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I've a slight problem. I want my dwarves to wear adamantine clothes in order to protect them to the fullest extent. However, I don't know if adamantine items degrade or not, so I'm worried that my investment will be lost if I try. If they do degrade, can I mod this out in some way? It doesn't really make sense to me that threat spun from a nearly physically indestructable substance would wear down after a while.

I generally use Runesmith to solve what I consider irritating problems in my fortresses. In a new fortress I used it to delete a horde of skeletal monsters that had gotten close to my moat and were job-inturrupting my dwarves into a loop and nothing was getting done. I went to Runesmith and applied the [Dead] tag to them all. Problem solved, or so I thought.

Anyway, fast forward a few years and I discover that I can't build anything on the squares where the skeletons used to be. I get the standard 'creature occupying site' message. I assume this is because the skeletons are 'dead' but not 'deleted'.

However there are now about fifty pages worth of dead critters in the Runesmith window. It would take me DAYS to go through and delete them all one by one. What I want to know is; is there a workaround for this? Also, will the Genocide option just kill everything of that type in my fortress, or will it remove every creature of that type from the ENTIRE game, forever? Can I somehow remove all the dead creature pages from my fortress menu as well?

Okay, on my newest game I decided to explore the potential of sleeper agents to a degree I had never previously attempted. I got my founder up to around nine psycology, and recruited three psychologists. After getting them all up to Liberal Guardian, I recruited a high-charisma prostitute and trained her up in covert operations until her disguise skill was high. Now that she could seduce high-end conservative swine, I sent her out to the Nuclear Powerplant and seduced a Scientist. On the date I kidnapped him and immediately set my interrogators to work on him. After two beatings from a Deathsquad Uniform equipped team he was at 1 wisdom after starting with around 17. After two more sessions of 'attempt to recruit', he was enlightened. My combined psychology score for this attempt was around fifteen, seventeen by the time the conservative was enlightened.

About three months later I have sleeper agents in every single building in the entire game, all enlightened, most with at least 85% effectiveness. By now it takes only about one beating session to lower a conversative to 1 wisdom, and normally around two or three attempts to recruit before his Heart skyrockets and he repents. My three interrogators now have a combined psychology score of about 30, and an equal ammount of Pursuasion. Is this kind of game just a little too easy? I think if I disbanded now, my sleepers would advocate liberalism to the point they'd win all by themselves.

I'm running a five-year fortress game, and I've hit a problem. My military is all heavily trained, but I've yet to equip them. Plus, a forgotten beast has shown up. The first two were easy to dispatch, and this one is flesh, so it'll die fairly easily. But it has an 8x8 radius dust attack that apparently causes the nerves of anything it touches to instantly rot. Any dwarf caught in the blast will suffer yellow wounds to every part of its body and become 'numb' for several seconds before losing the ability to breath, or bleeding to death. Is there anything I can do to defeat this beast without losing my entire military? Even my crossbowdwarves get gassed by the radius. What exactly is this syndrome they're catching anyway?

I consider myself a veteran DF player by now. I know just about every game trick from exhaustive wikitrawling and personal experience, I've modded the game quite a bit, and to date I've gotten about seven fortresses to their tenth year intact. Vanilla gaming was starting to get rather dull by then, so I decided to try something new; a cavern fortress.

Embarking on a glacier, I immediately began tunnelling straight downwards to the second cavern layer (Openess Min/Max 15/100) and started a settlement. Despite my previous experiences with caverns (once getting my entire fortress slaughtered by a massive swarm of crundles, of all things), this particular set seemed to be astonishingly passive. Enemy creatures were few and pretty weak, allowing my defences to be solidified by a few stonefall traps, and ore of just about every type was fabulously abundant. Within four years I've boosted my fortress up to 138 inhabitants with legendary +5 metal, armor, weapon and blacksmiths, at least one legendary in every other profession, plus a mighty military wielding masterpiece level adamantine weapons and encased in masterpiece steel and adamantine armor. I've lost maybe three dwarves the entire time, and not only that, I seem to be playing host to an earthly god.
I’ve heard a lot about dwarves with godly stats being made over years of hard labour, but this guy was a lowly migrant animal trainer. About a minute after the migration finished, I got a titan attack. It was a swamp titan, a crocodile with four tusks and around ten legs, with a lethal fire breath attack. At this point, I had military training with wooden weapons, I was essentially defenceless. I ordered every door to the outside world walled up, shutting everything out, including this animal trainer (Fikod). Fikod, far from being afraid, walks up the central staircase, meets the titan on the surface PUNCHES IT TO DEATH in three strikes, then for an encore decides to decimate the native polar bear population. He had zero combat skills, and was described as only ‘strong’ in his profile, and quite susceptible to disease. His anti-bear rampage lasted for every last one of the beasts and left him with zero wounds. He killed a forgotten beast AND about five polar bears, at migrant-level skill, with no combat attributes, with zero injuries. Fikod is now a legendary axedwarf, with an artefact quality weapon and full adamantine armour. In his entire tour of duty he has never once gotten a negative stat (tired, wounded, etc) and has about forty kills to his name.
My fortress has also never been sieged, only raided, and seems to have more ore then rock. I have around 4000 stones and 4.600 bars of smelted metal, nearly a quarter of it platinum and a substantial percentage more of gold. My farms are insane productive, and slaughtering polar bears and cave animals has given me a food stockpile of over ten thousand units of food. I’m not bragging about my skill, but it seems like everything I do turns out fabulously in this embark. My first artefact was a jade table worth over 100k in dwarf currency, my third was an adamantine shield worth around a million. I’ve never encountered anything nastier then a cave crawler, and even my nobles seem content to issue mandates for pretty mundane items. Is it even possible to be this lucky in DF, and why was Fikod so tremendously awesome anyway?

In a five-year fortress of mine, one of my dwarves was just taken by a strange mood and ran off to grab a clothiers workshop. The problem is, she wants cave spider silk and none currently exists (I havn't tunneled down to the underground yet, and have no military to do so). Normally I'd take the penalty of one crazy dwarf, except she happens to have around five children, who are all friends with just about every other dwarf I possess. If mummy goes mad and dies, they'll eventually die, and a tantrum spiral will be just around the corner. I need a way to get free cave spider silk and I need it right now! I was thinking of modding the smelter reactions, but all I get is a useless item called 'cloth' that absolutely nobody will use. How do I alter this?

I've recently started working on creature text files, and I've been thinking. If I remove the [MEGABEAST] tag from, say, a dragon, and give it a [CHILD] tag for offspring, will it spawn as a regular creature on a fortress map? Also, if I do this after world-gen, is it possible to alter the files so they will do this wthout genning a new map?