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That's great to know.

Often when awaiting the first caravan of traders, I set a mass order of encrusting, and often end up with one mug holding almost all the gems, and none on the others.

Trading with one mug worth more than all my other trinkets is a lot simpler but not as satisfying...

He's gone mad - good thing I chained up a war leopard next to him...

But he only had 4 things on his list, none repeated, and anyway, I have several hundred of all metals on the map and the same number of blocks (preparing for something mega) - he already had the iron bars, cut gems and silk cloth, so this one was a little strange.

Oh, well.  Someone will clean the blood away sometime...  And given his likes, it would have been an iron quern...

I had some idea, but I thought the 'secret stuff' was something UNDER the clowns...

One of my first forts - 31.15? - embarked on a site with an open pillar of blue stuff.  When you get evil laughs from hell as soon as you unpause, you know something's wrong.  That ended very badly.

And then there's the time I found a very, very expensive sword in my stocks, but 60 levels down.  So I decided to go and get it.  It was an experience - a painful one, but an experience...

WHAT IS IT WITH THE SOCK FETISH!?!?

And even worse is the name - so disturbing on many levels, especially when you consider IT'S A SOCK!!!

Couragetools looked good - sandy plain with short volcano, and magma surface 1 z level down.

Channel out a bit of the volcano for building rock (I want a castle around the volcano) Tobar the Miner somehow manages to cause a collapse and finds both a lava lake and raw shiny stuff, under 40 levels of magma...

It's hard with only one miner.  This may be the first fort in a very long time I'll be glad to see migrants...

Still, I'm paving over the magma surface, and will have copper and glass weapons soon.  Possibly with only 6 dwarves.

Ceilingcat has crumbled, but rather fittingly, it was overcome by 40 or so elite White Tigermen.

The Bridge Protecting Us From Invasion didn't work, as, strangely, a Rhino was standing on it.  Which makes sense if you've played enough forts.

I've also removed the Fortress Defence Mod, as some invasions are good, but I was getting a rather large Vile Force of Darkness every season, right after a merchant appeared.  See merchant - activate burrow was how it worked.  It's hard to run a fort when invaded that often...

I'm thinking of building new fort entirely out of microcline but I'm not exactly sure if it's going to hurt my eyes too much

Better than my attempt with cinnabar and olivine...

Anyway, the name of my latest fort both disturbs and amazes me;



How can I live up to this name? Or should I not even attempt to get there?

Frankly, all that's outstanding at the moment is the sheer amount of dead lungfish refuse, which is overwhelming the entire fortress...

Deathcrafts passed it's 7th year rather quietly.

I've had so many sieges that the names started repeating (up until siege 5, they were numbered Attempted Abductions, but since then, the Siege of Squeezing (twice), the Onslaught of Maws (twice) and the Angry, Crazed and Slaughtering Sieges (once each).

But 18 months ago, they stopped.  Merchants started being able to reach me, and the only 'siege' in that time was three bowgoblins with a speargoblin leading them.  They could only reach my fort through the Trapped Tunnel of Doom (tm) but wandered around a bit on the other side, then left.  Then a slightly larger group arrived, killed one of the merchant's guards and then left.

My Militia are feeling neglected, and the odd Crundle, and Elk Bird aren't doing too much.  I've modded it to have 100 as the top population - could that be limiting assaults, or have I worn them out?