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Only a dwarf with the Animal Training labor enabled will handle a dangerous creature.
Abandoned my project of building a massive tower out of green glass.. Just too much of hassle.
Instead, I'm gonna build one out of stone blocks!
Finally, I have a couple of decent medical dwarves! They're trying, at least.
It's getting to be like a hospital drama, only with added good-ol'-fashioned dwarven incompetence!
"Hey Urist, want me to dye the threads before you suture that?"
"Uh... Okay. Should make them work better, aye! Meanwhile I'll rearrange this pile of stuff- Oh, where did I put that needle..."
EDIT: Uhhh, okay then, one of my dwarves is in a mood, working on a mysterious construction.... In the butcher shop?!??
Be afraid. Be very afraid. This post is so going on the facepalms thread if it turns out to be something like: "Corkbundles the steak of hammering".
HAHA!
I have a relaively small and effective military. 25 dwarvs. 1 squad each of axes, whips, longswords, spear, and bow/crossbow.Though I would've included hammerdwarves just to be sure.
HA! 3000.
I don't get it.
Unless the elves bring some nice stuff, the following stuff happens:
1. The trade depot falls 1 z-level into a walled-off wooden floor, hanging by a single support
2. The hole under the trade depot fills with water at a rate to allow swimming, but it isn't possible for the elves to get out
3. This construction drops through the Clear Glass Tunnel of Happy FunTM
4. The Clear Glass Tunnel of Happy FunTM is surrounded by my staircase and leads into the magma sea.
an example level
X=up/down stairs (shut up I know I should use a ramp)
W = clear glass wall
. = empty space
F = Falling stuffCode: [Select]XXXXXXXXXXXXEdit: I also chuck cats down this. Because they are lame.
XWWWWWWWWWWX
XW........WX
XW.FFFFFF.WX
XW.FFFFFF.WX
XW.FFFFFF.WX
XW.FFFFFF.WX
XW.FFFFFF.WX
XW.FFFFFF.WX
XW........WX
XWWWWWWWWWWX
XXXXXXXXXXXX
I just had a though. What is the one thing a well managed fort has more of than cats? Goblins of course. And with Christamasnext month, I think instead of cats we should take advantage of our winter gifts.
That, or elf mines.
This message brought to you by the "Silent Thunder can't get his damn cats to breed no matter how hard he tries, despite downloading a fresh version of DF Foundation"
Do the Thermonuclear Catmines. Now.
Edit: You know what, i'm sigging this.ElfGoblin Invader: Careful..... Careful...
Catmine: Meow?
Goblin Invader: FUU-
*BOOM*
Did you just sig yourself?
I just caught that...xD I thought self-sigging was some kind of taboo...
Having a prisoner, chained up securely, go beserk, and thinking that'd make some good practice for my marksdwarves, who I'm not very good at commanding.
So I station them across the room from him, designate them all with crossbows and bolts, and they wander in, run up to him and start thwacking him with their crossbows. *facepalm*
And then he kills one, and badly injures two others (guts popped out, fractured lung... He slightly wounded another too, I think) before one of my heroic dwarves gets there and beheads him in a single stroke. *double facepalm*
Damnit dwarves!! Going beserk and killing everyone is only okay if YOU'RE one of my favourite dwarves!! D:<
While making all my dwarves into little slaved circuts assimilated into ARM_0k would be a Fun test of the true capabilities of borg logic, I want to make ARM_0k both able to act without any sort of input and, more importanly, function in adventure mode. I plan on having the rouge AI serve as a DM for adventurers who want to try andbe mercilessly euthanizedbeat the system.
Essentially, think of Portal crossed with SAW. (And I don't know yet whether it's going to be possible to "win" the game without cheats; I know there's going to be an adamantine lever killswitch, but it might be impossible to get to without being an bronze colossus that can fly and swim in magma.)
Lastly, could anyone here come up with a circut that takes multiple inputs and activates if enough are true? I want ARM_0k to be able to make judgement calls based on the state of the entire system. In fact, that is it's entire purpose: to replace me (the player) in deciding when to change system settings. For instance, if an adventurer breaches a treasure chamber it's got to decide whether to flood the chamber with magma or dispatch a gaurdian based on how many gaurdians are left, how many chambers have been breached, etc. Basically, that is a crutial lynchpin that will make ARM_0k an AI rather than a giant calculator.
You had to train the mechanic that made the mechanisms to smash/drop/burn him at the pull of his lever.
Or at least the miner that dug the King's "plumbing" system.
I've had two dwarves go insane, one becoming a harmless maddwarf and the other going violent, all because I have no stone for them to work with. My military could certainly have handed the beserk dwarf better, I fear... He should have been no problem, wearing leathers with a copper spear, against my quite well-equipped soldiers, except the fools ran into battle UNARMED! Several of them died, before the militia commander (Armok bless him, the one deent warrior I have) ran in with his beloved copper battle-axe and hacked the offender apart.
Sadly, though, he sustained terrible wounds, and is now bedridden. He's quite pleased with himself however, and is bragging loudly to everyone who passes, and passes off his missing arm as "a scratch".
I hope he doesn't get infected or anything... My medicaldwarves are quite useless in this fort.
Couple of questions: How can someone have their upper arm severed and keep their lower arm?!
And also, is there a way to zoom the screen on a particular stored item? 'z' tells me I have stone blocks, but I can't find them.
What I had meant was, I had dug down to approximately 138 z-levels, and then it went down -1, -2,-3 only going up to -18, i was worried at that point after having breached the magma sea and raw adamantine for what hidden fun stuff lies below.
Some goblins seem to be convinced that my dwarves are ammo stockpiles. I was surprised to find that married dwarves will share a hospital bed if they are both injured.
I just had to abandon a young fort because NINE of its twenty-five inhabitants were THROWN INTO THE MOAT by A RACCOON. and a tenth was beheaded by the same raccoon. One of them was my axedwarf. The rest are tantrum spiraling into oblivion.
-headdesk-
P.S. The raccoon has a name now, it got named by my people. I'll look for it in legends.
EDIT:
End result was the death of 15 dwarves. 1 by beheading, and 14 to drowning in the moat. All that drowned were pushed in by that damned raccoon and his army of deer. One of them was a child that was held in place in the water by his leg.
I didn't realize that you couldn't remove slopes on the edges of maps, I only learned this when a goblin ambush appeared over my entrance.
My current fort Clanhames was founded by The Shaken Pillars of The Future Castle. I can't remember if the fort name was randomly generated, but the group name definitely was.
I really can't remember most of my other names, but I deliberately named one The Black Pit. That fortress did not end well, but it taught me some important things about fortress design for my next fortress.
Oh wow, what? You can breach aquifiers? I don't need to rely entirely on palm weapons? *headdesk*
Anyway, since my flooding-death-salvation plan didn't work, I've drafted all my useless and lazy dwarves into a squad known as The Fenced Chastity. They're my expendables... Been sending them out to keep the ever-troublesome zombie warthog numbers down.
...Damn warthogs, took out one of my dogs...
you really should have equipped 5 'rebels' in steel armor before breaching HFS and seen if they could have lived.
