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Do you guys have any unusual punishments and rewards that you aflict/bestow upon your dwarves?

Like if I hold a foot-race what could the winner get? Any ideas for fortress games/rituals that could give reason for rewards or punishments?

I'm considering a caste system or social credit system where they move up and down, and toooo down is bad, and up gets progressively rewarded. I need ideas to help slot them over time. Or ideas for my system.

In Roman history you could serve as a legionary to get land and rights I think, after your many years are up. Have any of you done something like that?

In star wars the spice mines of Kessel are a capitalistic look I could model maybe... Massive slave colony, guards.


TLDR: share your creative ideas for punishments, rewards, class distinctions, and competitions or... Opportunities for them to go up/down.

I need this infected scholar to keep learning and writing. If he is in a 1x1 square in the library (fortified) will he take part in discussions on topics? And will he stay sane and live? Thanks, hoping this dwarf (my favorite) can accomplish great things eventually. (I'd like books written by my were elk dwarf).

Hello! I wanted to say hi to you all and express my appreciation for this community. I have some trouble with anxiety irl and I find this forum and the DF community at large to be just so wholesome and good for me that I had to drop in and let you know.

You guys are awesome. Toady, you're the man. I am so excited about the directions you take the game in. When I was a young kid, dreaming of imaginary worlds and games with my younger brother, we wished for games created by people with a vision for something great, and I didn't realize I'd find something like what we talked about, actually realized. It may sound odd but my life is better because you made dwarf fortress. Don't have much money at the moment but someday soon I'll be trying to help you out!

And community, whoever you odd and hilarious people are, thank you. I know few things that make me laugh out loud as often as reading some of the things you guys write. You know what would be really awesome? Maybe someday there will be a dwarf fortress convention or something and I'll get to meet some of you oddballs =)

Thanks again you guys are awesome

Greetings fellow dorfs. Soon after striking the earth we angered our neighboring elves. We are waging a war against the elves and are in need of a deeper understanding of offensive warfare. General urist was incompetent (rip) and the war outlook is grim, unless our new commander does better. Our knowledge is lacking unfortunately.

Can a superior leader shed some light and help us become less incompetent?

How impactful are these relative to eachother?

• Tactics
• # of dworfs in squad
• # of squads on mission
• quality of armor
• quality of weapons
• strength of wardog relative to elfs/dorfs

Unfortunately getting full adamantine legendary + 5 dworfs is in the distant future and we being generally impoverished must win with some squads wearing whatever pots and pans are around the fort.

Somewhat related to our incompetent brawling is our equally incompetent thieving:
Is a flock of dworfs more sneaky than a lone dworf?
Why does the sneakiest bastard in the fort always chose to man-fight packs of trolls?

In closing we are angry at the neighboring elven civilization but it seems we are generally incompetent as well. Any general tips on mitigating losses and having regular success (with ragtag but budding military/rangers) is appreciated.

-âbirtobul, lawful/evil overseer

P.S. Once I figure out hospitals I hope to make a batallion of legendary crutch walkers. What weapon should they use and does the crutch mean no shield? Also if dwarfs fall down z level chutes do they break legs or break everything equally?