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I am mot receiving the email verification message. I have checked my spam box and have re-requested the email several times. The account is a regular gmail address. My account is of the same name - Kav. Could someone help me out?

Sometimes it works, sometimes nothing happens. While designating the mouse will suddenly go dead, and after not working for a bit suddenly it starts designating again. I even had a few crashes while trying to mouse designate.

Already submitted it (#2811). Just wanted to know if anyone else was having this problem.

Embarked with 4 armor/shield users, an armor smith, a weapon smith, and a grower. I brought an anvil, a pittance of booze, just enough seeds to get started, no food, 2 dogs, 40 cassiterite, and copper nuggets.

Started by forging a bronze axe and a pick with the 3 wagon wood. Dug a farm, started the magma forge and smelter, and got the 4 recruits started with wrestling. I spent the next 2 seasons smelting bronze and making full suits of plate over chain armor. Then tragedy; before she finished an imp popped out of the magma channel, luckily the first fireball missed. The second fireball caused several injuries but then the wrestling squad showed up. Strangely, in about half a season she got up out of bed like nothing happened, all the injuries healed. Fastest I've ever seen a dwarf recover, ever. She was then able to finish the full suits of armor. The grower was struggling to keep us fed and inebriated during all this but got the job done. The elves came and I traded them a pittance of stone crafts for a little food, they didn't have much. When the recruits were legendary wrestlers I forged some bronze axes and they started training with those. Finally I mined out a nice stairway and narrow corridor bottleneck to ambush the orcs in the fortress and chained the 2 war dogs nearby.

Then at the start of winter the orcs came, right on schedule. There was a mauler, 7 carves, and 8 wrestlers. I ordered everyone inside and set the ambush. The poor bastards never saw it coming. The ambush room was covered in body parts and armor, the stairwell was soaked in blood. They never even made it to the dogs. There were no injuries. One dwarf had single-handedly massacred 10 of them without breaking a sweat and the other 3 killed the rest.

2 minutes later a training accident destroyed someones eye, ear, neck, and brain. He quickly suffocated to death in bed. Oh well.

I always wondered how you guys handled the first wave of orcs without secluding the fortress or stacking inaccessible crossbow dwarfs. Usually the sweep through my fortress like they're clearing it with mp5's. I feel like I've accomplished something. Next on my list is controlled forest fires - for science.

It was a long corridor built out of solid iron with a floor of iron grates. A dwarf pulls a lever, the bridges holding the magma above retract dropping the payload of magma on the invaders. It drains straight through to the floor. Then the green glass pumps automatically reloaded the trap within seconds. It was an epic video. I'd like to show it to my friend but I can't find it or remember the name of the fortress. Anyone remember?

I like to watch movies or other media while playing Dwarf Fortress on the same computer. This creates a problem since DF is so processor intensive and causes the video to skip. I have figured out how to fix this.

Open the task manager (ctrl+shift+esc). Go to the processes tab and locate dwarfort.exe. Right click it and select Set Priority > BelowNormal.

This should prevent DF from hogging processor cycles and let the video play smoothly at the cost of a few fps. Enjoy