already started a war with the humans but they each sent one siege was repulsed then never came back. I'm begging you, give me demon hordes, give me ratmen hordes, give me zombie hordes! PLEASE GOD KILL MY FORTRESS! I dont want to do anything deliberately stupid like opening my walls or something i want a challenge not to just slaughter my dwarves, i want to fight an epic battle lose half my population then build up for it all over again.

I tried to attract more gobbos by turning alot of stone into adamantine with Dtil then paved my entire fortress with it and all my doors/buckets/barrels/bins while turning more stone into diamonds and encrusting everything yet this still doesnt change the fact that gobbos are a finite resource:(. I'm happy with all the current DF resources and i dont want more friggin useless caravans to build up huge stockpiles of booze/seeds/wood so mods like civ forge arent what i'm looking for(please document your new resources and what they can do), shit i just want numerous(endlessly renewbable) monsters to try and kill my dwarves is that to much to ask?

Out of everything in DF pumps are the worst to learn- first they use wood HORRIBLE HORRIBLE WOOD, second they need MECHANICS! So you now a static limited resource thats never fun to manage depending on your forts location, and then you have a profession thats always secondary. So you build your first pump(and all its assorted unique useless-outside-pumping materials) wheee!, wow those are some vague ass charts!.... this doesnt go up Z levels?! So to actually get up Z levels you now need A POWER PLANT!

Right now your entire plan has been shot to hell and thats just with the pump because you now need to make room for this huge useless pump AND MULTIPLE PUMPS! Adding the power plant introduces fun things like WATER WHEELS, WIND MILLS, GEAR BOXES, AXLES! What resources and professions do these take up? OH WHY THE SAME AS PUMPS!

You've already scrapped your pump idea 5x over because its just retarded and the amount of ITS FUN TO LOSE! you have to go through makes it truly  NOT FUN TO LOSE! why? because there was no room for mistakes and your not going to learn ever because its to friggin outrageous to get the fucker working.

We already have levers that magically connect to doors and traps/pressure plates why do we need magical stick of power(axle) to automate things? we could always just use more mechanisms to simulate horrible horrible axles. If we build giant screw pumps why cant we build them in a giant tube to pump water up multiple levels? instead we have to build giant stacks of pumps which isent realistic and is hugely wasteful. I honestly dont know why this wasent done before because no matter how patient you are pumps and power plants in current form are retarded and wasteful- do you want to build giant axle connections with associated power plants to open doors? yeah i dont want to do that with pumps and power plants.

When i see a dwarf mechanic i think of a dwarf who knows alot about what hes doing- why must you demand i(no friggin clue) design this complex machine? I tell the mechanic, hey you i want to pump water up 4 Z levels then have it cascade through the garden tower, i already got everything else built i just need pumps! So the dwarf tells me, i need these items and how are you going to power it? Wow that sounds alot easier and more realistic then some half ass crazy thing that clearly wont work(you wont know until its finished) which we have to deal with atm.

Fuck your pumps, can we please change them? i'm going to fucking wall off and redirect my brook cause thats faster then your stupid ass pumps.

This may be related to magma depth its 4/7 and i'm running mikes tileset but i dont even have the option. I thought it might fix itself after season change but it hasent- i also found the magma pool useing reveal.exe could that be it? This fortress is beautiful(and i got the embark editor working) but this is really pissing me off hehe, i'll try un-revealing it then see if it works.

I had a pretty sweet fort, apon a volcano with everything i could ever want... except of course for raw resources. Sure i had more obsidian then i knew what to do with and the steel quality swords ensured i got off the crook that was metal ore but it also required wood which eventually runs out or attracts friggin gobbos to kill your wood cutters.

We already have stone crafts and catapults and theres bone and wood for bolts/decoration but as my fortress progressed i notice one resource that i dident have to balance at all, stone. Why cant i make stone maces/spears/bolts/axes/throwing spears? I highly doubt a wooden bed is straight wood why cant i make stone beds? why is it possible to make a bin out of everything but stone/glass? Instead of sitting there without the needed end products you should be able to make due with inferior materials, sure the wooden bed is nicer but a stone bed is better then the floor!

If i can make a stone earring and doll why cant i make a stone throwing spear or a stone barrel? they would take longer to make and not be as effective(as well as being heavier in terms of bins/barrels) but stone should be your bread and butter with other materials being luxury items. You should be able to choose between a pure stone item and one mixed with wood so a stone axe will still require a wooden handle but you could make a stone mace purely from stone same with bolts and Xbows- a crossbow can shoot a stone bolt easily hell technically ballista from the roman era is the crossbows grandfather and it shot stone. I dont know what they use for the string but imagine this a 6mm stone shaft 3 feet long with a rough tip being propelled 20mph- you arent going to walk away from that and dwarves arent known for they preference for light materials a stone Xbow with a stone buckler would complete your miltia.

I'm tired of sitting on 10 magical dwarves that can make wonders out of stone yet i cant make a simple stone club to ensure everyone is armed when the gobbos come a-knocking. Stone weapons would also rock for sparring because its heavier and it could be blunt so you would strengthen your dwarves while also only bruising them!