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Carp - [5] - Don't mind them at all. Marksdwarves and Winter takes care of them.

Unicorns - [5] - I get them regularly. Fixed by conscripting entire immigrant waves.

Immigrants - [5] - Soldiers!

Goblin Ambush - [5] - Simple. Use the immigrants if the good dwarves die. It's amazingly easy and fast to train any profession up to Legendary level.

Kitten Ambush - [5] - Lock the butcher in a room full of traps, throw the kittens off a tower when he dies. Simple.

Lag - [5] - [SPEED:1] fixes that nicely. Also, I never play on anything bigger than 2x2. 4x1 wins it massively.

Goblin Siege - [5] - Don't make me laugh. I drop a bridge on them. That's not simply atom-smashing them, but CAVING THE BRIDGE ON THEM. Besides, the usual local wildlife deals with them in short order.

Fire - [5] - Sit back, laugh, and wait for the kittens to explode. [SEVERONBREAKS] is your friend. Whatever happens... happens. If it's a good fortress, I'll just lock the doors and watch the dwarves on fire die a slow and painful death. See: Goblin Ambush.

No Sieges - [5] - Don't mind as much. I always have a good megaproject to build. I can just dump the river into the fortress at any rate.


So, uh... Was this supposed to be hard?

It's tundra/glacier. The river is still there, only it's frozen over and not a major feature of the map.

Not a bug, just a neat little quirk.

3x3 burial chambers for the starting 7. An extra few tiles of space for the expedition leader. 3x3 rooms for any legendary dwarves or champions.

A few big communal rooms, with different-coloured coffins per room if I can afford them. Elite-level soldiers go into the red coffin room. Recruits and normal-level soldiers go into the white room. Everyone else goes into the normal, bigger coffin room.

Pets? I just throw them into the refuse chamber and let them rot.

I have a 15-dwarf army in my current fortress.

But the bad thing is that 13 of them are resting due to broken bones.

Maybe I shouldn't have given them those *Adamantine War Hammers*.

Throwing cats off of 100-meter towers just to see them explode, with the added bonus of not having them around draining resources.

Getting rid of immigrants by stuffing them into a room and letting them starve to death rather than expend resources like food and water on them.

Capturing sentient beings and putting them in a zoo to the enjoyment of your dwarves.

Inter-species racism by dumping a volcano on top of traders.

Training war dogs and loosing them on enemies and feeling no remorse afterwards, knowing that they take roughly an in-game year to train.

Throwing corpses into chasms simply because you don't want to deal with coffins and the making of tombs.

Killing various nobles by launching an enormous ballista bolt at them, and laughing at their flailing, severed body parts generated by the hammerer trying to save himself by putting his hands in front of him.

Good luck on your assignment!

This is exponential (Or at least logarithmic) development at its best.

You see, Toady just needed to take a year or three developing the base work. Once he got all the foundations started (animals, dwarves, jobs, HFS, 3D, world generation, the new Legends...) he can work on the "meat" of development.

It's simple. When you make a box, you don't smooth and carve the wood before you cut down and make logs/planks out of the tree, do you?

So now that he has time and has gotten through the hardest parts of the army arc (world genning, legends), you can see that he is implementing the features people have asked for, such as bug fixes, resizeable windows, fixing insane dwarven quirks, and assimilating many community tools (Prospector, Tweak, etc) into DF proper.

It takes months to make a house, but days to make it a home.

I think Toady is finishing up the construction work for this phase, so now he's furnishing it.

They do the cabinet dance because there's not enough cabinets. When the entire cabinet is full, and someone takes out one of their items, then the rest of the dwarves always try to put their spare items in there. You can either remove the cabinet, put it in a bedroom, or do what I do.

Dwarven Storage!

Make a medium-sized room, fill it with cabinets and coffers, and any extra items that the dwarves have, they can put in there.

Handy for bigger fortresses because dwarves seem to amass an amazing amount of crap in a few years.

I have no mods to the game aside from a few custom reactions and the aforementioned entity changing for the goblins.

It makes them ultra aggressive to everyone except the dwarves. I think it might be that they are so opposed that they ally together. It's the violent analogue of "So bad, it's good".

It could just be statistical averaging. I mean, 100 worlds without goblin warring has to be some sort of fluke, right?