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My best first wave was for my current fort.  I only got 6 dwarves but they were all competant-skills in sword/axe/spear dwarves and they brought cows and female yaks and two ducks.  Jump start of my military AND milk and eggs.  It worked out wonderfully for me.

Before I lost my last fort I can say, with sheer honesty, that my dwarves who were missing SOME kind of limb were my best fighters compared to my perfectly healthy ones.  Hell, my best fighter was a one armed, one eyed female axe dwarf who had about 20 notable kills or so in her name, with a +Bronze battle axe+ she got from a goblin no less, by the time my fort succumbed. It's like when a dwarf loses a limb his Bad-Assness becomes Legendary+5.

Swallowedgilt has experienced 10 0 months without something involving dwarven mutilation

Need to break through a cavern before underground gets moss/grass.  As for how to allow above ground to regrow grass... it happens automatically but you need to pasture somewhere else for awhile and make sure people/animals stay away from the area you are trying to regrow.

I say... we mod in darts to be used in blowguns.  Also if you manage to get animal/plant/fish extract you can apply it to the darts for use as poison to make them effective agaisnt wild life/goblins.  As a side effect... it'd make TWO things useful (being blowguns AND extract) rather then just having them as trade goods/dwarven mistakes!

On year 150, I started on year 125, my fort has crumbled. It took me 52 Z levels to hit my FIRST BLOODY CAVERN and almost immediately as I did that and I got my wells, looms, and smelters running since I ALSO just hit iron in the cavern did I get hit by not one, not two, but five sieges all at once, all mounted on toads/crocs, all with trolls in tow, all with elite axe/mace goblins and 2 Bowman/elite Bowman goblins along with 2 ambushes AND a Forgotten Beast made of... Diorite I think (some kinda stone).  Suffice to say My 40 strong Military in copper/leather armor with silver/copper weapons didn't stand much of a chance once they made it past my traps since they managed to jam every single one as they hit my entrance and then decimate my military.  Granted my military took a sizeable chunk out of them before going down but once they were out of the fight it was a slaughterfest.  R.I.P. Gildedtrades.

On the note of the Cavern... where do I edit the raws so I can make them NOT appear so bloody far down so I can try and access the good stuff earlier? >.>

I decided to cheat and remove the grazer tags from my animals since I live in a mountainous region and thus don't have that much vegetation to be eaten and I was tired of seeing them starve to death or getting butchered in ambushes.  I know, I know, it's cheating and I'm not proud of it... but I have some amazing indoor pastures now!

Quote from: Beardless on April 14, 2011, 10:54:46 pm

I'm trying to figure out how to weaponize the stranger sitting in my living room watching cartoons. Ideas anyone?

set a cage trap along his most likely path.
build occupied cage next to chain in front yard
attach animal to chain

You forgot he needs a kennel, make sure he has  [TRAINABLE] tag, and his Animal Trainer skill active.