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Well, you can always build more than one of these things and shuttle the dragon between them as necessary. Or capture more dragons

Searching for "encrust spike" gets me a bunch of "Your best artifact ever" threads so...

How do I encrust a menacing spike with gems? It's for one of my three special execution chambers, it needs to be practical (it's steel) but flashy. The only options the jeweler's workshop gives me are "Encrust furniture", "Encrust ammo" and "Encrust finished goods".

I haven't yet tried locking my legendary gem setter in a room with the workshop and the spike, but... it's not furniture, nor is it ammo, nor is it a finished good.

I r confus.

Plenty of stuff happening. I'm churning out ridiculous amounts of high-quality trade fodder and absolutely decimating sieges with my 6 steel-chain-wearing champion wrestlers (seriously, it's a beautifully hilarious thing when a squad shows up, has three or four of its members throttled on the spot, breaks and runs, and is followed by a single dwarf, who (despite the steel) catches one, hurls it into a tree, runs after the rest of them, catches another, etc). Here I was building a drowning corridor (with separately floodable and drainable compartments) because I didn't want to put my awesome steelclad dorfs in harm's way...

I'm also trying to perfect a drainage system for said corridor despite lack of forethought (the level immediately under it is full of stuff my dwarves use a lot) and I've finally begun draining the pools around the fort's surface level.

My first attempt at this involved building a pump next to the pool and allowing one of my several legendary pumpers (I have a bunch of them set up in the barracks) to have at it. However she dropped her baby in the pool and fled due to dangerous terrain; I tried teleporting the poor bastard out with Dwarf Companion (seriously that's not even an amusing death), didn't work for some reason but the kid stopped drowning so I disassembled the pump, built a massive stone pipe with a windmill on top, reassembled the pump and cackled like a madman as the pool emptied and the pumper RUSHED in to save her bebeh.

So yeah we're taking that approach now. Once the pools are dry I'll roof them and use them as buffer space for the drainage system.

I'm pretty pleased with this, as it's only my second fort ever, and the first one phailed when a siege got through (due to no military at all and inadequate traps). Or something. 'S been a while.

Guess what this is.

I hereby request the schematics for your dwarven radio telescope, and also the proper Dwarven translation of Arecibo.

Also, you win an internet.

Mwhahaha. If only that was called shakencrumble AT the plan of butterflies All of his plans suck though.

Well, there was also that door-jamming monarch butterfly from Boatmurdered...

It's a conspiracy.

Counts and their ilk have been getting into a lot of trouble today... (Something similar happened to me, albeit without the water.)

I still need to construct a proper NUDES.

What is a NUDES you ask?

It is a Noble & Undesirable Disposal & Elimination System.

You seem to have stumbled inadvertently on the design for a rather effective one...

At the time, I was still trying to live with nobles.

In fact, I've only ever executed two nobles (a hammerer who killed several of my legendary dwarves and a countess who kept forbidding the export of barrels).

Oh aye, I enjoy the challenge of keeping the pretentious bastards satisfied.

However what wasn't cool was when an uppity count and his prissy little consort arrived just as I had designated basically two entire levels of my fortress to be mined out and dumped. (Quantum stockpiles for the win.) So the construction of their chambers (which I ordered the instant they set foot on my map) accumulated some delay.

Leaving them plenty of time to become "utterly traumatized by a lesser's pretentious burial arrangements". (The Dungeon Master, whom I saw fit to outfit with awesome holdings.)

The consort went berserk (and was wasted, before I could even look to see if there were any strong dwarves in the area, by the Hammerer she had brought along) and the count continually oscillated between meetings and tantrums. I was going to let him be, and hope that he recovered when his chambers were finished, but he laid four of my best dwarves up in bed with broken bones. I finally managed to lock the bastard in a cupboard with a spike and a lever.

Durr, you can tell it's late because I didn't think of not trading the bins either. Hokay yeah it's still a pain, but at least it's better than nothing.

I originally thought that, because of the word 'bauble', they meant I had tried to trade them wooden crafts. I WTF'd slightly, as AFAIK that's not even possible (except perhaps for a funky artifact, but none of my artifacts have wood for a base material, and even if they did, artifacts don't get traded anyway). (No glass either.)

Bah, damn pretentious pantywaist hippy elves. Who needs 'em. As soon as I can handle sieges and I get a better handle on fluids and traps (this is only my second ever fortress, and I recently constructed my first ever drowning chamber, which pleased me) I'm just gonna waste 'em as they come.