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Hey.

So I set up a hospital and everything, figured they need thread so I built a loom.

Now the weaver goes and gathers webs and makes thread. All's good, but then he's automatically set to turn the thread into cloth. I suspended this so I'd get a nice stack of thread for the hospital and then let him continue.

 Is this kind of micromanagement necessery to get the thread?

For some reason I get creatures from both my biomes ... but not at the same time.

One season camels are crossing the desert, next season a giant eagle comes from the mountains.... come to think of it. The camels and the eagle were there at the same time, but mostly they just pass by eachother.

I like statues but only a few of them are epic. Like a dwarf striking down a minotaur or such ... i save the epic ones and the bad ones.. like. "this is a statue of a cave spider" i just put wherever.. or throw into magma.

edit: in one of my forts i used statues as crosses. i built them over graves like so:

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Sure there's an opening so people can just walk down into the grave .. but that's part of the fun. I like the idea of thieves being able to sneak down there to steal something, or ogres wandering there to eat the dead.. or building destroyers to tear the grave to pieces.. etcetera. It gives cause to protect the whole graveyard, keeping the deceased in the game. also, since i place the statues mostly at random, it's a bit fun to see the final piece in the story of a dwarf.
"This is Catten McWoodBurner. She immigrated in 720. She married in 722. She had two sons and one daughter between 722 and 727. She was killed in 728 by a cave crocodile along with her youngest son. She is buried under the statue of a finely crafted mountain goat in marble."

 Something like that.

Hm...

Pick a fight with the humans.

93. Always walk around with atleast 1 murderous dog to ward off kidnappers.

Within my first week of playing DF I drew this.


edit:
84. You wear two caps under your helm. Just in case you see a man with a whip.

I give my nobles legendary rooms and their own statuary gardens and make sure that excellent meals are prepared... if they end up happy anyway then I take it as the hand of Armok who wishes misfortune upon the nobility. I couldn't fight something like that!

Sadly sometimes the doctors just don't give a fuck.

This is why I keep atleast 3 of them available at all times.