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Blasting caps need work; I can't imagine the power of an item that causes a fire made easily. We just want to blow up all tiles around it. But not a fuck the world device--you need magma and Fun for that.

- Dwarves do something more meaningful on break than just stand around, such as wash off all that blood and vomit and mud they acquire.

- Different trap types, such as an actual trap door that acts like a lever, opens up; requires a building material and a mechanism.

- Party interaction toggle; can find out the reason for organizing a party and what is being done. Can also be applied to meetings. While it's sometimes obvious, it might be fun to see what they're going on about. (You know, to find out how they got to the topic of naming all the caveswallowmen).

- Capping job management queues for greater than 30 on certain types and generating a notice that it has been reduced to its cap if you ask for more.

- Display cases. Sort of a storage device for a prized item that can set up and assigned a specific item from the fortress. Can be made out of any existing material, built as a Container, but can be assigned an item once built. Possibilities can be raised to creating a new room: Museum. Might seem a little too much.

Naming conventions? I'm all for it. Taggable? Definitely. Init to turn it off? Absolutely.

But you know what this game really needs? Family trees anvils.

While salt deposits might be too much, I think we're forgetting one major source of Fun that doesn't happen in Dwarf Fortress: Sinkholes.

This game needs them. Have limestone? Have Fun as the sinkhole gives and sucks in half your fortress in debris, dust, and Fun.

.... which, seems appropriate. I'm scared of this whole concept and I wish you never made this. I FEAR.

11 year old fort. Last I checked, it was 11,000 or something of that sort. I collapsed some hills, so there might be more.

Damn that took me a long time to get running.

For Windows Vista, I can't run the game unless I'm running it under administrator. Try running Dwarf Therapist as administrator; it seemed to've stopped all my woes.

I had decided to fix it by running a water pipe up and pressurizing it using a series of tubes; in the process of channeling and constructing said device, I suffered another human siege, and for some reason, the orders "all dwarves remain indoors" was blithely ignored by them cramming themselves at the front doors. My marksmen decided it was time for sleep, and did so while the human mounted marksman slaughtered my people at the gates. In the end, I lost everyone. Had I been able to get everyone indoors, I could have locked the doors, raised the bridges, and had my archers pick out the invading force from their second-story fortifications quite easily.

I have a backup, but it almost feels like cheating. I attempted to reclaim the fort just to get back at the humans--but they register as "Friendly." This saddened me slightly. I might go to the backup, if I'm feeling plucky.

I had struck the earth, as the dwarves are oft to say, on a map that had steep hills, 50 tiles in diameter at its base, going up 10 or 11 z-levels. It was my mission to build up, so I did. After a year of digging towards the volcano, requiring a 90 degree angle, for my forging area in the basement of the Southern Tower, I lost a less useful dwarf. He was the sacrificial victim to get the magma flowing. His pet cat still brought to the security wall a dead lizard for his master, and continued to do so for years on end. I had put him in a cage, and I hope to set this cage next to his burial plot when the Eastern Tower's catacombs are complete.

I realized, as it was flowing, I needed a larger reservoir. I easily carved one out, but I had no time to take out any of the retaining walls save one. Five years passed, and less than half the reservoir has magma. I deconstructed the security wall and unlocked the diorite door blocking the site, and began to quickly remove the fortifications and walls. When the retaining wall was breached, a bit of magma touched the clothing of the brave deconstruction dwarf. He ran out and immediately sought shelter in his wounds. A carpenter walked by. He caught on fire too. Luckily, I only lost those two.

I immediately locked the door and rebuilt a new security wall. The magma reservoir is still taking too long to fill. I'm beginning to suspect I should be pumping this stuff in rather than relying on the flow of magma.

The human caravans have stopped. Instead, they had sent me the surprise of a siege attempt. I had already lost my champion wrestlers to goblin crossbowmen. Two green marksdwarves and an axedwarf (the sworddwarf is still recovering from a broken arm that has taken over a year to heal) took to their posts and approached the campfire. Within 10 tiles, the humans responded. The axedwarf has eight kills, while both marksdwarve share a paltry four kills each. I hope for an emissary soon.

Kobolds are getting more restless. They see the gold in the hills. They see the gems. They see the piles of artifacts the small clutch of dwarves have carved. At no time had I any sense to build complicated weapon traps or mazes that offer my fortress for three easy payments of 29.99 each, but only accept blood and pain as payment. I'm suspecting they might try another ambush soon, but they've never stolen an item from me before. Three winters ago, the dwarves threw a party. In this party, they got to the topic of the caveswallowmen. All the caveswallowmen now have names. They seem to leave the dwarves alone, even when we're up in the chasm snagging cave spider webs.

I'm awaiting a replenishing stock of dwarves. My population has dropped from its height of 34 to 28. The dwarves are getting restless, and while booze and food is plenty, the stocks aren't. They haven't thrown a party in quite some time. Our wealth amasses, but their happy thoughts are dwindling.

I'm not sure I have many years left, before something stronger eyes my fort and I'm ill prepared for it, or the dwarves themselves go crazy in these hills and try for each others' throats. Either way, this WILL be fun.