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I am fairly certain my insane dwarves outnumber the sane ones.

In rapid succession, I lost four dwarves to a forgotten beast, got my first fell mood, flooded my food stockpile (accidentally), a tantrum spiral started, my mayor went to prison for murder, and my captain of the guard spent too much time tantruming to keep the peace.

But other than that, everything is going splendidly.

An experiment involving dropping a giant piece of stone into a magma pit ended with a miner and a turkey on the bottom of the magma sea. Both were expendable.

Also, I've found multiple adamantine veins, so I'll be able to mine it out with less risk of letting the demons out (again).

Do berserk dwarves starve to death? Or do they not have to eat due to becoming an enemy?

A horse started attacking other animals, so I had to put it down. Horse sweetbread, anyone?

Question: Does grass worn down to sand ever grow back?

Pretty sure it does, yeah.


So, a Draltha killed one of my dwarves, earning it the name "Roofstrange" My militia, completely unarmed began wailing on it with their fists, incapacitating but not killing it. Eventually it woke up and ran to a cage trap, clearly willing to do anything to get the beating to stop. Luckily, this biome freezes in winter, so I tossed it into the river, still in it's cage, so the water freezing will drive it underground. Then I'll forget where I put it and it'll be stuck there for eternity.

I take inspiration for all my horrible punishments from Harlan Ellison.

Guys, I'm not sure how, but I just hit semi-molten rock before hitting any caverns. I... think my staircase missed all three cavern levels.

My security system to prevent cavern creatures running amok in my fortress is a landing on my staircase with 2 weapon traps. It's working very effectively, which, this being Dwarf Fortress, means it is now almost entirely covered in blood.