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Raiding works fine until you save and reload.  But I can't find any trick on a loaded game to make raiding another site not crash the game.  Nor do I see anything about working around this problem.  Surely someone has a found a workaround?

I'm not really sure where to start.  I tried the simple thing of adding [STONE] to the serrated disc in item_trapcomp.txt, but that didn't work for me.  Probably because only carpenters and metalsmiths can make traps, and stone isn't workable at either shop.

Several years ago a human lord consort showed up to perform at my tavern.  When he arrived he was carrying a mangled rutherer corpse.  It's now a mangled rutherer skeleton.  He's moving a lot faster without all that meat to weigh him down.

But why is he carrying it around?

I was trying to top off a candy cane, to get the candy, and it was hollower than I had anticipated.  Luckily, out of laziness, I'd put an armor stand in a room at the end of a long hallway.  There had been lots of trees, so I'd made lots serrated green glass disks, and I'd lined the hallway (around the corner) with ten traps of ten disks each.  I had nearly 200 dwarves, so I drafted almost off them into the military, and sent them to the armor stand.  Then I unpaused, and went to play a different video game.  I had to unpause once more, because ten goblins showed up on the surface, but I didn't redirect my military.  When I came back the goblins had (probably) killed all my dogs and cats, and who knows what else, but the excitement was over, and I still had dwarves alive!

I'd only had about 15 spare coffins set up before it happened, so it took a long time to make enough for the rest of the fort.  Many bodies were never found, so I had to make slabs too.

Which leads me to my first question!  There were clowns in my list of possible slabs, so I engraved slabs for them.  The gray banshees were notable in that their slab always ended with what they liked.  One gray banshee was at one with geese!  I've seen antelope clowns down there, but never a goose clown.  Is this just a side effect of the base creature the clown is based on maybe?  In theory, the gray banshee used to be an elf, right?

The more disturbing question came up next.  I noticed a dwarf struggling along trying to carry a clown corpse somewhere.  But not towards the corpse pile.  There were no clowns in the corpse pile at all.  So I watched that dwarf, becoming more and more worried.  And my worries came true when the dwarf ended up at the butchers.  When a dwarf butchers something, like say an elephant, it's pretty much just an explosion of parts that happens instantaneously.  But it takes a surprisingly long time to butcher a clown.  But whyyyyyyyyyy......why do the dwarves butcher them?  It looks like they are only butchering skeletons, to make bones, but, again, why?  The bones don't go to the refuse or corpse stockpile, so I had to craft them to get rid of them.  And why don't clowns count as corpses or refuse?

My barony is missing now.  Had I retired the fort instead of trying to fight to the death, is there any chance I could have reborn my baron as a clown?    Presumably I'll get my barony back at some point.

I came back to play after many months.  Since there was a new version, I deleted my install and got the new version, which toasted my self-hammer vampire, sorry for anyone I let down there.

For this attempt at fun, I picked an embark next to a purple city of some sort.  The first thing I did was build a wall.  I dug a trench around the wall.  Up on top of the wall I built out 1 square to make an over hang.  I filled in the inner wall to avoid diagonal pathing through the wall!  I laid down floor all around my trench, and in the bottom of my trench, to prevent trees from making a path into my fortress.
Soon a vile force of darkness arrived.  Ten goblins.  Disappointed, and not yet having a military, I simply closed the drawbridges.  The ten goblins hung out near my fortress murdering humans who came to visit the tavern.

But then, a bronze collosus came!  It fought with the goblins.  They all ended up dead.  The description of collosus only told me that it was a bronze statue intent on mayhem.  Having nothing better to do, I put the collosus on follow and watched it run around.  Several times it climbed up into the trees and wandered around.  But a couple of times, a had a weird bug on my screen that made no sense.  It was almost like the collosus had jumped over my entire fortress, a distance of about 75 units.   Then I took some time off from watching the collosus to work some more on a hospital.  While I was down in the fortress, setting up traction benches, I suddenly got a message that a farmer had been found dead!

Jumping up to the surface, that bronze collosus was inside my walls!  Thankfully, when the goblins had shown up I'd recruited ten dwarfs into a military, and told them to train out in the sun so that they would at least get over the vomit.  Amazingly, the military defeated the collosus while I wasn't looking!

I was a bit stumped as to how it got inside though.  Maybe it climbed?  I had no idea.  I did a d-b-c to recover all the free goblinite the Colossus had left me, and to hopefully allow the collosus corpse to be taken to the refuse pile.

But it didn't leave a corpse.  It left a statue, which I now owned.  A statue of....a giant monarch butterfly.  It weighs 495 of whatever units dwarves weigh things in.   It hadn't been climbing around in the trees, it was flying.  And those weird visual glitches where it looked like it jumped over my fortress were mostly exactly that...

I thought my wall was perfect.  I knew if a dragon came that I was doomed.  But, I've only ever seen one dragon, and I can retire a fortress pretty quickly if a second one ever comes. 

Obviously I need to make a roof of floor grates, right? 

I haven't had time to play for a long time.  Since 42.03 came out.  I downloaded the latest version, made a world, and saw a piece of magma in the frozen ice, so I did a 1x1 embark there.  It was a poor choice.  The magma took up most of my embark, and for some reason my miner climbed to the rim and couldn't get back down.  So I told him to channel out the entire rim.  Magma poured down on everything, and my fortress was lost.  So I decided to try the reclaim option, since I never had.  I went back to that fort to see what the magma had done.  It appears nothing happened.  The rim was still gone, but magma was no longer cascading out.  It was just pooled up there.  So I abandoned it.

But when I had tried to reclaim it I noticed there were lots of things to reclaim that weren't mine.  So I reclaimed again.  My embark had a giant building, with a dwarf living in it (and an @ sign character model).  There was a shaft down that lead to something.  I saw a room filled with armor down there, so I designated a food stockpile next to it to force dwarves down to it.  I found more dwarves.  A baron, a baroness, a queen consort, a baroness consort, three human guests, and three magma crabs.

What?

What have I found here?

My king likes the sight of The Pristine Luxury.  It's the last item, after the mink men for their long bodies.

I can't figure out what The Pristine Luxury is though.  Neither "pristine" nor "luxury" find it when I search all the findable strings in legends.