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I'm trying to get Ownrag to die already without completely making it die (i.e. letting out my dragon or hydra). Come to an end already! I'm still playing v.34, and now that it seems v.40.04 is pretty stable, I want to try it. But I don't want to give up on Ownrag. My hubby doesn't even play DF anymore, and he's got the new version downloaded and made himself a world (then we went to bed, so he hasn't tried it yet). So maybe I need to do something dwarfy - breach the caverns and face the 3 FBs there, or run headlong into the next siege sounds fun...

I used therapist when I first started playing DF, but for a few weeks was having problems where DT wouldn't connect (turned out to be a race condition, which was solved by writing a script to open both in the proper order...) and was forced to learn the in-game way to do it...and now, I use it almost more than DT. DT is handy when I get a new wave of migrants and want to quickly see who has what skills (military, etc.) but my issue is that I can't see the dwarves' relationships in it. So even if I find someone who looks good for my military, I still have to go back to DF and check their family (I try not to enlist anyone with a spouse or kids at least early on in a fort) and then add them to the military.

One note on changing jobs for dwarves - shift enter turns on/off all labors in a category, so it makes it easy to, say, make a hauler. Or not a hauler. And if anyone dares idle, I just go in and give them more work to do. It takes a little bit, but it does prevent me from having the 50 idlers issue...because even when I had over 150 dwarves, I only ever had idlers in the single digits.

I did start playing with a tileset, though, and have never had to learn the ascii. I'm not sure if I'll just wait on installing the new release or if I'll just bite the bullet and try to learn it all at once (hopefully once the major bugs have been resolved). We'll see...I want to let my current fort come to its natural end (we're down to 25 beards and haven't had a wave of migrants in FOREVER...I did just disallow all jobs for my mayor, though, so he has conducted meetings...) and try an evil biome, since I've only ever done easy ones.

Down to 30 beards, 2 of whom are kids. Of my adults, 15 have at least one kill. My most deadly dwarf has 9 kills, 4 of whom are elves and 4 of which are elf horses.

Most dwarves with kills have 1 or 2, but when the 1 is a forgotten beast...you can forgive that. I still have a few who have complained of the draft lately (since all dwarves are serving) but no tantrumming at least. All dwarves are enlisted.

Quote from: MrsStick on July 07, 2014, 06:15:34 am

Okay, weirdest announcement ever. I'm trying to figure this out:
Naked mole dog has given birth to naked mole dog puppy.

It means that there are a pack of wild mole dogs staying on your map somewhere and one has given birth. Don't be surprised though, I've had it happen with wild bugbats and caged wild animals before.

That's why I'm confused...I've never had announcements about non-tame animals in my care giving birth. This was a 100% wild (not in view) naked mole dog who gave birth, and it showed up in green like it was a tame animal. Strange!

Despite losing 4/5 of my beards, Ownrag is doing surprisingly well. Only a few minor tantrums until I was finally able to slab and/or bury the ghostly ones, and no one is less than content despite having miasmas in multiple places in the fort and having 30/150 of my dwarves still alive. I still have five FBs down in the caverns, but haven't gone too far down there yet.

Oh, yeah, and everybody is in the military despite their preferences regarding that line of work. A few get miffed when I have them kill random chained goblins in my arena, but no one ever actually does anything more than complain about it. I'm shocked. Maybe they're desensitized at this point?

Forgotten Beast (snail with gray hair and wings) came out of the caverns and attacked my fort. Got a fey mood going on, screaming for cut gems while one of my last 33 beards is cutting a green tourmaline. So far, she's got logs, rock blocks, cut gems, ore, and ewe bones in there...

Miasmas are taking over, two guys are laying in my hospital waiting for attention, hooray! Losing is FUN! Oh, and DF hasn't even realized that most of the dwarves are dead yet...they're all missing. DT is the only way I know how many I have for sure...

Down to 53 beards. I've been pretty much continually activating my military to kill train with live targets, waiting for a tantrum spiral. Maybe next I'll attack the elves that are here to trade...