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A citizen of my fortress just had baby boy and that brings my total population to 140, so now I will probably get a monarch for my first time.
I read in the wiki that the Outpost liaison stops visiting once the monarch arrives, so does that mean I can't get into trade agreements anymore?? My fortress depends on the high quality leather, various ores and cut gems which I always import. I'll miss all that
Besides what all is written in the wiki about it...what are the other effects of the monarch arriving??(eg: what happens to the baron,does this mean more invasions or something)

Just had a first person observation of skill decay, My medic who was with me since embark has lost 1 level of each medical skill due to being excessively rusty since my fort just celebrated 10 years of its existence with hardly two sieges and maybe I would say 5 dwarves requiring healthcare.
I NEVER knew this happens than mean very soon my adequate diagnostician will a dabbler???

While waiting for a GCS to wander onto my map, I catched about 10 Levels worth of Live-Archery-Practice so far, but no GCS in sight.... sigh...

same situation here my friend..., want to hear an anecdote of dwarven motherly love?
At my caverns bottleneck where my cage traps are placed, while loading one cage a young dwarf gave birth to her first child, a GCS entered and began web slinging, our new mother stumbled and got caged within her own trap leaving her newborn...Mr.GCS made a nice meal of him while the helpless mother looked on holding the bars of her cage. Another friend of hers tried to run but fell due to the webs and got his intestines ripped out by my giant serrated iron disc. After nearly a month involving an army being deployed and the mess getting cleaned and removed, the cage was finally brought to the surface and opened and out came the childless mother ecstatic as ever on being freed, losing her friend to a tragedy, losing her child to a tragedy, witnessing death, being attacked, giving birth to her first child, dining in a legendary dining room and sleeping in a legendary bedroom.

Furthermore, the dwarf's actual profession, not their highest moodable skill, determines the weight (or how many "tickets" they get) for that dwarf--so a dwarf who actually makes weapons for a living has a 350% increased chance of being chosen for the mood than, say, a farmer with dabbling weaponsmithing, or someone with no useful skills at all. Plan accordingly.

I kept all that in mind except the profession! I mean how my dwarves labours should be assigned and the military part for it to work(Recruits get mood lottery though). This profession thing wasn't in the wiki. There's always something new to learn....Shouldn't this be added in the wiki???

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Quote from: Blue_Dwarf on April 12, 2013, 07:14:54 am

I've been pumping weaponsmithing on all my 60ish dwarves until they were Adequate.

Only one of them made a weapon, everybody else typically claims Craftsdwarf's Workshop and Jeweler's shop...

What shop they claim is based on their highest moodable skill.  Those dwarves were apparently better craftsdwarves and jewelers than weaponsmiths.

Or they just didn't have enough weaponsmith skill to mood that and since they were skill-less they went to a craftsdwarf shop.

I'm fairly certain any skill level is sufficient, but I think it's a roll to determine what gets mooded. I think.

Well majority of my civilians are made to forge either an amour piece or a weapon once...so that gives them a dabbling skill in weapon/amour smithing. This enables me to get pumped out legendaries in no time instead of the default craftsdwarf. My current fort has many artifact weapons and armour.

well i didn't find any remains of that fellow who disappeared near the murky pool
and I did restrict all pools after this incident
What about a stranded miner who has a dog for company? what announcement will I get when i dies from dehydration?Will he go missing or will the dog who is stuck with him detect his body??

Am I the only one who lazily digs out gold or other high value veins and makes dwarven gold apartments out of it?
I mean it still looks good and chaotic after smoothing and engraving it.

I had a 1*3 pillbox for my marksdworfs to train in...it was above ground and covered with ceiling..it clearly said it was 'inside' 'light'...there were around 20 of them crowded up in that thing yet after a year or two they all began to complain of being irritated by the sun...How is this possible?Can anyone tell me then how to make a proper pillbox which prevents cave adaptation?thanks