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Like it says on the tin.

I'm playing a "Last Seven Dwarves in the World" fortress. v47.05, no mods.

I got a fairly encouraging start: four females (one of them bisexual) and three males (also one of them bisexual). I've done the usual things... after digging in, setting up farms and producing lots of booze and prepared meals plus setting up a small clothing industry to prevent a collapse of morale, I've given them several months off duty to socialize and hopefully to bond. I've moved them into double-bed rooms in order to improve the odds of dwarven hanky-panky.

Any other suggestions?

The output end of a screw pump is treated in some respects as a solid wall.

Does it support adjacent constructions? Could you build an otherwise unsupported floor adjacent and one level higher?

I'm thinking of setting up a Dwarven Amusement Park.

Unicorn rides! A Forgotten Beast Petting Zoo! A Minecart roller-coaster!

Does anyone have any ideas to contribute? The floor is open for discussion.

Playing a 40.24 unmodded noob-friendly fort just to get used to the recent game changes.

Invaders off. Breached the top caverns a year before, but sealed it up again (or so I thought?!?!)... no trouble since then.

Then suddenly, in my main axial stairwell dozens of levels above the caverns, I get reports of a bunch of Dwarves freaking out about a Giant Cave Spider. I took a look... saw nothing unusual. Checked the 'u' menu... and there is indeed a freshly-killed GCS corpse in my stairwell.

Checked the combat logs, and the first entry shows the GCS to be SPARRING with a civilian ("... lightly taps the Farmer..."). Then all Hell broke loose, and my unarmed Bookkeeper punched the GCS's lights out. No injuries.

How did it get in? How did it get dozens of levels above the caverns before being found? WHY WAS IT SPARRING WITH MY CIVILIANS?

WT_actual_F is going on?

There are four pages of this:

I'm playing from a custom start.

My embark area was in a "Temperate" biome. My party of Dwarves, with their equipment and livestock, started the game right on top of a frozen river, with the Wagon straddling the edge of the bank. The instant that the clock started, the river melted and dumped most of my Dwarves, all of the livestock and the majority of the supplies and equipment into the water.

Thanks in part to one level of Swimming ability, all of my Dwarves survived, and even emerged on the same bank of the river. All of the livestock and poultry made it to shore... although many of them are on the wrong bank. I can deal with that, though. The big problem is the supplies...

ALL of my Plump Helmets and ALL of my seeds are on the bottom of the river... along with my Anvil, one Axe, two Picks, the bulk of my food, NEARLY ALL OF MY BOOZE and much of the other equipment.

There are a few rays of hope, though. I still have one Axe and a couple of Picks. The Magma layer is only about 40 levels down... a very lucky break, since it might just as easily have been 140 levels... and while this is an Aquifer map, I think that the Aquifer is off to one side, rather than directly below me. There are enough plants around that I can set up a Booze assembly-line, and perhaps make some Prepared Meals to sell to the Fall Caravan.

It's going to take me ages to build a Pump Stack to bring up the Magma so that I can cast a dam. Hopefully my Dwarves will be able to survive until the Caravan arrives, after which the logistics of the situation will become somewhat simpler.

Now that Mine-carts have been added to the game, has the idea of a Goblin Space Program been re-visited?

By this, I mean an attempt to launch a Goblin from ground level so as to exit the map, via the sky.

Will stripped Goblins (in captivity) put on any new clothes that are provided to them? An Adamantium-cloth Space Suit seems appropriate for the mission. It's too bad we can't make Helmets out of Glass.