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Building the mortuary temple component of the King's pyramid tomb and working through the massive backlog of forging jobs in order to start operating them more effectively.

A true dwarven baby is born liking liquor and hating fire snakes.

One of my most recent artifacts was a morganite armor stand worth 108,000, the highest to date...I haven't noticed any difference in the quality of my artifacts going on 10 years now.  It's possible they'll get even better now that we've got adamantine lying around.  I think in your case it may be a byproduct of a maturing fort; more dwarves mean more dwarves with crappy preferences and more junk lying around, which probably increases the chance that what they grab might be less valuable than in prior moods.

When one of my starting seven at the current fort Basinhalls died.  He was a legendary miner with nary a negative trait to his name and lots of friends and two loyal dogs as pets...but he fell prey to a forgotten beast let in due to his careless mining near our magma forges.  Even against the odds he still wounded it enough for a soldier in the area to take it down.

After that, I told the king to fuck off and dig his own tomb...Rakost Stakeblunted belongs in that one I built.

That's what I'm working on right now.  I got the baron-count-duke chain figured out and I should be getting the king soon; I think the arrival of the dungeon master might have something to do with the arrival of the king, but I'm not sure.  There's nothing in the raws that suggest it, but it's clear you need at least a baron for it to happen.  Back in 40d I believe it required a "feature" like a river or magma, but since this entire system has been revamped for 0.31 it's probably irrelevant.

I should be getting the king soon, so after that I'll keep an eye out for the dungeon master and the other nobles.

The noble research project is ongoing...up to the duchess with the king on the way.  Nobody else has showed up yet, but they may be contingent upon the arrival of the king.

I'll also need to take care of some humans after their diplomat mysteriously died on my embark (and his replacement showed up, successfully met with the baron, and left...).  Other than that, just cranking out wealth and upgrading my troops with adamantine armor.

Forgotten beasts have a tendency to show up like that when your fort is cranking out wealth, so if you settle in the caverns or...God forbid...mine out adamantine early on and turn it in to stuff you may find yourself attacked by forgotten beasts pretty frequently.  Thankfully, forgotten beasts generally are pushovers so long as their attacks don't have syndromes attached to them...I had a fort laid low by one beast's vapors (apparently the dwarves thought it was a good idea to eat food coated with the stuff) so they can really mess things up depending on the nature of their attack.

Now, surface titans on the other hand...nothing to worry about.  Dragons and hydras are only notable for making valuable soap.

Taking time off refreshes the game experience...especially when a new version comes out right in the middle of your hiatus.