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You is dis ork. Today ain't nuffin' special ta you, 'coz you'z an ork and don't care 'bout no 'umie fings like 'the date and time'. If you was a stinkin' humie git, you might know dat today iz sum big important day, havin' ta do wiff some sorta important numbers.

But, you'z ISN'T a humie git. You'z an ork. And today you'z gunna give yourself a name.

SO, WHAT'S DIS GIT'S NAME ANYWAY?


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Because the other recipe thread decided on having a theme to their recipes for a week, and because I could not honestly see 'Australian Cuisine' becoming a theme, I've decided to make my own thread.

List any recipes you have. Any at all, as long as they make something fit for human consumption at the end (e.g, no dwarven sugar roasts). It might also help to drop them into a spoiler tag with a title on it, for easy browsing.
[spoiler=title goes here][/spoiler]

And there you go. Enjoy!

If anyone noticed, right down the bottom of the forum index is a list of upcoming and current birth days. To my surprise, April 16th is Toady's birthday! So, happy birthday to our wonderful and glorious developer. May your years be long, your work be easy, your dwarven beer flow freely and your bugs be squashed!

Happy Birthday to you, Toady One!

I'd give you a present, but I have nothing to give ;w;

Snow. Snow!


Would you look at that... I'm walking through SNOW! Not just some ugly white ground, ACTUAL SNOW!
Not pictured is me collecting a few snowballs to throw at people later, hehehe...

Anyone seen the snow yet? It's amazing! Even the trees are white! The roofs are covered! So pretty!

EDIT: Immediately after I posted, I set a tree on fire. It made a big 5x5 square of ground around it melt and reveal the land underneath!

I never realised how important that tag was till today. I thought, "So what! I'll have the occasional twin."

NO.
That is not what it does, man. I won't just get the odd twin or two.

Instead, one of my planters has given birth to six children over the last two years. Two sets of triplets. Goodness knows NEXT year she'll pop out the same. I'm waiting for the baby flood.

They called me mad.

My name is Ms. Cog Shakenhatchet. Not too long ago, I submitted my grand idea to the king. My grand idea, a dwarven war machine that could cross oceans to wreak havoc on our enemies. I submitted plans for what I liked to call "Warvessels" or Alniseral in the dwarven tongue. The king laughed in my face, said it was impossible, said I was insane. "Metal plates, ballistae, 200 dwarves and the supplies needed for them? You think this will float?!" he laughed. Needless to say, I was dragged by my beard out of the king's quarters. But, I'll show them.


I've checked the maps. Here is the perfect location for my device, my battleship! There's water, magma, stone, wood and even a bottomless chasm cleft through the mountains! Someone told me that these mountains were terrifying. I don't think they could be that ugly.

So, I, Captain Cog, set out with six unfortunate fools dumb enough to follow me.

My followers:
Derm Bootspirits, Cannon Fodder.

Goden Flagjade

Ingish Routedwhip

Yanish Roofwhiskers, Wily Woodcutter.

Jervous Heatwhips, Seige Mechanic

Shebi Cloisterfaiths, Busty Blacksmith

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Okay, so I found a site and I was going to make a battleship. Suddenly I was hit with the urge to write, and I found that the Terrifying hills could be quite Fun! Just pick a dwarf, tell me what you want them named and how they would act, and a preferred job. Captain Cog is a mason/architect/mechanic with social skills. I still need a miner and woodcutter, if that's what you'd like.

Anywho, go ahead and pick! Make suggestions as to what I should do, etc. I haven't embarked yet, so initial supplies suggestions are open too.

If I don't get any new people within half an hour, I will embark with what I have. You can name/claim them afterwards. I need to be able to save it!

Okay, this is a bit of a weird question. I have a rather nice TV hooked up as my computer screen. It's all lovely and shit. The only problem is, it has a kinda dumb screen resolution, and I can't figure out how to make my dwarf fortress look nice and square with it. (Not to mention, I managed it on some level and then accidentally wrote over it and forgot how I did it.)

My screen resolution is 1024 by 768. I'm using the built-in Curses tileset, so I have the 640x300, 800x600 and 16x16 fonts. Given the fact that the 16x16 says square in the name, I tried that. I went fullscreen, and my monitor promptly shat itself and gave me a little note saying 'UNSUPPORTED'. Stupid awesome screen.

So, I'm no good with computers. Help me out? Even if I can only get it back to how it was... which I forgot how that was done. Yeah, I'm an idiot.

EDIT: I managed to get it back to how it was before by turning on the black spaces setting, but it still gives me two huge black bars. Ah well, it will suffice till we figure this out!