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I got... "Zan Oslanustuth." A Sandstone mug worth 7200.

The maker's name is... Zan Oslanustuth. Narcissist, much?

My hunter overexerted herself, and is HURTING. Her upper spine is bruised, and her right lung and upper body are mangled.

Naturally she has to do this near where the camels spawn. The problem is, she's dropped down and is not getting up, leading to cancellation to cancellation of rest activities. And my dwarves aren't rescuing her. Is she pretty much screwed, or do I just need to send in a squad to rescue her? It'd be good experience for my 20-some-odd soldiers.

After noticing that my cook was trying to fry up some booze roasts and had left to grab a barrel, I ordered the kitchen to not cook booze.

The result? A -roast-. It weighs one unit and is worth absolutely nothing.

I'm using a near-vanilla (I modded in a new trap and added bows to dwarves, but otherwise did not touch the files.), and the only thing that I can think of that would cause this was the ordering of the "don't cook these ingredients" while those ingredients were at the kitchen.

Image available at request. If the laptop didn't screw me over.

Uh, can someone spell out the numbering system for me? I'm having trouble understanding it.


Nevertheless...

1) P. Miner, N. Organizer, N. Judge of Intent, N. Appraiser, N. Negotiator, N. Persuader
2) P. Woodcutter, P. Carpenter
3) P. Mason, P. Stone Crafter
4) P. Mechanic, P. Building Designer,
5) P. Armorer, S. Weaponsmith, N. ?
6) P. Grower, P. Herbalist
7) P. Cook, P. Brewer


1's INTENDED to be my primary trader (he often just ignores the depot ), while 5 gets a skill based on the biome. He has an extra level in armorer so that any fey moods hit him, he should make a legendary armor.

I'll sometimes trade the woodcutting for glassmaking or hunting, depending on the biome. I usually give stone crafting to my mason so that he can make crafts out of excess stone, and it makes it worth my while. I'm thinking about dumping that and giving him bone carving instead, though.


When that first immigration wave hits, I'll assign about 1/5th of the peasants to my military or hunting and then start focusing on crafting or making crossbows, sparing a couple guys to smelt ore and one guy to become bookkeeper.

I'm 19 myself, and the strategy genre is like a toy story to a two year old to me.

I think I was reading something about Majesty when I saw something about Dwarf Fortress. I take a look, go "This looks interesting..." and download it. I couldn't get a single world to form. Then I just generated a world while browsing, and I got the world I wanted. After that, I was hooked.

Of course, I just showed it to my nine-year-old nephew. He thinks it's "boring," and that he hates "needing imagination." Figures.

I started up a 4x4 fort on a volcanic area. Now, normally this isn't really anything to write home about, but the biggest issue? No water or aquifer, HOT biome. Not exactly the most brilliant move I've ever done.

Then the game puts the wagon right next to the crater. Well, it's happened before, nothing to worry about, right?

Then I decided to get fancy and to build my entrance on the OTHER side of the crater. Now I'm just begging for trouble, putting up a drawbridge across the crater without having ANY workshops or resource-gathering up and running.

Sure enough, a fire imp jumps up and throws a fireball at my armorer, missed, and hit the wagon. Still loaded down with booze. Uh-oh. And the armorer died, too.

The wagon catches on fire, and everything on it to boot. I managed to salvage some of the leather I brought with me to get a hunting society going, and I managed to salvage some food! ...Until a dwarf brought over a barrel with burning turtles in it. Which caught the barrel on fire. Which caught the entire food stockpile on fire. Which caught my woodworker on fire.

So, I have no food or seeds, no hydration, some leather, some pets, and five dwarves. And, the fire imps come back.

I just bum-rush the group. No losses. Until my miner tantrumed. Next to my mason. Down to four.

Oh, yeah, and my male cat is all but dead, and my cow has a broken spine. Just to make matters worse. But, my engineer, my farmers, and my miner all live.



Thankfully, we managed to get a quick industry built up, with a still and a carpenter's shop. We now have substinence. We can now survive until the caravan comes. Unless someone starts tantrumming again and throws someone into the volcano as a sacrifice to the volcano god.

And we're not even to summer yet.