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Long historys have a tennacy to let civilisations die out. If you embarked on an isle or something where caravans don't normally come then that might be it. Of corse dorfs do like expensive booze and fantasticly made adamantine serrated disk traps. I think fortress value has an effect on migration.

Smaller region, in the plains not far from the mountainhomes :p Again, I chose the civ with the highest pop. Also cuz they've been at war with the gobbo's for 900 years:p

EDIT: WOOT! 16 migrants just showed up. Alrighty. So then I guess if the caravan/liaison doesn't come the first year, neither do the migrants. Well, at least I know I can run a decent fort with a dozen+ dwarves:p

Quote from: rtg593 on April 30, 2012, 11:10:57 pm

As far as hardening dwarves, killing their kids is kind of a sucky way to do it;-) I just got a migrant with no compassion, "Not affected by the suffering of others." Wish I could mod that into all my migrants:p

Actually that's fairly easy to do. Just add [PERSONALITY:SYMPATHY:0:0:0] to the end of the dwarven entry and all of your future dwarves (whether migrants or born) will have that.

*disturbing laughter*

First one: Temporary dirt fort, just finished the stone fort 60z lower, between the 2 cavern layers. I delete my meeting zone, add a meeting hall in my new legendary dining room. The moment everyone gets down there...

THE DEAD WALK.

The facepalm? I hadn't moved the lever yet. 60z to climb, and twice as far to walk to get around the cavern to the lever to lock up the fort. They made it in.

Second one: No military yet, only a dozen dwarves. THE DEAD WALK. Lock down the fort, start pumping out traps and whatnot to try and create a hall to kill them all off and reclaim the surface before the caravan arrives. After a minute, I realize, no FPS drop. Check the u-menu...

5 zombies. Total. <<Enemy facepalm.

I send out my 6 miners. They kill 2 one at a time. Then the other 3 mob mine one at a time. <<My facepalm.

Lol, just tried a few of deathworks tips... Genned a world, went all the way to year 1050 in Age of Myth. Took a look, 4 wars have been waging for over 900 years. This might be fun :p

Heh. Well alrighty. Gunna embark with the civ that has the Vampire as a founder... the one that was it's fist king... and the one that's still alive

Not the queen still, unfortunately. Lol, 1050 years may be a bit suspicious:p

“Did you hear the rumors?”

“W-What?” Deep in thought, the question startled me. We’d been travelling in silence for days, the land becoming more and more flat. This was nothing like the Mountainhall in which I grew up. Not even close. Of the 29 fortresses our mighty Dwarven civilization held... All were within our mountains. In fact, we had to pass our two brother civilizations to even get out here! I don’t know why we’re even here...

When the Royal Guard showed up at my door, declaring the great honor that had been bestowed upon me, all I could feel was dread. When they handed me the slab, declaring I had been ‘hand-picked for this assignment,’ and that ‘this is what I had been trained and prepared for my entire life,’ that sealed it. There had been no training, no preparing. I was nothing but a peasant.

“Well? Have you heard them?”

Had I heard them? Of course I had. How could I not? But rumors are just that; rumors. Nothing to be trusted. The plains beside the mountain range we encompass hold 130 known goblin Dark Fortresses, from 6 separate goblin civilizations; rumors of danger and bloodshed are nothing new. Dwarven Steel has always prevailed in the past, and it will continue to prevail!

Except, we’re about as far from home as is physically possible, and they didn’t send a bit of steel with us...

Seeing my companion was about to ask again, I quickly spoke: “Yes. Yes, I’ve heard them.”

“Well,” he said, “do you think there’s any truth to them? You know, if we’ll see... Them?”

“I certainly hope not,” I replied.

Some time back, one of our caravans journeyed to our farthest brother clan, and brought back rumors of creatures... Unspeakable creatures... Creatures... Long dead, yet living.

“Zombies,” I said softly.

Climbing a slight rise, our Expedition Leader brought the wagon to a stop. Surveying the land around us, comparing it to his map, he cautiously declared, “Alright, I think we’re here.”

Here? Here? We’re on top of a slight hill, no mountains in sight! Even worse, the ground around the hill was soft, damp even. We’re supposed to survive here? Flat land as far as the eye can see, nothing but rolling hills and trees! This is elven land, not fit for a dwarf! Nothing taller than a tree, except for that odd, black, flat-topped... thing, on the other side of the forest.

Looking at it, a sense of urgency and dread returned, stronger than ever.

The Expedition Leader spoke again, saying, “Alright, well, let’s make the best of it. Grab your picks, let’s delve some secure lodgings. I hear winters can be harsh down here, might very well entomb us until spring, and those giant dingoes are looking a mite hungry. Strike the earth!”

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Hey everyone! So I'm trying to tap my creative side, long since dormant. I figured, the easiest way to do it is through writing. And since my current obsession is Dwarf Fortress, what would be more natural? :p

So honest opinions, what do you think? What about the style, the perspective, any other artsy word concepts of which I'm not aware? :p

And most importantly, does this seem like anything anyone would want to read? Honest feedback, please. :-)

Well, I tend to use the quantum-dump trick remove the stone from the places I don't want it cluttering, but then choose a particular stone-type to build all my aboveground walls with (and I usually make a lot of them) and then set up a specialised masonic workshop for this (and other specialised masonic workshops for other stone types) in order to turn it into blocks to make the walls(/floors/fortifications/bridges/roads/whatever) that I'm wanting.

But I usually end up doing something like deciding to turn the obviously copious limestone deposits into the aboveground fortress structure, plan the huge complex, start it, and then find that 90% of the limestone layer is aquifer-ridden.  Meanwhile, I've got a few-hundred-thousand stones of another variety being quantum-dumped out of the latest workings.


In short, hiding is easy.  Dump it, and if you never use it ever again, you can just forget about it.  And/or actually set it to be hidden (which you can do in its original locale, as well, but does mean that invisible rocks might need pushing around when you're setting up an industry in the invisible-rock-ridden cavern).


I think the challenge is what to do with them.  And spending ages trying to get (say) five dozen stone mechanisms of exactly the same quality (and stone-type) takes up some of my stock (but produces a lot of stone mechanisms of a different quality, and occasionally stone-type when I've not managed to restrict the mechanics-maker to the right stockpiles).  I can often eat up specific-type blocks much more quickly than I can produce them in making my above-ground structures.  Add to that what Poindexterity has just mentioned, and homogeneous furniture (often with a similar 'identical quality-level' OCDing on my part) and that's basically my sink for these.

The latest dev-log just solved your problem; workshops can be set to draw from a specific stockpile, set stockpile to certain stone, bam.

*drools a little*

*drool*

Is it sad I have the release rss feed linked to my phone, so dwarf fortress music starts playing the moment he puts out 0.34.08?