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Set up a system using pressure plates so he breaches Hell.


also the first to go b/c of it.

Water pump+Brook+overflown reserveroir=flooded embark area. Unless my carpenter can step in in time and remove the pump, it'll eventually flood half my map. I think I can destroy it at some point by smashing the windmill with debris but damn will my site look ridiculous.
(in an attempt to create an underground reservoir safe from ice)

maybe the beginnings of a FTW weapon?

So I had the wonderful idea of training my military dwarfs at swimming. I am in a terrifying beach, so I thinked it would be useful. But of course, at the same time two zombie whales were breaking in my fortress, going into an rampage and killing dwarfs quickly. So I sended my military, and then every thing failed in my life.

The whales basically did a massacre. Any soldier that was not dead at that moment was in coma for is whole life. And at the same times... Ogres. Three. Near of my fortress. They entered, passed the last whale alive (she was about to die anyway) and started another killing spree. The population of my fortress had dropped from 134 to 116 because of the whales, and now the ogres were just having fun with my civilians.

But of course, I had a plan. All the defenses of my fortress were down, the ten military dwarves were dead, I had ogres killing the cook in the dining room and zombie beasts could enter in my fortress (at this point, there was a little army against me, because I had never tried to make the zombie population outside of my fortress decrease) but I  had a goddamn epic plan.

 All the 103 dwarfs still alive retreated into the deepest part of my fortress. I was doing a little challenge in this fortress and all my dwarfs were trained to fight, a little bit. But of course I had no equipment for them. So deep in my fortress, near the tree farm, i cutted all the trees of the underground and built a carpenter workshop to build wooden armors and shields, as much as possible, while the bad guys in the top were breaking doors and statues, getting near... I digged out after that some of the obsidian layer of my map and then built obsidian shortswords. At the end, half of the dwarfs were equipped with all this scrap before the ogres finally breaked in. And the massacre started again.

Killing, killing and killing. Dorfs flying across the room. The mayor getting owned by a zombie kraken and bleeding to death. The new milita commander, the only one with steel armor and weapons, got destroyed by a zombie tiger. But at the end, I won. 34 dorfs were still alive and nearly nothing else was living on the map. They returned up in the higher levels, reconstructed the doors, rebuilded the defenses, and the fortress started to live again. And then...

Forgotten Beast McWeirdName come in the fortress. It is a giant bear of fire, capable killing dwarfs with his venom.

/Facepalm

I am in awe of the sheer epicness of this...

for some odd reason none of my dwarfs will chop down trees...... how do i solve this problem?

do they have woodcutting enabled?

I was lucky enough to have a river, although it is saltwater. I'm managing to sustain myself on saguaro rib cacti for barrel needs. I'll survive yet! 0 point embarks are fun!

set up a tank with constructed walls and floor, then use pumps to desalinate the water.

Dear Urist McFarmer

I give my condolances to you, on your recent losses in your family. Both of your parents were among the founders of Icecrown, and valuable miners. Your father carked it met his end while mining out our great hall (largely due to his incompetance), and your mother was the unfortunate victim of a dust explosion and the resulting swim in magma.

I fear I must also announce the death of your husband. He passed when stupidly bravely attacking a goblin siege by himself with a copper axe, AFTER being told to withdraw. For this, his name will be erased from our history go down as one of the brave soldiers lost in defence of our home.

As for you, it was easy to decide whether or not you become an axedwarf or miner. Since your husband is already dead, all that is left is you.

Get the pick and report for mining duty on the magma project.

The Overlord.

P.S. I like irony.

Quote from: Heliomance on December 07, 2010, 08:09:19 pm

Systematically culled 90% of the fort's children and babies due to FPS issues. The resulting tantrum spiral killed about 200 dwarves. Oops.

I love it when "evil" turns out to be "stupid." It's very gratifying.

The evilest thing I've done in my current fort was seize the elves supplies, because they complained that there was wood in my offerings. After picking through to give them the right stuff and apparently missing some small item, I was pissed and just took what I wanted.

I just keep offering the same tower cap catapult part to them as a gift. hopefully they will take the hint and siege me.