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I recently began to describe DF to a new girlfriend who seemed surprisingly interested in the premise. She was a bit put off by some of the topics (for obvious reasons) and suggested that we refer to the dwarves as "bunnies" since that would be cuter.

So, I continued to describe the activities of my "bunnies" which led to the topic of combat and the tendency for body parts to go flying. Suddenly, she decided that they were clearly demon bunnies a la Monty Python & the Holy Grail.

This, of course, led to the topic of HFS, to which she responded by declaring the denizens of that foul realm to be juggalos. I honestly couldn't think of anything more detestable. For ever after, HFS will be known as the Dark Carnival, home to the Great Milenko and his Faygo-guzzling, misanthropic horde.

P.S. I will now have to take every opportunity to breach said realm in order to obliterate the juggalo menace.

I do the same with these sorts of artifacts. Militia commander, Captain of the Guard, these sorts should look fancy when they stroll through the dining hall. It's all about the status symbols.

Well that's just awesome. I hate having my cats roaming the country-side slaughtering all small animals they find only to then bring the little carcasses back and drop them at a favored dwarf's feet.

It is kinda cute though, savage little beasts that they are.

Ahh, the deceptive danger of goblin archers.

I had a recent embark where my first seige was a crew of archers. As they approached my entrance, my own archers began firing from the parapet, which soon sent the goblins running for home. Thinking I had a good old-fashioned route in the works, I unleashed my melee dwarves. Lost at least three before they even closed into hand-to-hand range. I killed the goblins in the end, but it was a bloody mess and my dwarves needed some serious hospital time.

You can get legendary migrants from your previous abandoned forts, certainly. They even retain all their bad thoughts! I'm not sure if they keep equipped gear though- I don't think they do, though.

They do, however, retain any nickname they had been given. Certainly makes them easy to spot.

I ran into a similar situation and have rekindled my Fun by embarking on the edge of an evil reanimating biome. Deep beneath the earth, my dwarves are delving into terrible experiments involving undead !!Science!!.

There's something rather gratifying about trapping a goblin warband in a room and then dropping the animated corpses of their bretheren in on them.

Miners are arguably the easiest profession to get to Legendary without any sort of mods/cheats/exploits. Soil layers are key.

I usually have a trio of Legendary Miners by the end of my first year.

Are studs blacksmithing or metalcrafting?

Metalcrafting.