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The embark site was advertised as the best ever--volcano, coal, iron, marble, sand, clay, river, gold, silver, copper, what have you--all on a warm tropical broadleaf forest. It lived up to its hype. It had it all. Including--and this was not noted on the package--necromancers.

Just as the first, modest goblin siege ate up all my cage traps, a huge necromancer siege hit. I ordered my (untrained) military to scramble underground and axed the stairs, because there's just no way. About half of them are trapped out there anyway because they were gung ho to kill some zombies. So it goes.

The thing that's making me nervous is that the besieging necromancer, while walking around, uncovered a necromancer ambush. A hostile necromancer ambush. Right now they're taking aimless swings at each other; they don't seem very good at it. It makes me wonder, though...just how many towers are around here? Was this entire setup, well, a setup? Because if it is, it's the most metadwarfy thing I've ever seen.

If enemies could break down walls/climb up ledges, you'd be so screwed. And that's saying there's not something already lurking in your fort. Which, with your apparent luck, it's probably zombie kobolds.

So I decided to play around with DFhack. The first thing I decided to do was to see just how effective Fastdwarf really was, as I had a mining project going on to make enough storage space for trinkets and other bits and bobs.

But I had ten fisherdwarves.
Dear Armok
The fish
They were everywhere
EVERYWHEEEEEEEEEREEEEEEEEE

How DOES it work? I'm trying to build a fire-and-forget minecart launcher, that maybe a dwarf can haul the minecart back to the launcher, but otherwise is left alone. I guess I could work with a minecart shotgun, feasibly filling it with +copper short swords+ and watching the carnage.

Everybody's talking about minecart guns, and I'm still sitting here trying to figure out the power system and how to build an automated pump stack. It's like that one kid in a class where you make things, and everybody's on to the last stage of their project while he's still looking for the glue/nails.

In other news, the fortress of Angerboot has fallen after three years of otters and deep wolves. Cause of death: magma. Lots of magma.

Edit, 2nd Malachite:



Well. That was anticlimactic.

This is why Dwarves don't partake in boxing as recreation.

A dragon. I'm glad he came, because I had the chance to witness the whole surface to progressively turn into ashes, while the fire breathe propagated. It was awesome ! (and we survived !)

Some dwarves just want to watch the world burn....

Quote from: Aslandus on December 08, 2013, 01:29:19 am

Set out on an island, hopefully the goblins will stay away this time, but somehow the first caravan and 2 waves of immigrants still got here... Going to build above ground defenses just in case

They caulked the wagons and floated, no doubt!

Dwarves: awesome at Oregon Trail.

not really frustrated but kinda puzzled.

Dear Bomrek Oslanmesir,
Please explain this statue to me. How do you settle a dingo? Much less a giant one?



head-scratchingly-puzzled, your lord and master,
krg

unless it is a city type name maybe?




note: i am running the lfr mod if that makes a difference

I believe it refers to the giant dingo settling in an area, not being settled upon. Although it would be kinda cool if you could play "micro-dwarf fortress" and settle a colony on the back of a giant dingo......

Quote from: Aslandus on November 14, 2013, 12:12:39 am

Quote from: SkyRender on November 13, 2013, 09:46:35 pm

Yep, definitely isolated from the world at large.  At the start of year 4, with a wealth of about 10mil Dorfbux, the queen and her massive entourage moved in.  I have still seen no hostility at all.  Maybe having royalty present will help encourage the Goblins of the world to take me on, but I get the feeling Sunfurnace will forever be a Dwarven hideaway...

You've managed to build Atlantis, all you have to do is flood it and your job will be complete

 I could do that pretty easily.  The ocean is bountiful, after all.  Hmm...  Well, I think I'll wait for the queen to make an unreasonable request first.  Teach her some humility and all that.

There's no kill like overkill.