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Very old fort?

Hmm, as an added safegaurd you could add in a "piping" level full of water below a level of the workshop with a well, and a single tile of farm on muddied stone where that craftsdwarf can farm a single plump helmet in case of emergancies.

I like it.  

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Even better!

The terrarrium need not contain only one dwarf! You could create craftsman "clusters" that consist of one dwarf each who work with stone, wood, leather, bone, metal, and gems. (reducing the number of dwarves depending on the needs of your fort, obviously) This could save you on micromanaging food and alcohol to groups (however, the supplies stockpile would need to be slightly bigger to accomidate multiple dwarves.) Indeed, while your dwarves are not busy this will have the added effect of improving their mood (friends, lovers, and eventually children), and since they are totally protected against invaders also provides a fail-safe should your fortress military fall.

I'm going to try this!

[ June 08, 2008: Message edited by: Jamini ]

Longest Running Fortress: 9 Years
Highest Population: 110 souls
Longest time with economy: 5 minutes
Most dwarves killed in a skeletal whale attack: 52
Lowest fortress population (Excluding single-dwarf challenges and "procreation" fortresses.): 1 (Ogres move fast 0.0)
Shortest game: 5 minutes (x4 Chasm and a cave, and my wagon started on the other end than my dwarves.
Shortest Dwarf Survival Time: 10seconds (Latest fort, started on a stream. My miner started directly next to the water and immdiatly had his arm broken by the carp and dragged underwater. Fortunatly, he didn't even have time to get his pick.)
Tallest Tower: 20 z-levels.
Furthest fall: 25 z-levels.
Most Elephant Deaths: 5
Most Elephant Kills: 7
Most observed monsters killed by carp: 12
Most Legendary Dwarf: 4 (Miner, Bookeeper, Engraver, Mason)
Most Childeren Born: 5
Most Childeren Born to a single family: 3
Total HFS found: two
Total HFS played with: three

[ April 03, 2008: Message edited by: Jamini ]

oooh! I didn't notice you had so many captive goblins!

Instead of statues, make them masterwork metallic (gold/steel/platinum/aluminum) decorated cages and put a goblin in each one. Let their screams try to warn off any goblins who are foolish to siege your tower! What is worse than abusing the bodies of the dead, then using the living as decorations?

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Originally posted by Wood Gnome:
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now that i think about it, this would probably be an immoral way to dig through aquifers, if i wanted to put them back into the game (i hate drowning)    

Aquifers are a source of so much! Infinate water, infinate food (fish, farms, fishfarms), comfort, a use for machines, Architecture skill, training (screw pump up your muscles!), and water sources for injured dwarves. (A well placed over a saltwater aquifer can be safely used to care for injured dwarves in the current version.)

Granted, they can be a bitch to get though if your on a map that does not freeze. (My current fort had a conglomerate layer, meaning two-z-levels of aquifer. I spent over a year making a 5 tile wide breach in it. And I think I'll have to do it again in order to have a proper rope-reed farm near the rest of my planned fortress), but seriously aquifers are awesome. Once you know how to handle them piercing one becomes a non-issue.

Besides, multi-layer aquifers make the coolest dwarf(kobold)-made waterfalls.

I present the world's smallest megabeast: the pixie mage.

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[Tile:94]
[BABY:2]
[BIOME:ANY_GRASSLAND]
[BIOME:ANY_TEMPERATE_FOREST]
[BIOME:ANY_TROPICAL_FOREST]
[BIOME:ANY_WETLAND]
[BIOME:GLACIER]
[BIOME:TUNDRA]
[BLOODTYPE:B]
[BODY:HUMANOID:2EYES:2EARS:NOSE:2LUNGS:HEART:GUTS:ORGANS:HUMANOID_JOINTS:THROAT:
NECK:SPINE:BRAIN:5FINGERS:6TOES:MOUTH:2WINGS]
[BOILING_POINT:10200]
[BONE_BOILING_POINT:10250]
[BONE_COLDDAM_POINT:8978]
[BONE_FIXED_TEMP:9900]
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[BONE_SPEC_HEAT:409]
[BUTCHERABLE_NONSTANDARD]
[CAN_SPEAK]
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[CHILD:6]
[COLOR:1:1:1]
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[IGNITE_POINT: 10180]
[COLDDAM_POINT:9300]
[CURIOUSBEAST_ITEM]
[DAMNBLOCK:50]
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[VESPERTINE]
[DRAGONFIREBREATH]
[FIREIMMUNE_SUPER]
[EQUIPS]
[EXTRACT   :pixie dust:1:1:0]
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[EXTRACT_IGNIGHT_POINT:10087]
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[GLOWCOLOR:2:1:1]
[GNAWER]
[GOOD]
[GRASSTRAMPLE:0]
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[LEATHER_IGNITE_POINT:10100]
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[LEATHER_MELTING_POINT:10080]
[LEATHER_COLDDAM_POINT:9280]
[LIGHT_GEN]
[LITTERSIZE:1:6]
[LOCKPICKER]
[MISCHIEVOUS]
[MODVALUE:1]
[MULTIPLE_LITTER_RARE]
[NAME   :pixie mage;pixie magi;pixan]
[NOSMELLYROT]
[PARALYZEIMMUNE]
[PENETRATEPOWER:50]
[PET_EXOTIC]
[POPULATION_NUMBER:40:50]
[PREFSTRING:mischief]
[PREFSTRING:beutiful wings]
[PREFSTRING:magical nature]
[SAVAGE]
[SIZE:1]
[SPEECH:elf.txt]
[SPEED:450]
[SWIMS_LEARNED]
[SWIM_SPEED:1200]
[TRIGGERABLE_GROUP:2:20]
[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:MOUTH:bite:bites:1:2:GORE]
[SPECIALATTACK_INJECT_EXTRACT:5:5]
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[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTOKEN:RIGHT_HAND:reach forward with a flaming spell:
reaches forward with a flaming spell:4:18:HEAT]
[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTOKEN:LEFT_HAND:reach forward with a freezing spell:
reaches forward with a freezing spell:4:18:COLD]
[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:THOUGHT:cast a burning spell:casts a burning spell:2:25:BURN]
[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:THOUGHT:telekinetically throw debries at:telekinetically throws debries at:5:10:PIERCE]
[ATTACK:MAIN:BYTYPE:THOUGHT:crush with a magic spell:crushes with a magic spell:9:11:BLUDGEON]
[ATTACKFLAG_CANLATCH]
[PERSONALITY:ACTIVITY_LEVEL:40:76:100]
[PERSONALITY:ADVENTUROUSNESS:40:75:100]
[PERSONALITY:ASSERTIVENESS:0:39:65]
[PERSONALITY:CHEERFULLNESS:25:75:100]
[PERSONALITY:EXCITEMENT_SEEKING:40:60:100]
[PERSONALITY:IMAGINATION:60:75:100]
[PERSONALITY:ORDERLINESS:0:45:65]
[PERSONALITY:CAUTIOUSNESS:0:5:40]
 

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I'm pretty shure the damblock and damage on it may need to be upped a bit in order to actually deal damage. However, I still want it to take slightly more damage than most megabeasts in exchange for the speed (450!) and specials (Dragonbreath and a permanent stun extract) it has.

[ May 08, 2008: Message edited by: Jamini ]