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http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Captured_live_fish

I think you need a fishery, and capture live fish orders, as well as animal traps.

Hope that helps in your strange mood!

Free marksdwarf practice. The gobbo squads slaughtered the elven caravan, and camped up the hill by the walls. Easy targets

First siege, decided to split up. Some went down into the mine cart grinder...

And one went through the reciprocating spikes.

Lost my Original 7 Mason/Mechanic to the mine cart trap, because he decided to reload a trap at the last second. His upper spike was broken, and he suffocated soon after, right as someone came to rescue him.

Poor guy. Wasn't very well liked apparently, no one really cared that he died.

A quick tour of the dwarven city Ablelneth, "Bustbalanced.

Using quantum storage, productivity is improved and hauling distance is reduced. This are has just been finished and sorting of the forts' items has begun. (shamelessly stolen from a thread here)

A nice fractal design, every dwarf will get at least a 3x3 tomb. Nobility will get valuable statues crammed in next to them, or one of the artifact coffins our children are so fond of producing.

Another fractal design (just realized this was a massive swastika, thankfully its the "peace" one and not the other, more sinister one). I just like how this looks, everyone gets a green glass cabinet crafted by our resident legendary glassmaker, a bed, and an obsidian door for now. More furniture to be added soon.

And finally, the grand surface fort. Currently under construction, obsidian is being harvested from layers found deep underground, carved into blocks, and hauled up to the surface. This will eventually be 3z high, with room for marksdwarf patrols and sleeping areas for the military. The central tower will be the last line of defense, should an enemy manage to penetrate the central courtyard. Above ground crops are planted (sun berries!) and temporary storage for obsidian blocks rings the remaining space.

We may want to figure out a way to keep traders safe. The elves were killed by kobold ambushes, the humans by a goblin ambush. The last dwarven caravan was safe, but the liaison decided to run through the mine cart grinder while it was on. Be interesting to see what they bring us this year.

I've never managed to get a clay product industry up and running, but having to glaze pots before i'm able to use them bothers me.

I stick with glass, because I can make way more stuff with it, including magma safe products. I almost never make clear glass, so i'm not as worried about wood being rare.

Hey, first time I've seen this message.


Then again, the lucky couple usually ends up as the first two military dwarves... and never marry.

Quote from: 0cu on November 05, 2012, 01:09:22 pm

I was very disappointed with the path Notch has chosen for Minecraft. I don't want the same thing to happen with DF. So, no.

Selling a million copies isn't really a bad thing though.
Except for playing multiplayer mods aren't possible in anytime soon, Minecraft seems to be on a good track.

I can't say Minecraft has improved very much, if at all in the last 2 years I've had it. Sure, some things are added, and are pretty cool, but its usually nothing a modder hasn't done already (pistons, etc.) And the huge influx of players led to a HUGE detriment on the community as a whole.

Thats part of the reason I decided to play Dwarf Fortress - I had seen it on TV Tropes, read Boatmurdered, and finally decided to try it. After playing a bit, I tried Minecraft a bit and found it lacking in a certain element... I have had more fun being mauled by random animals and attempting to stave off chaos than building massive structures and having them griefed/underappreciated.

And anyways, I say let Toady make his game the way he wants it, its already more complex and fun than any big name titles I've played in the last 6 years. Its only gonna get better from here on out.

Plans are underway to settle a new area (i grow weary of the husk fort, the dwarf husks are pretty well unkillable since they are legendary in all combat skills now and refuse to move, preferring to bash a horse husk instead. It's only a torso and head, and can only push and bite. Missing it's teeth, nose, and other extremities)

need an area with trees, sand, aquifer, preferably a good biome, and will be dedicated again to capturing, taming and training megabeasts as well as unicorns.

I plan on a decent above ground section, with airlocks and boltholes. An inner keep will house the military. Probably will farm obsidian for the walls, not sure yet. Also plan on a magma deathtrap, or a mine cart grinder underground.

To advanced world gen!

DFHack has the "lair" command, that marks the map area as a lair, thus preventing item scattering.

The last time I made a vault, I used a locked door connected to a lever nearby, instead of a drawbridge, and found everything right where I had left it.