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currently i have "freindlyworks", and my government is called "the flickering treaty", which i like a lot. like a little candle flame flickering in the dark.

a long time back i had a dwarf parent civ called "the tomb of adventuring". as much as the weird random names are interesting, its great when it actually throws something relevant and cool at you.

oh. you tamed gorillas. i now imagine chainmail wearing spiked knuckled war gorillas courtesy of the crazy dungeon master. this game has so much interesting potential.

that ruler picture is so great.

.. if dwarf fortress 1.0 is like people are saying it is, does that mean that when i want to format my harddrive the UN will come crashing into my house to charge me with attempted genocide against the sentient creatures that exist only in the world in my DF folder?

the chrysopraise is just a large gem. all artifacts get one decoration in the base material, so it gets one decoration in chrysopraise. ive gotten 2 gem artifacts so far in my current fort, a perfect saphire and a saphire ring. the ring was called "the rage of killers" and it menaces with spikes of saphire. ive hidden it away in an iron bin in my kings tomb so i can come back and get it as an adventurer and punch people in the face while wearing it. talented gemcutters will sometimes make large gems or gem crafts as a byproduct, which can give you neat things like solid black diamond cups.

as for artifacts, i have a lay pewter shoe which has a picture of a goblin being killed by a sasquatch. just one lay pewter shoe, ive forgotten which workshop it came from.

my first artifact  in my current fort was a steel anvil with bands of steel. otherwise unremarkable, its name however is is great, " whirledbrides the valley of haunting". one of the few times ive gotten a nice name for an artifact.

there is also a turtle shell toy axe called "fearbeatles". it has lots of spikes and a picture of the dwarf who made it coming to live in my fort. i like to imagine a small dwarf child running around mashing large roaches with this.

my most recent artifact had me stopping a miner from making an artifact weapon rack out of bituminous coal using forbid. the silly little guy claimed a workshop right in my raw adamantium stockpile room, so i got him using that instead. it ended up with the name "the ominous joy". now if only i could put my adamantium artifact axe in it.

finally, i have a tonne of other interesting artifacts with extremely funny names, but the crown of all of them was in my second ever fort when i got an aluminium spear. not that awesome, but a few years later i got a cave spider silk thong. with an image of the aluminium spear on it. in raw aluminium. that was incredible.

in the past this would not have worked. i think it was around 3 versions ago pumps suddenly got a whole lot more powerful suction, i remember clearly because transferring my save to the newer version broke my fortwide water system.

reasons were the pumps were drawing a lot more water a lot faster, so there was no longer enough water flowing into the system to make it work, and because the water level was consistently lower all my underground resovoirs suddenly filled up with tower caps.

this is pretty funny to see this going as a tower without any kind of containment. looks like i no longer need to be careful when i make my pumping towers now, seems like they will go without being sealed up.

haha, that wagon is hilarious. as is your account of the human traders. my caravans have allways been universally boring, even when ambushed the guards just kill everything.

did you examine the wagon? wagons are considered creatures by DF, and sometimes they actually get their own legends entries for doing mighty deeds. it might have had really high agility or something, although the idea of wagons with stats is a little mind boggling.

this is really good. only time i ever tried an aquifer map was on a seaside. i decided to use pumps to get to the stone, and despite my lack of stone mechanisms managed to accidentally created a perpetual motion pumping machine that flooded my entire fortress out. without access to my booze stockpile all my dwarves suddenly started dropping dead from thirst, as i hadnt realized seaside aquifers are salty. the last few survivors went melancholy and were wiped out by unicorns.

so its great to have an easy to understand manual for getting through to do some mining.

also, on a map without enough soil layers, could you use constructed walls made from the stone blocks you get from the caravans to the same effect as the soil squares you dropped in your example?

do the creatures come out tamed though?

if they dont, that is awesome.

can you smelt megabeasts? what about demons? or fish?

.... can you smelt wizards?