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Happy belated birthday Deon!

I'm finally seeing some military reach elite. Had a minotaur arrive in year 8 that just wandered around outside looking lost so I sent out my squads and reading the combat report was fun. 6 pages, and all he was able to do was make 3 attacks, one was dodged and two were blocked with shields. My brave bat family (all of my military dwarves are named after Batman and his allies) took him down with no trouble at all.
Everyone is finally in all steel, and I still have more hematite than I know what to do with. I'm thinking steel statues everywhere.
I haven't yet explored the caverns. I can view the small parts my shaft to the magma sea intercepted, and I know there are three forgotten beasts down there (one with a syndrome that leaves pools of gunk *everywhere*) but up to this point I haven't needed the resources and with Genesis the aboveground takes a lot more of my time. I really don't want to lose my fort to a syndrome.
I lost a Dunedweller caravan to a combined beastman/demon siege, but that yielded a bunch of free stuff so not too big of a problem. Dwarves didn't come this year though, which was really odd as they made it away safely last year.
With all the flux and hematite I think I'll be the arms supplier to the civilized world. Wouldn't it be great if by you trading masterwork steel weapons and armor to the world that over time the good guys would become stronger and come to dominate the bad guys. That would be a cool change to the world as a result of your efforts.

I'm thinking of the ancient Romans and how they would parade captured enemies through the streets of Rome after a victory. While we can't "parade" in game, I am thinking of creating a hall where all my citizens can see the panoply of captured bad guys. Maybe one or two each of centaur, goblin, demon of pain/lust, lizardman, scavenger, beastman.

I'm only hesitant because I know that zoos give bad thoughts to dwarves that don't like the particular animal on display and I wouldn't want any of my guys to get bad thoughts due to seeing an enemy, which I don't know if they do or not.

The rest will go into the pit. 15z levels this time. I'm very proud of it.

Entering into year 6, my current desert fort (finally found saguaros!) is going strong. I have a 25 strong dwarf army, split into 5 weapons-specific squads of 5 (Spiked Mace, Crossbow, Spear, Axe, Bow). They all have either steel or copper (in Genesis, copper is almost the best metal for blunt) weapons, and I'm working on steel armor, until I can find spoilerite or make mithril/black steel/red steel. Just got magma industry up with a few smelters, forges, crucibles, and a blast furnace.

For the first time ever getting rid of amassed stone isn't a problem, as I have two legendary stonecrafters working round the clock, and all my haulers have masonry (I like to build a lot outside) and I have a couple mason's workshops that only allow those with less skill than proficient to use them pumping out blocks round the clock as well.

So far tangled with a few beastmen, lizardmen, centaurs, and demons of pain/lust attacks, some kobold and mind flayer thieves, but strangely no goblins except for snatchers. A scavenger diplomat showed up (as far as I can tell) dead on arrival at the edge of the map, but the Nord diplomat made it in (which is fortunate, because I like those guys and wouldn't want to war with them).

I'm about ready to delve into the Genesis "training" workshops such as the library, and military training dummies. Should be fun. So far haven't done anything in the caverns but create a secure water supply since there is none aboveground (thank goodness it was in top cavern), but the sylvan diplo yelled at me for cutting down too many cacti, so I need to wall off a mushroom tree farm down there. I didn't think I cut down too many cacti...there aren't that many to begin with and I import most of my wood.

Locked my Baroness up until she died of thirst because she was tantrum-ing and it was too late to make her happy. One of these days I will really attempt to keep nobles happy, but not today I guess.

Therapist - consoler. The one that handles unhappy dwarves if your leader is busy (Psychiatrist?). Counts as a Noble.
Dungeon Master - Handles the taming of exotic beasties (Unsure if this is really true, everything can be trained in Genesis.) Does not require any knowledge on animal training. Counts as a Noble and has high requirements.

Steel caste = warriors. Use them or you'll have a hard time surviving.

Yeah, they both are. I just wish I had more than 2 of them.

Looks like based on what you're saying the Dungeon Master doesn't do anything and has high requirements. Guess I'll skip on him. As for the therapist, then I'll just look for someone with high social skills, pacifying. Probably a Jade caste.

Also I believe that extending ores so that they spread more naturally without being confined by the invisible "squares" is coming soon in the dev log. It might not be in the next release, but I'm fairly certain that it won't be too long after that before it gets added in.

Sounds awesome. I can't wait!

Looking to create a good Genesis world, but need some help. I know what the settings do (most of them) but I ruined more than one world changing them too much, so would like to know useful limits. If you folks could give advice on subtle changes to the AWG to move toward what I am looking for below I would appreciate it.

I assume for Genesis to get all the races you need all the biomes (dunedwellers need deserts, ect.) so that's necessary.

I like large worlds with minerals everywhere. I would like a world with more than average mountains, more than average temperate (maybe leaning slightly warm to reduce the number of freezing water in the winter embarks), and more than average medium savagery. Lets say 60% moderate, 20% good, 20% evil, and 20% savage, 20% calm. (temp should follow that pattern as well, 60% slightly warm, 20% each hot and cold ranges).

I like larger, more open caves. When the setting for cavern openness is expressed as 0-100 in the AWG, does that mean it randomly picks a number and applies that to the whole world, or does it randomly pick a number for each and every embark square that could be different? I usually change openness from the base of 0-100 to 50-100 and density from 0-100 to 0-50. Is that too much of a change or maybe even not enough (for fertile (that is, plants everywhere), wide open caverns with a high % chance of underground lakes)? I don't need it to be obscene (100 openness, 0 density), just nicely more open and less dense than vanilla.

I'd like enough history and civs so all the races exist and are established, but not so much there is abandoned stuff everywhere and it it overcrowded. I usually go 250 years, would you recommend more or less?

Thanks!