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May I join?  I've been dying to try a succession game.

Aye, the mechanics of the weapon were spot on.

I've always made my silver into bolts and I've had good results but I've never really used anything better either.

I always bring a single cat, pair of wardogs, a jack and a jenny.
I always try and create a short backstory/character for each of the starting seven based on their description.  Sometimes I end up with a well balanced group, sometimes I end up with a ragged group of deserters fleeing weaponless and penniless into the wastes.
I have to build at least one spire of some kind and the summit must be of solid gold or platinum.
My temple to Armok must have a solid brass basin at the bottom.

I'm pretty neurotic, this list could be much longer...

Stone and soil layers can span multiple z-levels but that is the order of the layers in the ground.  It will be nestled between the mudstone and gabbro layers.

Other than letting the flier simply fly over the fortification if absent, the wall above it has nothing to do with it.  The only way I know of for any creature to get through a fortification tile is an occasional bug that lets fluid sometimes force creatures through.  Someone correct me if I'm wrong on that one.

Anyway, just remember to throw a ceiling on and you should be alright.

Quote from: Virex on September 29, 2010, 05:27:21 pm

Quote from: Org on September 29, 2010, 05:25:11 pm

I have something.

Prove that I am not the single, sentient being and the rest of you are figments of my dream world.

Define prove?

Demonstrate the truth or existence of (something) by evidence or argument

Solipsism?  What a pointless exercise when your hypothesis neither makes a single meaningful prediction nor is it falsifiable.

Notwithstanding the normal human foibles (cultural/racial chauvinisms, inaccurate records, general ignorance, etc) we all agree on the universe around us.  We share it.  Grass, green; sky, blue; gravity, 9.81 m/s2; and on and on and on.  It has an incredibly long lived history shared between countless independent entities (stars, galaxies, nebulae, Kimberella, Lucy, etc.) that all agree that the universe exists.  Is it possible that it all popped into existence last tuesday, perfectly set up to look old?  Yep.  Is it possible if the entire universe is in your head, a single night's dream?  Sure.  Is there any difference between them and a normal reality?  Not a bit.  Nada.  There is nothing in that question to test, nothing to prove, no new knowledge to obtain.

I've gotten to the point where I have to decide at any given time whether I need more walls or more stone furniture/blocks.  I just cannot get any work done on the latter if I'm also doing the former regardless of the number of masons.  Even if someone does man the workshop, it's much more likely it's some lye maker and he's going to take for bleeding ages to make 3 chairs then wander away to help build the walls some more.  Doing one or the other is really the only option I've found.

edit:  I keep forgetting about burrows!  Listen to JoRo