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Been playing since 2008 but this has somehow never come up: apparently the Fated Furnaces, my civ, is already at war with a goblin and elven civ. 

So, today, a vile, green force of darkness is advancing on our silver gate, while two elven ambushes have just popped off.  I cannot wait until the two forces meet beneath our shiny new murder hole! Maybe I'll lock them in the foyer and see if they make friends!  Maybe I'll see if Elite-Dwarven-crossbowman-two-stories-up-behind-carved-fortifications > Elite elven swordsman!  Maybe today's the day to test out my new doormat of many bridges! 

Best year 2 ever.  Please share if you've known the gift of multiple wars you don't even need to start.  Anyone hit the trifecta of all three races?

I thought something was suspicious about Mafol Imazgoden when he arrived with the second big migrant wave.  He claimed to be married with 4 children, but where were they?  He was a former member of four other civilizations and former mayor of a fifth.  He also claimed to be King Consort.  Hmm.

When the body was found drained of blood, I figured Mafol was the killer.  There was even a witness.  My newly appointed hammerer led him to jail and went to pick up his newly forged silver war hammer.  Mafol Beltedrope took his fifty hammer strokes like a dwarf...no, actually, better than a dwarf: he survived with nothing worse than some bruises.  Hmm.  Now what?

Remember in LOTR when Gimli is bragging about Moria?  What does he mention? 
1. Beer
2. Meat

Ever since this new release cycle, my fort has gone almost completely agrarian.  I have a 25x25 pasture just for the poultry.  All I trade for is strange new ingredients: livestock and veggies from the Elves, seafood from Men, and choice blood and organs from the Mountainhome.  I micromanage the kitchen menu to end up with egg/cheese/pork biscuits and oyster stew.  I make totems and decorate furniture soley to keep the trash from overflowing.  My farmers all live in a big ass wooden barn between pastures with a central dining hall. 

Parties are no longer a constant nuisance because I've stopped trying to make anything other than masterpiece food and booze.  Nobody's cut a gem or wrought steel in over a year, yet it still feels super dwarven to me.  I'm basically playing "Dwarf Resort".  The only thing I use the True Metal for is the special "doormats" in the "foyer".  Is anyone else completely geeked out on the new food/animal enhancements?

Do the Elves care if I cut down all the mushrooms and goblin caps and tunnel tubes?  Does our fragile wood based diplomacy actually hinge on something else?  In the Elven Civ screen, under the Agreements tab, it sure looks like they're keeping count of how many trees I cut.  If a shroom falls in the cavern, do the Elves make a sound?

For me, DF had become about masonry, and now it's about mining.

My 2010 fortress is just a ramp spiralling (way) down to an expansive cavern, which I'm treating as my surface level.  It provides me with wood, plants, water, and freakass abominations animals.  Traders, migrants, and seige armies alike will have to go that extra mile (literally) to make a carpet of corpses glimpse the glittering beauty of our halls.  I think none of us will ever see the sun again. 

It's funny that I'm more excited about cowering behind a muddy hatch cover in a pitch black Avernum than building an impregnable tiered castle or giant statue of anything topside.
         

I want to know which (if any) world gen stats people (if any) are jiggering with solely to generate More Interesting History. 

You know:  Abducted Dwarven Children leading Goblin Civs and duelling demons.  Elven widowers with a score to settle leading Dwarven Civs.  Humans living in forest ruins.  Elves living in Dark Fortresses.  Shell-shocked orphans fleeing town after town.  Hundred year old freaks with a zillion kills, fighting off wave after wave of attackers singlehandedly. 

Smaller worlds?  More evil?