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What?  You have invaders turned off or something?

In one of my forts, I had a dwarf miner (one of the originals) who, fairly early on in the fort life, lost his mining buddy and a lung to a goblin ambush.  He stayed in bed for something like two years while he was recovering.  The fort grew, and I decided to go ahead and make him into the fortress' sheriff.  I gave him a small apartment back in the halls of the jail I had dug out, and gave him a craftsdwarf workshop.  He made toys.  Whenever I started digging out new areas of my fortress, he'd rush over there ('cause I never disabled the mining job from him), sometimes beating the newbie miners to the job.  And he'd tear through the stone like butter (he was legendary by the time he had his injury).  I never expanded much, so the other miners never had a chance to get their mining skill up.  So, in my mind, here you had this old-hand miner who was simply a legend in dwarven society and who would double over gasping for air on occasion, showing the new guys how it was done.  And he'd lap 'em too.  Like 2 or 3 tiles for every one they dug out.

Same fort, there was the Baroness who had on her relationship list a ton of different dwarves which were identified as her friends.  When I went to check any of those dwarves relationships with the baroness, she was either absent entirely or she was listed as a passing acquaintance.  She obviously thought really highly of herself, and everybody was just scared of pissing her off and incurring the wrath of the hammerer.

!!Magma Giant Cave Spider Silk Thong!!

Hawt!

Recreate that prison from Kung Fu Panda!  ^_^

A regen is not required if you just replace one of the reactions in your smelter raw file.  By "replace", I mean replace the reaction and product lines.  I used the Adamantine reaction, but you can use any reaction you don't think you'll need.  It's a good idea to include it separately in future world generations, but it works fine this way as a patch on old ones.

That sounds like far too much work relative to how annoyed I was.  I have more dwarves in my fort now, so things are picking up.  I actually have a bit of surplus to build with now!

I've talked about how to do that in a different thread, if the OP is interested I can dig it up and provide a link.

Not interested personally, but feel free to put it up!  Sounds like some folks could find that useful!

I guess the other dorfs still drank the beer later... would someone hand me the brain bleach, please?

What?  Alcohol sterilizes stuff.  You'd rather the beer went to waste?

I would like to put another vote in for another Dwarf Shorts, as I find them highly amusing!