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I've created indoor plumbing! Ok, not really. I have however tapped the river at the top of the waterfall, channeled it through my fort, diverted it outside to my protected outdoor alcove where it makes a nice artificial lake and well, then sent it down several z-levels and back around into the river at the bottom of the waterfall. I can potentially have little ponds on many levels of my fort with ease. Next I'm working on EPIC MOAT. Normally, I carefully designate every channel block so dorfs don't imprison themselves. I thought this time I'd let them go for it... and they failed. One dorf REFUSES to leave the corpse of another miner (I guess. Can't explain his behavior otherwise!). He's dug himself SEVERAL up ramps. He'll happily do my bidding otherwise but absolutely refuses to leave the bottom of the moat.

During the moat building I had two ambushes, and quickly learned that my dorfs like getting stuck in infinite loops of "want to do X! Oh, can't do X because Outside is forbidden. I'll go back inside. Hey, I want to do X! Oh, can't do X because..." So then I have to cancel the skill associated with the job. Like, my miners kept wanting to build the MOAT. I had to remove them from mining so they'd go inside. I finally did get the drawbridge up... right as two dwarves walked over it. I don't know where they went... I didn't get reports of their deaths, so maybe the fall down the 8 z-level waterfall into the brook below didn't kill them. It is a mystery!

We're the first people recorded on the map site (http://die2nite.gamerz.org.uk/) to ever have made it this far (day 26). =D

That's odd, since I was sure Disturbed Plaine made it to day 26 first.

I'm part of The Disturbed Plaines, the #1 town currently according to the unofficial rankings board. We'll see how we do once we all finally die. But we're on day 20 with no serious concerns

http://die2nite.hoah.org/town

Turns out that I am not as excell

Quote from: The11th on January 17, 2011, 08:18:40 pm

My fortress is currently boring. Sitting at a stable population of about 170. Looking at the list of the dead.... a lot of it is babies and children <_<  Sieges happen, my hallway of death kills everything, and I go about life as usual. Half of the time caravans slaughter the sieges and then I take their goods muahahah. I have large outside fortifications encasing my above ground farms, a few ponds, and part of the brook. The outer fortifications are double-thick, and everything closes with floodgates, not doors. Mostly because I was getting that weird pathing error with doors so I just did away with them completely. I'm thinking of starting a new fort, somewhere... challenging.

Sounds like you need to do some science with ghosts, my pal.

That's what I'm thinking! Time for somewhere sinister muahaha.

My fortress is currently boring. Sitting at a stable population of about 170. Looking at the list of the dead.... a lot of it is babies and children <_<  Sieges happen, my hallway of death kills everything, and I go about life as usual. Half of the time caravans slaughter the sieges and then I take their goods muahahah. I have large outside fortifications encasing my above ground farms, a few ponds, and part of the brook. The outer fortifications are double-thick, and everything closes with floodgates, not doors. Mostly because I was getting that weird pathing error with doors so I just did away with them completely. I'm thinking of starting a new fort, somewhere... challenging.

Finally got to use my tunnel of death for an incoming ambush. It worked perfectly, if a bit slower than I anticipated. I got to watch as the invading goblins were washed down the winding tunnels until they got to the end stretch... which is filled with stonefall traps. Sufficed to say, the walls at that end are coated in blood. One unlucky goblin survived, only to spend several minutes waiting for the tunnel to completely fill with water and drown him. It was quite horrific!

Now I'm building a reservoir so I can drain the tunnel. Minor oversight on my part, but I'd like to reuse this thing.

A friend introduced me and got me set up in my first dungeon, told me about farming, etc. Then I read Boatmurdered and the wiki tutorials, and from there I've pretty much done my own thing.