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I believe anything made of fire gets a "hidden" fireball attack, just like any spider-based titan has a "hidden" web ability.

My goal on founding Paperweights was to finally teach myself how to manage a magma pump stack; I have yet to do much with Armok's blood in-fort, and I'd like to change that.

A magma pipe was finally found on the third cavern layer, and we began the slow process of construction the stack. Despite the thorough research on the subject, we still had a few... errors.

Still, I am proud to announce success. The magma forges are up and running, and maybe we can finally turn our efforts to finding flux to upgrade the militia to steel.

Now that our purpose has been achieved, it is time to turn the fort to the grand purpose of !!Science!! (maybe not all of the flammable sort). I'm now Dabbling skill in minecart usage and have assigned a few humans to the Fortress Guard for the express purpose of testing the effects of tattered or missing clothing on the psyche. Unfortunately, the first subject has been revealed as utterly shameless ("does not feel anything on being uncovered").

I have a few RP-related quirks to how I fort-mode, and religion is one of them.

There are several factors to how I choose the dwarf civ my group is part of, and one of them is the gods they worship. I tend to choose civs with a small deity list (six or fewer), and avoid ones that worship gods of death, deformity and disease (unless they interact interestingly with other spheres, ie a god of the sun and death).

Temples are one of the few rooms I go out of my way to make non-square; they're usually oval or teardrop shaped, with the table/altar at the far, fat end. It's also one of the first rooms I designate after the central hallways are laid out, and the first room to get smoothing. This first room is a general worship room, with no specific deity, and will not receive any special engraving. As my fort grows, I add smaller rooms that are connected to this central one, and each is dedicated to a specific deity of my civ's pantheon. These rooms are engraved with images and decorated with statues that fit the appropriate spheres of worship.

As Frames said, the tag [SLOW_LEARNER] implies [CAN_LEARN]. They're sentient. Goblin ethics just don't forbid them from being used as livestock as well as recruits.

This is why you always read the paperwork before you sign anything! v:

Dear militia of Paperweights: When I put out an order for your squad to meet at a station, or suddenly order a kill, it usually means lives are at stake. Perhaps you can bear this in mind and make a little more haste? You guys have adequate armor training to handle the iron equipment you're wearing, and you move fast enough when it comes to claiming a drink or a new sock for yourselves...

This is usually when I break off for the day/night, as I prefer to look through my migrants and customize their labors as they come in. I haven't had any trouble with them getting stuck. Lack of an accessible meeting zone is usually what gets them stuck.

Sometimes it takes them a bit to figure it out once it has been created/mad accessible.

(And then I looked at the date, whoops. Sorry if this counts as a necro.)

The vomit thought usually comes from when they are drinking from a brook outside; contaminants are factored into complaints about the water, and if they're cave adapted, they'll barf all over the ground they're drinking from.

My mayor has a thing for amulets and frequently forbids their export after a load has been dumped on the trade caravan, but before they leave the map. This tends to result in a lot of dwarves (who have nothing to do with the crafting industry nor trade) doing jail time. First time I've seen the mayor sentence the Captain of the Guard though.

The real facepalm here is I appointed a deputy so the CoG could be arrested, hoping for a hilarious cancel message, but he finished his current arrest mere moments before the deputy got to him and decided to eat instead of making another.