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And I'm NOT going to look up the changes that have happened since then. I figure this is going to be an artifact !!FUN!!, menacing with spikes of pain and inlaid with my own bones carved into the shapes of forgotten beasts and carp, so I'm also going to embark on the most evil, twisted abomination I can find. My dwarves are going to die screaming the first 20 or so times I embark, so why not make it entertaining? And since I figure this is going to be a spectacular, hilarious disaster, I'm going to keep you all updated every step of the way and follow your suggestions. I already know about the circus and our clown friends from before, so don't try pulling that one on me . I strongly advise against asking for any dorf to be named after you, because let's face it, they will have the lifespan of a dwarf in a carp pond. Going to actually start up in a week or whenever I find the Embark Site of my nightmares, whichever comes first. Only change I'm going to make is giving GCS Can_Learn and Pet, because I once had a GCS mayor and it was the most hilarious thing ever and I want a repeat. Also, I have a thing for spiders. It's a thing. I'd have ten tarantulas IRL, but I have been strictly limited to just one by everyone else in the house. But nobody told the dwarves that!

I think my most important question is... do I still need to sentence anyone with a preference for Slade to death? And are there any recommended tilesets, now that I actually am using a tower PC that can handle them?

Edit: Make that five years, apparently, but I don't remember shit past the GCS mayor fort I had so...

So, I haven't really played DF since the 2010 update, and haven't REALLY played since 40d. My question is this: As I do not really REMEMBER how to play DF beyond my extremely basic Fort design which is best described as "Centralized access", have no real experience with the medical system to speak of, would you guys like me to post the fortress as a story? I shouldn't forget to mention I have no real knowledge or experience with real dwarven engineering, and thus have never made much use of pumped water or magma before, both of which I will attempt should this fortress manage to survive long enough for either to be needed. So, do you want me to post the trials and travails of someone relearning the trade as it were? Considering the game's level of death, I fully expect the first fort to die within...oh, about the first goblin siege. To remedy this...I may solicit advice from the community. I'm not sure whether this will decrease or increase the odds of FUN occurring. So, anyway, let me know what you guys think. If I do this, it will be told from first dwarf perspective in all likeliness.

Does the animal which layed them need to be on the nest box for them to hatch?

Err...not that it's teribly important, but how can I make my GCS shoot silk through fortifications? Say, at a forgotten beast due any minute that willl be heading into a gauntlet of cage traps because I didn't expeect a FB at only 40 dwarves and have no countermeasures ready beyond that? And said beast tends to be of the immortal variety whenever I retry? (NOT loosing THIS fort so soon!)

Now, this doesn't refer to modding value multipliers. Here, I refer to the ore itself. As we all know, goblinite is encased in multiplee FPS-killing layers of forbidden cloth and leather, meaning that the metallic concentration of the ore is relatively low per unit. With how rare surface magma is these days-and the fact I'm still getting back into the groove of effective harvesting of this ore-I was wondering how to, using the raws, eliminate said wasteful slag in order to obtain the ore while minimizing hauling to the drawbridge. As a bonus, my laptop isn't the fastest out there, so this will help me maintain my FPS at bearable levels.

So I've been genning worlds, and noticed something-I almost NEVER see a SINGLE dark tower when I gen. Are there some params I need to mod to help the gobbos out?

Back in 40d, I used to do quite a bit of outdoor farming, to give my dwarves more boozes and crops to prepare/eat raw. I just tried to set this up in my latest fort...only being told I "have no seeds available for this location". Now, this is a problem, as the current map has about no soil. True, I might be able to make my dwarves live on a diet of raw egg, but I'd like to be able to rest easy knowing I don't have to rely on a gathering blacksmith to get plants for booze. Any reason why? I KNOW I have Longland grass seeds, and it says this no matter WHAT season I pick.

I'm fiddling around in the raws, and noticed that supposedly I can only have ONE (maybe two) groups of large predators on the map at once. Is it possible to get around this by putting them in rivers (like alligators)? Or would it be necessary to make them subterranean in order for me to get multiple groups? I'm making quite a few savage creatures as an attempt to make savage areas much more dangerous, so I'd like to know if there is a workaround.