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First goblin ambush.  I sent my steel clad force out to keep them away from the visiting caravan.  The end result being an iron arrow lodged in the upper arm of one of my better warriors.  He bled out while being carried to the hospital.

It seems breastplates don't cover the upper arms and I don't know if it's possible to layer the chain shirt with the breastplate at the moment.   Anyway, back to chain shirts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breastplate

Copy the raws of that civ of yours, and we will see where's the problem.

Astakath News!

I think that I'm actually not having enough chert.

All those mastabas, the smallest ones, require 55 rock blocks.

I have only 4 layers of chert (on 3x4 or something map), with clusters of bauxite and magnetite around, it kinda shrink the amount of chert I can excavate - unless I will do something like 'stripmine the whole layer'.

Also, four times I steal from elves and they still come back, with caravan full of goodies. Huh, I thought they're brigther...

1. Dig out a meeting hall, barracks, food storage (and farm in soil).

2. Build a wall around the entrance, trap it for now. Meanwhile, dig out a well from the brook.

3. Proceed with slowly developing your fort [private quaters, workshops, make booze/food), make spare beds for first autumn immigrants which show in 9/10 of my forts.

4. Have fun

Quote from: Rube on July 01, 2010, 12:27:55 pm

I immediately thought of Vampires when he said night creatures, because they're the only creature I could think of that would work predominantly at night, keep slaves, and generally be individually powerful enough to warrant special attention. Also, they aren't in the game yet.

Vampires are interesting for Dwarf Fortress because they're so random in myth. Some can turn into various animals, some melt in daylight, some drink blood whereas others steal souls, random weaknesses to stuff like vegetables and water, etc. They're perfect fodder for random generation scripts.

Some also sparkle and attract millions of fangirls. I think this possibility should be included as well.

*thinks about...*

ARGH. Damn you!

[words]

Let's think literally, the Night Creatures. What mystical creatures are associated iwth night? That gives us:

Vampires, Banshee, Werewolves, Ghosts... and a lot more.

Quote from: BodyGripper on July 01, 2010, 01:23:34 am

I just had this exchange:

Lum Omudinu, Swordsman:  You look like a mighty warrior indeed.
Sina Okouthra, Child:  I'm thirty!

Maybe you just misheard 13. 

This is misinterpretation.

Okouthra said 'I'm thirty' as in 'I'm thirty mighty warriors'.

Astakath, in tundra. Another mastaba...

...and of course almost all kids got kidnapped while padding from the fort's gate to the construction site.

A dwarven woman lost three of her four kids, and went melancholy. I just sighed cuz, hell, I will never gonna make past 30 dwarves mark. So I watch her go up onto the unfinished tower, she is gonna OMG NO! YOU HAVE A BABY IN HANDS DAMMIT!

Nothing can stop her, she is on the edge and will sur-

Urist McBaby has became a Child.

The mother plunges onto the ground (splattering nicely) while the kid watches from the height. He knew what was going to happen, and I believe he was more interested in surviving.

He is the last kid of Astakath*, I need to protect him somehow.

*I do have five or more married couples, but they don't seem to be interested in making kids.