Bay 12 Games Forum

I prefer the overproduction method. With just everything set on repeat. Socks, dresses, trousers, mittens on repeat. With dyer's set on repeat, using only dyed cloth. Of course, this creates massive wealth which leads to bigger sieges. So I don't get the repeating part until about year 8 of a fortress.

So far, I only end up with coma patients. My military tends to flat out avoid going to the hospital and usually go right back to training after sustaining injuries. Everyone else just enters a coma. Sometimes I get lucky and its the mayor.

I have to say, I really do like this challenge. Its fun to have to think about things differently. But the bug thing. Man. Just wanted a nice protected staircase and a second floor to my fort and the dorfs...just...wouldn't...do...it. Always standing on the wall to be built instead of building it from the inside. Grrrrr!

The real downside of not being able to mine: not having a nice easy way to kill everyone off in the fort. I would have collapsed the entire fort in on them if I could have.

I'm in my second year, I have the beginnings of a glass and clay industry and my first axe lord. Yet, I'm giving up. The 'cancel construction due to creature occupying site' bug is too much for me. Particularly considering everything needs to be built. I'll revisit the challenge down the road in the next release.

From atop his high pestle, the Royal Captain of the Guard looked down his long nose at the dwarf that was brought before him.
"Urist MegaHelment, you stand here before this court guilty of treason. Death or exile?"

"Damn you an this court! I'll be dead sooner than live like elf!" Urist spat vehemently.

The judge smiled grimly.
"Very well then! Death!....by exile!"

---------------------------------

Spring, 251

'Tis been a hard year, cursed to live in this country never knowing the sweet touch of earth ever again. Working under the gaze of that awful yellow eye. How do the elves stand it? I've been given charge of all the exiles to make an existence of sort out here. If I can make it 10 years, then my case might be heard again. As of this writing, none have returned from exile.

In the first year, we managed to erect a small fort and get most of our goods inside. We have some crowded sleeping chambers, some haphazardly placed dining tables, and with some careful planned accidents managed to knock a hole in the brook. There be a volcano on the top of that mountain, but securing it has been difficult. The commander lost his hand to gators that run rampart. McGlazer got himself killed in the brook piercing accident. Someday we hope to find a way to bury him.

Just as we finished clearcutting the forest, we found a wonder discovery. We can gather clay. We're a way from making bricks, but can use the raw clay to build walls. It should hold up fine for that. Hopefully, next year we can trade with caravan. This year, we had no choice but to rob it. But what did they expect, we are all criminals here.

Around 120 is good for me. A quarter of my population is dedicated to crafting. Most industries get away with just having a single legendary worker, but my metal, glass, and textile industry require many. Another quarter is dedicated to building. Masons, mechanics, and engravers. The third quarter exists to haul all the things the first two groups needs. The last quarter are military recruits and are almost always made up of incoming migrants. The death rate is very, very, high.

I don't discriminate between genders. The way I see it, a mother dwarf is just carrying an extra small fleshy shield into battle.

The dwarven death trampoline seems pretty promising. I shall test with mugs later and report back.

What about mugs? Seems a pretty trivial matter to make 10,000 mugs really.