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I want my current fortress to die. But it won't. Anything the game throws at me, my military has defeated it with little to no injures, let alone casualties. I have two squads, 10 melee dwarves in each, some started with combat skills and most did not. They were on full training schedule. No danger rooms. When seiges happened, I used traps. like locking half the invaders in a hallway, then dropping a bridge and sending my military at them and dealing with the wounds later. Only 4 of them have reached Lord status, but the rest aren' far behind. I started with no military dwarves, and just started my army when the first migrant who knew how to handle an axe became militia captain.

It IS possible and it ISN'T hard to get by without one, easily. I've only been playing for like a  month and it's no problem for me. I suppoe it is an exploit of game mechanics, sort of... but if thats how you want to play, who am I to stop you? Doesn't affect me playing at all.



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We are talking about Dwarf Fortress, right? Unicorns, space elevators, and dragons in wooden cages?

Bahahahahahaha.

Quick question

it's 7am and I'm scared what would happe if I tried to find out for myself, so it's better i ask here.

AFTER a dwarf meets his end, is it possible to assign him a tomb? I know I can do it while they're still alive, but if he's alive then he obviously hasn't valiantly sacrificed himself in mortal combat yet, so it's not an issue. I mean if, say, an axedwarf HYPOTHETICALLY single handedly hold a forgotten beast at bay while the civilians escape, and keeps him from breaching the lower outpost while the real army arrives, and said axedwarf dies right as the army gets there... would it be possible for me to build him a tomb [or have one pre-made and unassigned] and have my dwarves place him there?


Edt; on a slightly related topic, is it possible to clean up the 'deceased' list? I really, really don't care how many bunnies and guineahens i've killed.

I enjoy the extra challenge now.

Least destructive? What does that mean? -Dwarven Confusion.-

Ive actually been griping alot about this. They will drop their weapons, which will then be forbidden for some reason, and won't pick them back up. I'm not sure why, and I can't find an answer, so I've resigned myself to just occasionally going through my fortress and unforbidding any dropped weapons.

Well, I don't mean the specifics. Just take the population as a whole, increase it according to a regular civ as time goes on, and have it operate as just a regular city. Maybe the new dwarves build it into a normal town instead of what the player has, the only thing that would continue was the wars that city would have, food production and diplomatic relations. I wouldn't be suprised at all if I went ther ein adventure mode and found out the dwarves went ''You know, I don't think we need a machine that melts kittens, and this magma hallway seems a bit dangerous.'' and did nothing with them.

urg. Fuck it, I'll just wall that square off and let it burn.

Sort of.

If I play long enough to become the capital and the king comes... then I purpose lose the fort to build another one one in the same world... my king would have to die. So does this mean that the civ i'm part of would become leaderless? Would another be elected at the mountain home? Does becoming the capital then Losing effectively cripple/destroy your particular civilization?

Also, there should be an option to abandon the fort but have your dwarves treat it like another town and keep going. Then this wouldn't be a problem. :|