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I should stop trying to keep this on topic. It's hopeless.

Danger room? Bah, never used it. There are simpler ways to train your military...and they ADD to your fort, not subtract!

Here's how:
1.) Have semi-skilled dwarves.
2.) Tell them to ditch their weapons.
3.) Have them attack some non-deadly critter.
I did this and had a legendary fighter and striker in two weeks, with just one camel! You may want to start with groundhogs, though.
4.) Once their levels in fighter, armor user, shield user, dodger, etc, are high enough, give them their weapons back.
5.) Go to step 3.
Optionally, skip to step 2 or 3.

This got derailed fast.

Yup. Sad that dwarves don't mount their [MOUNT]s.

War T-Rex.

Someone really needs to point me towards a dino mod, please...

My idea was admittedly a demented version of the screwpump with additional oscillating serrated discs on the side moved by pedal power and fueled by a tank of booze on the back.

Materials needed for construction, one corkscrew, a throne, two mechanisms, a barrel, a pipe, and a mess of discs.  The barrel to hold the booze.

Wow. Just...wow. Insane. Deadly. Likely to get someone killed.
Dwarfy.

I use silk, if available, or pig-tail if not.  Common dorfs don't care, they snag all the socks they can indiscriminately.  Why should the greedy, naked peons get special wares?  Leather, I usually use for my military though, as it's moderately tougher than cloth, so cloaks and hoods for everyone!

Neither is available. Silk requires caverns or evil areas, of which I have neither, and pig tails require underground mud. I also lack that.

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on February 10, 2011, 07:52:43 pm

I recently tried to freeze an aquifer...but failed to consider that it would also freeze my miner with my only pick. Oops.

If you get a new pick, you can dig out the corpse and retrieve the one frozen in the ice.  Oh, and you will be able to bury the body of your dwarfsickle too.  (And yes, I'm speaking from personal experience there ...  ).

What if the ice melted and I can't find the corpse or pick?

You could make a "trade goods pit" directly above the depot, and create a custom stockpile that accepts only your preferred types of trade goods.  The process would be:

(1) Start production cycle, crank out a few dozen leather robes.
(2) Leather robes of Fine-or-better quality get moved to the trade stockpile
(3) Designate the entire stockpile for dumping
(4) Haulers/Dumpers drop the now-forbidden items onto the depot
(5) At caravan time, unforbid the items and select them for "Move Items to Depot".

That is a large amount of work and micromanagement for a small benefit. Kinda like DF in general.

Quote from: morgoththegreat on February 09, 2011, 09:45:39 pm

Quote from: Polar_Atom on February 09, 2011, 03:28:42 pm

my marksdwarves shooting at them whilst Urist McDurin holds the bridge.

Before dodging off to his doom.

Gandalf tried that, seemed to work out alright for him.

What's the chance of getting Urist McWhite again after Urist McGray knocked a balrog off a bridge?
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Has anyone modded balrogs in, on a random note?

give the starving hobo what he wants. its not like hes gonna get any more clothes for the next 50 years

If this happens, the "starving hobo" (actually the fort's inhabitants are eating well; a farm of aboveground seeds and a dedicated herbalist, along with a fisher, a river, and plenty of alcohol are keeping 'em well fed) is hurting himself and the fort and therefore may be given "Station yourself here until you fall a few Z-levels to your doom" orders.

The great fortress of Osteral, "Foldvessels" is much like Helm's Deep, almost impenetrable defenses (for me it's rows upon rows of weapon traps at the entrance completely stocked with large serrated discs, I refer to it as The Goblin Blender) save one thing, one sewer opening.  Granted mine is more of a tunnel under a lake that supplies the wells of the fortress with water.

It didn't occur to me that this spot was a weakness until some alligators outside suddenly showed up in the grand meeting hall.  They had climbed out of the well and a few were struck down before soldiers could come and dispatch of these vile creatures.  Some engravers felt this something worth carving into the walls, so as to warn all future dwarves, but I thought my troubles were over as long as I kept an eye out for any more alligators.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(I would love to see that engraving of the alligator poking it's head out of a well and attacking a dwarf)

But just like Helm's Deep, invading goblins have been exploiting this weakness.  Nearly every units during any given siege are mounted atop Giant Toads.  A few more dwarves died within the grand meeting hall when I first learned of the Giant Toads and their riders also being able to climb through the well.

Now I'm trying to decide whether I should wall off the pond that provides water for the fortress or if I should endeavor to put a grate up somewhere to block invaders and alligators out.

Grate.
Creatures sometimes get shoved through, but if you get rid of flow somehow it's no big deal. Although greenskins won't die when their mounts swim through your sewers.

Alternatively, make a new well. It leads to a river, but the twists and turns along the way mean that when the toad reaches your well, it has a drowned corpse on its back.
Fun.