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Every succession/community/challenge I try dies. I really wish other people had finished the Hermit Challenge. That one told a wonderful story, where the game constantly hinged on the little bastard taking breaks at the worst times, an early-game cat-based defense strategy, capturing a female cyclops and being confused because that was his only female contact for a decade, and eventually capturing a web-spinning titan and knitting titan-silk socks. I never even got to post it because nobody else finished.

I've thought of a challenge where 4-6 players rotate the turns and control physically separate mini-forts across the map, keeping their dwarves in their own section via burrows or blocked paths, and during the current player's turn, the other player's mini-forts are left to run without new orders, so most of the time, each mini-fort is on autopilot. You'd need a carefully set up initial state so everyone can get their forts running, and at least some rules to prevent obvious, boring forms of sabotage. (including some FPS preserving measures.)

I think the loss of ambushers and the unreliability of invaders hurts newer versions of the game in succession forts, too. Getting enough interesting enemies to show up in the vanilla game is a big problem.

Speaking of cloth, are you making knick knacks and doodads to sell to the merchants in Autumn? Because cloth costs a bundle, and food and alcohol costs even more. You need to produce a lot of whatever you intend to trade before Autumn comes around. I usually find that I can't afford cloth for the first few years.

There are a number of industries (I prefer glass traps) that should make it easy to buy anything you want from caravans, even on year 1.

For the OP, another option is to claim the corpse and designate it for dumping, and set the only valid dump zone right next to the butcher shop. Then re-unforbid the corpse and order the butcher job again.

Hi Button! Nice to see you!!

For me, Modest Mod fills a need that Dwarf Fortress Revised does not. (Though DF Revised really is close...)

For example, the "microreduce" changes go beyond the "only fixes that any sane person would want and have no possible counterargument" mandate that Modest Mod fills so well. I certainly don't want some of those, especially with the new work orders.

I don't know how that fits into everyone else's view, but I see Modest Mod as the only mod that should absolutely always be installed, because everything in it is good, and there's no reason to not include all of its changes.

Yes, contaminants can accumulate around a cleaning area.

Mist from falling water will remove contaminants (to the floor), but because the mist has some random area, you might have the same problem. I never managed to make a mist-based shower cleaner that really worked. Falling water similarly has lots of problems.

The best system I've found is a 3/7 deep water trench. Contaminants will accumulate in the trench, killing barefoot dwarves and animals, but can be gradually removed via water flow, or quickly by flushing the trench with magma.

I'd be interested to see a truly automated contaminant-removal system.

You should consider FPS management as a central part of your plan. That's going to rapidly get in the way of any truly long-running fortress.

It should still work regardless of build order, since powered pumps are faster than liquid falling. (I think I tried it a long time ago. Probably one of the times I thought flooding the lower fortress with magma would be great?)

What PatrikLundell says is correct, too. If you build them bottom-to-top, then the stack won't even fill up with liquid until the top outlet is full. For other build orders, what you might see is the whole stack open column fill with liquid before the top starts pumping.

What I don't know is what would happen if one side is entirely open to the air without walls. I suspect that would impair performance as water spreads horizontally away from the stack and starts falling. Also, that would murder your FPS. But it might still be worth it because, Hey, Magma Geyser!

Go for it! Aquifers add lots of fun options for power sources, mist generators, and some exotic traps. Follow the wiki instructions and you'll be fine.