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Roving groups of capybaras happily swimming the local ponds and weasels.

Capybaras swimming in weasels?

 

Urist McLegend cancels life: Bored

Seriously, those dwarves are ridiculous. I usually just give up on the bad cases, and cut my losses. Maybe I shouldn't.

I always wait for it to crumble for two reasons.

It seems more Dwarfly to wait for everyone to die than to give up because it's going poorly.

Also, if you abandon, the dwarves in your fort are likely to show up at your next fort in the same world as migrants. If any of them are insane or really upset or coated in poisonous slime, they'll just restart the trouble you had in the last fort again.

A couple of them dodged into the moat when I sent my soldiers after them. They technically died of dismemberment, but there was water involved.

Is that good enough?

I've always suspected that step-efficiency for dwarves was inversely proportional to FPS-efficiency for the fort.

This seems to bear that out.

Wow, I'm wrong a lot.

In my defense, probability seems to have thrown me for a loop here. My current fort has 12 artifacts and I've had zero secretive moods.

If you want doors or other workshopped items to be made of a particular material, you need to make sure that the closest building materials to that workshop are of the kind you want. Either put a stockpile right next to it set to only hold the things you want, or forbid all of the other kinds of stone or whatever (pretty hard with stone, since you're always making more).

Also, remember that the check to see what is closest doesn't recognize that you might need to go 50 steps to a stair, go down it, then go 50 steps back to get a stone directly under the workshop - the dwarf just sees that it's one square away vertically and goes for it.

It's much more likely that the last person to have the save accidentally or on purpose abandoned the fort.

You can reclaim the site, starting over with 7 new dwarves and the ability to resettle that fort, or you can start from the save previous to the last person's turn and undo their whole turn to unabandon the fortress.

If the person who abandoned the fort had autosave with backups turned on, you could grab the last autosave and salvage most of their turn, being careful not to abandon at the end.

Alright, so, the glass FB wasn't too bad to kill. Once it climbed out of the magma, it got beaten on mercilessly by my military and eventually shattered apart.

While I was fighting it, another two FB's showed up, one made of peat and one of almandine.

The peat one went to pieces just by looking at it, and the almandine one was actually easier to dismember than the glass one.

Now I've got a pile of really weird body parts in my bone/shell/tooth/horn stockpile.