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Also, how do you set up a macro.

Do whatever repetitive thing you want to do enough times to figure out what exact sequence of keys you keep repeating, then hit ctrl+r. Enter the sequence of commands and hit ctrl+r again. To replay the keystrokes you have recorded hit ctrl+p.

This seems to work pretty well for repeatedly grappling and releasing a creature, and for sharpening and throwing rocks.

Anyway, I fancied up and expanded the quick start article on the wiki a bit:

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Adventure_mode_quick_start

I didn't add the powerleveling techniques though because those might be a bit advanced for someone just starting to mess with adventure mode.

When you say wrestle with badgers, are you talking about actual wrestling (like A, Enter) or bare-handed attacks? I made a macro to continually "A, Enter" grapple with a small animal and got Fighter and Wrestling up to master or legendary which was good but I didn't get any defensive skill doing that.

I also made a macro to sharpen rocks and throw them and got Knapper, Thrower, and Archer up to legendary along with superhuman kinesthetic and very high spacial sense (though the hit rate and damage of a Legendary +4 thrower still seems rather lame.)

I can understand swimming but what good are observation and social awareness?

Fighting bogeymen one on one sounds pretty difficult unless maybe you have a really high agility so you can outrun them.

At least in fort mode I've seen gremlins appear in both caverns and on the surface.

So creating more titans and beasts doesn't actually mean they'll attack you in fortress mode?

It did not seem like it to me after several years of playing a fort in this world. Certainly you won't get all 10 dragons who are cohabitating in one lair come attack you at once.

Most elaborate thing I've created so far is a drowning chamber outside the fortress, carved into a hill, with a kitten chained behind a door used as a lure. Only real problem with it is that the kitten eventually grows up which lowers the cuteness value of the trap.

In an attempt to improve FPS a bit I've been generating worlds with 2 cavern layers. In the last game I had the upper cavern was devoid of water and plants. The lower cavern had plenty of water and plants. This doesn't always happen but has happened to me before.

It might be related to drainage or something. maybe try creating a world with max drainage everywhere and see what happens.... I have yet to figure out what some of the worldgen parameters affect (like you need low elevation for oceans, high elevation for mountains, and I'm assuming you need high temperature and low rain for deserts....)

Wish there were more info on the wiki. Maybe I'll do some experiments and add my findings....