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if you want to keep personal pets from entering when their masters enter, you may need to keep the door tightly closed (I think it's "o" that keep animals from being able to open the door themselves)

Why do Dwarfs go on break/party even if there's a fort threatening crisis?

When's a better time for a party than when the end is near?

Why are gnomes?

I found my fisherdwarves catching pond turtles out of the town well... not sure how to feel about that...

Also caught a giant cave swallow, another bird on this bird-laden fortress... I also have no idea what to do with broad beans, they grow on the island but apparently aren't food and can't be used in any way... considering making an item tumbler just to get use out of them...

In the meantime, my fortress' conspiracy to keep quarry bush leaves off the menu continues as the cavern we found did not have any cave moss or dwarven crop plants...

I think the reason danger rooms work is that wooden weapons have no power to get through armor...

I don't think it would work on unarmored animals, even war dogs get minced in the traps. However, I may be wrong, so someone test it and find the results, I don't think my army of emus is hardy enough for war... or !!SCIENCE!! of this calibur

Wow, that kid should be your champion when he grows up

Most civilizations do not approve of such time wasting, so the only scholars in the land that aren't keeping records have to abandon society and make friends with the dead because nobody likes them. [Most people probably don't read the entire thread, so it shouldn't matter too much]

Why can catapults only hit targets on the same z level?

Goblins and dwarves have a very complex relationship. Goblins steal dwarven children to raise as their own, dwarves kill goblins by the dozen on the battlefield, and goblins willingly dive into corridors filled with traps to kill even a single animal held by a dwarven civilization.

However, dwarven culture can respect a go-getter attitude, to the point that even a goblin can make a place for themself in dwarven society, and dwarves often end up being the most powerful units of their squads in goblin military. They also share features such as short tempers (according to people who have modded the game to play as goblins) and a love of destroying things when they get angry.

Clearly the relationship between these races is a strange one, and it only gets more complex as time moves on...

We're on the Bay 12 forums, just search "forgotten beast" in the dwarf mode section and you'll have all the kooky monsters you'll ever need