April 23, 2024: Dwarf Fortress 50.13 has been released.
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Of course, dragons reduced to hunting rats for food was pretty funny.
Thank you!
Would it be possible to add "has a Captain of the Guard" to the pre-requisites for a mayor showing up?
It might also be worth going through the other nobles, in case something else like that pops up.
I was a little disappointed that I was able to strangle a hydra to death. Things like hydra and ettins should be almost impossible to strangle because of their multiple heads/necks.
When your adventurer is tough enough, higher level townsfolk (elite bowmen, swordsmasters, etc) will join you. Unfortunately, this also applies to the nobles who give you quests. So now, the guy who gave me the quest to kill some elite bowman is tagging along to do it himself.
Incidentally, the level after "Extremely Strong" is "Mighty".
The key was the spear throw; if I hadn't wounded it so badly right away, I'd have been in trouble. I barely avoided the first breath attack because I was at the very edge of its range. If it had been conscious and able to breathe again when I got closer, things would have been bad.
Lesno Muffindances would have become Lesno Muffinbaked.
Missile weapons may be a bit overpowered; I'm only a Dabbling Thrower, but I've been killing things in one hit, in addition to crippling a dragon.
I was disappointed the dragon didn't leave a huge pile of treasure. Maybe I didn't explore deep enough into the cave system.
code:The dragon breathes fire!
The spinning ®ðiron spearð¯ strikes The dragon in the head!
It is pierced!
The dragon's right eye has been poked out!
The dragon's left eye has been poked out!
The dragon's nose has been badly pierced!
The dragon's brain has been pierced!
The snakeman has burned up in dragon fire.
The dragon gives into pain.
The dragon falls over.
You hack at The dragon in the upper body with your ®ðbronze short swordð¯!
The shot glances away.
You hack at The dragon in the right rear claw with your ®ðbronze short swordð¯!
The shot glances away.
You grab The dragon by the throat with your left hand!
You place a chokehold on The dragon's throat with Your left hand!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
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You strangle The dragon's throat!
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The snakeman punches You in the left lower leg from behind with her right hand!
The shot glances away.
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
The snakeman bites You in the left upper leg from behind!
The shot glances away.
You strangle The dragon's throat!
The snakeman misses You!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You grab The snakeman by the left lower arm with your right lower arm!
The dragon regains consciousness.
The snakeman misses You!
You lock The snakeman's left elbow with Your right lower arm!
The snakeman punches You in the right upper arm with her left hand!
The shot glances away.
You badly sprain The snakeman's left elbow!
The snakeman misses You!
You badly sprain The snakeman's left elbow!
You release the grip of Your right lower arm from The snakeman's left lower arm.
You release the grip of Your left hand from The dragon's throat.
You hack at The snakeman in the upper body with your ®ðbronze short swordð¯!
It is mangled!
The snakeman's left lung has been pierced!
The snakeman's heart has been pierced!
The snakeman's liver has been badly cut!
The snakeman is propelled away by the force of the blow!
The snakeman slams into an obstacle!
The snakeman gives into pain.
You hack at The snakeman in the upper body with your ®ðbronze short swordð¯!
It is cloven asunder!
The snakeman is propelled away by the force of the blow!
The snakeman slams into an obstacle!
The snakeman has been struck down.
The dragon stands up.
You hack at The snakeman in the head with your ®ðbronze short swordð¯!
It is cut!
The snakeman misses You!
You hack at The snakeman in the right hand with your ®ðbronze short swordð¯!
It is broken!
You hack at The snakeman in the right lower arm with your ®ðbronze short swordð¯!
It is badly gashed!
The snakeman misses You!
You counterstrike!
You hack at The snakeman in the upper body with your ®ðbronze short swordð¯!
It is broken!
The snakeman's heart has been pierced!
The snakeman's liver has been mangled!
The snakeman is propelled away by the force of the blow!
The snakeman gives into pain.
You grab The dragon by the throat with your left hand!
You hack at The dragon in the head with your ®ðbronze short swordð¯!
The shot glances away.
You adjust the grip of Your left hand on The dragon's throat.
The dragon gives into pain.
The dragon falls over.
You place a chokehold on The dragon's throat with Your left hand!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
The snakeman has bled to death.
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
You strangle The dragon's throat!
Ricote Le˜aŠbire, dragon has bled to death.
You pick up the ®ðiron spearð¯ with your left hand.
33 dwarves, 79 edible food. We need a good season at the harvest if we're going to survive the winter.
A jeweler wants to make an artifact, but he's got a desire for diamonds, which I doubt I'm even close to finding. Nonetheless, I'm digging up every rough gem I can find, just in case he's willing to settle.
Wood is becoming scarce near the entrance. I'm reluctant to send the woodcutter too far afield, where unicorns and elephants roam. The critters tend to follow them back to the fortress, and Plan Crossbow hasn't exactly panned out, due to the utter lack of bones.
Unless the autumn caravan is really nice and gives me the weapons I need, I may just take a little risk and try crossing the cave river a bit earlier than I want to.
When possible, she prefers to eat cow."
I survived the immigrant rush by making them all stone haulers/farmers to clear space and then make new farm plots. We ended up as low as two food at one point, but it's up into the 60's now in midsummer.
I've started work on the eastern part of the road, simply because I have laborers standing around idle. I also had a craftsman make some stonecraft so I'll have something to trade come autumn. Due to lack of turtle bone, I've been using some of my copper ore to make crossbows. Wood probably would have been better, in retrospect, but the copper vein was so rich I felt I should use it. Still, it takes two wood to make one copper crossbow, and only one wood to make a wood crossbow, right?
The current expansion project is increasing the size of the farm area to make room for next year's immigrants. The current development project is setting up rooms for the inevitable nobles.
I have some undeveloped silk; I should consider a clothesmaker's shop, and a loom to subsequently supply it.
I botched the floodgates pretty badly, even managing to drown a dwarf. But the river flooded just right, and we have plenty of workable soil--more than double what we had last spring, and more once the stones are cleared out. I'll tinker with the gates again next winter.
We struck malachite in mid-winter, and have started work producing charcoal for smelting. Copper weapons aren't my preference, but we caught exactly zero fish last year, so we lack bones. Hunting for elephants and unicorns is hard enough WITH crossbows, so they're not a practical source of bone.
Our mason is producing + quality furniture now, and everyone is in a pretty good mood. Assuming they don't get piggy and eat our leftover winter supplies before the harvest, things look good.
I haven't yet risked the elephants' wrath by building a road to the west, so no human caravan. We'll wait for the autumn dwarves.
Eight migrants arrived, bringing the population to 14. This is just about perfect; I'm pretty confident I can feed 14, and the extra workers will make expansion faster.
The immigrants:
1 mason
1 craftsdwarf
1 fisherdwarf
2 farmers
1 mechanic
2 peasants
Rampaging elephants are starting to worry me (one seriously injured a merchant bodyguard), so I've accelerated the process of moving industry indoors. The mason, carpenter, furniture stockpile, wood stockpile, and stone stockpile will move inside for starters. In addition, it's time to add a jeweler and a gem stockpile for the gems that are accumulating on the floor.
The only metal I've seen so far is a tiny bit of copper on the cave river bank to the north, and some copper and silver on the far bank to the south. Neither is easily accessible, so I'll bide my time and continue to clear out the closer areas.
Come winter, the most important task will be adjusting my floodgates to (hopefully) set up a reliable farming system.
