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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What's your favourite animal?
« on: June 28, 2013, 07:00:45 pm »
Giant Sperm Whales.. SO MUCH MEAT.
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I have made a self sustaining fort before with no traders and migrants. It lasted several years. I just left the migrants outside to die. I didn't make any kind of traps (in retrospect I wish I had) so they took really long for them to starve to death and go berserk. From the wiki, I knew they should stop coming once enough dwarves had died at my fort. Apparently however having a low population and high wealth will attract more anyway. Every time one batch of migrants died off, another would come because of the lowered population. Eventually I dropped a pick from my tower so with with good mining and burrows I could get the migrants to kill themselves off faster. This just made the new waves spawn more frequently so I started allowing them to live by foraging off the terrain and then planting the seeds from the foraging. Eventually one of them got a fell mood so I dropped the materials from my tower and they made an artifact. I figured with some tricky burrows I could let just the artifact maker and the artifact in, but all the migrant trash pathed in to my fort despite the burrows. I abandoned in disgust. I was having difficulty making enough slabs to keep off the ghosts anyway. And wow that story turned dark just answering a simple question.
Anyway to answer your question all it took was a few irrigated farms and some pets and I had plenty of food for my entire fort (of only 20 or so). With a small but continuous production of leather and cloth you can keep them all clothed too. If you want to get fancy dig an aqueduct from a stream and with the right combination of floodgates and depressurization tricks (diagonal connections) you can have underground fishing, and plenty of water for wells/mist generators/water reactors.
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