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I just completed my pump stack that would fuel a reservoir, a well, and a waterfall that cleans up my entrance and trade depot. Everything was set to go, and I installed that last horizontal axle to make the whole thing run.

I waited expectantly at the top layer, hoping to see water gushing out at any moment.

And I kept waiting. Nothing happened.

I started scanning the layers of the stack, and I quickly found the problem: I had installed one of the pumps backward. *facepalm*

I recently fought off a forgotten beast that uses deadly dust attacks. I knew such an attack would be devastating to a large group of dwarves, so I sent a single squad of legendary hammer lords to dispatch it (as opposed to two or three). Before they even struck one hit on the beast, it had insta-killed half the squad. Before the battle was over nine of the ten hammer lords lay dead. And, looking at the combat logs, I suspect the thing died in its own dust, not due to any injuries my dwarves gave it.

Are there any good ways to deal with beasts with deadly dust? This seems like a pretty cheap attack to me, but I have no doubt people have come up with ingenious and dwarvenly solutions to the problem.

I prefer to toss my excess animals off the top of a tower. Sure, it's only as fast as the dwarves can climb the tower, but the splash of body parts as the creature hits the floor is remarkably satisfying.

Ugh. A child just crafted an artifact. She started out with three blocks of raw adamantine, which was very promising. A short while later, I get a beautiful raw adamantine... mini-forge. It's not even very interesting:


It's worth 1,213,200 DB... but it's a useless mini-forge.

I had a dwarf lose an arm while fighting a pack of dralthas early on. He still managed to kill a few forgotten beasts before I noticed his injury and retired him to mining. Now he's a one-armed legendary miner who can dig with the best of them.

Odd. The constructed stairs utterly failed on my last embark, but it worked this time!

Hyndis: Ramps worked to get the dwarves to the bottom glacial layer, but they wouldn't continue digging from there. It was really strange.

In any case, everything is working properly now.

Yeah, I know, but then it still clashes with constructed walls.

Aha! I didn't know about the zoom. That solves everything. Thank you very much.