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I accidentally found out you can use the mouse to designate areas, about 30 seconds ago, after I just laid out the floor plan for a fairly elaborate and tedious level of my new fortress.

Personally I find the mouse clunky and imprecise. I think when I first tried DF eons ago (And went on a uber hiatus after a rage quit.) I used the mouse and found it really frustrating. It tends to make difficult and precise things even more so.

Also, if you find the keyboard too slow while moving, press shift.

Welp, it appears that the elves are incapable of reaching my fort. That or my fort is so far out in the middle of fudging nowhere that the elven caravan will be a once-every-two-to-three-years type of thing.


I just realized..... I forgot to check what civs were nearby on the embark screen. Oh dear, I really want goblin sieges now that I actually have access to iron. D:

Edit: Just opened the water flow in the aqueduct system. Because my brewers are refusing to brew some idioit dorfs are running through the arilock system INTO the water to get a drink. Or get a stone, seeing how it's a craft dorf.

Dorfen stupidity never ceases to amaze.

EDIT: Correction, the craft dorf IS SLEEPING at the top of the aqueducts. Surprisingly the water is draining fast enough that s/he is ALIVE.

What on Earth is going on here.

UPDATE: Cistern is to small, well is over flowing. BUT not all is lost. You see there is a flood gate I installed to so seal off the water source in case of contamination, but, it seems If I pull it, the fort will be saved. This is because, it ,well, seals off the water source.

Alright, floodgate pulled, fort is save. That was too close, in fact, I was about to rage abandon when I realized I had installed the flood gate.

Edit: The idiot craftdorf made it out of the aqueduct alive, and thirsty dorfs are drinking from the puddle in the hospital the occurred from the well incident.

Can you still get minecarts? 'Cause I think you should make the baby shotgun.

Soo, any updates? Or did Kivish get eaten by a zombie head?

It's a love hate relationship. I absolutely HATE breaching them, but they have so many uses. I remember that someone on these forums created a bioweapon aquifer by contaminating a pool with extract, due to the way the game works this translated a self replicating flood of death. I will probably in this forts later years try and make a ice cannon, but that is not now.

I should also mention the aquifer in my fort is three layers thick and covers (I think) the entire map. Breaching it requires a massive freeze through pit or an uber plug.

Well, if you can fish in caves, you just need to set up a proper system that feeds the Fishedorfs to FB's when they arrive by sealing them out of the fort.

But I thought they were Humans?

And in my struggling fort, Rinsewhipped, the Crundle threat may be over, but they left their mark.

My refuse piles are literally almost completely filled up with Crundle parts. It seems as soon as one refuse pile is dug out, it is instantly filled. I need to get bone crafting operations up pronto!

No, seriously, according to the stocks menu there are 134 body parts lying around. Easily 80% of the dead stuff around here is crundles.

EDIT: Well, It appears that I am out of drinks, and have sealed off my water supplies. I only have 14 plants, according to the Z menu. Anyone want to take bets on how many die of dehydration?

You have made Armok proud.