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I got cross-linked in from Penny Arcade to the Complete and Utter Newby Tutorial.  That and the graphics pack are exceptionally handy for making sense of DF.

Quote from: Voyager on January 30, 2011, 12:17:02 am

Don't fun things pop out of the magma sea?

Not really. Mostly just magma crabs, and those are fairly pansy. Also, building destroyers apparently cannot destroy buildings on a different z-level as them, so if you put a floor grate over your pump stack's input or a fortification between your magma tunnels and the magma sea proper, you're totally safe. Probably forever.

So very safe...

I suddenly got this mental image of a three foot tall Bronze Colossus, struggling to reach the dwarven roof.

One of the traders in the dwarven caravan just went berserk just as they were leaving.  They can do that?  What causes it?

For context, I've got a roaming goblin ambush outside that I've buttoned up to avoid, and the traders have been sitting on the edge of the map waiting for me to open the doors.  Current guesses are, failing to trade makes traders unhappy, he doesn't like the outdoors, or he happened to be the luck recipient of this year's strange mood, with he autofailed because he can't build anything.

Harry Voyager

Addendum:  Now his mule is berserk, which is oddly awesome in a way, because it's carrying steel anvils.

Fort #3:  I keep getting Goblin Ambushes where my army gets slaughtered across the field, so I've been trying to build up enough steel armour for them to have some semblance of protection.  I've got the full steel economy up and running on coke and steel bars piling up.  I've got enough hammers for the troop, so I've prioritized armour, and set my only skilled armour smith set to the task of crafting more.  Armour is the only Steel item I'm producing, and its the only task she's set to. 

We have plenty of coke, steel coming out the ears, and a nice workshop all ready for her, with a stack of bars right next to it.  They're not forbidden, the workshop stone is not banned, so why is no armour being made?

She was one of the first casualties of the first Goblin ambush.  She's been a vegetable sleeping in my hospital ever since.  That was about two years ago.

What is a Dorfwash?

You can also get rid of them by putting their corpse, or what is left there of, in a box.

My previous Goblin ambush caused enough casualties that I had something like 25 dwarves left out of a fort of 48, of which only about 3 were functional, so a lot of bodies rotted out there while I was trying to tend to the not yet dead.  (One farmer got left out there for something like a month before there were enough functional, unoccupied dwarves to retrieve him.) 

One of my dead recruits happened to come back as a ghost during my second (and still going) Goblin ambush.  He started wandering the front halls, and I think he's a large part of the reason two of the Goblins are down the door-pit, and I have no idea if they were chasing him, and hit the hammer traps, or if they were running from him and fell in.

Quote from: Voyager on January 25, 2011, 08:08:19 pm

That explains quite a bit, actually.  See the traps are Steel Hammer Traps with 10x Steel hammers apiece, and as it turns out, hammer traps generate knock-back just like wielded hammers, and when the first two Goblins stepped in the traps, they got hammered into the channel I dug to keep my drawbridge out of reach.  So right now, two of the Goblins are wandering around in the ditch below my bridge.

If I'm understanding the drawbridge mechanics, if I drop it, it will atomize them and their stuff, but, it will let the other Goblins in through the open path.

This is going to be fun.

Harry Voyager

If the channel is meant to keep the bridge out of reach of building-destroyers, then it will not atom-smash the goblins in the channel. It will create a roof over their head.

Goblins on the space next to the channel, where the bridge lands, however ... :twisted:

The ramifications of that statement just hit me right now.  Does this mean that Elves can destroy a raised drawbridge?

There is a path into my fort.  It's just a twisty corridor filled with traps.

That said, I've discovered that hammer traps tend to punt things that they hit, which means that by this point four of the five goblins have been hammered into the well under my entrance gate.  I'll have to designate it a pond or something.

Harry Voyager