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My first time? There wasn't much of one, my experience has mostly been testing things on dozens of embarks and trying to figure out how to make farms work for the longest time. Then I was told I could use clay\peat for free muddy soil. I have mainly used only the mayday texture pack when I was getting better at the game, found the DF therapist awhile after and it was OK.

I think my first semi-successful fortress was after I got a food industry going and managed to keep everyone happy for awhile. I breached some caverns and eventually had 3 forgotten beasts attacking at once. I failed boarding up some entrances so the beasts crawled up the stairwells into my fort, at the time I had about 60 dwarves.

I decided to put them all in the military (I am slow with a metal industry so they were only wrestlers). It ended up being a blood bath in my meeting hall and the forgotten beasts were killed and I only had a few survivors. All but one ended up tantruming to death. The last one had a willpower made of steel. So she was left to clean up the corpses and make the place look liveable again. She went through the corpses of her friends and family and didn't bat an eye. I eventually had other migrants come in, but as soon as they saw the carnage and all the miasma, they lost their minds. So again and again after migrant waves she became the only one, only to die due to some dangerous savage animal or maybe it was thirst. That fortress was v28

Would I see a big difference if I embarked early in the game, such as 15 years in, or later 250?
Mainly it looks like civilizations get bigger, so that would mean they have more population to send to their death if they war with me right?
Also it's in the age of legends, so would I see even less megabeasts than usual?

Ssweeeeeeeeeeeeet my favorite tileset is staying up to date.

Well not only kobolds devour other sentient things. In one of my worlds the only dwarven civilization was beaten badly after a few megabeast attacks; then the last dwarf king was killed and devoured by an elf of all things. I wanted to start as a dwarf adventurer to avenge my king but since the civilization was destroyed I couldn't do it .

Yes, the new version added a morale and discipline system that includes fear. If your Dwarves see corpses, they will recoil in horror if they're not already hardened enough.

It also means undertrained dwarves are likely to bolt instead of fight. This just makes training even more critical for your armies.

Oh my god... spartan programs will make sense now. Sooooooo coool

Make him the Mayor.

I can't imagine anything better than this.

I think tendency to have longer and longer periods between major releases is visible. If I was to bet, next major release will be longer than 323, but shorter than 763 days - but ANOTHER release after that will beat 763 days. Nice definition of "outlier" designed to downplay and deny this tendency noted.

I hope I am mistaken and my prediction will not happen.

Yeah I totally agree with you, this graph doesn't show whatever OP is trying to suggest. I see times between majors releases becoming longer and longer. I would say it looks like it's between 500 and 763 days for the next big release at this rate.

For this new graph, I don't really like the line since it implies something. We're not getting these versions handed to us every day over the timespan, we have to wait for them.

I would suggest having the right labors on then, stone detailing, masonry, or stonecrafting. One of them would have to work.