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diogo_alt_tab

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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #57795 on: October 31, 2025, 07:45:22 pm »

Momuzizeg finally met her match... The fight was long and very close up until the end, when the FB managed to chew her head off. Cryptapes' power remained until after her death, though, for the monster managed naught but a couple of steps before the cave swallow woman's iron spear, still stuck in its abdomen, did it in. Reminds me of those dinosaur fossils that were found tangled together because they both mortally wounded each other, or something like that. An extravagant mausoleum was built for her remains.

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I've grown kind of bored with this fortress since she died. Might commit suicide via HFS or something.
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #57796 on: November 01, 2025, 01:39:52 pm »

I need to capture some of those tortoises for guard duty.
If your dwarves aren't bothered by the tortoises, you can literally build cage traps right under them.

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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #57797 on: November 04, 2025, 01:18:43 am »

A tree exploded, killing the woodcutter. The first caravan happened to be walking by, and while none of them were hurt, it seems to have bugged them out pretty bad. They're just ambling about very slowly, if at all, and I can't deconstruct the depot.


A child got into a fight with a coyote, punched its foot into paste, followed up by punching both lungs out.
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #57798 on: November 04, 2025, 03:44:52 am »

That kid was well raised.


I think caravan animals and merchants will often get emotionally overwhelmed by The Atrocities. You can try using dfhack elevate-mental and see if that gets them to snap out of it. Also works in adventure mode on pets that freeze up. My war grizzly went permanently catatonic after witnessing one death.
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #57799 on: November 04, 2025, 01:36:50 pm »

It took me most of a year ingame, but I was eventually able to expel the merchants by forbidding one of the building materials for the depot. Nobody would deconstruct it or build a second one. I also haven't gotten any migrants during the crisis, and the first two had arrived beforehand. I also never received caravans from the elves or humans since the depot was still occupied by the dwarven caravan.

I am also noticing that in fruit gathering zones, dwarves will be dead set on pruning the leaves of trees - they "gather fruit" even though the trees have none, instead littering the ground with leaves. I'm not sure if that's intended or not.
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #57800 on: November 05, 2025, 05:05:41 am »

Maybe theyre gathering any growth items, or those leaves have a new cloth dye associated with them so they think theyre being productive.
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #57801 on: November 05, 2025, 05:57:28 am »

I also never received caravans from the elves or humans since the depot was still occupied by the dwarven caravan.

Other merchants occupying the depot won't have any effect on if another civ's caravan visits. So there was probably something else at play.

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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #57802 on: November 06, 2025, 04:30:15 pm »

I need to capture some of those tortoises for guard duty.
If your dwarves aren't bothered by the tortoises, you can literally build cage traps right under them.

Yup, the traps trigger as soon as the cage is installed.

Some snatchers stopped by, but rather than legging it to the map edge after being discovered, they still tried to make it into the fort. Maybe they just love doggies and didn't realize that the doggies at the door don't like being petted.
The dwarves are now getting used to seeing dead bodies, and some aren't even bothered by the recurring nightmares of dead goblins anymore.

There was also a hippie saying not to cut trees anymore. His friends were nice, though, and brought a grizzly bear so that I now have a breeding pair. Although it seems that the teddies will rather run away and hide from the goblins, than eat them  ::)

I am also noticing that in fruit gathering zones, dwarves will be dead set on pruning the leaves of trees - they "gather fruit" even though the trees have none, instead littering the ground with leaves. I'm not sure if that's intended or not.

I've also noticed this. I guess I can't do anything with the leaves, because the world was generated before the update that introduced the leaf dyes.
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #57803 on: November 06, 2025, 09:30:52 pm »

New update, new fort.

First siege came with a battering ram before my defenses were fully up. Fortunately, the gobbos wanted to parley. I scrambled additional half-armed melee dwarfs and cut off sightlines within the bailey.

The dorfs fended off the siege with merely a few dead recruits, two to drowning in the nearby pond. Oh well, I was planning to build a pump station anyways...
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Re: What's going on in your fort?
« Reply #57804 on: November 12, 2025, 07:03:28 am »

I'm currently at war with the other dwarf civilization (The Reclusive Lashes)...

I'm still playing in this world, but I've played a fortress or two since then.  I'm currently playing as the Reclusive Lashes, who are still at war with the other dwarven civilization (the Crystal of Barricades).

Our king just arrived with his full entourage!  But oddly, he has the job title "Prisoner".  A look at Legends Viewer reveals that he was imprisoned 60 years ago as an invader against one of my previous Forts, Tinspun (enemy to my current civ).  That fortress was abandoned 30 years later, so I'm not sure where he's been since then. 10 years after that (so about 20 years ago) he became King.  His bio still lists him as a prisoner of Tinspun's government, the Squashed Torch.
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