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It's a well-known bug. Personally, I usually prefer to just wall off the fortress.

If I remember correctly, one of my worlds has a book named "Incinerated Dwarf", which naturally is an autobiography. Is Attaquery a person/place in your world maybe?

Attaquery sounds like a procedurally generated name.

"start your day with the human"
and another book , i think the name was like this - "dwarf or human"

edit: i think that the dwarf who wrote it  was in a self conflict .

Sounds like it was about two people.

Quote from: Novel on September 02, 2012, 09:59:05 am

The problem is, if we were all vegetarians, we wouldn't be any better off ecology wise then we are now.

Yes, yes we would.

Probably, but what would we do with all of the dairy farms and such? Anyways, there's other reasons we keep animals, and would you want to give up sources of cheap fertilizer and such?
Meat eating is too ingrained in our psyche and society to throw it out any time soon. Frankly, there are more pressing ecological issues, like overpopulation and pollution and destruction and depletion of natural resources and such. Eating meat is really not so bad, compared to that. What we need is a good, strong worldwide government, ideally lead by me or someone like me so everyone would hate it equally.

Well, there's two ways you could do this.

1. Mine a floating island with some natural soil in it. This makes for an easy way to grow crops, and if you chose clay you'd have infinite building material.
2. Build a floor, then water it. You can grow crops on mud, you know, even those surface crops.

Wood might be harder; try to deforest the surface before severing your link with the surface world. Or, better yet, set up an island in the sky with your meat and pottery industries, and have it ship stuff to the surface settlement in exchange for fuel, wood, and other goods you can't get in the air. Maybe including some fertilizer...but the surface would need to have a lot of wood...tree farm? Good Armok, I want to do this myself!

I've got it!


Let's give a round of applause for my digital camera, which has left this image a bit bigger than the piece of paper I drew it on!
 Okay, it's not colored, but I included six crudely-drawn dwarves and a bunch of cavern wildlife! And the shell is actually enormous! And the head looks like a skull with some muscle and sinew on it!

What do I do? I build my fortress in a tower hanging inside the hole. That's what I do.

And no walls, only floors and stairs. And flying pets. And can I get a save or something?

I think the issue is how temperature works in general. After all, in the Arctic, the water underground isn't liquid, it's frozen permafrost! In DF, an underground aquifer is liquid until you expose it to sunlight. I short, temperature needs to be reworked.

Also, freezing wells doesn't seem that unrealistic if it's cold enough. I'd be surprised that you could get any ice from it, though.