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Shields also take 4 wafers to make, and since the material doesn't matter for blocking they're better used elsewhere.

Won't we have liquids other than water/magma in DF2014?

No, and it probably won't happen for quite a long while.

Quote from: Panando on June 08, 2014, 07:09:58 am

I do remember playing Fortress Defense against a particular kind of large enemy (titans or something?) with iron helms, a candy spear could NOT pierce the large iron helm, though the spearlord tried for pages (eventually his mate the hammerlord came and gave the titan a bonk on the head which did the trick). So apparently candy is not some kind of silver bullet at least for spears, perhaps the benefit applies exclusively to slicing attacks, or perhaps spears are simply awful against armour.

This is actually very interesting because spears are one of the best edged weapons for piercing armor. Even an iron spear will go through iron armor. I'm very surprised it didn't go strait through the helmet. It must have been extremely thick due to the size of the creature wearing it.

There is a bug regarding the thickness of clothing of extremely large creatures. It's impenetrable to pretty much everything, including adamantine.

The finals are over and I can go back to the fort.

I've been trying out some ASCII tilesets, but none were satisfying enough. I guess I just prefer the vanilla mix of seeing much of the map at once and easily readable text.

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Work on the outpost is actually more advanced than this by now. Wooden staircases and bridges form the scaffolding, and the walls are obsidian. The last bear is still being webbed by the porcelain beast, so I'm working on a different spire instead.

The first dwarf to stand on Hell's floor was Minkot Colorlantern, mayor Alath's husband. He was promptly attacked and killed by Zikath Tombspukes the Bloated Crypt, a Forgotten Beast which had hidden somewhere in the unexplored part of Hell. Three soldiers were sent to defeat the beast, two of them legendary warriors and one a fresh recruit, Minkot's and Alath's son. I hoped he would get a chance to avenge his father's death, but it was Stakud Netdabble who landed the final blow. And slammed a steam devil which decided to join the fray with his shield, exploding it into pieces.

The Colorlanterns-Tipmerchants family in general hasn't been very lucky recently. A pumping accident (I should have known better than to attach a water wheel directly to a pump) ended in deaths of two babies because the mayor was working on the pumpstack at the moment. Alath herself had an encounter with a tick devil while working on the hell outpost. That's right, a noble suffered a genuine unfortunate accident. The demon, named Tombspoisons, was shot to death by Edem Slapmountain, who gained the title "the Pointless Rampages". Looks like metal bolts aren't necessary.

Depends on how far they're from magma, I guess.

This sounds like the basis for an excellent short comic strip, wherein keas routinely visit some plane of oblivion or whatever to drop off their shinies. Maybe they are secretly gods.

A kea god of war and fortresses is worshipped in my fort...

Well, she refused to walk into my cage traps, so she has only herself to blame. I even sent the soldiers back behind the walls, but one hammerdwarf failed to listen and I had to give him reinforcements.

And now there's a weremarmot.