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I have a Champion (someone finally lost their foot, so a crutch was presented, and they were labelled champion. They lost it to a unicorn) who has demanded an iron cabinet in his room. No worries, melted down at least 20 iron anvils from the caravan by now, so I just made an iron cabinet and put it in his room. The demand remained up there though, so I absentmindedly made a second one, and put it in his bedroom too, then realised what I'd done. I'm so happy it's a demand I can fill...

My two dukes, their two consorts, and my two duchesses, and their two consorts, are harder to fulfill though. They love everything from figurines to quivers, and the fortress now has more than forty quivers in bins in the leatherworking area, due to the fact that they get demanded, then no one is allowed to sell the damn things, then they get demanded again. I've made a half dozen sets of leather armour, when the two branches of the military are all decked out in bronze and iron, so that's for no reason as well. I've got a lot -A LOT- of earrings, as no one will let me sell the goddamn things, but they keep mandating things like bracelets, so I have to keep making trade goods for the bracelets, and thus end up with bins and bins of things I'm not allowed to sell. I'm seriously considering building my first ever atom smasher. I've never ever made one, and had intended never to start, but the sheer number of useless trinkets I have been making. It would have been different if I had been allowed to choose one of these nobles myself, but they all were chosen by the game.

And don't even get me started on Mayor-of-Traction Benches. I now have four traction benches in the mayors tomb, as the hospitals are full. I am tempted to find a way for the mayor to USE said traction benches. Possibly permanently.

The worst noble, though, wasn't even one of these. It was a bloke who wanted me to make anvils. On a map with no iron. It was so damn frustrating... I wanted an anvil, and the metals, as much as he did, but we were on a gold rich, iron poor location. Bastard should have been enjoying being King Midas, but no. Eventually he was locked (first with a gold door, then a gold built wall) into his office, which was filled with gold statues, gold tables, and gold chairs (not to mention gold containers) and that was how I discovered he was a vampire, as he lived in there, safe and isolated, for years. The fort eventually died of water pressure issues, when I was learning how not to make a well. Yay.

I got a pair of artifact gauntlets, though they were not really a pair (made by different dorfs).
Do they always make gloves in pair, or am I just lucky?

In one of my forts, I got two left boot artifacts, one of leather, the other metal.

...I have since always thought that that that was a fort where no one could dance....

Quote from: taptap on November 18, 2014, 06:10:46 am

You could embrace cave adaptation and abandon the surface. Really easy to do in evil surroundings, who would want to be outside in that weather?

Easy in evil weather, less easy when you rely on caravans for weapon grade metal...

Four "caravan entry chute"s, one for each compass point, guarded by chained dogs and military in  training, all leading to a central trader depot? Not that I've done that. Tempted to try it now though.

so I think I'll just make the soldiers train outside...

Yeah, I've had my military training outside since cave adaptation last was a "thing", so it's no change for me. A bit of a nuisance when the Forgotten Beast arrives in the caverns instead of upstairs, but otherwise all good.

It's a problem for a fort under 9 levels of aquifer. I can't just dig that channel down to my (under the aquifer) dining hall, fighting nine levels of water-bearing rock and mud... and that's only the topmost of three dining areas. The marble dining area is definitely a lot deeper than that... I'm trying to make a set of dwarfs who are "daylight friendly" (the two squads of military are included in that, and the animal caretakers) and just putting up with the rest not being daylight friendly. But on their off time, all dwarfs randomly travel up to the sun occasionally... just not often enough. The top ten levels of my fort are green.

There also is some puking going on downstairs from the middle dining hall, but I think that's due to cave crocodile attack. The Forgotten Beast down there got one-hit by a militia captain, so it can't be that.

I'm fascinated by the "to prevent falling damage" thing. I've never had a dwarf fall down a staircase. Ever. Is it a common thing to happen with everyone else? I've had a dwarf fall out of a tree, but he had legitimate reasons for doing that, and for that matter someone had stolen his stepladder, so he was limited in his options to get out of the tree.
Is falling down staircases the result of fighting on the staircases? It seems such a unique problem...

I find it's best to have all the armour and weapons they will want in a (binless) pile somewhere sealable, activate the military into the room ("{s}quad {a} {m}ove ... here...." is how I remember that sequence of buttons) and then lock the door when they're all inside. Then I activate and deactivate them a couple times, giving them time to get dressed, sometimes telling them to take their clothes off at the same time.... Eventually armour disappears, presumably onto the dwarfs, and I deactivate them again, this time unlocking the door. It was recommended to me by someone on the forum, and it definitely appears to work.

I've never understood how to actually see if the dwarf is wearing a specific item of armour, though. I can't even see if they're wearing the clothing I made, all I get is a whole heap of ruined clothing to sell at the trade depot, which I assume means that someone took it off and put on new clothing.

....I didn't know that migrants were in any way connected to the liaison any more.... I mean, I've had forts where there are two liaisons wandering around waiting for a meeting, meaning two years without any contact home, and yet migrants come and come and come, so I figured that they weren't connected.

I recommend butchering and eating the cats. Not only do I love my ☼cat leather armour☼, but they are remarkably agile beasts, and could probably dodge most atom smashers if given any warning at all... Besides, having one or two of them keeps the vermin down.