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'allo.

My smelter (well, two of them now) has a little <CLT> tag after where it says smelter on the Query menu.
What does this mean?

Forget about the surface altogether.
Completely block off the upper couple of levels of your fort and divert a river/aquifer into them.
Of course this prevents trading altogether, but until underminers are implemented sieges will never bother you again.

Uh, some work required to be able to grow sunberries and other plants of that nature underground, though. Apparently an area that has ever been revealed to sunlight will never lose it's 'light' tag, but I don't know if you can grow aboveground plants on it.

Just keep a stock of sunshine somewhere, forbid it and only break it out on special ocassions.

The Bronzemark has finally struck candy, hail the miners! Also, a magma sea on the same level, which is like 140 levels down from the surface.

I've been lucky, since the initial shaft I sunk basically missed the bottom two caverns and didn't open right into the hot stuff either. I need to check if I have enough room beside the stairs to build a huge pump stack up to the surface without opening up the caverns, which will take some doing and also require learning about building and powering pumps.

Some exploratory mining around the edges of what I believe to be the top of the candy spire enabled me to peel off a few layers, so I'll go up and down a few levels to see what's knocking around, and begin manufacturing shiny power armour for my military. Well, my champion speardorf first, because she is my favourite, and then I'll see if I have enough of the shiny to arm and equip my legendary axedorfs and swordsdorfs.

Monom the Gloved Inferno of Birds lives again, due to me having a made an emergency backup save from the first time I encountered a thing I wasn't sure that my dorfs could handle, but which was made prior to a lot of good stuff I had done since.

Anyway, I was expecting a human caravan in the summer, but instead they sent like thirty macedudes led by a lasher on a camel. This may have been because some random human on my map managed to find his way into the caverns under my fort, before I locked them off, and got himself killed by something nasty.
There's a Blind Thrips forgotten beast with a venomous bite blundering about down there now, which was the reason for blocking the caverns off for good.

Anyway, Monom the Resurrected now leads her own unit, called the Siegebreakers, and was sent out to negotiate with the humans.
Dorfs 30 - humans 1.
Monom herself didn't kill anyone due to trying to find her gear, but a legendary axedwarf was surrounded by like six guys who never even managed to land a hit on him and then proceded to cut, one by one, the limbs off of each of them.

Stupid humans.

I've read this entire thread over the last few days (while waiting for my fortress dorfs to build things) and now I want to learn how to play adventures.

Shook's stuff is my favourite. It's the facial expressions.

Check this out, homedorfs:


What you're looking at there used to be a huge magnetite deposit surrounded by chalk.
=D

I killed it, but not before it had killed my legendary swordsdwarf who went off to battle without his helmet. A Not Lasher armed with a silver scourge took it out from behind.
I am sad.