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What mods are you using? My dwarves never get past the 1400s...

So, let me summarize.
It's not even the first year passed.
Most of our supplies(and anvil) are at the surface occupied by undead dogs and Eastep.
Undead yaks, cave crocodile and Domas inhabit the cavern.
There are only 5 (or less?) unhappy dwarves survived.
And it's my turn to fix it. Right?

Runs around chaotically and screams in panic
It's a truly a challenge for someone like me!

...I bet two hematite boulders that they don't make it past summer.

Sounds good. Maybe men could have their father's name (Cog, son of Dodok) while women have their mother's name (Urist, daughter of, uh, Asax).

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on October 28, 2012, 12:28:00 pm

REQUEST BETTER UPDATE
DO FAVORS FOR NECROMANCER

DO THIS TOO. TAKE ALL THE CREDIT FOR THE FAVORS.

MAKE SURE I GET CREDIT FOR MY FAVORS.

We're Paper. Obviously, Rock will choose Rock types. And what beats Rock types? Water types.

1. Very good aim

...You do want to be treated seriously, right?

2.It will work without designations.

If you auto designate and dont watch the miner he probly will fall off of somthing.
Or somthing on to him.

I have almost never run into the problem of dwarves falling into something unless I was trying to, and I've only had cavein issues when digging near the surface. Those are rookie mistakes which would not be fixed with drills.

The drill could be made wider and taller like bridges so I could drill my giant pit of death without haveing to use macros (i dont know how anyway) or many many many designations.

many many many many

You know you can designate a cube at a time right? It's not one tile or even one rectangle at a time.

If your worried about it being overpowerd it could be slow as a noob miner.

Or slower even.

I'm worried about the situation where a many-part, power-guzzling machine would be better than a dwarf with a pick.

Quote from: Imp on October 28, 2012, 06:34:00 am

My four year old fort just got an actual 'must be a miracle' relic.  A woodworker, Zeck, went fey during a meal in the dining room, must have left his partially-consumed dwarven wheatbread toast at the table.  Zeck made it down to the carpentry workshop OK but then two squads of kobold kidnappers were revealed already inside the fortress and started to raid before he'd finished preparing his tools.

I care more about artifacts then kids, so I left the dayroom open to keep the raiders out of the depths.  Zeck's second daughter and another kid got snatched before the squads started to run.  I kept the militia after them, then saw three events I've been hoping for -

Ahrnis Elliss, coarse goods weaver, has started to pray.
Jonlossoss-otas, a partially-consumed dwarven wheatbread toast, has begun to glow.
It must be a miracle!

Zeck's wife, of course.  And she was only 3 squares from the toast when she decided to pray.  An axedwarf had severed a kobold's arm at just the right moment to free the daughter when Mom started to pray, and both Mom and kid have the pious and deeply pessimistic traits.

'Must be a miracle' then.  I got a perfectly polished crenulated board from the mood and half a meal that glows and goes a long way towards filling my religious icons requirement to become the Mountainhome.  Unfortunately Ahrnis worships a female trout of poetry and a male dwarf of the wind, stars, rain, and storms so its not like there's going to be any useful miracles or anything, but maybe I'll be able to occasionally gather up rains of fish or something.

Oh, I remember when that happened in my fort.
Right in the middle of battle, my Commander stops fighting, starts praying and her axe starts to glow. Fuck, it's an artifact carbon axe, I thought. Suddenly, I get the text: [Artifact Carbon Axe] has turned into a relic! It must be a miracle! As she worships the God of War, the moment she starts swinging the axe, a duplicate of her appears, which disappears a few days after. So, now I have about 100 of the Legendary Axedwarves running around, all training others... Have I mentioned they don't need food?

Test what happens when the clones get limbs severed! Or what happens when the wielder of the axe is carrying someone when they activate it. Find a female axedwarf and kick her infant out of the nursery or something.