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in the summer of 253 i suffer my first artifact theft. Much too late to stop it or learn anything about it. Okay, no biggie. I turn the hall where the artifacts are displayed into a meeting room (more witnesses), finally appoint a captain of the guard, and take precautions.

Soon after, i get a funny feeling. Check the artifact hall. One of the artifacts, a chert ring, is missing but not reported gone, despite a witness around (not a fortress dwarf).... huh.

Its not been long gone though, i immediately check stocks and find it in the hands of one of the marksdwarves. I send his squad to the artifact hall. He drops the ring. Its discovered out of place and i get the announcement. Okidoke, we now have a crime, lets drag him in for questioning.

It seems like the one witness travels along with the marksdwarf and the captain of the guard for questioning... I guess he witnessed the crime but before the announcement there was no crime to witness. he snitches on the marksdwarf then and there. and the marksdwarf fesses up. He also gives me his bosses name, a necromancer guest who's been abusing my hospitality.

So we drag him in for questioning. Like all mob bosses he's tight lipped. Don't care. Convict 'em both. Prison for the marksdwarf and a beating for the necromancer. Some info gained and justice, after a fashion, is served. Really liking this new theft mechanic

Only, when his sentence is up, freshly released marksdwarf immediately goes to steal ring again! Whats worse is that when he drops it, its just put back in its place like a new crime hasn't happened! I can't punish the duo again for the same crime!

I tried just straight up sending the marksdwarf murdering the necromancer, fitting revenge. Apparently he was part of our civilisation so that didn't go too well. Savescummed a bit and now i've got him locked in a temple while i drop a blind cave ogre on him. Hoping i won't have to do the same to the wayward marksdwarf

How do you guys generally end a plot for good?

animal caretakers are my personal form of garbagedwarf. They flock here in their masses, demand a fancy guildhall. Half of them are women with children, stress prone, and worst of all, most of them are incredibly polytheistic with many and frequent worship needs, so i can't draft them.

Building a Complex of Small Gods so that dwarves can worship their individual gods, rather than worship at the Pantheon temple. Hoping that this will speed up the worship fulfilment process and mitigate the drain on my fort these dwarves are. Might have to exile the worst offenders.

Though you can form military squad with uniform of civilian cloths with "replace" and "exact match".
Then you station the squad for 1 month and issue solved.

Wouldn't you get clashes between civilian (miner and woodcutter) and military uniforms that way?
Furthermore, i've never had much success getting dwarves to replace xwornx uniforms (certainly in old fortresses before armor could xwearx, military dwarves with leather cloaks would wear them until they rot, even with replacement cloaks in the pile). I imagine with armor xwearx this has become more of a problem. Do dwarves now replace xwornx armor?

i've used the link system before, and its mostly successful (barring dwarves just dropping their clothing on the pile) although you need to get rid of the stuff in the worn clothing stockpile quickly if you want the manager system to carry on producing fresh clothing

Old player, returning to the game after 42.05, I started a fortress and, as with all fortresses, immediately began setting up my pigtail powered clothing industry.

It wasn't till the 2nd year that a substantial amount of pigtail cloth was abundant, so i was expecting a big bottleneck, where some of the first fort members would be instantly claiming all new clothing. In practise though, i found that many dwarves were claiming new clothing regardless of whether their current clothing was worn or not (presumably satisfying aquisition needs)

This is a problem i seem to remember facing before but never really dealing with. I just had to hope that if enough clothing was created everyone would have enough for both replacing worn clothing and filling their cabinets with excess clothing. DFhack cleanowned helped, to some extent (usually causing a month long shutdown while we emptied the cabinets back into the common stockpile.)

Did anyone ever find a fix for this? some way of prioritising the replacement of worn clothing over aquisitions? is it less of an issue in newer versions?

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I remember my first fortress on 40.24

It was a mountainside with terrifying wilds around it. 6 of the first 7 were killed in the first spring by a giant undead wolverine. No immigrants made it to the rough perimeter till the next spring. Leaving 1 dwarf to bury his 6 friends.

I followed the story of that dwarf. That kind of thing can change a dwarf. He was slain by a were mammoth the next year, and his corpse got up and charged the traps gate. He would finally join his brothers in the crypt of the founding seven.

"Come on, you sons of elves, do you want to live forever?"

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Tbh I'm hoping for Urist Bond style intrigues. Plots to destroy the fort from within. Heists for the pride artifact adamantine axe. Coups with new factions created from dwarves you used to own...