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Now that we may soon have adventurers visiting our taverns in our Fortress (when we get to have taverns) I figured they may wish to take a little token of their visit away with them.  A lovely rock mug made by the local artisans - with the face of one of our founding Dwarfs on it.  Collect them all!  Maybe a wooden sword for the son back home - a training sword that  is a duplicate of the very sword used by McHero in that amazingly important battle that nobody outside the region knows about.  Maybe a dye-tie T-shirt.  AKA a blood stained, vomit covered fur cloak pulled off the dead corpse of the last troll we attacked in the caverns.  Maybe some of our famous apple cider - with hardly any fur balls in it!  Or some of our delightful boar roast - you can really taste the Forgotten Beast's intestines! 

In other words a Gift Shop where we can sell our crap..er...finest crafts to suckers...er...visitors to our lands.  So instead of dumping stuff we could mark it for the Tourist Trap.  So instead of a D for Dump maybe a T for Tourism. 

We can place the Tourist Trap...I mean Gift Shop right in between the Tavern and the Visitor Center (AKA Toll Booth).  Or maybe make it so they can't get into or out of the Tavern without going through the Gift Shop.  We could put up some statues, maybe a few artifacts, around the gift Shop tell them that it's a museum's Gift Shop or something. 

In other words, if we are going to have visitors I want to milk them for all their are worth.  I want their money!  MONEY!  And at the same time dump my junk...er..I mean have them leave with wonderful memories of their visit. 

So, what do you think?

Long story short - Forgotten Beast > Rotting Eyes > Some Dwarfs are now Blind

What jobs can they do that do not require vision?

In my current Mountainhome I had a Atomic Smasher.  But I finally poked a hole a few levels about the magma pool and started using it as a dump.  So I dismantled the Smasher and decided I needed to use the land for something for the military.  To make pit for dumping enemies which could be used for combat training.  But for some reason I decided to cover the pit, because I had some much stone just laying about from the dismantled Smasher, so it just ended up a underground room.

I placed all the caged goblins (plus one troll) in the room, still all armed because I have yet to figure out how to disarm captives, and put a unit of one of my militia into the room.  I opened the cages and only afterwards remembered one of the Spear Dwarfs was missing a leg and, oh god, I should have retired him before this training session.  What have I done?  I explained the training room afterwards and found dead enemies but no Dwarfs.

I checked the combat reports after the battle.


I keep forgetting that Dwarfs make Spartans look like Boy Scouts.

So, I have had a history with my broker in my Fortress.  Out of all the Dwarfs, including my Nobles, he truly makes me angry.  So one season, when he was fooling around while the Elves waited at the Depot, I replaced him with a farmer and gave the new broker all his rooms.  This had mixed results as the farmer, the second he became a broker, went to attend a party.  As almost the whole populace was moving goods to the Depot, this party seemed to be the new-broker, two kids, and a few dogs hanging around the Grand Hall.    So I fired him and re-hired the old broker (a Trader).  He ran like Hell to the Depot.  So I finally found a way to get him to do his job.

Today I was checking stats, seeing who among the important Dwarfs still needed bedrooms and proper dining areas and so on.  When looking at his stats I found this:


I have never seen that before while playing this game.  Oh, don't misunderstand me, I think it's great.  I hate his guts (which just goes to prove how good the game is) so I hope he runs into this person a lot!  But it still took me by surprise. 

Have you seen anything interesting, surprising, or just plain weird in the stats like that before?

Pillar of society....*snicker*

Does the game have a limit on how many Forgotten Beasts attack?  I have been attacked by Forgotten Beasts almost nonstop for the past two game years (once two showed up at the same time and I think another was killed by something else) and I am really starting to find it both boring ("Really?  You died so quickly.   Why even show up?") and, to be honest, messy ("Oh my GOD, how many warrior Dwarfs just died!  Blood is everywhere!  Socks!  Weapons!  Body parts!  It will take years to clean that up!...oh yeah..poor Dwarfs.").

I know there is a limit of Forgotten Beasts in the world, as they are created and age and get killed, but surely not all of them live near me?

At this rate I will have a pile of rotten Forgotten Beasts in my caverns and my kitchens will never be able to cook it all.

Have you ever decided - gee, I have large herds and lots of food.  I don't need the Hunters and FisherDwarfs right now. 

I am thinking of either changing them to something else or trying to force them to hunt and fish in the caverns.  I know I can zone fishing areas but, outside of raising the drawbridges, which I don't wish to do right now, is there any way to limit the Hunters to certain areas without using barrows?

I have found underground lakes and wish to use wells to create areas where my Dwarfs can get fresh water.  But the wells need to be up in the levels where they live and work, not down in the cavern where there are nasty Dwarf-eating monsters.  So I figured I could design one hole that goes all the way down and put a few wells on different levels but...

How far down can a bucket go?  The wiki does not seem to say how close a well has to be to get water.

I understand if you go to all the Food stockpiles and forbid eggs, that the Dwarfs will no longer collect the eggs from the nest boxes, which will allow them to hatch and increase the number of chickens you have.   

But could I go to the Stock menu on the Status(z) page and Forbid them there?   Or will the new eggs being laid still be collected as they are not marked Forbidden being newly created?   

Thanks!