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I-I mus-st c-confess... 

In all that ~5 months of playing... Tons of fortresses cluttering the worlds... A-And I never found magma.
I fear digging deep.
I fear finding whats there.
I-I fear... THE DEEP!

In all t-that time of playing... I only reached a cave only one time... and then some minutes later, I abandoned that fort...



I'M DEEPNOFOBIC! I FEAR DIGGING DEEP!

If you want to find out what's down there, you can always start a fortress and immediately begin digging down. As long as your fort is young and tiny, you don't have anything to lose.

Besides, finding the magma sea doesn't necassarily mean unleashing the HFS. Just make sure you don't mine any adamantine.

On the other hand, silver warhammers are about equal to addy axes (when used by armored humanoids)

Thanks for the tip. It'd be handy if the Magmawiki had a chart of weapon effectiveness based on materials. Though I suppose it wouldn't be as Fun.


In other news, some !!SCIENCE!!: even being at the bottom of a lake of solid ice won't kill a creature in a cage. This is probably well known, but I was curious.

Turns out he wanted leather too, he just didn't request it.

Probably assumed it was self-evident that he'd need leather. Arrogant little shit.

Leave it to an elf to have a last name that contains the word "combat", but is still hilariously gay.

Nemo Tulipcombat.

I like to imagine him prancing about smacking dwarves in the face with a flower- before my ranger promptly put a crossbow bolt through his face.

I just, I kid you not, had a forgotten beast pull off a Big Damn Heroes moment. I was beseiged by goblins, my military was dead, my anti-goblin river-diverter was incomplete, and due to construction on the diverter, the waterfall in the meeting hall was dry. As morale dropped and the tantrum spiral started, I acted out of desperation and created a couple squads of civilains who were going to try and take on crossbowman and pikeman with their fists. Just as they charged out the door, a giant spider made of grime and filth showed up, wandered out of the caverns, and attacked the goblins! even managed to kill a couple before going down. I was later able to break the seige, and I don't doubt it was thanks to the valiant efforts of that hideous monster.

One I clean the piles of corpses out of the halls and possibly get this fortress back on it's feet, I'm building a monument to that thing.

All my nobles died (along with everyone but a single child, who luckily lived until a migrant wave) and now nothing appears on the nobles screen. There is no list, and I can't create a militia commander. How do I get the list back?

EDIT: The problem seems to be that I have no expedition leader. How do I get one of the migrants to accept the responsibility?

So, a forgotten beast slaughtered half the fortress. Unbelievably, I managed to get every singe dwarf inside and lock the door, with the forgotten beast outside (I will somebody remember that forgotten beasts can break down doors, but that's a story for another day). So the forgotten beast wanders about the feilds full of corpses and, unbelievably, decides to kick back and hang around the underground graveyard. Inspiration strikes and I designate the construction of a floor over the entrance, hopefully sealing the beast in. I delete the burrow over the fortress, unlock the doors, and let my mason go to work. Amongst the flood of dwarves running out with him... to carry the corpses to the graves... that the forgotten beast was standing on top of.

Yeah, my fortress died.