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I discovered that [Progress Triggers:X] etc do not require world gen. Forgot to add it to a dwarf entity, went two autumns without trade. Added it back, they came for the third.

Ditto for [ACTIVE_SEASON:]

Doesnt speed also affect the speed of combat abilty? i mean a creature with 700 base speed at let say dabbling wont attack as fast as a speed 500 dabbling? Well im no sure....

Yeah, going by the wiki and my limited experience with Adventure mode I'm almost sure faster = more agile, which in turn means means more attacks.

Im using relentless assault mod and werewolf and kindof DEADLY in my head i see them like deathclaw in fallout if anybody ever played a fallout game.

That's exactly how I think of them too.

Just for context, assuming jocan is using the current version (they're tougher in older ones), those things are more than twice as fast and almost twice as big as a dwarf, with a nasty 1-7 damage natural attack and iron weapons (albeit with light armor, elf-level damblock and kobold-level courage).

Agreed on the items.  As far as skills go, I think the Planter/Weaponsmith, Planter/Armorsmith is the way to go.  That's assuming you even want two planners.  If you can make do with one (and you can), then you can do Brewer/Weaponsmith, Cook/Armorer, and Planter/Bowyer (or some other skill that's good to get a strange mood off of).

Also if it were me I'd have take an ambusher, probably by combining the Mason and Carpenter.  Then the ambusher can be the woodcutter, maybe with a point of something moodable tossed in.  That might not be best for a succession game though.

Another possible fix is to add [NOTHOUGHT].  If they don't have to think they don't need a nervous system.

I looked at the dfma upload and I think I know why nil's generator shuts down after a while; You have left a couple of land tiles next to the magma. If the 1/7s move to these tiles, they will stand there until they evaporate, slowly shutting down the generator. You could fix that relatively easily by building walls or doors to all of the tiles next to the magma.

a.) It's not mine, it's the Architects.

b.)  I think it's a feature, not a bug.  After all the magma evaporates off the bottom there's still a reservoir (heated from the top) that has more than enough water to refill the well.  You'll get the hospital all muddy but otherwise not a problem.  This way it doesn't have to run 24/7, draining your FPS the whole time.

The only real design flaw is that it can still be overfilled, but I don't know a good way to fix that without bauxite mechanisms (btw I did order a bunch of bauxite from the dwarves), plus it might should be possible to drain it using that tunnel just to the north if necessary.

SAVE

MAP (there's a couple movies too)


right away--attacked by a number of elves.  Most died one the spikes, a few to other traps and to the marksdwarves.  There were two casualties--an unskilled melee recruit and a marksdwarf, Tulon, who was best known for killing a number of ice wolves.  Both fell to the same elite bowelf, who we subsequently captured.

9th slate--Found an ogre master thief--trapped in a lava pool that helps to keep the water reservoir from heating.  He was having no trouble swiming in the molten rock.

1st felsite--lost a wrestler and a civilian to ice wolves, fortunately neither was very skilled.

11th hematite--ogre seige!  they came around the southern side

17th moonstone--werewolf seige!  A moderately skilled miner and a unskilled laborer who called himself a 'ranger' were caught outside and torn to shreds.  There were no other casualties; one squad fell to the drop trap while the other was decimated by the traps and marksdwarves.  During the attack a glassmaker went into a fey mood, and immediately after the gnomes came to trade.  A human ambush squad spawn almost on top of them, but the little fellers managed to drive them off with the loss of only a single hoplite.

Later there was a treant seige, a wizard , and, finally, a second ogre siege.  There were no significant casualties.

On the domestic side, I constructed the beginnings of a glass industry.

Using this, I could cheaply pump magma to provide heating under main path between forges.  Incidentally, this means there's a decent magma supply at the main fortress for anyone who wants to relocate the forges or maybe make some ice defenses (if you want to use the magma directly you'll need a more reliable power source).

Using this, I was able to haul enough water to plant some new farms in the basement of the great hall, where most of the food industry now is.

Most of the buildings in the main fortress gained a level, one direction or another.

Walls were constructed on the sides of the magma area and the path to it.  The topography of magma area was also simplified greatly.  Also added a bypass so creautres outside the fortress can take a shortcut over the magma path.

Cleaned up the pit next to the courthouse a little, both via mining and dumping.

The military is quite strong.  The main melee squad, the Gods of Shooting under Frogwarrior, now has four legendaty sworddwarves, one legendary speardwarf, and four hammerdwarves, two legends and two grandmasters.  All are equipped in low-quality steel.  We also have 10+ marksdwarves and plenty of recruits in training.  Population is up to 87.

The fort started off in good shape and has only continued to improve.  Nothing can stop us now.