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evil biome, a group of three undead badgers, i felt safe with a group of war dogs i started with

dogs met badgers
3x undead badgers, 3x live dogs -> 2x undead badgers 2x live dogs -> 3x undead badgers, 1x undead dog 2x live dogs(uum..)
a couple of minutes later: undead: 3x badger, 1x yak, 1x horse 1x goat 12x dog 1x fisherdwarf

uh... ****

everyone run inside, stonemason, build a wall, NOOO! bad bad time to be on break

undead: 3x badger, 1x yak, 1x horse 1x goat 12x dog 1x fisherdwarf 1x stonemason
...
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Dear Urist McCook

i know you are a legendary cook, and i'm not, but was looking through your work, and you keep mincing the whip wine flour
by definition, flour, is a powder, please explain your reasoning for mincing, POWDER?

Dear Urist McMiller

i recently found Urist McCook using whip wine flour, whip wine is supposed to be used for booze,
you are supposed to be milling dimple cups.
i know whip wine is also blue, but it cant be used to color clothing

i am not correcting my plan, the whip wine end product is still classified as booze, i leave you up to figuring out how to drink powder

Dear Urist McClothier

i Told you to make bags
you said there was no cloth left
i changed the orders to allow using non-dyed cloth
you resume making bags... using ONLY COLORED CLOTH?
noone is currently dying cloth
where did this cloth come from?
we are flooded with white cloth, and are having problems coloring it..
and why do bags need to be pretty?

To the dwarves of Irlogem(drinkpaint)

dear Urist McMayor, aka barrellover

when i got a mayor that demanded barrels, i was very happy, finally someone would not ask for platinum cabinets, bronze mini-forges, or other useless nonsence..
then you wanted three more barrels, ok.. fair enough. i made you your barrels
again you ordered more barrels..

now less then two years later, we have no less then 47 empty barrels(yes i counted) and over 100 barrels in use..
we had to send out woodcutters specifically for more wood for barrels you demanded..
and to top it all off, we have plenty of sand, magma, and fire clay.
can we please make some large glass or stoneware pots, and use the wood for bins?
this is getting a bit excessive

sincerely, the leader of a binless fortress


dear Urist McHunter
what is it with you and unicorns? seriously!
you have a unicorn bone crossbow, unicorn bone bolts, and unicorn leather shoes, and we mostly make pig tail clothes, and bronze weapons
i notice we have no non-unicorn meat, and over 30 capybaras in sight, however, only three unicorns
how about some nice capybara steak for a change?
ok.. two unicorns remaining now... and you are.. on your way to pick up equipment: unicorn leather vest.
..
ok, just what did the unicorns do to you?

signed: worried about your sanity

and last but not least,

Urist McCleaner
re: ledge cleaning
as you know, we are in a very cold part of the world, so this whole winter, we went to a big lake, put floodgates in the side of it while it was frozen, and prepared to dump the entire lake into a reservoir the instant it thawed.
now, considering this:
was 2 seconds after opening the floodgates the best time in your mind to clean the ledge?

contemplate this, as you now lie, 3z levels deep in water, with no good swimmers in the fortress, we closed the floodgates as soon as we could...

if you make our reservoir permanently taste of drowned dwarf, i promise you, the slate engraved in your memory will not be all that nice

sincerely, the leader already planning a new reservoir.

well, as unpredictable as large gems might be, you could still try for panicky gem digging in emergencies, however if the baron demands something you just cant get, uh.. crap...

thus i think choice b might be safer

yeah, i had a few really annoying forts in a row, where all demands were useless, hard to make, things.. usually ending up with all my most useful dwarves being criminals, and a few skillless nobles doing nothing but making demands

i just reached the point where i executed 5 mayors in one season, and uh, yeah.. i need to relax a bit i think...

i'm looking at embark sites now, and i found an area, with neighbors listed:
dwarves
goblins   -------
elves
town
humans
tower

aside from this being unusually large, i have never seen "town" in this list
what does that mean?

you could make a mad dash for cavern layer 3, and then wall it back up, and wait for blood thorn trees to appear, for wood that's twice as heavy as your standard wood..

but i dont think those still compare to metal very favorably

someone wanted the save file, so:

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6149

i play using the mayday 34.07 tileset, if that's relevant

enjoy