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I think massive dismemberment deaths are always pretty damn funny.

One of my favourite adventurer deaths was when I got a quest to go kill a titan. I had a good advantage early on in the fight, but that all ended when the massive beastie managed to grab me. I imagine his last thoughts went something like this.

"Ha! He's bleeding, and all he can do is grab me by the arm and ohgodwhyisthatpillarflyingatm-"

Part 69 of my LP is up.

You know what I was epexcting to arrive? Migrants. Haven't gotten migrants in a long time. But of course that isn't what happended. Putting serious consideration into building a magma pump.

I think, at this point, my dwarf's first word would be "Doom!".

Remember last siege when somebody suggested an underground maze that would be used to lure the siegers in, after which it would be flooded? I think it would be your best bet as of now. You'd have to figure out a way to get ALL the siegers in there at once, and then have a way to block the entrance and exit that can't be destroyed by trolls. You pretty much just have to remain firmly walled-in until it's complete, and have a brave suicidal lucky dwarf open it to the surface. Once the deathtrap is airtight, just connect it to the ocean and you've got a successful slaughter.

Plus you don't really have the kind of terrain that would allow magma flooding. You'd risk obsidianizing the moat and creating a walkable path across it. That'd be bad.

I don't think I've ever been in a game community that was this obsessed with specific numbers. Not that I'm surprised.

Off-topic question. How do you count in base 1?

Have a tame Giant Cave Spider chained up behind a wall of cage traps. Trap-immune creatures will still get hit by a trap if they get webbed on top of one, and thus you can easily (depending on the kind of FB) catch a Forgotten Beast this way.

Would a setup like this work?

#########.#
#^^^^^^^^^#
#.#########
#^^^^^^^^^#
#########.#
#^^^^^^^^^#
#.#########
...........
....S......
S = Giant Cave Spider
# = Fortification
^ = Cage Trap
. = Open Space
The FB comes from the top, and has to go through all these corridors of fortifications filled with cage traps, while the spider shoots webs with impunity.

I... tend to focus on one aspect of my fort while leaving all other aspects horribly underdevelopped. One fort had a vast, prolific farming area and a militia consisting of around 20 hobos with sticks. Or the one time I had every military dwarf clad in steel, each with their own engraved rooms and tombs, while the rest of my dwarves had barely any food or drink and slept in the hospital.

I usually go with the 'quantity over quality' approach to trade goods. Sure, a masterwork platinum scepter encrusted with star sapphires is worth a lot... but a few bins of random stone junk is much easier to make, and will achieve the same effect. I just hate micromanaging my trade goods so Urist McGemsetter won't stick my valuable baubles on ropes and socks.

I love plump helmets. Most of my farms, when not producing pig tails or quarry bushes, will be making plump helmets. This often results in having hundreds and hundreds of plump helmets in my food stockpile, and my dwarves getting sick of dwarven wine. I hardly ever grow sweet pods, dimple cups and cave wheat, even for booze.

While I usually avoid trap gauntlets ( and almost never build cage traps ), I'm not above placing a few here and there to deter goblin thieves, and to potentially soften up invaders before my military descends (ascends? I mean, they're in a cave) upon them.

When I breach the cavern, I usually wall off the ground-accessable parts, but I leave the lakes alone. So while I'm safe from wandering trogs and crundles, Forgotten Beasts and other aquatic/amphibious creatures can still find their way into my fort. This ensures lots of Fun without the common annoyance of having to deal with interrupting cru-

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Forbid all of your soap except for those reserved for hospital use.

Punching in the Konami code gives each of your dwarves 30 lives, a Īsteel machine gunĪ and a =rope reed bandana=.