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Construction isn't very hard, you just have to be able to visualize what you're trying to make a bit, and micromanage for ages. I mean, sure, if you aren't careful, there'll be the odd construction accident, but dwarves are essentially expendable.

Visualizing something in my mind isn't an issue. However.. removing grass/ground and setting up workshops and having my adventurers be able to do jobs too is an issue.

I'm a bit amazed though how fast my superdwarfs with DFtool hackery are able to mine and woodcut plus fort mode is the only place I've found where I can use DFtool to crank up my adventurers abilities to 5000.

I check via Dfhack and adventurers don't fall in love now.
don't fall into the same trap I did for 3+ months.
I probably should see if  that was hard coded into the game or can be raw edited by making the race occupation 100 to 0 split just to be super sure.

Heh, that's probably because 'romance (gender)' and 'marry (gender)' are all unchecked on them. I know this because I used DFtool in the second test fort mode.

One advantage of custom world generation, the amount of embark points is also an option you can tweak there.

And maybe, you can also scare him off and you'll get the lordship as soon as he's out of the building. Failing that? Mug, shoggoth slime or whatever toxic crap you can get in your mod of choice, give it to him. X3

Good thing DFtool allows more embark points but still about a week's worth of fiddling, point is I have played Timber and Stone a bit and even with cheats and resources at my disposal I got bored after having to wait too long for the bastards builders to start building the floor of a castle and then having to slog with clicking and watching and.. waiting, too much waiting even with sped up time and no body to possess so I could build the damn thing myself! So yeah, I lost interest and rage quit the game, haven't played since.

Back on what I did with the lord: Went the easiest route so I took the save where I already murdered him and got pretty much everything in order in the area. The civ seems to be a warmongering one anyway going by the the dances and music, so it isn't far-fetched to think the lord wanted my main adventurer to do something she didn't want to do (like wage war on other peaceful civs or something) but kept it secret for a long while. Whatever the case was, he's now dead for his own stubbornness and secret warmongering and wasting my time by not giving up his place of rule which I only needed as a house of my own. Takes some serious courage or stupidity to say no to someone literally bigger and superior from him.. especially when there are two of such beings there in front of him with menacing muscles and advanced mutant skeletal structure and gruesome weapons in their hands.

Should some of those stubborn farmers in the village who's values just can't be changed start being a problem. I'm gonna off them too.

EDIT: Okay, woah. Kothir just became lord of the place I claimed after me sleeping on the throne for a bit.. what!? That's... actually what I originally had in mind with swapping the human lord with a minothar. Ah! of course the previous lord's group name became vacant for a lord.

It might be possible to retire them in a retired fortress, but I'm unsure how companions are handled. :V

Wish the dang fort mode had a creative mode cheat as I've got no patience or the will to waste my time with something I don't even enjoy (plus the extra week of learning curve dealing with dorfs, no thanks) and yeah I intend to find out if companions fall in love or not, if not then I must cancel the companion agreement and then retired both to the same place.

Edit: ARGH!! That's it quit trying it in fortress mode. It be so much easier with a creative mode or some sort of a reaction to make someone your lover/spouse or better yet: Dialog option in adventure mode. Meanwhile I guess I'll just have to play pretend as frigging usual and I hate it.

Edit2: Well.. since I can't build a fort of my own in short time I'm gonna pull a nasty one on the local lord and remove him. I need a fucking place of my own to store my stuff and he's in the way.

Actually, at least in adventure mode when waiting I'm still possessing the body of my adventurer and thus it won't feel like I'm some sort of bodyless entity as I can move and hack off anyone's head if I get too frustrated.

Well you can't have everything can you. 

I loathe it to the point of depression and rage.

Slate is a real-life, and also quite dwarfy, stone. Slade is the Fun stuff that demons turn into glorious phallic symbols.

Ahh, wasn't aware of that (or the actual rock's name).

50 Shades of Slate

Uh, I'm sure it's 'Slade' but besides that. Sounds like something those demons in their dark fortresses would be reading to beat the boredom.