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So I used the renaming-trick and sure enough she's a vampire.

Dug out a crypt with a drawbridge-airlock, sent her in and done (she was too busy training/digging, she never even got the chance to go down to the sleeping-room level, let alone drain anyone).

2 Seasons later she gets elected mayor. I mean really? Now I have to add a fancy sleeping/dining/throneroom that won't even be utilized by her!
She must be some sort of myth all the others talk about, since barely 10% of my dwarves have even seen her. (She arrived in the migration wave and went to work on her crypt immediately).

PS: FYI: She does have good social skills but no friends among the other dwarves.

That is odd. I would suggest backing up the save and retiring to take a look at legends. See if any of their sites are still standing. I have heard of civs bouncing back and reclaiming their cities if there's enough population left. Or founding new ones, but the only way to know for sure what's going on is to check legends at this point. I've had that message and my civ was just fine when I checked.

Ok, *fingers-crossed* I get my save to load back after I put the backup back
The history of my civ Stukonushat "The Squashed Basement" is 250 years of Giant [Jaguar,Hyena, Cheetah] became enemy plus the occasional noble ascending some nobility position. Most interesting piece I found was this:
http://i.imgur.com/veUoJvi.png
First they got a new Goblin Baroness and then later in 250 a bunch of dwarfs leave and rejoin? is this Leaving & Rejoining normal? Or might it have something to do with my founding my fortress in 250?
My civ is definitely at war with a goblin civ, they attacked each other back and forth during the existence of my fortress. Maybe this means that I have to expect some goblin visitors too sometime?
(here are a few entries about the attacks, looks like one of my civs citys was already overrun)

Make splints out of wood. It works the same.

You can order bags of plaster from most mountainhomes.

Yay, that solves my problem then. There are plenty of splints in the hospital, I just thought I'd also need gypsum for proper treatments. Guess my previous bad results with dwarven healthcare were more due to the lack of adept doctors

@Mountainhomes: It appears something happened to the liason at world-gen therefore no asking. Does this also mean I don't get dukes/barons/kings?
Caravans & Migrants arrive properly.

A little late, but happy holidays and a gigantic thank you for the support to you all from the little ants:



(Expect a new Dev-Update this weekend!)

Ok, first the bad news.. we did 68% and the project wasn't funded.

Now the good news: We managed to rally 535 people behind this in 28 days that were willing to pledge 13677$! That is an impressive result for a project that was virtually unknown a month ago. Also for those following the updates, I did implement some key features during the campaign and it looks better every day.

This is just the start - not the end!

Many projects have been quite successful in their second attempt, I have been asked by indie festivals to submit our game, we have interest from german federal science-education funds so it's actually all looking really ok!
We did setup a forum to keep in touch with all of you during development and already have a big thread we're collecting what to do better in a second attempt. Or for the redditers we have a subreddit on http://www.reddit.com/r/formicarium/ !
I'll be working for lunch-money for a while now, but I'm continuing Formicarium at the side. Expect a dev-update monthly/bimonthly, I'm hoping if we have a much bigger demo by the time of the next campaign, we'll be able to start off much better (we mostly did fail at the first 7 days, then after the RockPaperShotgun article it went ok, but overall we learned a lot).

Ok, and so it's not just text for you, here's a picture of my preliminary underground  material-layer algorithm (I wrote yesterday):

Dear friends, I have been very busy the last days, trying to add as many programming in between all the marketing as possible.

Here is our new dev-update with the results (the hive is more intelligent every day).
http://youtu.be/_T1T4SWK8W4

Furthermore, are any of you experienced 4Chan or tumblr people? I was told I should do more advertising there, but I have no account/experience with either.

Thank you and please tell me what you think about the update

Played this for a while, really neat concept. I always loved Industry Giant and being stranded on an island - games.

They are also a european team, so I really hope more people find them and it gets bigger

Oh my.. Will there be 'mutations'?

Yes, that too, but only sometimes. It would have made the above diagram more complicated that's why I left it out.