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I hadn't planned on hitting the next vault this soon, I thought I would just take a day trip to a ruins to claim, but then it was just another day away. The ruins were populated with various dwarven and goblin outsiders, roughly half fighting the others, and because roughly half were hostile to me, picking a side was easy. I declared my lordship in the court, enlisted three hearthies, then cleaned up the fighting on the walls. The insurrection in Swelteredmartyrs against The Moist Chamber ended with a settled agreement on governmental power sharing -- ha, ha, ha, of course not, I killed them.

Once upon a time in Blanketpelt, Aval the dwarven god of depravity and lust aided the vomit devil Iva Pukechants the Demon of Flowers in becoming a permanent part of the living world after pondering the ineffable subtleties of lust. The ritual took place using Spurtgristle, which is presumably Aval's nickname for the organ he did his thinking with. As a product of exchanging deviant favors, we have these:

So no roasts and cool-sounding leather armors to be had here. At least the Messengers of Depravity were organic, as their clothes were sized to fit me and probably my wereform. I brought Wulema in with me because I thought nothing could hit her short of a Master, but she was kicked in half by a Messenger. A shield would have protected her had I equipped her with one, but I hadn't in the event that she turned on me while I wasn't testing. Instead she was wielding masterwork divine pike and silver warhammer, yet still insisted on whiffing opponents with her pointless unarmed attacks!

1. Ask 'profession' and they'll tell you. 
2. It might, but it can take awhile for leadership to pass if there are any survivors.

How do you assign companions to zones in Player Made Camps? Do you ask them to "wait here" or something else?

If you ask them to wait, they'll behave the same as if you'd ask them to wait anywhere else. You'd have to drop them from your party, or if you use dfhack's companion order menu order them to (F) Wait. The first zone selection menu has the option to (a)ssign members of your party to a zone, including yourself should you retire. You can assign to any number of zones, and you can have overlapping zones; eg my tavern has a troupe of performers assigned to it, and I and my companions are assigned to zones that overlap the tavern and our own private rooms. When they're in the tavern area, they perform and participate like anyone assigned to it.

I wonder if a retired hearthperson/lieutenant could inherit leadership of the group if their leader dies (during week advancement or fort mode, or due to another adventurer possibly?) Sounds like a fun thing to test! 

Yes, if the leader dies another group member will be promoted in a few days to a week. And when I've left my own groups by joining a performance troupe, I can see immediately in history that leadership passes to the first person I recruited into the group.

That's a very common feature in worldgen fortresses. In older worlds it's more rare to see a fortress without one.

I assume Toady left it to players to discover the features, aside from the ones he notified us of in the release notes. You could ask in Future of the Fortress whether something has been or will be implemented, and you might find that its already been answered in them. A little research could obviate the need for !!SCIENCE!!, but where's the fun in that?

These are all relatively new features that are still in development, so everyone's still learning from experimentation, and what's best understood has been put in the wiki. I can tell you that seizing a town isn't something you have to work up to, you can do it any time. You can also find and claim ruins of any size, create or take over camps, and I don't believe there's a limit. I also don't believe it'll make you a civ ruler; no one will accept as legitimate any site government that isn't part of a civ; but maybe you just need to hold enough lordships and/or gather enough tribute pledges. So far, the only known effect of tribute is a note in history, which may or may not be significant.

The process for civ ruler selection is completely opaque to us, and no player has been appointed, but maybe persistent enough serial regicide will eventually earn you the throne! In principle, the civ ruler can transfer their role directly to to another character, including you, but I don't know the conditions for that. I'm still trying to figure out, and haven't seen anything to eliminate the possibility. Twice I've been offered lordships by the lords themselves, and have no clear understanding why.


Btw, getting hearthfolk and companions are both easier if you have a legendary record to tell of. It's confirmed that you can get hearthies to join you and that you can get companions to be your hearthies, even if they already have a lord/lady.

I say this because despite being a dwarf fortress that my elf is wandering through I've only seen elves and goblins living peacefully in there, any idea how such a thing might have happened?

Big dwarven exodus. Megabeast attacked and they said, "Fuck this, I'm not defending this hellhole! The weather sucks, the food sucks, and there isn't even ore in the ground! If the gobs and elves want it, they're welcome to it!"

I found that just having a single track up there prevents the cart from colliding with...the ceiling? Nothing? Just the 1 tile reduces speed by roughly 70-80k without collision, but extending it even 1 track further makes the cart jump to a very hard limit overhead.

But the apex isn't the destination, and this ride is intended for passenger travel.