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« on: July 11, 2015, 11:50:48 am »
Ordinary dwarves are frustrating little beards. They wander around going to parties, hanging out at the wagon, mass-fighting kea, and generally being lousy at doing what I want them to do. If they do finally go perform some task I want done, they are slow about it, and keep stopping to drink.
So, foolishly thinking I'd be improving my dwarves, I tried out the cheat for making all of them legendary in every skill. At least, I though, when they did bother to do something I wanted, they would be good at it.
I chose an embark, 2 picks, one axe, some food and alcohol. And seven dwarves who were simply perfect at everything they do.
I designated some trees to be cut down, some underground areas to be mined out, some workshops to be built, and I gleefully hit pause, certain that my super-dwarves would get something done sooner than later.
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It turns out that dwarves who are legendary at everything are retired. And just like real retired people, dwarves go fishing. All seven of them leapt out of the wagon and ran to the river where they fished. No one cut trees. No one dug the fortress. No one built any workshops. All seven of them simply fished and did nothing else.
You just can't win against the dwarves.
