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Dragon came. I ordered every civilian into the underground burrow. Dragon loitered at the map edge. I allowed civilians into the area enclosed by fortifications while forbidding everything else on the surface. Dragon started a forest fire. I rapidly fireproofed the entrance to my fort so the fire wouldn't propagate inside. Fire petered out after burning the northwest of the map: seems to have a bit of trouble crossing z-levels. I relaxed a bit, allowed civilians to collect logs and discarded clothing from near the fort. Elf monster hunter arrived, hit the dragon with a single willow bolt before melting. Similar for a couple of human visitors.

Unfortunately they lured the dragon away from the map edge where it picked up the scent of dwarfs, roasted a hauler and headed at breakneck speed towards my fort. I had actually hooked up my drawbridge to the lever now, but the dragon was *fast* and got inside, roasted a mechanic working on a cage trap, roasted all my war dogs, roasted my hastily-activated crossbow militia armed with training bolts, attacked my axedwarf squad who had been too busy "watching striking demonstration" to intervene earlier. Eventually one of them did lop its head off.

My losses: about three quarters of my military, my best metal armour and weapons turned into clouds of molten iron and steel, a few civilians, all my war dogs, all my grazing pets and wool-providing animals, and my main quantum stockpile of over 1000 logs. At least there's very little cleanup: just the chore of making sure every evaporated dwarf gets a memorial slab.

Sometime during this mess, the human caravan arrived and by now my drawbridge was closed so the caravans bypassed my site.

I just lost my entire military: 10 crossbow dwarves (some of them elite after 4 years of training) and 20 assorted hammer-, axe- and speardwarves.

I'm playing my first game in the new version, generated a pocket world and the dwarf civ was wiped out by a hydra in year 4 while the humans and elves have a couple of settlements of ~100 population each. Meanwhile the goblin capital is ~1000 and rumour has it they are well on the way to wiping out the rest.

I dealt with the first two goblin attacks easily. The third time they came in force. 30 gobbos and 30 beakdogs filling 2 screens of my 'units' list. Later on in the fight I noticed that increased to 3 screens, decreased to two screens and rose again to 3 screens. Yeah, I was completely unprepared for that.

The plan was to station my military at the far end of the entrance hall and raise and lower the newly-constructed raised entrance bridge so as to divide the attacking army into manageable parts. Instead my military charged out to engage the enemy. They did very well at first, killing gobbos and beakdogs and advancing against the incoming tide. But as they started to tire, even the best of them succumbed. As my stragglers entered the fight I realized I needed to Pull The Lever and strand my military on the wrong side of the drawbridge.

It looks like I won't see the human caravan this year. Just as well: instead of trade goods I'm frantically making coffins and slabs.

And another facepalm: I just noticed that due to failing to define a quantum stockpile, my sandbags have been traveling in a loop 99 z-levels each way from the general storage near the depot to a minecart next to the glass furnace and back again.

You can link manager orders to particular workshops. Maybe you could have two distilleries: one linked to a stockpile that doesn't accept pig-tails and gets the brew-all order assigned to it. The other gets the order to brew a pig-tail or two every month provided there is sufficient excess for the cloth industry.

I just flooded my magnetite mine through clipping the aquifer in the conglomerate layer it was embedded. Some hasty work was needed to ensure my lower fort wasn't flooded too, nor isolated from the still-active temporary fort near the surface.

At least there are other magnetite deposits on other layers.

Ha! I remember one game where I couldn't keep up with all the coffins needed for the zombie dwarf invaders.

When the "goblin" siege of humans and dwarves rounded the corner and came in sight of my hastily prepared defending squads, chaos broke loose. Mostly my dwarves fighting and killing each other. And now on the Civilization relations screen the dwarven Civ is shown up with a W.

Loyalty cascade right? I've heard of them but never seen one before.

But I can't work out what on earth triggered it. My squads had simple orders to just stand in position. I save-scummed and succumbed to the siege to check the legends. Apparently the marksdwarf in charge of the siege was a former member of my Civ. Would that do it?

Make sure none of your food stockpiles accept the eggs, and they aren't allowed for cooking. Then your dorfs won't touch 'em.