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Maybe I can make a huge H, and make it look like my fortress has a Helopad... but that would be boring

I know... A dwarf laying prone on a bed of shrooms and booze reaching out to touch fingers with a Giant toad in the sky surrounded by flying tail-less kittens.

You need 2 miners for my fortress design. Also i could never understand people wanting to buy wood, can't you just chop down some trees (apart from a map with no trees ofc). It's a bit of a waste of money.

A. Wood is relatively cheap, and having enough for barrels, bins, beds, charcoal(3x so if you don't have magma) is critical to your fort's ability to function early in the game. Also

The only points I spend on Dwarve skills are a point of Appraiser on who will end up being my trader.

I then concentrate on a wide variety of meats, seeds(15 each type I can), some turtles and silk incase of an early mood, Tons of wood.

I generally sell one my axes For even more supplies.

When I arrive I set up 2 dwarves with mining(assuming I kept both picks).  One of the miners I transition to stone crafting once I'm ready to start up crafting.

One dwarf responsible for carpentry, wood cutting, bow crafting is usually sufficient(especially after I train my trading to pull in 30+ logs a trip and have enough metal production to make all the metal barrels/chests I need).  If I'm going somewhere heavily forrested a stand alone Wood Cutter may be worthwhile.

Quote from: got_milk on July 14, 2009, 07:07:49 pm

well its pretty hard to diminish fortress-wealth without crippling your gameplay. I just want to play my game without worrying about my population beeing trippled all of a sudden

That's part of this game.  You want a different game, let us know what you find. 

There's always capping your population... although I once got hit by two goblin ambushes with only 15 dwarves(It was a rough embark, lost two dwarves shortly after embark, because the ice they were crossing melted and they drowned while trying to unload the wagon.)

You may have stumbled apon a practacle use for a dwarf-puter.

Design a system of levers that need to be pulled in a specific manner in order to open the entrance.

For bonus points setup some pressure plates to magma flood the fort if a non standard entrance(tunneled/deconstructed wall) is used.

But why would the Russian omit the "it" and not the "is"? Russian does not have the verb "to be".
/pedant

Really??? I have a English/Russian dictionary, that is interestingly enough organized based on frequency of use. Anyway "be" is the most used word in Russian(well the Russian word for "be")

Just seems like if something is forbidable than k-f ought to work.

Edit:
or that live animals shouldn't be forbidable in the first place. 

Anyway It strikes me that something isn't quite by design here.