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I don't know how long its been since I used bins... QSP's are just so much more efficient, and have almost no draw back (besides being a little abusive of game mechanics).

My entire workshop level is a massive mine cart QSP sorting system for anything to be produced. Raw material in, finished stuff out, grouped by type of material and use. Speeds things up nicely, doesn't it?

Had a few goblin prisoners to deal with, so I ordered them stripped of all their gear and taken to the military barracks to be released. If they could make it out, they were allowed to leave the map. None of them got 4 tiles away (while some body parts did, thanks to the axedwarves).

A few more moods, a jeweler made a really sweet perfect golden beryl and another jeweler made a rock crystal cabinet. The military is growing very attached to their weapons, naming them left and right. Broke a 100-unit siege by killing 9 units, 7 goblins and 2 trolls. The master didn't retreat, and was hacked to bits by the combined might of 50 dwarves.

Decided the inside courtyard of the fort was an ugly mess of workshops and stockpiles and random clutter, so I had a quantum stockpile workshop area made, using mine carts to sort and haul around goods to be worked. Everyone has been hauling crap around for most of the year, getting everything neat and tidy. After everything was removed from the courtyard, I had scaffolding built to dump buckets of water on the driest patches of rock, making them muddy enough to make a farm plot. Everything not covered by a farm plot is a seed stockpile, besides the walkways between the corners and center of the fort.



Most of the blood from previous years was covered up by the outer bracket-shaped rooms, which was part of the original ring-wall around the fort. Had the other built when we started running out of room for beds, and dwarves starting getting upset from sleeping on the floor. The masterwork silver statues are quite effective at keeping everyone walking where they should (and with copious amounts of traffic designations).

Everything is built of gabbro or silver, besides the beds of any type of wood we have laying about. Most of the wood is processed to ash or charcoal for soap and metalworking, and each year the caravans are told to bring as much lumber as they can haul. Got 157 logs of the elves, too bad we don't let them upstairs to see what we do with their precious trees. Eventually my OCD will take over and demand I make ALL the beds the same color (maybe of goblin cap or bloodthorn...)

I do accept the time required, and yeah the universe is big and almost allows for an infinite amount of life, I just don't expect to find anything spectacular close to home.

I would like to see forms of life not based off of DNA made of phosphorous, like the reports of arsenic based life a few years ago that turned out to not be true. similar activity and reactions, so its logical that arsenic life forms exist

Not getting my hopes up about life outside of earth. Conditions aren't right, the molecules needed aren't present, and we don't even know exactly how life started on Earth in the first place. Sure we know we need certain amino acids, and certain elements / molecules / interactions, but honestly, we have NO clue how a soup of molecules suddenly banded together in just the right way to make a cell membrane and replicatable proto-DNA or RNA.

I mean, basically life started when a certain amount of molecules and atoms grouped up due to their physical and chemical properties, and began a weird little reaction that resulted in us sitting here, typing into a computer or phone, and discussing how life began. Probably missing a big bit of the picture here, but if we knew more about how life started in the first place, and could (maybe) replicate or simulate it reasonably, we might have a better idea of where to look besides "water, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, oxygen".

The dead walk!

Marksdwarves to the ramparts, be sure to grab your ammo! Masons, wall off the entrance! Everyone else, inside the burrow! No sign of the necromancer at least, and all the zombies we kill stay down.

At least the masons finished the improved ramparts last month, got some fortifications carved, roof done, and doors installed as shutters. Marksdwarves have a great view of the landscape, and can stand right where they need to to see through the slits. All those cave croc bones came in handy from last year, the bonecarvers have been making bolts non-stop for a year so we have quite a large supply. New recruits came from the recent migrant waves (damn traders, thinking of living large here... here's a weapon, and some armor, get used to it).

Got ANOTHER artifact floodgate, this time from a carpenter. Made of tunnel tube, it makes a fine decoration for the dining room.

But in the cases of mummy attacks, companions can be the one to wake the mummy up and get the "you feel terrible" curse, which for a PC adventurer is basically a retirement / epic death notice.

Ctrl+r should do it