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Bamboo + machete = bolts for arbalest.

Remember where it is and dive another level or two elsewhere. There are ALOT of orcs down there and its fairly open.

Don't feel bad. Giant bats are perhaps the most annoying enemy on the first 3 levels.

Hill orcs can eat rotten food since they are sapovores. Mummies don't eat, ghouls prefer rotting meat and get health from it, vampire's drink blood and leave skeletons which can be raised through either necromancy or through Yredelemnul first rank ability. Spriggans have an extremely slow metabolism but can't eat meat, so early spriggan fighter types can go for extremely long periods between eating. They are also very fast and stealthy. Trolls can also eat rotten meat, but they get hungry three times as fast as other races.

Overall, mummies make easy to use spellcasters since they require no food for casting or abilities, vampires can't starve and their bonuses slide back and forth depending on hunger levels, and spriggans are easy to use fighters early.

Save it, and post it in the bugs forum and upload the save to the Dwarf Fortress File Depot. After you upload the save and back it up on your own computer by copying it to somewhere else, run it and see what happens.

I think the undead invasion was eliminated long before the switch to 3d. IMHO, the only version other then the most advanced that is worthwhile is the last 2D version. Forget which one that is though. 2D had more direction then the 3D version but far fewer features and openness to it.

So my latest character came across a serious snag in his delve. The ecumencal temple is surrounded by translucent rock walls. Time to try out the scrolls to see if any could help get through so I can get my pray on.

Mahkleb gives both on kills. However lets face, healing for kills only helps speed you up, doesn't really increase survival early on until you hit massive hordes. Sif Muna allows you to spam health stealing spells during combat. However looking at Mahkleb's abilities, his second one allows mummies to spam an attack spell with no cost. Hmm. This bears investigation.

Edit: Mahkleb's beam attack requires MP to use. Still, for a non caster mummy its a decent ranged attack.