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« on: August 11, 2014, 03:19:59 pm »
Oh I hate aquifers. I usually avoid them and picking an aquiferless embark. On the rare occasion I spot an otherwise perfect site, my dwarfs live above ground or in the dry parts. Chicken running might be my solution now.
Anyways, I'm playing (probably my last) fort for 34.11. I tend to play exceptionally long term forts and my goal for this fort to see if I can't play to the point of where all my dwarfs were born in this fort (naturally, no accident prone old dwarfs). So far it's Timber of year 10. I'm trying to promote love and babies, so my dwarfs have been on holiday since middle of Sandstone (when the dwarven caravan arrived). I got way too much food and booze, so I think I'll permit them to party the winter away. There's few things they are still clearing up and moving about so only about 40-50 out of my 220 dwarfs are taking full advantage of the break. I usually work them to the bone (15-20 free dwarfs), so there's lots of awkward flirting going on as most of their social skills are rusty. This is the second year I'm allowing an extended holiday; the last one was only about a month long and netted me about 6 babies. I'm hoping for a couple of good friendships, maybe a marriage or two, and babies up to the cap.
Other things I'm doing are fighting stagnant water contamination, preparing to train all civilian dwarfs in the art of war (you call it a danger room, I call it dwarven ingenuity), waiting for the king/queen to arrive (I gave them an 100k offer, you think they'd hurry), and creating an internally heated bedchamber suitable for royalty to comfort a monarch with opposing political views.
