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Later on, he got killed by 3 boogeymen, woops

Had one among my vampire skulls.. after I defeated a bunch and decided to start collecting skulls.
I'm now planning to have a steady diet of them. After I retire, how will I supply myself with their meat?

Also made a note: demon meat and dragon meat seem to be awfully heavy. Demons' the most. Then dragons. Been eating their hearts at least, now sustaining myself mainly on demon and dragon meat, as my fort doesn't have my favorite meat available, and one has to try all sorts of exotics as well. Hope I get demon muscles with this meat.

No no no no no!!! Necromancers are supposed to be reclusive, not a new civilization.

They could easily be both. I think Toady should unfix this and also have necromancer and wizard towns.

Damn, I'm going to generate my necromancer town with the old game version... Current game offers
nearly no fun at all and is way too easy. I've played now 11 years and no save-game scumming or
cheating has been necessary. I'm a bit disappointed.

If you somehow manage to cage a web-spewing clown: Clown Webs are actually fireproof.

I wish. My spider queen took an arrow in the knee and I had to retire her for now, to think of better factory structures.
But great idea, thanks.

Pike, least I've got 'em.

Now, Magma crab triplets. Sorry for the bad picture. Wondering what to do with them.

Quote from: chillas on August 28, 2014, 07:35:44 am

I had found a nice embark site, right next to a 12-or-so Z level waterfall.  In setting everything up, I put my trade depot in the corner next to the waterfall and the cliff face next to it.

I go about my business of getting the rest of my fort set up and after a time the outpost liaison shows up.  I do business with him and it takes a few minutes for me to realize I've received no notification about the caravan arriving.  Time passed, still nothing.

Seasons passed and the human and elven caravans arrived.

Then I started getting notifications that the dwarves were being bothered by a ghost.  And more ghosts.  Checked my units and found no one missing.

Finally, in doing some construction down at the level of the bottom of the waterfall I realized what had happened.  The original caravan had somehow managed to fall into the river and drown.  Every single one of them, their animals, and all their goods down at the bottom of a raging waterfall.

I'm in a situation sort of like that one. I had diverted my river so it was flowing at 3/7 for a while. I had traffic-restricted the area for my dwarves, but merchants don't seem to care as much about that. They decided to take a dip there as they were leaving, then promptly decided they were stuck. Possibly because the river is back up to 6/7. Either way they seem like they can swim well enough to not drown, but refuse to move. One merchant has already gone insane and was put down by his allies and it's only a matter of time before the others turn. I may build a memorial 'bridge' for them to commemorate their stupidity.

This reminds me of one fort whose entrance I built next or behind a waterfall. The caravans didn't use the entrance, they preferred to dive into the waterfall (or fall in), then dive inside the fortress through the sewers and walk back upto the Depot. Of course sometimes even left via the river as well, by swimming.  Naturally, all their goods were lost while jumping into the river and diving, or leaving. But I still thought it awesome. Hard core salesmen.

Goldthrone is likely to fall soon, my entire fort is succumbing to werehedgehog infection. I wouldn't mind so much if I had an easy way to control them and see who was infected but hey that's the FUN    If it falls I shall reclaim for the glory of Godom Axesweat, Queen of the Mountain homes.

I may have a tip for that, as I just recovered from one werebeing infestation, by doing nothing. I just had my normal defence strategy in place: quality cage traps practically everywhere to catch rampaging dorfs and other beings. And, of course, good quality cage traps are such a pleasure to look at while you pass them by in high traffic areas. Still, it was a bit upsetting when suddenly my dorfs started getting caged and I didn't immediately catch the reason. Good thing though that I had just got them in place...

t. I don't even think that my design has a valid path between my spiders and my bait, all doors are forbidden and the mongoose is pitted from a level up. - If a wild wolf doesn't work for you try pitting a goblin as a bait.

I can verify that now. GCS reverted back to wild and started to attack a chained tame giant raven, through fortifications with no paths to the Raven.
Dog on the other side is in peace, though he can be pathed to.

I left the corridor to the Raven open to dwarves, with no traps on it, so far they've been getting the silk from there,
and not getting blown through the fortifications though there's traps on the other side and the GCS is spitting quite a lot at them.

It seems it may be quite a rare stumble, if one gets pulled by the web through fortifications to a web covered cage traps.
But they don't seem to be pushed by webbing to similarly web covered cage traps.

Anyway, hoping to get some FBs caged next, or failing that, HFS caged.
I would like more GCS's though... Both trained and wild.

As for worrying about cats killing GCS, I think I once did have a hard-ass cat that killed one.
He had earned a name, or did by doing so. Hunted all the spiders extinct... nowadays I don't let the cats out until I have caged a GCS.

...And seems that it was a bad idea to allow dwarves to the adjacent 1-fort-away -corridor to collect the silk, as one just shot the spiders' brains out..
2 forts away(with spiderannoyer-pet corridor) seems to be safe, thus far.
...
And I must add, that I don't recommend any traps on the 1-fort-away adjacent corridor, next to GCS, as they seem to only cause trouble if any dwarf
comes close to them or you need to switch the animals the GCS is attacking.  Again, beware hunters and military doing the job.