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Is there any way to actively increase the size of trade caravans?  I currently buy everything I could possibly want from each caravan for about three egg roasts and a few exceptional weapons, both of which I own in the thousands (Making a master-work equipped military, woo!)

There are all these way to make items for trading, but I don't really see much point, since I can buy out the caravan anyway.  But I did notice more traders coming than before, which I would assume means more trade-stuffs, which I would assume means there's something causing more of them to come.

So how to I encourage trade?  Do I just offer them a bazillion worth of goods, and expect that to cause them to come back with friends?  Does it have to do with population?  Roads?  Wealth? Something else?

How much they bring has to do with how many animals tag along, since the animals are what carry the stuff.

So, if you were to - say - alter the raws so that donkeys and camels and horses and mules and so on were all able to carry ten times as much, then ten times as much stuff would be brought.

But if you go too crazy, then they bring so much it takes them half a year to unload - and they immediately leave.

As to getting more traders, I'm not sure.

know when you chew on a chicken leg, and you get that stretchy chewy white long bit?

thats not a tendon. Thats a big ass nerve bundle.

I'm not sure which part you're talking about, 'cause there's a big stretchy chewy white tendon in the chicken leg too. But yes, there is a big fat nerve cord in there.

I always try and build into a hill as my entrance. It limits the number of walls I have to build. I then cut off all of the ramps, making the top of the hill into the perfect place for above-ground farms.

Except for fliers... but they're gonna bother your above-ground farms anywhere.

then I dig down a few levels - Soil level is farms, next top level is barracks. Then comes workshops, followed by rooms. My entrance is lined with beds until I get the proper dorms cut.

Eventually, I get the farms big enough that they produce a tidal wave of food. First couple of caravans I buy every ounce of food and every animal so I have a nice buffer - then I breed up some animals and away I go.

I haven't played with really big animals too much yet, so it's a bit of a pain farming them.

Go view the Dwarf Fortress website, and then commit suicide when hearing what the next update will be about.

WWUD if he was resurrected as a skeleton as soon as the next update came?

Try and drink, 'cause screw the necromancer's orders!

Then cry because the booze leaked out between his ribs.

What would Urist do next?

Quote from: Gyvon on June 17, 2011, 12:58:24 am

My dwarves just finished sacrificing goblin virgins by tossing them into the volcano.

Do goblins even have sex? I would have thought screening them for virgins is unnecessary.

Actually, the tossing-in is the virginity screening itself. Virgins in a volcano take slightly longer to incinerate.


Riftmachines is on hold while I figure out how to boost my FPS to something respectable... Meanwhile, a separate fortress has been built into the twin peaks of a volcano.

One peak functions solely as the entrance with the training room, barracks and armory stored within (as well a an underground farm, but hey). The second peak has enough lead for me to poison most of Switzerland, so I guess I'll be making trillions of goblets.
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See, I like killing Elves too. I just prefer to do it more subtlely. Making an immortal race sterile and slowly going mad appeals to me.

Quote from: khearn on June 14, 2011, 05:08:23 pm

Quote from: Areyar on June 13, 2011, 09:27:43 am

Following the cowardly elvish assault on our undefended mine, in which Kagosh was thrown down the main air shaft. Kagosh the blacksmith was tumescent in the hospital with two doubly broken legs when she got a genious idea.

I do not think that word means what you think it means.

From Wikipedia:

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Tumescence is the quality or state of being tumescent or swollen. This swelling includes expanding foam and expanding caulk. [1] Tumescence usually refers to the normal engorgement with blood (vascular congestion) of the erectile tissues, marking sexual excitation and possible readiness for sexual activity. The tumescent sexual organ in men is the penis and in women is the clitoris.

LOL !!
(and !!blush!! )
incumbent? supine? prostate?
What I meant to say was being back-broken and lying down...using a latin word. :p

Maybe that's what sexual excitation does to dwarves? Inspires them>

On the anvil is an image of a Dwarf and The Haunted Mirror. The Dwarf is struggling. The Haunted Mirror is breaking. This image relates to the attempt to use The Haunted Mirror.

What would Urist do if he found out it isn't a good idea to make weapons or furnature out of bones?

Go macabre and make yet more useless bone weapons and furniture.

What would Urist do if a Bronze Colossus appeared at the front gate selling booze?

'Inspired' by the anvils he saw when he last besiegedvisited the Elves, he would go Fey and craft The Haunted Mirror, an Elf Bone anvil.

What would Urist make first on his Elf-bone anvil?