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I'll admit, this fortress was inspired by Fortresscat.  I started wondering the effects of a hundred war dogs in a 1x1 nano fortress in the event of a siege.

Thus begins the story of Doghole, the God-Forsaken Dung-Pit of Hounds


This seems like a nice place for 7 dwarfs, a pick, and 110 dogs. (I'll have to see how long the max amount of dogs can fare in an area infested with beak-dogs, sometime)

We have Billy, the animal trainer.  He seems to get teary-eyed whenever someone mentions the names "Dan" or "Ann" for some reason...


There is also the miner and building designer,


the stone crafter,


the grower and herbalist,


the brewer and cook,


the butcher and tanner,


and the mason and glassmaker.




We have embarked.

We have arrived.
And we sure have few supplies left; one copper pick, and a freeze-dried cube of dog.



The wagon could not contain our block of dogs.

25th Granite
Kennels have been dug out, and training of war dogs has commenced.  We have lost four dogs so far to foxes and wolves.  One wanders around with a punctured lung.  The rest of the dogs took care of them, so we have enough food to get by for now.

3rd Hematite
It is now summer.  We have 19 war dogs, 106 dogs in all.  We haven't lost any more, and one still remains crippled.`  No more wolves or foxes have attacked.  Probably because each dog has marked every single tree in our area.  It reeks something fierce, and I fear that our water is no longer potable.

Mug production is in full swing so that we can get an ax in the fall.  I am unsure of the consequences of felling all trees in the area.  I could care less about the elves, but what will the dogs mark instead?  In any case, we won't know who the bed-wetters of the fortress are, considering the tree's now-found source of "water."



There are also concerns with how we'll be getting food here.  We had assumed that the dogs would be enough to fertilize the land, but the few herbs we can find are withered and trampled, even with all this "fertilizer" mashed in all over the place.  We need to watch where we step better.

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I haven't checked who was leader, or set any noble offices yet.  If you claim a dwarf, feel free to claim anything I can set if it hasn't been claimed yet.

Fresh install, I used a custom name ("Brackenwood") for a tiny world, and every world after that, custom or random name, and it rejects everything it sees.  I quit, deleted the world out of the save folder, and it still rejects to infinity.  I let it run while posting this, and it got past 6000 and does not stop.

EDIT: I set it to log rejects, and it appears to be "not enough peaks" for every single one.  It does this regardless of world size, seed, name, anything.

EDIT2: I should also mention that on the first world (the one that actually got created), I had accidentally pressed F6 before generating it, resulting in a world_gen.txt in the init folder.

156 various animals are crammed into this thing.

The barracks is not a good place to put a well.

Of all the utilities created, I have thought (not created) one that would be very useful.  With the number of programmers here, I imagine someone can make it work.

Here's what it would do:
1. In the area selection screen of the embark menu, it navigates the cursor to the upper left most corner.
2. The program looks at the terrain on the left panel, checking for any dark red indicating a magma vent on that section of the map.  Since magma is the only thing that uses dark red, you don't have to check for the particular tile's shape.
3. If there is a dark red tile, add the coordinates to a list.
4. Move left one.  If the program has already moved left a certain number of times, move down once and shift all the way left.
5.  Goto 2 and repeat until the program has reached the bottom rightmost area.
6.  Export a text file containing coordinates for all magma maps found.  Even better if it can take an exported map and mark all the locations on it.

I can't be the only one who would rather have the computer find potential good locations for me rather spend many hours scouring the embark screen in search of a decent magma location.

He wants an item.  In his throne room.

I built this huge water container over the past few versions, and I finally got to the point where I could fill it up.  However, it doesn't seem to fill past the first level, which is full 7/7.  The whole thing is about six stories deep, constructed with floodgates on one side, rock wall on the opposite, and the other two walls are glass windows.