Bay 12 Games Forum

Id Dogikmörul, Recruit has created Dezremlegon, a hematite mechanisms!

Dezremlegon, "Slowwanders", a hematite mechanisms
This is a hematite mechanisms. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with oval hematite cabochons.

... at least now I have a Legendary mechanic.

I like animals because I like chaos.

Keas are awesome. They liven things up a bit. I like raven flocks, too.

In general having things go well without some little bastards interfering gets boring. It's a pleasant surprise to be robbed by Keas and such in the middle of something important, it makes me go "Haha you little shit! Steal that thing and fly! Fly fly away!"

Unfortunately my new fortress features... an indoor well and cistern and some workshops. 

My previous fort ended up with the Nemesis loading bug and I didn't have backups. The previous one had a huge outdoor enclosure for grazing animals, large underground tree farm, cavern turned into catacombs with an underground lake, a meat grinder gauntlet leading to a 'fake' entrance that I could open to lead a siege into and watch them get chopped to bits trying to get through the long twisting corridor full of traps and then I could close that and open another entrance to make them go through all the traps a second time if any were left alive.

I also had a trading lock blocked by retractable bridge over ramps at one end and a drawbridge at the other, linked to one lever so that direct passage into the fort is never actually open - the depot can be accessed from inside the fort, or outside the fort, but never both at the same time.

Dwarfs aren't dumb when it comes to finding booze. They are like booze seeking missiles - usually the problem ends up having important dwarfs off drinking when you really need them to be doing something else.

They will wall themselves in, cross bridges at wrong times, run out to fix traps in the middle of a siege... but their booze drinking is what they are good at. If they aren't doing it, then something is wrong with how things are set up.

I hope we won't have an another Tilesets VS ASCII discussion here.

They are ALL tilesets anyway. There's no true ASCII in the game. The default is a sprite tileset just as much as Phoebus is, it's just the sprites are sprites of symbols, and some packs require different raws to work. Other than that they are effectively the same.

It was originally intended that the book-keeper would take each and every item into his office for tabulation one at a time; the current booze barrel is just a placeholder. Toady will eventually get around to fixing it.

I hope that's a joke of some kind. 

There's no way I'm allowing my broker to carry potentially thousands of items around one at a time.

Edit: I mean bookkeeper. 

Best to start planning your military already since you'll need some special rooms for them anyway (at least a barracks).

You should place the barracks away from any wells, natural hazards, pits or moats and otherwise inaccessible places because the dwarves will be sparring there and dwarves don't look before dodging. Not good to have them fall down a pit or something.

Another helpful thing to do if you still have a large area undug that is soil (clay, loam, sand, whatever) is to dig out a huge room into it (like 20x20 at least or even bigger) and then break through into a cavern, and seal off your large room. You can also seal off the cavern after you open it if you aren't ready for the stuff that might come out of it. Eventually you will have an underground 'tree' farm in your large room, with tower-caps and soforth, as well as moss and subterranean plants that can be harvested. You'll want this room closed off and not have anyone walking around in it until it is done growing or you are ready to harvest it, because too much traffic will kill the saplings before they can grow. Just forget about it for a while and eventually you will have an underground forest that you can still use in the event that you must close your fort due to a siege.

You can do this on stone too, but it is easier on soil. If you do it on stone you'll have to muddy it with water first which takes more work.

I occasionally like to creep people out by telling them the morbid details of children being stolen by goblins, body parts flying through the air, things being set on fire, kidneys and spleens and all that good stuff being impailed/sliced/bitten through, incurably insane dwarfs wandering around babbling until they dehydrate and/or starve to death, smashing things with bridges, impaling things with spikes, chopping things to bits with serrated disks, distraught wives throwing themselves down wells, gaggles of insane naked children picking fights with dogs and being bitten through their insides and bleeding to death, locking unwanted dwarfs in rooms until they die...

And then I laugh at all of this. My dad's wife thought it was pretty horrible. Heheh.