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The dead walk! Or at least, one did.

I had settled next to a necromancer's tower and thought it would be a long time before any sort of siege. Turns out, I was wrong. Late fall, a single goblin bowman corpse comes to my fort and lays siege.

Turns out, the gate was set up wrong.

Frantically, I conscripted some random hunter hoping he would take care of it. He did. Sort of.

He charged the corpse, dodged an arrow, and tackled it, then began repeatedly punching it in the face. He was winning, and I was going to make him a militia member forever, and-

He fell unconscious. Crud.

The corpse began beating the fainted crossbowdwarf with it's bow, and killed him quickly. I sent another expendable, who died even faster, and then another. He also died.

Finally, I sent my entire fort out to kill the thing. They won, but a fishery worker was wounded in the process.

The four valiant defenders have been placed in a tomb, and statues of them are being commissioned.

Three new migrants have been enlisted, and are training in the new and hastily built barracks.

Our miners are franticly searching for any metal to make battle implements with.

We might have lost once. But we will win next time. We will rebuild, we will rest, we will grow strong. The necromancer may have won his first fight, but let's see how he handles his next.

So, I'm having fun so far, and I am beginning to build my fortress in the caverns. I have one problem though: Jobs. I have no idea who to assign what, how many workers I need for each, and what I should do about my military situation (The current squad consists of a bunch of elderly ladies and two teenagers, completely untrained).

So, I need to know how many people I need for each of these jobs to get them done well:
Mining
Carpentry/woodworking
Masonry/stone working
Fishing
Farming/Plant processing/Brewing/Cooking
Woodcutting
Anything else I need that I didn't think of.

(TL;DR: How many dwarfs should I assign to the basic necessary industries so I can get them taken care of and work on other more complex industries?)

So for this fort, I want to start focusing on on some new things, like visitors, traps, military management, attracting a monarch...

But I keep having to micromanage the more mundane tasks, like food and drink industry, or the plump helmet farms. I also have to micromanage the dwarves labors, to make sure everything is running along smoothly. Is there a way to automate this stuff? I have DFHack installed, if that helps.

I started a new fort, and after only receiving the two hard coded migrant waves and not getting the liaison, I checked in legends and found out that the civ was dead. My goal for that game was to become to mountain home, so I'm contemplating restarting. Should I?

I don't know what to do now that I've finished fort 1 (Or rather, lost, but you get the idea.). So I was wondering if anyone here had ideas for what to do in fortress mode?

As of now, getting "cursed" is never bad, in fact, it's quite good.

My proposal is that the effects be changed so that there's a chance of something other than becoming a were beast or vampire. This curse would be affected by the deity's spheres, for example the patron deity of deformity might cripple you, or break one of your arms. This is just one idea, there could be many others.

Hi, new player here.

I love every part of DF, and don't want to change it. I like the ASCII graphics, I like playing as just dwarfs, I like keyboard only controls.

There is one thing I want however.

I would like Dwarf Therapist, and just Dwarf Therapist installed. I don't wanna download a pack of mods and utilities I will never use (Low storage space on my laptop).

How do I do that?