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So it won't be coming in this upcoming version but Toady has made the framework for randomly generated metals. We're going to need some reliable way to figure out the combat specs of random weapons-grade metals that any fort can get going after establishing basic necessities. I can also see a new category of deaths from goblins wielding unknown metal weapons that happen to have been generated as stronger than steel.

No this sounds like a bad day more than inexperience. When luck is running low and you start growing impatient to make up for previous failures. Thus you create even more FAIL. These days happen, and not just in DF.

Then he takes two seasons, literally, to finish his meetings.

Pause game as soon as meetings are starting. Spam designations with mouse. Meetings still happen in 'pause-time'. Have all meetings be cleared within 2 seconds. This trick also works for caravans loading/unloading their goods. May screw up an organised military training session.

Cold, mechancial, beaurocratic, uncaring death.

Isn't it beautiful?

From the point of view of my industrial forts that run an 'organic products' line? Inefficient. The 'bureaucratic' part of the procedure can be purged while the rest of the adjectives remain true. But then, there is something to appreciate about deliberately being inefficient for the sake of Twisted Art.

Designate legendary butcher as Chief Medical Dwarf.

Turn on all health labours.

Train on gravity migrants.

Butcher is now legendary doctor.



Profit.
Also, traction benches adjacent to beds.

I once had a fort where this was actually the case, except the dwarf was a legendary butcher (from going through all the goblins with ethics modded) and his doctoring skills didn't really match up to his main skill.

I guess a magma shower would work, but the risk of your valuable military dwarves/useless migrants dying from blood loss is a big risk.

So far the most reliable way is a syndrome, and that is DEFINITELY not a reliable way ;P

Still, it is !FUN!, and it involves a megabeast, biological warfare and supersoldiers.

I wonder if there's a mod out there that lets you buy barrels of various syndromes from gnomes. Besides gnomeblight.

One more reason to look forward to the next version: this is the kind of thing that will be modded in almost immediately... into your booze or food. Now you can have plump helmets rot all the fat off your dwarves so you don't have to fear fire!

On the other hand, that would expose them to the perils of extreme cold temperatures and toxic contaminations.

Ok so you have the right number of workshops and sufficient dwarves thrown at them to have !!INDUSTRY!! - I suppose one could argue that your layout could be made more efficient if you arranged the stockpiles and workshops across many z-levels but I can understand the desire to see everything on one z-level for the sake of management clarity. Switch off all hauling labours for the dyers and possibly also the threshers, you want to burn through your dye surplus and get those 500-ish bags made ASAP.


As for migrant numbers, it's dictated by wealth (both total and amount exported). I'm not sure which games you've read, but there are plenty of tales on this forum where people lament how big their migrant wave is (because they just aren't ready to cope with the population surge). But true, there are plenty other tales of small migrant waves because those forts just focussed on survival and nothing else: no trade. In your case, you have a textile !!INDUSTRY!! which happens to be one of the more lucrative wealth generators in the vanilla game.

Thanks! And just wondering, what would be the best way to getting iron fast? Dig deep as hell for magma or just burn trees?

For beginners, the trees yes. Digging down to the magma within one week of embark and churning out steel by autumn is for when you're used to the game and have streamlined your embark plans.

Typically you won't get an ambush until the start of the 2nd year. Within that one year you need to come up with some anti-ambush plan, be it "wall yourself off completely, you want more time to build up" or cage trap spam or intricate 'dodge-me' traps or a militia.