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There's a cougar on the other side of the riverbank ...

 ... and I want that giant kitty tamed in my fort. So I have to catch it.

My fort is sitting on a very small island formed by a minor stream cutting itself in two before falling in a major river (so huge it takes half the map). In order to catch the cat, I tried to build "bridges" by building a long floor line that will join the two riverbanks, on each side of the island, and then fill that floor-line with cage traps.

The first part worked well, all three tiles of the floor are built (fourth tile will be built when the cage traps are ready). But ! When I try to build a cage trap, the interface answers me "No access to mechanisms". What the spores reproduction system ? I have mechanisms, lots of them, sitting in my mechanism workshop. What's wrong ? It's the first time I ever have that message.

Please, help me catch that kitty !

I play df 0.31.21 version with the Lazy Newb pack.

Heh looks like an interesting start. If it ever survives long enough for me I'll gladly take a turn too.

Yay ! Thank you people

I discovered Dwarf Fortress in 2007 or 2008 I think. I remember starting with 40d, and not having much problems figuring out what was going on - I might have worked with internet resources (maybe even the wiki) and I know I used and abused the 'k' key. I remember doing a quite compact fortress and that my expedition leader was ashamed to conduct a meeting in the dining room - what's wrong with my dining room ? it's huge and it got lots of tables and chairs in it, you should not be ashamed, you should be proud of what you did little dwarf ! I for sure was proud of what I did back then.

I played a lot, made lots of fortresses and soon abandoned and started over because it was never quite perfect, then I stopped playing for a year or so, then started playing again, then stopped and here am I now starting again.

Two words:

Executive Meddling.

Bleh. Ok, that makes sense, but really executives should watch more cartoon for girls !

Aye, I've been watching my little pony since yesterday now. I need my sleep, otherwise I would have gone and watched them all in one shot like I did for The Last Airbender cartoon. It's pretty fun and I missed watching a good cartoon like this !

Dwarven mines !

I started Les Tragiques by Agrippa D'Aubigné. Well I haven't made it past the introduction yet (which was amazing in itself, the writer whined about all his notes that got burned down during the Commune right after the french-prussian war, my book was published around 1880, awesome!) but it seems to be quite a nice promise so far. It's really terrible that I can't read much at all anymore, with work and the fact that I'm just exhausted and I need vacations. I want to read again. And you guys makes me want to learn chinese. But I can't just yet. Aaargh.

So a loooooong time ago, (in a place far far away) a wee child of a criptfeind read a book (three books really, I can not recall the other two by name) called the golden compass. (You may know it as Northern lights?)

God damn mind trip for a eight year old. So much I don't really remember them.

I have happened to get my hands on a shipment of books that are soon to be bound for Africa and lo and behold, the golden compass.

The thing is, the beginning is a bit dry, and I am almost afraid to ruin my memories from childhood by reading it again.

What do the formites that have read this book say? Is it good enough I should read it again, even at the cost of my a trippy ten year old prospective?

Or is it not in fact a good book and I will only ruin my memories of it by reading it?

Honestly, I think the first book is nice, the second one so-so and the third one let me down (why the ending dammit ?). Neither of them are actually great literature, but it was a fun read all in all. I also say you should always read it if you want to, even at the cost of childhood memories, but that's probably because I hate childhood and nostalgia is just an eternal "I want to do it again" feeling for me I'd say if by the middle or the end of the first book you're not hooked then give up.

Speaking of reading books that will ruin your childhood memories, don't read the last Narnia book.   

Hey the last Narnia book was pretty great I found, much more than the Dawn Treader or others where it justs get silly !