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A small hole in the caverns has killed at least a dozen dwarves, causing a tantrum spiral. All other threats are minimal, due to the danger room turning any threat the game can throw at me from notoriously relentless to laughably pathetic. I just killed an entire seige without a single military loss, not counting the baby carried into battle. Insanely, it was a team of crossbow goblins. You should have seen the amount of arrows the dwarves dodged. Apparently being jabbed with sticks for a couple minutes turns you into a master of Gun Kata.

So, the guy who killed the forgotten beast finally died.

The poison apparently worked in three stages: first a fever, then numbness, then getting randomly killed by a Draltha.

Then come full circle and release elves on the unicorn-riding monkey.

While my danger-room-trained dwarves killed a giagantic cycloptic spider without taking a single blow, an untrained marsdwarf without any bolts performed an equally impressive feat: killing a forgotten beast singlehandedly. To be fair, it was a quadroped made of mud, but it counts.

The greatest threat to my fortress so far, going by number of fatalities, has been a small hole in the ground. Due to a ramp and some rushing water, dwarves continually get sucked down there.

However, I have discovered adamnatine in the third cavern layer. Based on some warm stone, the magma sea is just below. I'll dump some water around the adamantine so I can dig out as much as possible.

Unbelievably, my fortress might survive. We had 3 survivors, locked in two different rooms. Two are resting injuries, the other is in prison. The walls and floors are coated with blood and filled with rotting bodies. The culprits are the two forgotten beasts who teamed up to rip my fortress a new asshole.

But migrants just arrived! And if I move swiftly, they might be able to seal off the fortress entrance, trapping the beasts inside! Then, I'll be able to dig out sections of the earth above the fortress, and crush the beasts to death in cave-ins!

Ya, this will work.

So, I figured an army of 10 unarmoured axedwarves could take down a forgotten beast. I'll never know if they could, but they definitely couldn't take on two at once. My fortress went from a population over 50 to a population of 4, literally in a couple minutes.

Quote from: Samuel on April 20, 2011, 08:24:09 pm

Why yes, I did set the number of beasts as high as possible during world gen, why do you ask?

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So which setting controls the number of forgotten beasts?

During world gen, at the screen where you set world size, number of civilizations etc. there should be an option for maximum muber of beasts.

Crank that shit to 11.

Holy shit.
I have, no bullshit, 3 forgotten beasts in the caverns. 3 different monsters that could each probably wipe out my fortress individually. Luckily, I've sealed off the caverns, and hopefully, they'll have an epic showdown, after which I can kill the survivor. As I was building the floors to seal off the caverns, a seige showed up, ready to test out my spear-bridges of falling, watery death.

I don't know what's about to happen, but I do know it's going to be amazing.

Addendum: Oh shit, my mayor is down there with 'em.