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Dude. If you can match an Atari. Build pong. It will be the most mega of megaprojects. Meta-gaming will have new meaning.

If you don't mind slightly modding the game, you could add [VERMIN_HATEABLE] to dwarves.
You might need to gen a new world, but it will increase the odds of tantrum spirals.
For greater effect, add it to goblins, elves, kobolds, and humans, too.

Urist McDwarf absolutely detests dwarves.
I'd tantrum, too.

Have you actually done that? That would be insane.

The skateboarder collides with Nav
Nav is knocked off his bike and tumbles backwards
Nav slams into an obstacle, bruising the left upper arm's skin
Nav stands up
The skateboarder apologizes

You forgot the tearing of the left lower arm's skin while skidding. New feature.

Hey, at least magpies aren't in. Yet.

Quote from: Vercingetorix on September 30, 2012, 05:41:45 pm

I've consistently modified my dwarves to give them human lifespans (maxage 60:120) so there's always some healthy "churn" in the population to keep it reasonable.  It's also satisfying to read the slabs that say the dwarves "died peacefully".

Why on earth would you be satisfied with dying 'peacefully'? Bah. Nearly all my dwarves die to magma related accidents or megabeasts. Then it's satisfying to read the combat reports. :p

I find around 150 dwarves is good. I play with no traps or marksdwarves, so I generally have a large military. Once I had a population of 300, and just under half of them were soldiers. Eventually the micromanagement just gets ridiculous though.

I could imagine you would have a few problems with tantrums if you have a sudden wave of death.

Or undeath if a necromancer sneaks in.

Superheated tree flowers? Pah! Fear my seasonal blooms of husking fruit that boils immediately that also coincides with migrant waves and sieges!

Which then also wipes them out half a year later with the very same tree dropping superheated leaves in the fall. Because deciduous trees.

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my dreams will be haunted tonight.
do you reckon the elves make trees shaped like these to get over the fact they are forever alone?

Jesus christ I hope not. That thought just terrifies me.

Fools!
The elves are the trees!

Seeing how DF world apparently is aloof with Magic and evil/good energies, I would not be surprised if the first elves were made this way, or if this was at least their creation myth.

I finally figured out why Elves don't have kids. It's not that they can't. They just end up banging all the trees instead.

I've gotten to year 5 on worldgen medium before it crashes. I've been mucking through myself and haven't found anything more than a typo like THunder. Maybe one of the creatures' magic reactions doesn't work properly, I think that's the most likely case here. I don't work with those so I can't help you with that. Maybe a plant reaction then.