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I'm back. Don't sign me on yet, though. I'd like to view how this goes first.

Uh, bad news guys. I'd rather not discuss why, but the computer's now unavailable for the next 2 days (said incident also wiped out the summer to autumn season in Portal Priests. Should have saved more often...). I'm using a friend's iPad for this.

So go ahead and continue the succession. Apologies for this... I'll make it up later.   

Eh, was about time.

There was one dinosaur mod, where the dinosaurs can seriously mess your shit up. Enemy civs were raptors, T rexes and brontosauruses were megabeasts. You had very primitive weapons, and the enemies had tough skin to pierce. Sadly it was in 40d. I'll go hunt down a link.

Check their quivers.

I would rather not waste too many animals, so war animals only. Too many animals make it hard to clean up.

Alchemist skill does not matter. My alchemists were useless peasants (a potash maker and a novice clothier, I believe). Have a quantum stone dump next to them, and only conduct alchemy experiments in magma labs. Most of the time, you'll just receive useless copper, silver or gold. Occasionally mithril, and rarely ectoplasm (for banshee funeral rites) and ether. Alchemists always get sick from over exposure, and will barf all over the place. They might occasionally die from the rarer but deadlier symptoms, so alchemy skill does not matter.

Keep in mind to put it at a distance from other things. My two alchemy labs have a channel, two sets of doors, and a raisable drawbridge between them and the other magma workshops.

Oh... Looks like I'll have to rely on them voidshard daggers early on again.

 Still, one of my luckiest fortress ever, beating even that other fort where I got a high master grower and high master mason in the first migrant wave- when the first unlucky peasants who got conscripted to bealchemists first arrived, the third alchemist experiment yielded a mithril bar, and the fourth got me something to perform a banshee rite, getting me an ether statue.

 Then the next mood got me a alder statue worth as much as the ether one. Then here's what I got for the next few moods: an iron artifact mace (better than iovium? Cuz I mined out all the small pockets of it, and I've got 10 bars of it, plus 3 abyssmal eyes, so I'm currently contemplating what to do), an iron reactive breastplate (how good are these, and what does the 'reactive' mean?). Then my luck ran out and I got an artifact craft, and then the master armor prodigy died of a mood cuz I have no yarn(He was gonna make something awesome with a mithril bar!  ).

 Savants should show what their good at when you view their skills.

Well, their good in-game, but isn't it the actual case in real life? In real life, a pick would do better against armor than swords or spears, and better than hammers against helmets and skulls. So maybe picks are meant to be like this, as opposed to being an overpowered, bugged weapon (like whips)? And they do have disadvantages, such as how swords are faster.

Correct me if I'm wrong. I'm quite unlearned on these things.