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So it's been a while since I've played Dwarf Fortress, but I always get these interesting ideas that never really take off. Now that I'm coming back, I want to make a really cool fortress, and actually have it succeed this time! The latest of these ideas, as described in the title, is a fortress of Dwarves that are super-immune to fire, abuse magma heartily (magma baths!) and keep dragons as pets. For the sake of badassery, these Dwarves will also keep helmet snakes and cave dragons, and be able to turn them all into war versions of themselves, or leave them wild.

To do this, I'm going to need to modify the raws:

• Increasing the population and frequency of the dragon types I want
• Removing their exotic status, dungeon masters don't work anyway
• Make Dwarves super-immune to fire
• Allow Dwarves to breathe magma, probably requiring a NO_BREATHE tag. Would amphibious work here instead?
• Dragons might have to be given a tag that prevents them from starvation, I'm not sure.
• Something I'd LOVE to do is build my fortress literally inside a volcano, but I'm guessing that Dwarves can't build while 'underwater', even if they're not drowning and the materials are magma-safe, right?

Anyway, the purpose of this thread was to share my idea and get feedback and ideas; so fire away!

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So the assignment was to write a sonnet in iambic pentameter form.
Three stanzas, four lines apiece, ten syllables per line, and a romantic couplet to top it off.

Without further ado:

Onward, my Dwarves go out to strike the earth,
at this embark the dire wolves are wary.
Throughout the winter we must build our hearth,
because terrifying embarks are quite scary.

Skeletal groundhogs are a fearsome sight,
to my poor Dwarves awash with crippling fear.
If you would like to cure some Dwarven fright,
then nothing is as good as Dwarven beer.

But alas, I digress, one thing is best,
for tantrum spiral or berserk grandma.
It will solve all your problems ‘pon request,
use careful application of magma.

If a Dwarf should want to have a lil’ fun,
then please, I beseech you, run now; just run.


Thoughts? I've seen some excellent DF poetry threads before.

So early on in my fort, Thol (The Deep), my Blacksmith had a strange mood. I can't remember if it was a possession or a fey mood, but I didn't have the bars fast enough for him. He went berserk right before I got them and I had to use a ramshackle squad to quickly take him down. To honor him, I had a coffin as well as a memorial slab made for him.

There's just something strange here:


That's the artifact list for my fort. That's his memorial slab. The only problem is that the artifact he "created" was never actually created. It seems like the names of artifacts are made before the artifact type is even finalized.

My guess is he was screaming the name while he attacked that dog. Thoughts?

Hi there,

To put it frankly, the Bay 12 site isn't loading. I've disabled Adblock+, tried Chrome, checked my 'hosts' file in System32, checked my firewall... No matter what, the site only seems to work through a proxy. This only started around two days ago. Is there anyone out there with a way I can access the website of one my favorite games? Perhaps I was IP Banned for some reason I can't fathom? All I've ever done was download the game and read ThreeToe's stories...

Any help would be appreciated!

-Aussiemon

I was playing my little fortress just a while ago when suddenly the fps drops from 100+ to around 50. Thinking that it must be the result of the filling of my new drowning trap, I didn't worry too much about it. My trap finished filling, and I was ready to try it out.

I opened my front door with a lever and waited for the first group to find my sacrificial cat or cage trap. Soon after, I got a bite: 4 or so goblins and a Kobold ambush that was unlucky enough to arrive at the same time.

And then with only a one-second pause between them (as they're discovered):

They were revealed because the Elves were attacked by the goblins, and vice versa. The Elves used a mixture of swordsmen and war giant eagles, but for some strange reason, only the eagles fought back (perhaps the ethic that prevents them from attacking neutrals?). As a result, there was a huge massacre when the Goblins saw the Elves. Unfortunately, I didn't think of taking pictures of the troop numbers until after they had all slaughtered each other.

Towards the end of all of this, a human caravan appeared right next to a squad of Goblins, who spotted a bunch of Elven giant war eagles. The eagles vanished quickly after slaughtering the caravan, some of the Goblins ended up in my drowning trap, and one Human Pikeman survived the melee.

For some strange reason, the Human is just lounging around now in perfect health. He opened up a can of whoopass on a fleeing Goblin squad, but doesn't seem to want to get out of the rain. The snatcher mentioned in the picture is lounging around too, but he was torn apart by eagles... he kinda has an excuse.

I've never gotten that many invaders in sieges! Thoughts?


Modded raws: A couple of tags to make my Dwarves evil, Champion and DM appointed by Mayor, and a few other tags to fix some creatures (e.g. EXTRAVISION for pond grabbers). I'm using 31.16.