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I don't think it will be a problem since cave adaptation is capped to around 1,5 years. I'll just put them to plant gathering duty for a while once they graduate. If wiki numbers are correct it should take about six weeks to recover from complete adaptation. I tend to build fortresses where surface life isn't terribly important anyway.

I just had my oldest and beefiest student, Zon Boltsdust, to have a little mano a mano (or mano a beardo if you prefer) with a goblin captive. It did not go well; Zon ran circles in panic from a scrawny naked goblin recruit and got a thorough beating while the greenskin stood unharmed. That is, unharmed until I once again had to send the militia to the rescue. Zon is now getting stitched up in the hospital; I hope all those bruises will build a little character.

I am disappointed. Where are the child monsters of Searingmines who would rush and beat Minotaurs to death barehanded? This new behavior system will take some time to work around.

Vigorous wrestling and fist-bumping at The Army of Lovers barracks has produced results. Nil Delightrags and Rovod Confinedgirders just got their fifth child Dumed Gullysling, a boy who in a year will join the others at the boarding school.

I may be overdoing this, but since this is a "rebuild dwarven civilization from extinction" scenario every child counts.

I thought this came up when discussing the Searingmines facility... I had the same setup there. I usually have a dedicated lever-puller in all my forts but in Searingmines the duke seemed to eagerly take up the training lever duty for most of the time. I suppose he got some kicks from it.

I still think the manually operated lever is the best solution where you can't afford even a single cycle to go through when there's an accident. I don't want to wait for the nearest dwarf to saunter slowly over the emergency shutdown lever whenever he/she feels like it.

Oh, and rmblr: I simply have a dwarf flicking one lever on and off. I could have linked a repeater to all spear traps but this has the advantage of speed: when I need to get the traps stopped now I simply have to tell the lever puller to stop what he's doing and it's done. With more complex systems there are all kinds of various delays involved.

So, I captured this little thing with GifCam:


It's a bit choppy but I think that can be corrected with correct settings. Anyway, it shows how the swimming pool works. Dwarves are quite tenacious when they have decided to get that drink on the other side; they'll try again and again to cross the bridges.

Too bad dorfmist doesn't give any happy thoughts. Or at least I haven't noticed any, and there's been a LOT of mist flying around.

I wish I had some way to produce a gif of the school running... it is quite hilarious and mesmerizing to see the little red beardlings run around and then fly over the edge with a (I'd imagine) dumbfounded look on their faces.

rmblr: If I counted correctly, this one has 580 installed training spears, five for each spike trap. It remains to be seen whether this load is enough to train Armor User to Legendary. Ten spears to a trap did the trick in Searingmines but I was reluctant to throw one-year olds to that kind of grinder right from the beginning.

The bridges are there for a reason; dwarves will not voluntarily enter water deep enough to train Swimming. Those bridges are filled with spear traps to force students to dodge into the pool. The mist in the screen shot is actually from dwarves splashing into water.

wierd: I'm trying the mom-dad squad idea first. If they are going to be out of the workforce having quality time with each other they might as well gain some military skills while they're at it.