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yeah if a creature lands on another creature, neither take damage. People have tried to weaponize this before to deploy military by dropping their soldiers onto a carpet of kittens.

Bellrings (tundra fort) has just brought up magma 45 z-levels to fill a moat. 90 pumps double stacked, all components made of iron including the blocks. I thought I had over-engineered my pump stack, I needed 7 standard water reactors to get it going but I was glad of it in the end. Filled a 4-wide moat around the outer perimeter of a 4x4 embark in less than a season, with the ability to pull up more whenever I want it. Also oddly I really didn't suffer noticeable lag while doing it, despite the multiple reactors and massive amount of liquid moved. Maybe because it was a double stack with 2 draw tiles per level?

Now to tap into the supply and get me some above-ground magma forges/glass furnaces...

I'd just build a bridge off something really tall, draft him, make him go stand on it then retract the bridge. That's quick and efficient.

To all idle dwarves of Bellrings

THERE IS A MASSIVE DOGFIGHT GOING ON IN THE DINING ROOM PLEASE START CAGING THE DOGS THAT I HAVE ASSIGNED TO CAGES BEFORE ANYONE ELSE GETS BITTEN. PLEASE.

I like sewing images on goblin clothes , one "sew cloth image" job can turn a sock worth 30dwarfbucks into one worth 300dwarfbucks and the raw ingredients were all free unless you count growing the pigtail and dimple cup. but I have to stop doing that when the fort gets to a certain age because the dwarves all start claiming all the clothes I do the large serrated disk thing now. I only make mine out of copper because that's what the local goblinite yields when smelted, but I get legendary weaponsmiths out of it and I can buy out the caravans with byproducts if I want to.

I've got a couple of (living) militia captains with adamantine sarcophagi in their 3x3 tombs, that's $15,000 for just the coffin, not counting the engravings. The baron doesn't care because he got the artifact adamantine sarcophagus. Basically as long as the king has a (royal) tomb at least 1 dwarfbuck more expensive than the baron, and the baron has a tomb at least 1 dwarfbuck more expensive than the next guy in line, they seem totally cool with it. I did accidentally unassign the baron's tomb when I replaced the sarcophagus, and then he started getting annoyed, but only because he didn't have a tomb at all.

Dear Inspector Javert Captain of the Guard,

I can only commend your zeal when it comes to punishing heinous criminals, and admittedly maybe it was my fault for appointing you in the first place, but did you have to break that legendary metalsmith's neck because he couldn't make platinum items on account of not having any platinum? Our poor Chief Medical Dwarf, who had never before lost a patient, now has the "has witnessed death" thought for the first time because the guy suffocated in his hospital minutes later.

Plus, I gave you that adamantine hammer for a reason. Why did you then start by biting the metalsmith in the leg?

Yrs, Zephyr Hound

my fort is twelve years old and I have finally given bedrooms to some of my dwarves. Specifically, the military. So pretty much my entire army except for the squad on gate duty wanders off into the tundra to pick up all the crap they'd claimed before I started d-b-D'ing all non metal goblinite.

The first thing that happens is that a goblin swordsman ambush decloaks next to a solitary dwarf. I check her out and she is a champion (legendary knife/shield/fighter) from my knife squad. *activate* four dead goblins later, she quietly gets her item and goes back inside.

The next thing that happens is another ambush has a go at my Captain of the Guard, who carries an artifact adamantine war hammer, artifact silver buckler, and is followed by 62 war dogs due to being the fort's designated animal trainer. I counted five dogs attached to one goblin at the same time in the combat logs.

And then the third ambush comes up to the gate and decloaks right next to the captain of the on-duty squad, a swordsdwarf entirely equipped in adamantine with an exceptional sword. I didn't even have to tell anyone to do anything that time. There were no survivors.

Moral, if you see a Bellrings soldier out on his own, JUST LET HIM PICK UP HIS SOCK.