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I try to make my workshops out of as many different colors as possible, to the point where I will almost cause everything to die of thirst just to make my stills look different from the fisheries.

Quote from: Quietust on August 17, 2010, 01:53:54 pm

Trees are trees, as far as the Elves are concerned; it doesn't matter if they're deep underground and made of fungus - they'll be just as angry if you cut them down.

You mean: just as angry if you have them in stockpile when the Hippies visit? AFAIK, they really don't care how many you cut down... as lonbg as you use most of them up.

Well that's sensible. They just don't want Dwarves to be wasteful.

Still not going to stop me from seizing all their good and decapitating the merchants when they displease me.

Unless it's changed since 40d, it'll be CAN_SPEAK. Note that if you're not averse to changing the dwarf ethics, you can just swap the UNTHINKABLE under EAT_SAPIENT_KILL and EAT_SAPIENT_OTHER in the dwarf entity entry with ACCEPTABLE to allow sentient butchery on the whole.

(I presume you realise that merpeople already exist)

Yeah (though they're restricted to good biomes, which is annoying). Thanks for the info. Also, according to the wiki all harpies are female. I thought if a species was only one gender, they couldn't reproduce and would die off. Did this change at some point?

I hate the tamed ogre, that became mayor of my fortress. -.-

How could you let such a vile creature become mayor?!? Destroy it at once! It's probably arranging a secret deal with the Goblins, where it will "accidentally" leave the front gate open. Then the Ogres will invade your graveyard and make it their own personal clubhouse. 

What if I just built an artificial pond out of nether caps and then filled it with water? Would the water still freeze?

Gah, I should really breach the other cavern layers. Instead I have to keep mining bituminous coal since I only just found it on my embark site.

Giant Eagles.  Normally they're not so bad, but when one gets annoyed, you can say goodbye to any Dwarves on the surface.  They'd probably be a lot less annoying if crossbowdwarves knew how to use their weapons properly.

Yeah but at least in Vanilla Dwarf Fortress they can be turned into kickass war animals. Ogres can't be trained. They can't be butchered either. Also, one of the Ogres has earned the title "Princesstrap" for killing my Dwarves. Seems like an odd name.

That just means you need fuel (I think). You don't need 150 fuel, that's just an error.

Okay, the Ogres have the be allied with the goblins. It's the only explanation for their bizarre behavior. When they showed up on the map, I was glad for once. They would inevitably end up in a fight with the Goblins. Instead, they went in the opposite direction of the goblins. They went toward my megaproject and entered the mausoleum located beneath it. I feared that they were going to smash everything inside, but instead they're just hanging out inside. They've made it their own little Ogre hamlet. So now once I deal with the Goblins I'll have Ogres to fight. Though by this point that's par for the course.

Also after examining some of the feature of Dwarf Therapist I learned that only 3 of the original founders are still alive. In fact, almost all of the Dwarves from the forts early years have died. Now only the idiots that thought it was a good idea to visit our little slice of hell remain.

EDIT: The goblins finally left. However, not before one final insult to my Fortress. One of the swordsman didn't go with them. He stayed, and made his way into the Fortress since I didn't notice his presence. He took only one victim; my very last soldier. Since she was basically a cripple, she didn't put up a fight and was cut down almost instantly. Then, like a coward, the Goblin fled into the depths of my Fortress and proceeded to exit the map through the caverns. The only upside to this is that it revealed a flaw in my cavern defenses.