Bay 12 Games Forum

historically, it was indeed very easy to suffer severe damage in any fight, so its not inaccurate, just not really desirable for an adventure game, since people will want to keep on playing

on the other hand, starting a fort in the world later on actualy lets you make statues of your own heroes slaying beasts, or being slayed

in the case of the caravan, items are often forbidden, depending on cause of death

my fort is low on metal. To be more accurate, it has copper, silver and gold. I'm getting steel clad goblin siegers assaulting my fort, in succession. My wealth is legendary. The number of attackers who died should be legendary too. Still they come. One leaves, the next one is a few days behind. It'd be a great source for trading, if only a caravan could make it through. Not that trading is actually needed, we have fungus tree farms and the whole bnch, even the above ground farms cant be reached by them, but if we do not kill the scum, someone else has to deal with them!

i used to say, love serrated discs. Now i say i love them combined with big spiked balls. Since i only have copper and silver, i dont cut through any decent armor, but crushing works fine. My militia mops up the ones with broken spines and arms that didnt get their brains crushed too

like i said, basically, i'm cleaning traps between squads and dont have enough refuse piles. they keep coming.. dont mine gold, dont smelt gold, dont use the bars for anything!

i just wished i kept a save with a fort with a lot of iron.... my latests havnt been the best

all items claimed by existing jobs?

I've had no chance, ever, of setting up a steel production! I dropped my enemies in a magma sea, crushed them with ceilings dropping on them, torn them to shreds with spinning discs, but somehow i cant equip a decent militairy

use b - C - and then whatever staircase you need

there is always item hauling to be done

siegers will eventually leave. You can also try to find some metal, any will do, and make some serrated disc weapon traps. They pick apart almost any goblin and its mount. Long way around, trap them by 3 or 4s and put them in a trapped room. I always have several exits to let merchants out, and hope as hell they dont run into the siegers. If you capture the captain, the rest is likely to sit and stare