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[slay_mithos]

Glass is supposed to be magma and fire proof, but it is mostly wrong.
Glass buildings are usually fine, but glass items will melt.

I learned this the hard way, after designing a cart track to pull magma, specifically designed for the weight of green glass carts, so that it doesn't shoot out and kill people, and the carts melted as soon as they touched the magma.
And when you throw glass items in magma, they also melt right away, just like non magma-proof items.

I'm assuming it's the same thing here, but with fire instead of magma?

[Aristion]

I've got a kobold who is a vampire and this vampire has been caught a few times and won't show up in the justice screen.

[LMeire]

I was playing a human fort, trying to get the wall up when this happened:



Does this happen often?

[94dima94]

My first ever Orc Fortress just came to an abrupt end when, after about FIVE SECONDS, a hunter decided it was a great idea to hunt two giant forest spiders (using wooden arrows BTW), enrage both of them, and then run away, through the wagon area, where everyone was still gathering weapons and building workshops.
My Uruk warrior managed to land some blows with his axe, but that didn't help at all: everyone got webbed and massacred; ironically, the dumb-*** hunter was the last one to be killed.

Well, that was a FUNny way to start...

EDIT: Are you F*****G serious?! AGAIN? This time the fort is safe, thanks to our badass shaman, who punched the spider in the head and killed him, but still... WHY? Why is it always a giant spider? And why is it always a dumb-*** Snaga hunter?

EDIT2: Well, forget it. The spiders came back to finish the job, everybody is dead. Did forest spiders declare war on orcs or something?

[Arcvasti]

Forest Spiders are evil. #2 Kobold cause of death, after drow uberninjas with legendary dodge skill and full bloodsteel plate. I've even seen them appear on GLACIERS. GLACIERS ARE NOT FORESTS! SPIDERS CAN'T SURVIVE ON GLACIERS! NOT EVEN GIANT ONES! ESPECIALLY NOT GIANT ONES! I recommend setting their fixed-temp high enough that they melt into a gooey ball of spider fat and chitin once they enter the map. Or removing their WEBAVOID.

[smakemupagus]

Or, if you don't like that kind of +FUN+, consider disabling Surface Creatures option.  A lot of the things in there are pretty nasty!

[slay_mithos]

Yet an other above ground fort died from fire birds (and ensuing tantrums).

I really need to find a good way to deal with them, they caused me much more death than the orc invasion.

[94dima94]

Or, if you don't like that kind of +FUN+, consider disabling Surface Creatures option.  A lot of the things in there are pretty nasty!

The point is, I always at least manage to fight back, except with spiders. ALWAYS. SPIDERS.

[arbarbonif]

I had a werecreature that showed up, killed and injured my war grizzlies and was killed.  A month later one of the surviving grizzly bears turned into a werebeast.  I didn't think that was possible.

He bit a bear and a mastiff before my swordlord decapitated him.  They were made into finely minced roasts and suede pants...

[draeath]

I finally had a self-sustaining fort going (dwarves) with a population of about 95. Everyone was ecstatic except for the babies.

Then, suddenly werescorpion! I was clearing out space in the upper levels of the volcano I'd settled in (meaning the only way in was my fort entrance, where there's a lot of foot traffic, some scarecrows, and a ward of armok). The beast appeared within the chamber with my miners. I actually suspect warpstone transformed one of the miners.

Unfortunately, as I'm still learning and have yet to tackle it, I had no military whatsoever. One miner dies immediately, and the other lives just long enough to transform himself. The two werescorpions begin beating the crap out of each other, occasionally transforming to something else (freezer? something to do with cold) and back. The one that I had witnessed change from one of hte miners finally finishes the other off, and begins rampaging through the fort.

By the time it transforms back into a dwarf I'd lost almost 20 citizens and a good amount of pets. Tantrum spiral commenced, and it didn't seem my psychiatrist could keep up.

I chickened out and abandoned the fortress at that point.


... is it possible for warpstone to transform a miner into a night creature? I ask as the only dwarves in the area were the miners themselves and they were founders.

[Meph]

Its not Warpstone, you simply had a werebeast come by. The freezer thief sneaked into your fort, like a regular kobold, transformed, bit/scratched your miner, who also transformed. All the other dwarves would have been infected, too, if they wouldnt have died that fast.

If your fort would have been sealed, the thief would have been caught sooner.

[draeath]

Ah, so scarecrows/wards won't detect sneaks (actually it was dumb of me to think scarecrows would detect anything lol). Just seems it chose an interesting place to attack, instead of by the stockpiles or whatnot.

EDIT: btw, welcome back Meph!

[arbarbonif]

Um, this is new.  I have secret fun and diseases turned off.  New wave of migrants.  One is a Dwarf Peasant berserker.  Who starts beating on another migrant and I spewing filth everywhere.  I send in my military, which kill him, and the guy he was beating on is now entirely slightly swelling with blood (and has a fractured arm).

I'm guessing that is one of those dwarf chocolate secret types?  Or whatever that was called...

Oh and it looks like my weaver is going to weave me some grime cloth...

[urmane]

Again with the mystery fires.  Last fort I thought there was something about the wood furnace that went awry, but this time it was the moss my kitchens, I think.

Embarked on a volcano, and when I pierced the tube I "found" the third level caverns - apparently, the "discovery" went down the tube, across the magma sea a bit, up a magma pool into the cavern.  Wierdest thing I ever saw.

Anyway, that got me third-cavern moss infestations all over my kitchens - I put my farms, seed piles, kitchen/still/shops all next to each other in a clay or dirt level.  Lesson for me - construct floors over those bare patches to prevent fire spreading.

Something caught them on fire, and it's all smoke and burned seeds now

[urmane]

Alas, if only I could gather up those ashes ... my slag pits are a major blockage, all those slag bars cluttering up and taking longer and longer to clear the smelters ...

Maybe I'll start building my outside fortress walls from slag bars instead of concrete ...