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Iirc, toady discussed the difference between necromancy and mummies.

Mummies "properly" reanimate the original soul, iirc. (Eg, mummy reanimating a dead mummy, will result in two fully functional mummies. But a necromancer reanimating a dead necromancer will just have a shuffling corpse. This could probably be tweaked in the raws.....)

Personally, I want the ncromancer. I want there to be *some* (small) hope of clearing the new tower of the black death by the adventure mode thrill seekers who would challenge the site. Filling it with mummies would be a cheapshot, even if mummies would be more in character for the place.

The story on the previous page was pretty awesome, but not quite the theme I was going for. Think more 'i am hopeless, and will never amount to anything! My only hope left is to join my ancestors in death!" Type mentality, with a hermetic order of tomb builders who are all too willing and able to entomb them.

(Research, for instance, "living buddhas" from japan. A now illegal practice....)




What the writer put down would be more in line for what happens... AFTER...

As for getting necros to show up.... that's science in and of itself. I expect they will prefer evil and sinister surroundings. I think an obsidian tower rising from a rank swamp with sinister/evil/haunted surroundings would be the ideal place for this place.

I also had a curious idea on just how to build it.  There should be 3 interconnected towers arranged in a triangle. One for animals, pets, and FBs(is possible). One for dwarves, and one for all other visiting sentients.

The site should operate under the premise that "all beings who come to this holy place, come to leave this mortal world behind, and embark in the great ark to voyaage into the next." This means all merchants and siegers (even dwarf ones) and diplomats are fair game, and should be drowned/killed, so that corpses can be properly entombed.  This should start all out war with the other civs, and should keep things quite interesting.

Allowing the diplotmat to speak with your leader before execution is optional.

I was thinking more "people come here to die, we just help them into the afterlife" motif.

As such, here is what I have in mind:

Row after row of singe tile bedrooms, no doors.

When migrants arrive, they claim a bedroom inside the necropolis. When they go to sleep, they get walled in.  They subsequently die of dehydration.

Once dead, the obstructing wall is removed, and so is the bed. A coffin is constructed, and the body placed inside.

This ensures the bodies are whole, and not damaged or mangled, for optimal reanimation.

Press Q, navigate over the forge.
Press A.  Navigate the menu until you get your desired type of helmet. Press R.
(Do this until every type of armor has been given a job entry.)

Pressing R after each build order sets it on "repeat", and instead of leaving the list after completion, it gets pushed to the bottom to get run again.

This way the armorer will fashion a helmet, a breastplate, 2 boots, 2 gauntlets, a shield and a weapon, then start over again. He will do this until he runs out of raw materias.

When life gives you migrants, make a memorial megaproject.

Bonus: make them all on constructed floors, supported by an unstable support with a lever.... when you run out of space for more memorials, pull it and see how many ghosts return.

prior to uncapping the population of my current megaproject fortress, I maintained an approximate population of 65 dwarves, after setting it at 50. The 15 additional were born on site.

If you set it below what your current population is, then migrants should be effectively disabled.

Set maximum pop in the init file?

Adjust the allowable children pop to 0?

Or, do you just enjoy the sensless carnage?

Its been my experience that as long as the broker has some level of appraisal skill, including dabbling, the stocks screen will populate.

I tend to ignore appraisal and book keeping when preparing for embark for this reason. I just lock the book keeper up until he's done.. (set on highest and just wait), and pick the most pathetic candidate of my inital 7 to be the broker. Usually the one I also groom to be the expedition leader and mayor.

I tend to spam textiles as the initial cashflow generator, since you can quickly drown in "cloth crafs". (Trains both the craftsdwarf with nonconsumable and unlimited quantity cheap ropereed fabric, but also gets the clothier up to snuff before breaching the cavern and collecting webs.)

By the time my anvil shows up I have plenty to eat and drink, and usually have at least <=cloth crafts=> level of quality, and can easily make my purchases to get fully operational.