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I'm sure I'm not the only person that paves the road right outside the fort with the skeletal remains of goblins, elves, cavern beasts, and anything thing my dwarves have murdered. In my case, there's at least six refusal piles about ten feet away from a pitiful fort entrance, guarded only by a bunch of traps.

I'm sure there is no way continuing such corpse disposal can backfire.

Maybe a special invaders can come precursed? Kind of like when you attract local leaders and they have actual history behind them, but this one is some sort of cursed individual who then got his/her position by intimidating everyone else, and when your military attacks that person, they risk being cursed as well.

I'm wondering if there's another level after that if, say, the creature can't even crawl, though I'm not sure if even that's possible (no arms, damaged or missing legs?). Saw the stinking guts one for the first time the other day, too.

Another one I kind of like is how you can't just abandon during a siege -- you "succumb to the invasion", and everyone in your fort dies instead of just settles elsewhere. They all starve to death instead of die in some combat-related way, though, but I think I understand why (what if you abandon if there's one or two badly-injured invaders left, and you have 150+ dwarves and countless livestock? A million kills for the surviving invaders, even if one has a shattered spine and the other has no eyes). Maybe in future versions, they'll experience all those pleasant world-gen deaths? I'd like to see that one.

Welp, I got ambushed by goblins shortly after the last of the elven caravan was cleaned up, and...ugh. uuuugh. I hate all the things.


Gonna build a ramp in every pool of water, now. I've never had this problem before. But then again, I've never had so much water before. The only partially good thing was that one badass dwarf killed a goblin underwater, but he was a dwarf I was trying not to lose (naming theme, left behind a wife, saving their daughter's name for, well, their daughter, but they had a son instead).

Started a new fort, after not playing for months and months. Highlights include:

-My first trading session with the elves went swimmingly...up until I accidentally offered them a wooden crutch or bin or something (I was throwing them everything in my crafts bins, and I thought I made sure not to select the bin itself), right as I was trading a pantload of junk (would have been the final trade for the season). Thankfully, I still had all their cloth selected, so I just seized it and ran. It's not like I plan to be nice to them for long, anyway.

-My hunter seems to have trouble focusing on a kill, so there's a couple of geese flying around with broken wings. Somehow.

-Finally trying to create a settlement deeper into the ground, starting with breaching the caverns and trying to make a permanent well source. Everyone keeps running off to collect webs or something like that, which led to...

-Blind Cave Ogres wandered close by and chased down several civilians. The military eventually killed them (thankfully, a weaponsmith got a strange mood at the start of the year), but not before two civilians and one soldier were killed by a single ogre. To be fair, the civilians had it coming, some running right at the ogres and others not going back into the fort when they saw their friends being beaten into a pulp. how i does use burrows?

-Somehow, two dwarves with injuries that probably should have killed them survived: one was a wrestler who had a major artery in his upper body severed and was already pale by the time the ogre he was fighting was killed by his buddies. Somehow, the bleeding stopped, and he walked himself all the way to the hospital (something like 15 floors up, with a couple narrow passageways), where he was cleaned up. He didn't even get a chance to have his wounds dressed or anything before it closed up, and now he just walks around, a little faint right now and with a massive scar, but otherwise perfectly fine. Badass.

-The other was a civilian who just saw two others get murdered and didn't think that maybe he should try to ensure his own survival; a hammerdwarf would later die of suffocation (I think from a broken upper spine) trying to save him. The military and ogre pretty much fought right on top of this guy, who had shattered bones everywhere, and yet he didn't bleed out, either. My hospital staff's project for the winter is piecing him back together.

-All this, and I'm probably due for an attack by goblins soon (I picked a civilization that was already at war with them). Should end badly. At least now I know the importance of armor.

-Apparently, I didn't check my civilization a little more, and there doesn't seem to be any leaders anymore (the last one died in 209, killed and mutilated by a goblin. I started in 251). In fact, the whole history of the civilization involves at least two goblin civilizations coming in, pillaging the towns, and killing the royals, generals, etc. in horrific ways, to the point where I'm surprised this isn't a dead civilization in spite of the game giving up and not giving it any more kings and queens (I'm getting caravans, thankfully). The only success it ever seemed to have was an awesome general who fought back and invaded the goblins, just to die of old age in 200.

-So, what I'm trying to say is, this fort is boned.

Boatmurdered. Even if it was outdated and the elephants had calmed down significantly by the time I played, I knew I had to play this game after I read that. I think Headshoots was archived shortly after I started, too, so that helped. I was hecka confused, but I had the wiki and good ol' trial and error to help. My first fort somehow ended up lasting ten years before I got bored and ended it the same way Headshoots was ended.

Are there any extra buckets lying around with water? I forbade all empty buckets and forced them to use those for cast-making, since I had a ton lying around thanks to caring for a pair of bedridden dwarves for several years.

My fort is going to explode in gore very, very soon.

I'm being ambushed by elves AND goblins, at the same time. The invaders list stretches on for four or five pages, and the elves brought a crapload of war animals: horses, alligators, crocodiles, tigers, lions, cheetahs, jaguars, elephants. The goblins didn't bring anything, but they sure aren't helping. If I didn't know any better, I'd say this was a true siege.

I only have nine or ten military dwarves. Half of them are dead or dying.

Curse all friends of nature.

On the plus side, I figured out how to deal with that annoying "cancels rest: interrupted by enemy" spam, by turning off all cancellation announcements. Makes things a heck of a lot easier to keep track of.

I just build a hallway and put the coffins in there. Special dwarves, like useful nobles and titled dwarves, get a tomb prepared. Said tomb is covered in engravings and has the best coffins and cabinets I can get, and if there's a couple that's special, I'll put their tombs next to each other and have a door in-between. The dwarves with the prepared resting places usually have a grand or royal tomb. Useless nobles might get a tomb, but it won't be nearly as grand as those of the titled dwarves, with a possible exception of the monarch (mainly to keep said monarch from killing him/herself in a fit). If they get themselves killed before I can bother with a tomb, they'll end up in the hallway with the regular dwarves.