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Deciding to give Dwarven Daycare a run in this place? Or is that just standard procedure for you.

More standard-ish. They're kept in the "don't be stupid" burrow until they become peasants, and then they train as military dwarves/pump operators. If they have the soul aptitude, they might later be allowed to assume other needed roles (the most obvious being hospital work if they like helping people).

I've been enjoying a habit of heavily decorating anything and everything I have. I particularly like decorating weapons, but unfortunately the military uses those. here are some examples of things being used in my fort though

Not much else is going on. I just extended the personal rooms to house all the children that are growing up, which made for a possible back-door into my fort. I'm closing that as I type this.

Had a vile force of darkness arive, got excited. Yeah, it wasn't any more dangerous than a single ambush, and a single dwarfran off (against orders), flew around a wall, and killed the entire squad of goblins before reinforcements could arrive.

Quote from: kisame12794 on February 09, 2012, 08:15:15 pm

He means to drop LIVE goblins from really high up, so your dwarves can watch them splatter on the ground. They need to see violent death to "Not care about much anymore."

Ahh, That's a good idea! Goblins can be lead somewhere without breaking free if they're being sent to a pit, right?

Except master thieves, though I've found that having a cage trap or two to re-catch them if they escape allows your dwarves to take them on a second chance. To prevent being scared by goblins, it also helps to have trap doors over the pit entrance. See: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Mass_pitting

Training up a n ew generation of pump operators/military dwarves, and they're awesome. Also think I stumbled upon the source of military obesity - alcohol. I switched their drink supply to carrying water only, and after only a few months their descriptions are no longer referencing huge amounts of fat. They sound... just... in shape.

The buffer zone for gathering goblinite seems mostly irrelevant now too, as I have one squad patrolling at all times. The most green of the legendary squads, IE the one where the dwarves still aren't completely immune to tragedy, have a larger portion of the patrols. I find that tragedy translates just as well from being attacked and slaughtering a bunch of goblins. it seems to be working, as they're all more or less hardened now. Awesome.

My leather is starting to build up, and I'm debating starting a leather industry, where I actually breed a single type of animal and use their leather in my items. having all my military having a single type of leather backpack sounds awesome. I need to import something. Cow? Buffalo? Buffalo wins, I'll see if I can import some. IF not those, well, recommendations are welcome.

And then Im' thinking of finally emptying out all these goblin cages from years ago. Good for goblins, that they're able to survive without food, water, or care, for years. It's actually quite impressive. Anyways, I made a drowning chamber that should work pretty well, and I stationed one of the more amateur squads near the stockpile. This should also teach us whether water gets through cages. Science!

and then, I also have a very large amount of steel I'm not sure what to do with. 130 bars free actually, but it's too useful to put into crafts of studding. All my military have pretty full (within reason) armor sets, and I'd rather not put on multiple breastplates or greaves on each. Oh well, good for military expansion I suppose.

Lets see.. the rotting corpse tower didn't work as hoped. Can I even butcher goblin skeletons? I know I've done it before, but I'm not sure of certain conditions need to be met first. Any advice on this? Dumping all that crafting/decorating material seems like a waste of renewable resources.

My mayors keep cycling, but I repeatedly get demands for bismuth items. You can't make items out of bismuth. They're not happy, screaming "I want you to be creative!". Well sorry mrs mayor, every time we try something the craftdwarves say "bismuth sucks for makign items out of, can't do".

Well... that didn't go according to plan. I carefully picked out a sword dwarf to be a baroness. She was a masterful ans awesome person, what could possibly go wrong? Well, she was miserable about the 12 year old mayor having a better room than her (hold on a few months, we're making it!), and threw a tantrum. She killed 3 dwarves. She sent another one to be chained up, who later also went berserk and had to be put down. Then she went berserk herself and ran around killing some people. I had to draw in the spear dwarves to take her down.

I have full confidence we'll pull through this (I do have at least a few dwarves who basically can't be killed and don't really care about anything anymore). This is going to take a good amount of recovery time after this tantrum spiral burns out though.

EDIT: The tantrum spiral is still going on, and I discovered two things. If a person is chained when they want to start a fist fight, no problem, they can't reach their target. Also, farmers are notoriously evil for propagating tantrums, and teh vast majority of my farmers are now dead.

I've taken a liking to over-decorating my spare weapons. Apparently, I got a very fitting steel spear not only into the hands of a dwarf, but they named it. "Naturedboiled teh Lake of Squids". What's so awesome about it? it has a well-designed image if the dwarf ^^Ingish^^ and a chicken in bismuth bronze. ^^Ingish^^ is embracing the chicken. ^^Ingish^^ has so far had 34 kills with it.


Not much else is going on. I'm trying to create a buffer zone between the military and the defensible area so that I can gather more goblinite safely. Also, my first child finally grew to become a peasant. Yay. Now I need to figure out what my first fully trainable dwarf is going to do.