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"The Equal Jewel", a yellow zircon crown in my old fortress. I used a bit of planepacking on it and it's so awesome that in my current fortress it still gets engraved everywhere. I like to RP that it's the crown of all dwarfkind. When my fortress finally crumbles I'll send an adventurer out to find it, though since it's a 31.12 world that's about all there is for an adventurer to do...

Just a small thought, but the prospect of having the dead come back to life makes having fully sealed crypts something of a priority, in my eyes - wall them up once occupied, unless you want to be attacked from within by a hundred skeletal dwarves...

Normally they only sit around when the workshop they want is not available. Are the workshops forbidden? Or does the dwarf have another skill, like masonry or metalcrafter, that needs a different workshop?

What are the dwarf's skills? He should demand the workshop that corresponds with the highest moodable skill he has. If he doesn't have any moodable skills (only thresher or soapmaker etc) then he'll go for craftsdwarf as default.

Thieves won't survive stealing alcohol if it's on fire. Sounds like a pretty good defence system to me.

A large network of plump helmet farms to keep all the dwarves fed.

It doesn't take all that long, if it's only the major living areas that are being cleared. If necessary Besmar cand do it all herself, but IMO that is what a couple of Urists are for...

Also, and perhaps of rather more major concern, was that a GCS in one of the cavern screenshots?

As another batch of soap was stamped, Besmar headed for a drink. And promptly fell over a lump of rock. She cursed as she scraped the dust off herself. Boulders everywhere. The place had never been properly cleared, and no URISTS had emerged to do anything about it. "This is ridiculous," she declared, as no fortress could possibly be clean and tidy with heaps of stone and gravel everywhere.

Moving into the dining room, she spotted a large group of dwarves surrounding a heavily beaten and battered dwarf - the blacksmith, possibly, but she didn't like to get too familiar so she didn't know for sure. "URISTS!" Besmar demanded. "Aren't you haulers meant to be working? Do you have any idea how much junk there is around this place? How are we meant to keep the dust off the surfaces when they're buried under twenty tons of stone?"

The dwarves looked at her blankly. Eventually one of them volunteered "Erm.. making blocks, out of them..."

"This won't do! Clearly our masonry dwarves are overwhelmed with the amount of work they have. How about piling it all into one place out of the way?"

"Oh... um... never thought of that..."

OOC: If I read the screenshot aright there's an awful lot of stray rock left lying around. Most unsightly. Therefore, since we don't seem to have proper stockpiles I suggest dumping them into a corner near the masons' workshops so they're both accessible and out of the way.The Urists can do that of course, Besmar has more important things to do in the form of more soap A clean fortress is an organised fortress...

I thought I had no kobolds in my world. No goblins either for that matter. The fort's fairly mature, and I just passed 10,000,000 created wealth. Suddenly:

"Thief! Protect the hoard from skulking filth!"

Just goes to show, never take anything for granted. Strange that it took them so long to go for my fort... unless they've been nicking stuff for years and we only just noticed...

I had about two or three adventurers killed by the same slug titan. It wasn't especially dangerous, but it was damned impossible to kill because it had no limbs to remove and its vital organs were few and near-impossible to reach. One of them got his head smashed by a lucky push - the other kept slugging hehe away at it until he passed out from exaustion.

I gave titans a wide berth after that...