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I know a lot of people try the "no skilled dwarfs challenge" or the "single pick challenge" but I'm obviously not that good. But you could try that.

Wait, are they challanges? My standard embark profile is like it, because in this case i have more points for other things. Like, i do not need skilled miner in aquifer zone, the same about masons, stone detailers etc. Carpenter is making masterworks after one year. One pick is pretty god, but you can take just bars with you.

Read legends, play in this world as adventurer, go to fortress when he will fall or your he will do enough. Meybe he will come to your fortress? Meybe your fortress will fall and this badass adventurer will take revenge on undeads, because you want reclaim your military facility? Read legends, meybe this goblinmaster who is sitting in middle of your zoo is father of 10 childeren? You can always mod a little game to make goblin adventurer who will relase goblins heroes?

Make log of your games, read it from time to time. If you are keeping details, like "i kicked Urist Kubuk ass, robbed his weapon and left him in wilds" and he will come to your fortress after two years, and you remember about him, you know why he have these scars... World will be far more intresting for you.

Try make it in easier way, retire some fort with laver linked hatch, go to it in adventure mode, fly up, then when you are under hatch just fly upward in some side (not straight up). It should left hatch open...

Quote from: Bearskie on October 18, 2014, 12:10:10 pm

It's been almost two seasons, and fire is still razing the hills of Nourishedfloors. Any ETA on when will it finally die out? Quarantine is turning into more than a minor hassle right now.

Usually a fire spreads until every grass- or moss-covered tile on the entire Z-level has been burnt, unless there are large physical barriers to stop the spread of the fire.

Or water?

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=51245.msg5742005#msg5742005

She managed to patch herself up. It taked hour. When she tried to escape by hole, which she used to jump into room, wall was too smoth. Only exit was where beast goed.

Slowly, in completly darkness, she was exploring place. After some time, she found a spear, bronze one, encrusted using bones. After really long time, she managed to find cross with upstairs. There was hatch, she was climbing straight up...

Corpse lord was lying on ground. There was slab too. And many other corpses around, not moving. She was terryfied, she smeeld she's dead. And she heard something is comming, heading to doors. She come back to hatch, ready to flee, and... child show up, crying... Covered in many bruises... Then his arm has been riped away. Then his throat... and corpses show up...

She fled down, she came back to some other room, there was hole too! She climbed up, as fast as she was able, but... Corpses was waiting for her... She remebered her trening, stabed corpse into head and jumped away. Then again, and again and corpse falled down. Cold... But second body just charged into her, knocking her back. She jumped away, but it was elf before... Elf body grabed her arm, whe was strugling, but it bited her into other arm...

She managed to stab elf body into neck, and spear jammed in flesh.

Last thing what she remember was pain in her elbow... and a little later,  she was dead...

If I recall correctly vampires only come when you hit 80 population or so?
Recently I only play with 50-60 population limit so my fort is always vampire-free.

This is no longer true. My fort never was above 21 dwarves, i have found two corpses drained, one of them is my founder. I am not dealing with him to see, if dwarves will do anything alone to deal with him or he will just leave. Meybe heteness will grow up and they will just atack him alone? I never had vampies not isolated for long time.

On my way to a dwarfen fort i stumbled across a goblin army of  a good dozens including overlord camping outside. Of course i couldnt resist and took 'care of them' after arriving at the forts trade depot and reporting this to the local trader he promptly spit at me and started grieving after those goblins.
Yeah..what? O.o

Took 'care of' taht traitor as well. Let's see waht comes next...

Goblins hate everything on world, in some degree, but they are tolerating everything too... to some point. Some goblins are just joining into dwarven ranks, just because, common dwarves life is better than common goblin life even when you can't eat these elf legs...

In fact, coal is healthy. All chemical filters using it...