My latest screwup was mainly my fault. Instead of being sensible, I decided to build statue gardens and meeting areas for all my dwarfs to make friends in. Eventually, after some hard losses in goblin sieges, several children began throwing tantrums because they had made nice with some of those unlucky dwarfs who didn't make it back. After two years of constant child temper tantrums I got sick of it and assigned all children to a burrow in the combat arena. A lever was pulled - the drawbridge to the arena was raised. A second lever pulled - a massive minotaur bursts out of his cage and gloriously slaughters all the children in the fortress in seconds flat.
Then I realized my error as most of the aforementioned children were fortress-born and still had parents, all of whom began to flip the fuck out at this atrocious loss of life and began to tantrum themselves silly. Those few dwarfs who were lucky enough to stay out of the maelstrom of brawling and friendship began to dig down deep enough to pop the circus tent and end it all. As soon as the clowns appeared, so to did a gargantuan army of mounted goblins dead set on finishing off whatever was left in the billowing clouds of miasma, tidal waves of cats, and mounds of dwarf body parts pouring out of this hole in the ground.
Not a bad way to finish a fort in retrospect.
You dont have to post, just rate agree if you've ever had a fort die because you forgot to hook a lever up to a bridge.
I just had one of my bow followers in Adventure mode hit someone in the head with his crossbow and [I]cut it off[/I].
[QUOTE=wallyroberto_2;39261411]You dont have to post, just rate agree if you've ever had a fort die because you forgot to hook a lever up to a bridge.[/QUOTE]
I had a fort die because I built a bridge and pulled it up, then accidently deleted the lever. Nobody could get out and I was confused as to why.
Is there any way to keep civilians out of a specific area? The water sources freeze over every winter in the game, and suddenly half of my population of 110 dwarves is running a few miles away from the fort to a pond to drink, instead of heading to the much closer river.
Apparently there is a yak bull also in that area, just staring at the dwarves until they run for cover. They'll run for a few meters, then remember that they're thirsty, then move back to the pond, then get scared again and start the process over. The trap has gotten so large that I can't do anything productive, and the alerts page is overflowing with dwarves giving up on life over and over because of one invisible little yak bull.
that was a fast end
a fort of only 20 just met its explosive destruction after lava shot through the entire fortress; for shiggles I had someone run outside while another sealed the fort up with a bridge.
Nothing happened, but I imagine the guy left outside had no idea on what to do. He was just a farmer, so maybe I'll do a Fortress of One.
I'm out of plump helmet seeds, how do I get more?
Trade with caravans, mainly dwarves.
[QUOTE=Derposaurus;39262729]I'm out of plump helmet seeds, how do I get more?[/QUOTE]
Brew them plump helmets into alcohol or wait for dorfs to eat them?
Also how are you out of plump helmet spawn, have you been letting your dwarves cook them?
So this guy just came to my fort out of the blue. Must have been because of all those stacks of finished goods I gave away.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/zj5Ep.png[/img]
Sounds like an excellent candidate for an all expenses paid stay at the glorious magma springs.
MEATS BACK ON THE MENU
[t]http://i.imgur.com/vdYi3.png[/t]
Why the fuck do you have that many grazers?
I did a trade agreement with the humans.
I told em to get one of everything.
I did the same with the dwarves.
round 2 here I come.
[img]http://puu.sh/1PcY1[/img]
wish me luck
[QUOTE=jackattack;39260027]Ok i think that broke my game some how, the river of blood spread pretty fast.
I hit an underground lake or something and now my fortress is just slowly filling with blood, how can one dwarf bleed that much?[/QUOTE]
Clearly you have angered Moses McProphet.
[QUOTE=bunnyspy1;39263793][img]http://puu.sh/1PcY1[/img]
wish me luck[/QUOTE]
he turned human and we chased him out
then I built a trench in front of my forts entrance
and then several traps
just in case
I never get anyone useful that withdraws from society. So far it's been three angsty, room-bidden teenagers and a ranger. I wish someone would just create a masterpiece already.
A weremonkey is attacking my fortress nooooooooooooooooooooooooo and I dont have any fortifications or traps noooooooooooooooooooo I hope all these puppies and cats can help me.
[editline]18th January 2013[/editline]
Oooooh and he turned to a human almost immediately. Phew.
I'm gonna make a pit and a retractable bridge to keep further invaders out.
Build a lever from the traps menu, ([b]uild > [t]raps > [l]ever) [q]uery the lever, then queue up a 'link to bridge' order. You'll have to select the bridge and the two mechanisms to use, but after that your mechanic will run over and link them up.
woot, i got a tame giant tiger from an elf caravan
trained that shit into a war animal and now my militia commander has a big buddy following him around. which is handy considering he only has one functional hand! (god damn grizzly bears)
Playing adventure mode, band of three.
We were attacked by some kobolds. There were about 8 of them against us. We were cutting them down when there were six left. I was a swordsdwarf and I had a Lasher and a Hammerdwarf with me. The lasher had one of this fingers cut off and was defending against 2 of the kobolds. Hammerdwarf decided to cave in one of the kobolds skulls, killing it instantly.
The fighting continued for a while until suddenly.. from the North.. out strode a couple lions. You may be thinking it was 1 or 2? Nope. 5..6...7.. yeah.. there were a lot of lions. The kobolds decided to charge the lions and were killed instantly. We put up a valiant fight. Lasherdwarf was ripped to shreds, puking as he dies. Hammerdwarf is covered in cuts, and I have lost a hand. Things were not looking pretty, but amazingly we managed to fight the lions back.
Hammerdwarf was still not losing any limbs. He just occasionally passed out due to blood loss. So, we managed to beat the lions down so it was two on two. At this point I was thoroughly impressed with myself and the Hammerdwarf's actions. I swiped a lions leg out from underneath it and stabbed it repeatedly. It wasn't getting up any time soon. Now... this is where it gets heroic. The other lion averted it's attention from my companion over to me. It broke my leg and I was on the floor while it casually chewed into it.
Now we were fighting near a chasm-esque hole in the ground, it was probably about 5-10 Z-levels high depending on what I saw at the bottom. So hammerdwarf, seeing me in peril, [I]Charges[/I] the lion, knocking it off me and down the hole. Sadly, hammerdwarf went with the lion. I crawled over to the other lion and stabbed it in the head, putting it out of its misery. I rested for a couple of hours and then went to check at the bottom of this hole. There at the bottom was the body of the lion, two legs snapped off and a lot of slices all over it. Then.. a couple feet away lay the body of the hammerdwarf.
He survived the fall but it seems the lion either injured him too much, or the fall did.
Either way, I went on my way and have never forgotten Hammerdwarf for what he did for me that day.
Rip Hammerdwarf 2013-2013
[QUOTE=willer;39265512]I never get anyone useful that withdraws from society. So far it's been three angsty, room-bidden teenagers and a ranger. I wish someone would just create a masterpiece already.[/QUOTE]
I just had a ranger create a legendary wooden cage.
[QUOTE=dual elites;39265754]woot, i got a tame giant tiger from an elf caravan
trained that shit into a war animal and now my militia commander has a big buddy following him around. which is handy considering he only has one functional hand! (god damn grizzly bears)[/QUOTE]
It sounds like your fort has quite the history already.
[QUOTE=Mr. N;39256919]You goddamn hairy manic depressive midgets why are you sewing adamantine into your flesh holy shit. I CAN'T EVEN TURN THEM INTO WAFERS THE FUCKING MEDICAL TEAM HAS THEM HOARDED IN THE HOSPITAL.
Also a dwarf wagon wont leave the trade depot and has been chilling there for a year.[/QUOTE]
"We can rebuild him, we have the adamantine."
The million dorfbuck Dwarf
I'll be driving to New Orleans today, so that gives me about six hours of uninterrupted DF.
If anything good happens I'll be sure to post pictures on Sunday.
[QUOTE=Saza;39266475]I'll be driving to New Orleans today, so that gives me about six hours of uninterrupted DF.
If anything good happens I'll be sure to post pictures on Sunday.[/QUOTE]
Don't dorf and drive, bro.
[QUOTE=G-Strogg;39266514]Don't dorf and drive, bro.[/QUOTE]
perhaps I should've worded that better but I probably won't be driving much.
[QUOTE=G-Strogg;39265831]I just had a ranger create a legendary wooden cage.[/QUOTE]
Now it's a fucking herbalist! What's a herbalist going to create, a fanciful garden?!
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