Umm ok. My Imgur account won't let me upload pictures for some reason - the box is always greyed out - so I guess it means I'll keep using Imageshack and, well anyone who sees my posts next month or later.. well forget them!
(I can eat all these apples!).
I know that we got a legendary engraver from my turn, (from making an artifact flute, go figure) but no other artifact makers, and if you mean who is the most well rounded, it would probably be some cripple with half their leg missing (the caste that is a surprisingly large percentage our fort, so don't doubt it), but I can't even hazard a guess at the oldest without going through all of them and I'm simply too lazy for that, but I'll have the save uploaded by next post so feel free to browse the fortress archives at your lesiure...
Important news incoming..
I kinda feel like I should spill the beans about the project I had finished in my turn, as apart from an army of construction-workers-turned-adequate-engravers, one artifact and a ton of gneiss and rutile blocks (I'm serious) - just see these numbers -
- I haven't really done much, to be honest. And that's where this comes in.
Not only is it an impressive monument for our front garden, but it also doubles up as a Bookkeeper's and manager's office (so what if they happen to be the same dwarf) who I levelled up and is now Expert Organiser - so don't go replacin' her, ya hear me!
It is a state of the art statue of a unicorn, accurate to the last detail.
Heres a pic of the bookkeeper's office.
The appendage on the left is part of its tail.
... And the other one? lets just say it is
ACCURATE. TO THE LAST DETAIL.
anyway this is the top of it's (platinum) horn. 14 z levels of pure awesomeness.
Ain;t no way to use platinum like using it for a unicorn horn! (and eyes also)
In fact to answer Gwolfski's question, the most levelled would probably be one of these guys;
After I got the fort from Gwolfski, I thinned down the military in favour of a larger workforce and appropriated this funny little building on the surface as a barracks for them. They've been quietly training away (as wrestlers, because I forgot to assign 3/5 of them weapons so they'd rather just show each other how to punch the whole time) but I reckon that it is definately these guys who have the most legendary skills and best levels, even if they only use them for one job, killing stuff. At the same time, I did spot a few workerdwarves who impressed me, so I made sure not to amalgamate them into the underpriveleged masses but at the same time forgot who they were.. but don't worry, I reckon Pyrosheep will notice in time.
After our fortress grew to over 50, our expedition leader started to get Big Ideas about how he should be treated, being the leader of the gang. In true dwarf fortress style he was left to whine and mandate his way to losing an election, and against one of the oppressed workers no less! Who was subsequently noticed by yours truly, named the Champion of Marxism (I know, it seems over the top, but so does having a dwarf marked 'Oppressed Construction Worker' as your Mayor) and given these luxurious quarters that can only be accessed by a stairway down from one of the legs of my unicorn statue. (Cool huh?)
OTHER STUFF I DID SO THAT MY REIGN WASN'T A COMPLETE FAILURE:
uuh, at the risk of sounding cocky and over confident
but I am fabulous, darling
smoothed the main body of the fortress and added some bedrooms
To be honest, this was more out of fear for the Dormitory of death than anything else - 2 dudes have died in the same room, to the same vampire, hell, they were even in the same bed! (Illustration showing the Bed of Doom with added inspirational quote from Goden Blockadegulfs - back to work Goden!)
I half dug out a few symmetrical rooms that could appeal to my OCD (more than anything else in this fortress)
but didn't put anything in them yet -- you can use them for stockpiles, workshops, anything really. My favourite way is having a stack of 3 layers of this design, putting raw goods in the top layer (wood, stone etc), workshops in the middle and output stockpiles (finished goods, furniture storage etc) on the bottom layer - remembering to include the 2x2 up/down staircases at the corners of the rooms, that speeds up efficiency no end.
Here's a unit list of our fortress current (well, almost)
You'll notice a load of 'Stoner' dwarves, say hello to my godawful humour.
They're the core workforce, basically the Oppressed Chinese Workers who were slacking too much and had nothing to do.
They're engravers, and some have got pretty good at it, but if you're planning on doing some engravings (rather than just smoothing) I'd recommend turning the 'Stone Detailing' Labor off on all but the 'Kool Kat' who I noticed was running around our fortress as a Legendary Engraver after making a snazzy flute. The rest of them are generally Skilled- Adequate Engravers, but feel free to repurpose them and the rest of the Worker dwarves to do whatever your crazy dreams would desire. Anyone actually left alone (or given a custom designation) is generally pretty good at what they are doing, so you can let them crack on, but feel free to go through them all again.
The 'Hero of the Fortress' was some Metalsmith who's legendary in something or other, who runs around the fortress with a crutch and does loads of awesome stuff.
the 'Scaredycat' is some dwarf who kept getting scared after they saw loads of dead stuff in the refuse stockpile and cancelling jobs, so I decided on a public shaming to persuade them to become a better (i.e. more thick-skinned, stupid and obedient) dwarf.
The 'Miner's Apprentice' is some Peasant who I consripted, right now he's pretty bad at mining, but I reckon he'll improve in time.
Gwolfski's spent the last year in bed with a bruised foot (you poor dear)
and RenneMouz is now going to live out the rest of his fortress days as that Legendary Engraver, because I like him. (Fun fact: I gave him the name Kool Kat before I decided to be him cuz he's awesome
)
... well that pretty much sums up the fortress (or how it has changed in my turn at least) , in one mountain-sized post. Umm, hell. I'll upload the save next post (promise) and in return for you guys' patience I've given y'all a 'RenneMouz Tour' around our fortress - just tap N (capital) to bring up the notes screen and move the curser around, have a look at the stuff that's going on.
AAand, I'm out. Peace!
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