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Just started a ‘tiny fort’. Got the pop cap screwed down to 7. I’ve also set the fps to 50 while I get the fort dug out and everything running nicely.
The plan is then to dial the fps back up and hope for some families to start germinating.

I’ve put all of them into an axe/shield squad, but I’m wondering if it would be better to have a mix of weapons to cover a broader spectrum? Maybe Axe/Spear/Sword/Hammer/Axe and a second squad with two crossbows? Or with such a small population maybe I should just burrow down!

Olorin Blowhole samples the latest batch of Gutter Cruor.

Having been a re-enactor (historical, not larp!) I can testify that armour is heavy! A helmet, mail hauberk and leather gloves is about as much as I want to wear without it seriously affecting my speed and endurance.
A wooden round-shield is either heavy OR flimsy. Make a strong one and it will last, but slows you down. Or build a lighter shield and it’s far more liable to split under a powerful blow. I believe (historically) lighter shields were the norm and a warrior would have several shields nearby in case of breakages.

In game I tend to use mail, helm, breastplate, shield (usually wood) and weapon and only go for more if I’m in an ore rich environment.

One of my dwarfs decided to take his frustrations out on a compatriot, and then used the bones to create a dwarf-bone chest. It was a decidedly eerie object and I didn’t know what to do with it. Put it on display in the tavern? In the tombs? Sell it to an unsuspecting elf?!
I can’t remember what became of it, but it still sticks in my memory.

I usually just make a mini fort over a few hours, get a population of about 30 and then get distracted and then decide I should have designed the fort the other way around, so start a new fort. As nauseum.

What I want to do is map it all out on paper and build Kazad-Dum so I can track the generation of dwarf-kin living in an eternal utopia.

Also modding the raws to include bits and bobs from fantasy books, and getting upset that the game has updated coz I don’t remember which mods I’ve modded and I want to use the latest version.

I have a dwarf Warhammer army, fully fleshed out with names and history, I’ve read all the discworld books, Felix & Gotrek novels and any other dwarfy book I can find.
Dwarf fortress allows me to watch each little miner, gemcutter and barrel-carver going about their daily business. I can see each little home they’ve built for themselves and the friends they choose.
Books paint with a very broad brush sometimes, and DF allows me to perceive the inner workings of the kingdoms under the mountain!

Made from pets that were cute.

Not sure if I posted this at the time I drew it, but found it again and thought I’d repost;

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