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Just abandoned Deatharches.  Volcano, woodland, brook, dolomite - everything a dwarf could want.

Despite having coal, magnetite and flux, steel production was fraught, as the industry never quite gelled... Despite all on [r], always running pout of one component at the worst time...

But despite a kick-arse wall and cage traps coming out my ears, I was killed seven times by goblins, scumsaving each time, to see if I could survive any longer.  Nope.  Incompetent militia, dwarves falling down holes into the reservoir and a horse foal killing TWO animal trainers, it was as though the fortress was cursed, or at least, living up to it's name.

And just before it crumbled, a gemcutter did manage to produce a nice opal window, so it didn't all go wrong...

Re the FB levels - while not 'broken' it would be nice to be able to 'eyeball' the likelihood of mass dwarf slaughter, tantrum spiral, and fall of the fortress from something more than whether the FB is made out of something soluble or edible...

I just lost a fun (in the real sense of the word) fortress to an FB that was almost identical to the previous - a giant hairless snail, one with a fiery breath, the other with a paralysing spit .... The first one was killed by a macedwarf and a kitten.  The second killed half the squad, and paralysed the rest, resulting in them starving, etc; next thing the mayor is strangling a child in the dining room...

Anyway, got the Upright Sword a few fortresses ago, and managed to get it, to see what would happen. 

So, lots of rock in the upper fort, a castle of obsidian bocks planned, and magma forges some 10 levels down.

Bar stockpiles next to the forges have blocks turned off.

Right next to the masons that's churning out blocks in the upper fort is a stockpile for blocks, with bars turned off. Interestingly, despite having nothing but orthoclase and obsidian within 5 levels, there's a lot of microcline being shaped...

$##%^& dwarves still cart the blasted blocks halfway across the fort, filling up the bar stockpiles and stocking them a long way from the castle construction, while the adjacent block stockpile stays empty.

Any ideas, suggestions, etc?

I had a long-term mayor on a 5 year long fort, who liked adamantite, slade, large gems and ballista arrows. 

In all that time, all she asked for were ballista arrows, and an occasional ban on exporting large gems.

Compared with what it could have been...

Atu the Goblin has spent the last three years living under my bridge.  It's completely sealed with walls on all sides, and the bridge on top - he fell in during a frenzied assault, and I thought he'd starve or die of thirst, or mould, or something...

Nope.  Still fat, too.  He's got 9 squares to pace around in, a tree, a rotten troll's left leg, the skeleton of another goblin, and a pile of giant copper armour and weapons.  I assume he licks dew off the tree.  Or is still chewing on that leg...

I imagine he's got the skeleton dressed up in the troll ware and holds conversations with it...  How come merchants go made after a season locked away, but he's fine?

Also a sad FB, composed of red sand, with wings.  After a panicked scramble of all my squads as he flew over my walls, the first shot with an axe cut it in half...

Drunkenbridges survives, with over 2000 booze - I set a magma forge on Barrel [R] and the brewers on Brew [R] and didn't look there for two days...

There's a goblin trapped under the bridge, out of atom smashing range but trapped.  And he's only got one arm.  Hope he dies of thirst soon, although I have a feeling goblins don't need food or water.

And my militia commander has just mustered for duty with three splinted limbs.  That's commitment.

Also had the worse ambush ever - four kobolds leapt out at a human merchant, and the one guard killed them all. At least I'll get a good price for their loincloths...

I'm trying a well planned and organised fort this time - inspired by the random gen'ed name "Drunkenbridge" I planned for a bridge, and it led from there.

First moody dwarf was a possession, at the same time as 25 migrants appearing on the other side on the major river.  Anyway, in the confusion, he grabbed a leatherworks, two bolts of leather, and made....
 

It sets the tone of the fortress perfectly...

Bravenet has reached the insanely busy part, as under-represented professions go moody (I've got two glass forges, as when someone occupies one, they invariably want whatever glass I don't have), goblins invade (a little goblin-on-goblin violence was enlightening - any ideas what's going on? (Details below)), the elves have finally turned up and want blood, or sap or something, and I've just discovered a "curious underground structure" peopled with undead slugmen and tigermen.... I don't think I'll explore it yet...

Two ambushes turned up side-by-side, on the other side of my artificial lake, and while I was watching the dwarven caravan deal with the third ambush, on the other side of the map, I noticed combat reports while no fighting was happening - zoom in on it, and the two northern ambushes have slaughtered each other, leaving a one-armed macegoblin who wandered into a trap...

Still, I've got coal, and have just found gold, silver and copper in a granite layer between caverns one and two, so that's a good addition, and I built my main bridge over the gorge with a substantial overhang, and invaders tend to gather on the edge and then get squashed.  Good fun. 

But either the elves, the goblins, or the undead party in the basement will get me - I wonder which....