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Calculating time...
Calculating devotion...
Running ennui...
Forming expectations...
Running patience...

Date generated!
April 20th.

Heh, I remember trying to explain the significance of saints to my Muslim father... that was a fun day.

Hmmm, this gives me an idea for a fort in the new version: different burrows for different jobs, each one with a temple dedicated to the patron saint of that job, set up around a central pillar to Mary. Catholic dwarfs? Why not! And then the artifact makers would live in an altogether separate burrow, dedicated to one of the saints of craftsmen. I'm thinking Joseph.

Uh

-huh.

Wispydanced?

I tend to separate my building styles out by Z-level. It doesn't always work out that way, but the fort I like very much and spend most of my time on has this layout:

-Farms on the first underground layer, laid out in a very organic manner. Also, clothiers and the corresponding stockpiles.
-Same deal on the next one down, except less of a warren (far fewer random passageways connecting everything, much more dependent on large hallways)
-Two very Roman levels of bedrooms. Straight lines and symmetry everywhere! Rooms are uniform, save for the starting seven, which are larger and engraved.
-The fun levels, wherein I dug artful catacombs, winding passageways, and multi-layer beehives out of the rock. Any ore discovered here is dug out in its entirety and the resulting passageway is turned into something.
-At the very bottom, some very convoluted noble bedrooms. They look like spaceships, only full of +diorite crown+s.


When a dwarf hits legendary, I take off all his cleaning/hauling labors...except burial.

I like to build little cafes all over the place as well. Decentralized dining just works.

My military is usually completely cut off from the rest of the fort... either aboveground or tucked away in a catacomb somewhere. I don't like them mingling.

On my very first attempt, I embarked, hit pause, and... stared. I hit a few buttons, stared some more, and quietly abandoned.

My first real fort had several major design issues (what do you mean you shouldn't build workshops next to bedrooms?) and no army. I had NO idea what to do with the goblins caught in my cages, and an irrational fear of animal stockpiles. They rotted where they were caught.

There was also that little issue with barrels. Let's not talk about it.

I tend to use dorf as a verb. A noun too, but verbs are just more fun.

"I'm going to do dorf now, see you later."

"Oh man, that gobbo just got dorfed. Lookit the gore fly..."

"Get out of bed and go dorf that wall, Urist McLazy."

Or just the sound of a fortress running along at a steady pace. Dorfdorfdorf, like stumpy little cogs in my glorious machine.

In a fortress with no justice (but an idle hammerer/noble class), my mayor had a years-old charge against him for not fulfilling a mandate. This was never an issue until today.

For some reason, he was abruptly stripped of his title, jailed, and hammered to death. Him and no one else. He is survived by his wife, nine children, and a fortressful of friends.

His only grudge? The duke's second-born.

All I'm saying is that it doesn't look good. Not good at all.

Range:


I'm autoforbiding ammo, but also making plenty of fresh new bolts.

Have to run for now, but will try separate squads when I am back. Thanks for the suggestions!