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I have accidently clicked the disband button several times while playing DF premium, and have had to resort to reverting my save or setting up my squads all over again. It's just a little too easy to accidentally click when you're in the middle of giving orders quickly. Just a simple 'confirm or cancel' button when you click it would be amazing.

It's been quite some time since I've played,  and never paid attention to how many bars a single one makes but I just assumed it was 1 bar per ore.

I have limonite on my map and it produces 4 bars per ore. What about other ores? Is it 4 bars per ore regardless of the ore? Do certain ores make more bars than others?

So I have a plan in my head as to what I want to do for a fort. I want my central staircase with a up shaft and a down shaft for carts on either side. Something like 3x5 shafts. I want the carts to dump on certain levels based on what they have, which would likely have to be done via weight I guess?

The way I intend this to work is each level will have a u shaped track, and where the straight track would normally have it continue to go straight, with a bridge keeping it from actually going straight causing it to turn, or would that not work? The bridge would be raised until a pressure plate is triggered, lowering said bridge allowing the minecarts to 'exit' on the level. I could have it curve though and it derail onto a separate track when the bridge is lowered.

Pretty bad at explaining this, sorry..

So in my endless quest for the perfect evil good volcano with a tower and unicorns I noticed something about towers.

They don't always generate with a seed. And when they do, rarely in the same place or even time. Over the course of several generations it appears, on average, that two towers DO generate before years 150 or so. But sometimes they're generated by year 80, other times barely by years 140. Just a thing I thought sort of funny how the death of a pointless sheep could cause this.

But really, is this a bug or is it intentional? Or just an unintentional side affect of the game being so in depth about sheep?

So I thought about this last night.. I've had free time (once again) but no way to play DF at the moment... (Computer is far away, can't install DF on this laptop...) so who would be interested in a mod that adds Golems?

I would want them to be able to do certain task, maybe be drafted into the military? I don't know. Maybe make them able to operate pumps and such? Let me know what you guys think?

EDIT:

Okay so I decided on two 'classes' of golems.
The first, is a 'mechanical golem'

The second is a 'moulded golem'

How to craft them:
I don't know yet! Here are my ideas though:

Moulded golems:
Mechanical golems:
Materials you can make a golem from:
Available now:

Coming soon (I hope):

In 'The Eternal Dimensions' of the year 300 seven brave (or possibly stupid) dwarves are sent from 'The Imprisoned Syrups' to try and create a foothold in the east; their goal seems simple enough: Mark the beginning of a huge planned expansion to the east in an attempt to make their already expansive civilization. The only other notable dwarven civilization is 'The Orb of Lulling', and they control the eastern part of the world. The secondary goal of the fort is to act as an outpost to try and thin the numbers of 'The Larval Scourge'; a goblin civilization that, in just the past ten years, has founded numerous new outpost.

The Eternal Dimensions in year 290
The Eternal Dimensions in year 300 (a mere 10 years later and our embark year)
Legend

The embark location:
Consist of 1 volcano, clay, little soil, shallow metal, and deep metal(s)

Embark preparations: The pets are just the dogs and cats.

And finally...

Sorry about all the spoiler tags, I wanted to be sure you could had as an in-depth view of the world as possible. I will be sure to get Spring and Summer up really soon (Spring was really eventful and Fun) and if anyone knows how I can make the images a little smaller, it would be nice (I play on a 1920x1080 monitor, so I know it's pretty big for some people)

First Spring, year 300
First Summer, year 300

Hey guys, i'm trying to make a kind of creature pack that I plan to release later when all my creatures are made and ready to be released. I need help thinking of new creatures though, and I want these to be mainly underground creatures for the caverns.

So tell me, if you guys could create one creature, totally from your imagination, what would it be? And what could it do? (e.g. could it poison someone with a sting/bite, could it spin webs, etc.)

I'll credit anyone who helps me think of creatures. :3

First, i'm not sure if this is the right place for this, since I'm not actually STARTING a succession world (as i'm calling it anyway) but i'm just bringing the idea up.

Okay so this may be a really boring idea for some, for others maybe not. My idea is a 'succession world' kind of like a succession fort. But instead of playing a year or two in a fort you pass it on you play the life span of an entire fort. When that fort dies (or you retire it) you pass the world on to someone else. That person then makes their own fort and plays for the lifespan of that fort and pass it on to the next. I figure with the new world progression this could become a really interesting idea. With previous versions of Dwarf Fortress this wouldn't of been much fun but now you can actually impact how well a civilization actually does, which is pretty cool. So, is this something people would be interested in trying?