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I build no catacombs.

All my dead are put into stone coffins that I place in depleted ore veins. If one of the veins is filled I close it with a wall.
Soldiers that die in honorful combat (so no guards that get killed by a kobold thiefs or honey badgers they are assigned to kill), dorfs I consider heroes and other important dorfs (legendary smiths for example) do also get slabs that are placed in my forts main hallways.

Could it be that you have to allow your dorfs to gather refuse thats lying around outside?

The best random combination I have ever gotten was the fortress "Fistbattles" founded by "The Angry Beards".

Also, I once had the quest in adventure mode to kill a Minotaur named something "Rapefondled" who lived in the "Caverns of Screaming"... wtf...

Quote from: Cyroth on August 29, 2011, 07:34:58 am

Blunt weapons (hammer and mace) and shields should be made from steel, because adamantine is far too light to deal any blunt damage (and dwarves love to shieldbash)

Hammers and maces should be made from silver.  Shields should be made from copper.  However, Cyroth was correct for his reasoning.

I know that much, but the question was only about steel or candy

My favorite style is to embark on mountains and dig out several towers, all connected by bridges and walkways.

The tower in the center is usually the entrance, 15 - 20 or more levels filled with barracks, fortified walls or several level high halls that have fortifications on the upper levels with marksdwarves behind.
The other towers have stockpiles on the upmost levels (or generally on the level where the walkway/bridge connects), workshops in the next lower level, then a dinning hall and finally bedrooms for the workers of that tower at the bottom.
One tower exists as the gateway to the cavern levels, it is designed like the entrace tower, but "reversed" and with the additional option to completely seal it with several bridges (I don't do that on the entrance tower).

My playstyle is extremely militant, usually about 80% of my population are soldiers, and only 1 or 2 dwarves for each civillian profession exist in my forts. Traps are rarely used, and mechanical deathtraps are only constructed for the lulz, never as a real way to defend myself.

I just genned a world... I'm not sure what to think...

"The Empire of Cake"? Join them. NAO!

This is so awesome, suicidal dangerous and needlessly complicated that I just HAVE to try one of those in my next fort.


Maybe in my next cave challenge I'll use them to drop the migrants into my fortress. The survivers can stay, the others will have to... err... die.

If I remember correctly candy clothing gets damaged after a time, like normal clothing does. So it would be an utter waste of perfectly fine candy.