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Ah very well, so the dashes mean hostility towards me. Thank you.

Recently came back to the game since I'm laid up with a broken leg / ankle. Lost my old regions and saves so I reinstalled a fresh copy to get back to basics until I get my 'sea-legs' back. Went through the usual first couple of years setting up industries and military when I realized it had been 3-4 years without much FUN. That didn't last long, went down to the first cavern layer and was met at the door by a Giant Cave Spider who proceeded to pwn half my military before being killed. Just as I start cleaning up the mess I get sieged, and a marsh titan!!

Ezung Slonustez Lulodasthu, Marsh Titan

An enormous hairy ribbon worm. It has a broad shell and it has an austere look about it. Beware its fire!

I was expecting the usual fire breath similar to a dragon's, this guy said fuck that and brought fireballs to the party and decimated the gobbos. The fortress was already in a fair amount of danger, I tend not to turtle up during sieges etc. So I send the remnants of my army out to rush the Titan through the wall of smoke from the brush fire. This of course set most of my military on fire pretty much damning the fortress to be destroyed. Then a hero emerged from the smoke and fire a single *Capybara Bone Bolt* striking the Marsh Titan in the body, tearing the muscle and tearing the brain! Needless to say this guy is my new general and I have plans to install him as ruler at my first opportunity. Things definitely took a turn for the best and the game brought me the FUN I forgot about. I think Ironwrath is fairly appropriate for this fortress as well, so far all I have been able to find is Zinc

Edit: Titan burned a hippie caravan too

Just recently came back to the game now that I'm laid up with a broken ankle. Relearning it in ASCII and this looks to be a good middle ground with things a little bit clearer and distinguishable.

I think I was watching a Terraria let's play on Youtube when the person running it had a guest on who played the game. I had never heard of it before, but the way they talked about how complex it was I just had to see what the fuss was about!

Automatakittay: I'll definitely move the mechanic up closer to the stone stockpile, there is more than enough room for two masons and a mechanic's shop. The housing I was trying to maximize happy thoughts because my last few fortresses testing designs ended in tantrum spirals.

Oaktree: I've been trying to avoid taking advantage of certain game mechanics hence the lack of a danger room, however quantum stockpiling definitely seems like the way to go.

Megahelmet: Are you saying to make the rooms contain beds and tables instead of being split up the way they are in the hospital currently? Does that also apply to traction benches?

Di: The marksdwarves haven't been a problem as of yet, however they aren't a huge focus of my fledgling military. I've been using them as more of a way to soften up whatever invaders make it to my bridge for the swordsdwarves, I tend not to turtle during attacks. However this fortress has yet to be sieged which may make it necessary to turtle. The one criminal I had was unfortunately beaten to death by the hammerer so I haven't had much experience with the justice system, are the stockpiles necessary to keep the dwarves from dieing? I assumed idlers would bring them food and drink to sustain them. Also what is the purpose of not having barrels in the prepared food stockpile?

There were many good ideas here, I'm trying to adapt them to the constraints of the design. It is pleasing to the eye and works well enough without being too complicated to set up, plus being able to see everything going on is a big bonus for me.

Has anyone had difficulties downloading the file? My browser will say it is 79.5MB/79.5MB but never complete the download. This has happened for me another time as well.

It's a method to check for pathing issues, since if a part of the map is unreachable, then some stuffs won't be able to be gotten, while the other part of map that get tried out would have different stuff. That's assuming there're stockpiles of buildable stuff on both parts, you get unable to build if there're none.

I was unaware of this, ended up with different results than I expected. Right next to the stockpile is a listing of all materials available to built a crafters workshop, however in my courtyard on the surface it only lists blocks that I have in a stockpile in the courtyard. So there are apparently pathing issues, I have never had to deal with this before, however they seem to be a little backward of what I expected to see.

EDIT: Upon closer inspection, the stairwell on the first underground Z level has somehow changed from up/down to a down only. Built some up/down stairs over top of them and things seem to be returning to normal, refuse is now actually being taken outside. Hopefully that is all it was, strange the fort has run for a year and a half fine before this somehow happened.