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On-Topic for this thread: Hot chocolate and Megaman ZX music on repeat.

On-Topic for this conversation: The best horror movies are the movies that make fun of horror movies, and/or those that include the Teletubbies. Extra points if they throw in Barney dual-wielding chainsaws.

I have not understood a single phrase used in this thread in the past 3 pages or so. Whooo, I haven't even hit 30 and I'm behind the times!

Embark with 2 miners, a woodcutter, a forager, an architect/mason, and 2 other guys who do just about everything else.

Dig a 1-space-wide tunnel as my entrance tunnel; dig out a space next to it to serve as the "gobbo-sniping" area. Do this while woodcutter is deforesting the map and forager is gathering every berry in sight.

Channel-stairs down a few z-levels, then start work on the real fort - a general storage area with a few max-size "anything goes here except food and booze" stockpiles along with all the non-farming shops, a farming area on a different z-level with the food stockpiles, booze stockpiles, and all the farming/butchering workshops. Add a dining room, and maybe personal rooms. Since most of the fort-digging is complete, designate a miner as the manager/bookkeeper. Give the architect/mason his own mason's workshop and have him start churning out rock blocks and furniture. Any migrants that show up get thrown into the "you guys do everything the miners and architect don't" group. Add military made out of the most useless of the general group. Start making stuff necessary for a comfortable fort.

Then start work on destroying it all.

I support this.

 recently I ran into a FB composed of snow, and I was in a freezing biome. It felt ... it felt relevant and cool.

I see what you did there.

Congratulations, you have had your first encounter with Dwarf Stupidity.

You see, dwarfs have this odd tendency to ignore anything that's not a dwarf until they can see it, in which case they will cancel whatever they're doing and run in miscellaneous directions.  Thus, if that zombie deer was right outside the entrance to your fort, your dwarfs will go outside to fish/mine/do stuff, see the deer, and run around like morons.

As for the military, they were all probably sleeping, eating, or getting booze. Military dwarfs have a tendency to be lazy like that.

Started a new fort in 31.18, and was actually smart enough to be capable of transferring my mods over to the new version this time.

4x2 embark, river, volcano. Name: Stablepulleys.

Let's see how long it takes for !!FUN!!.

Quote from: LoveMachine on November 14, 2010, 02:45:40 am

Right.  I was thinking about airlocks in the traditional sense.  As opposed to a deadly hole in the ground half filled with water designed to ensure that only the luckiest of suicidal acrobats can get into your fortress.

What could be dwarfier?

Magma. Now only the luckiest fireproof acrobats can enter the fort.

Starting a secondary fort.... named Hellfork. Founded by the Forks of Hell.

This should be interesting.