Bay 12 Games Forum

Nice, a vampire queen!

I've got a fort running with a puny vampire baron who also acts as manager and bookkeeper. He's got his own four-room suite that serves as his bedroom and office. One of the rooms has a workshop in it (he was a mason) with a little stone stockpile, so I can lock him in that specific room if I ever need to. Attached to this four room suite is a large lever room with lots and lots of levers (more than I could possibly need). Attached to the lever room is a sock & misc garment room so the vampire can replace his socks when they wear out. I generally keep all the doors locked up tight.

Just so that the mortal dwarves can learn an object lesson from his vampiric nature, though, I built the whole complex out of glass blocks and windows. Noble vampires must be put on display at the very least.

I kind of like the idea of a fortress dedicated to the Dark Queen of Blood, though, where you let her run free and if someone important happens to die, well, they weren't in harmonic accord with the cult. I don't know how you'd account for the justice system - you might need to make her the Sheriff or Captain of the Guard, for instance. You might want to research it before dedicating yourself to this route - I'm sure something has been posted about it somewhere regarding forestalling justice.

Let us know what you do with her!

Get rid of digging invaders, they are currently broken. And you shouldn't just turn them off on the launcher panel, you should comment out all lines in the dfhack.ini file that deal with digging invaders.

Moleweasels and Frill Lizards are the cats of Masterwork, they both help get rid of vermin.

Here are a couple of Google+ posts I've made about Machinetorture (the name of the actual fort). The expedition is The Gooey Beds, and our civilization is named The Steely Tongs. The river is called The Concern of Women, and the hill we are on named Barrenhill.

There's a joke in all those random names, somewhere, but as all my nobles are women I shall leave all punchlines up to the imagination.

https://plus.google.com/102095666583949328079/posts/TzTZwxeqivr

https://plus.google.com/102095666583949328079/posts/ErK5iWFUfYn

This summer my boss's 9 year-old son spent a lot of time at our workplace, and one day I brought my laptop and showed him a stable fortress. His eyes widened at the little features of the fort, from the atom-smasher to the lion pit.

"I can do all this?"

"And more."

He downloaded it that night, and brought his own laptop the next day. Over the next few weeks I gave him advice on how to have slightly less FUN (he was having plenty of FUN on his own).

By the end of the summer he had built a relatively stable fort under my guidance.

I knew I had done well the day he came in with his tablet instead of his laptop.

"Where is the fort?" I asked.

"I accidentally flooded it."

"Oh no, that's terrible."

"NO WAY! IT WAS AWESOME!"

Kormenu: Thanks!

Thankfully, the crashes have been fixed by completely eliminating the digging invader references from the dfhack ini files. The nice embark is safe.

As for the camels, well, as I tiled the river closer to them, they'd run out of range. I decided to make easier work of the entire affair and dig out the wall of the gorge. The camels proceeded to leap out of the river and into the fish farm, where I had the military mop them up. Two survivors were on the opposite side of the map, but both were males, so I let them be. Amusingly enough, all of the camels were quite corpulent, so whatever water lilies or seaweed or goblin bones they were gnawing on was quite satisfying for them.

We are now dining heartily on the three that we managed to capture in the fish traps.

Thanks for everyone's help!

Sadly, in spite of the Embark Point of Epicness, I'm going to give up playing this save - I reached a point that makes it crash almost as soon as it is loaded.