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I don't know about requiring visits from the mountainhomes; that sounds kind of difficult to incorporate and, as someone said, impossible in early world gens. Also, sort of strange; it's not like the only way to learn something is for someone to teach it to you.

However, I really like the idea that sparring should be drastically toned down, and that dwarves should require actual combat in order to level up in any significant way.
That would also give a real tangible benefit to setting up an elaborate dwarven arena to deal with goblin prisoners.

When a fortress is abandoned, EXCREMENT WILL STAY IN THE EXACT SAME PLACE. The last thing anyone wants is turds strewn all over the fortress for no adequately explained reason.

Close.

But what if you abandon when your fortress is being ransacked by Tentacle Demons?

Shit and cum everywhere.

I've discovered a little stopgap measure that seems to do a pretty good job of keeping dwarves from walling themselves in.

They tend not to stand on tiles that are also designated for constructions, so what I do is I start to build dummy walls on the tiles that I don't want my dwarves to be standing on when they build my real walls. Then I suspend construction on the dummy walls. Once the dwarf has completed the real wall, I remove the dummy wall building site altogether.

Reminds me of the old Smata Xomlox seed from last year. Place was totally sick (entire fort in obsidian) but no goblins

What version is this for? How do I import that text file?

I'm not sure how backward compatible it is, but it definitely works on (40d11).

Here's how to use the worldgen text that was posted here (I'm working from memory, so don't expect this to be word perfect):

1) Go to data/init/ and find the file called world_gen.txt.
2) Delete the contents of that file and paste in whatever data you want to use (in this case, the code section from the beginning of this thread).
3) Log into DF and Create a New World Now. It will use the parameters in the worldgen.txt file in the data/init folder.

Wow, I also had no idea you could carve fortifications on the edge of the map.
Now to go teach those pesky orcs a lesson.

I had already read everything in the spoilers section of the wiki, so I knew what to expect.

My chamber was filled with a white "unidentified fluid" and engravings of the noble races brutally raping each other, so I knew that I had some tentacle rape monsters on the way.
Okay, I knew I wasn't ready, but I figure I have time to bottle them up behind some constructions and then bide my time while I prepare my ballistas.

However, what the wiki didn't really drive home is that the chamber is ALSO filled with stockholm'd rape victims who swarm your masons and tantrum them to death. I'm pretty sure the miner who pierced the chamber was raped by elves before he died.

I watch in horror as the line of crazies files past each successive build site for my demon stoppers. By the time I get the "demons in the deep!" message, I've gone from being annoyed at losing some prime mining real estate to praying that I might be able to get away with losing no more than all of my housing and forges.

They destroyed everything. Killed everybody.

I go to reclaim with a legion of 70 dwarves. They handled the first few rounds of demons well but a tantrum spiral ended with them literally decimating themselves in a tear-stained brawl.

My last dwarf was finished off by a demon, but only after spending about a week babbling to himself in an old bedroom knee deep in floodwater.

After my THIRD attempt at reclaiming, I finally purge the fort, but at this point all of my dams are broken and the fort is on its way to being completely flooded.

Finally! My fort has some character. I can't wait to see the engravings my guys make once they finish tidying the place up.

I have an idea that I never implement because it kills your orchards.

Cover all the fields outside your fortress with drawbridges and link them to one switch.
You probably see where this is going.

I hate it when I only realize that I've walled a dwarf in when he dies.
Can we get a message when a dwarf gets a "starving" or "severely dehydrated" thought?