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operation quadapult is a failure :v: all the enemies seem to stick to the wall instead of smacking into it and getting stunned like I wanted, and with me not actually having set up a military by the time my first siege arrived and my only defense useless, well goodnight sweet fortress [editline]27th July 2014[/editline] flight testing will now resume, we shall touch the skies as we bury our enemies

I have another legend to tell. 34.11 again, but this time I genned a 1050-year world. Meet Litast Hammerpainted, king of dwarven civilization The Noiseless Treaty, born -76, died in war in 602. No, I have not modded dwarven lifespans, so you should already know where this is going. In a time before time, Litast was born and did absolutely nothing of significance. Maybe he attacked himself, or that's what he told the fortress manager he was doing when he went down to the practice rooms alone during his youth. Anyway, when the record begins at year 1, he was already king of his civilization, a position he would hold for the rest of his life. That year saw The Noiseless Treaty found the mountain hall of Constructedgifted. (Either that or DF/Legends Viewer just establishes its founding as of the start of history.) At age 80, Litast became obsessed with his own mortality. See, The Noiseless Treaty was expanding happily enough, but they were running into a problem. A big one. [t]http://i.imgur.com/LuIJLx1.png[/t] This is a map of Udon Tadin, The Domain of Enchanting, as of Litast's obsession beginning. The southeast continent has two dwarven civs, two goblin civs, and a human civ, but they're still far away. Lots of goblins encroaching from the south. Not much of anyone else for a very long distance except more goblins. By the way, most of the sites on the continent between the goblins just south of The Noiseless Treaty and the goblin/elven/human population centers at the bottom middle are labyrinths containing 1-3 minotaur outcasts each. There are 29 of them, one cave full of kobolds, and two dark fortresses on the river northeast of the human settlements. So the dwarves were quite alone and cut off from the rest of dwarfkind. In the early spring of year 29, 25 years after he became obsessed with his mortality, Litast profaned and promptly became cursed with vampirism by the dwarven god of fertility, Kodor Springgrowths. Kodor is kind of fond of cursing dwarves in The Noiseless Treaty with vampirism or lycanthropy, but only for profanity. Life goal achieved. The following summer, Litast was first suspected to no longer be aging. In the early winter of 33, he aroused the suspicion of his people after a murder, and in return, he introduced oppressive edicts on the population, ensuring his dictatorial position until his death. Here is the local state of affairs as of Litast's death in 602: [t]http://i.imgur.com/tGgSq59.png[/t] The three goblin fortresses that are fading would be taken over by The Noiseless Treaty the following year, and territorial lines would remain fixed in a cold war from 624 to 1009. This war saw multiple pillagings of goblin settlements but only 20 casualties total from both sides, ending when The Noiseless Treaty captured a dark fortress. A new expedition low on alcohol supplies is more lethal than that. By contrast, under Litast's reign, they declared war on the goblins 13 times and inflicted over 46,000 kills (and suffered almost 40,000 casualties), driving them out of multiple locations they'd held. Litast expanded The Noiseless Treaty into a large and prosperous dwarven civilization, or at the very least a durable one. Litast's personal lifetime recorded killcount is one: A 14-year-old female dwarf who was the daughter of a female dwarf who was abducted by goblins at age 2 and raised in a dark fortress (and who married another dwarf at age 12 and raised her offspring among the goblins), defending Cruelbasin against dwarven attack in 444. But Litast has a few more relevant statistics: [quote]Entity Reputations -The Noiseless Treaty: ----[B]Unsolved Murders: 23770 [/B] -The Torches of Painting of The Noiseless Treaty : ----Unsolved Murders: 30 ----First Suspected Ageless Year: 30, midsummer[/quote] What a hellhole Litast created for himself, ruling with an iron fist and feeding freely on his people. Who knows how long he would've held power if he hadn't been killed by a troll while personally taking part in the attack on the goblin fortress Organpoison. If we assume all of those murders are Litast feeding, he was responsible for the deaths of 41.5 of his own people, on average, every year for 573 years. Litast's successor, Rigoth Abbeywire, lifted his oppressive edicts after a year in power before dying peacefully of old age 35 years later, which likely has a lot to do with the sedateness of the dwarves during the long cold war. On the topic of wars in The Domain of Enchanting, the taking of Cruelbasin from the goblins in 1009 set off a blood rage in the dwarves or something. Three more wars would break out between the dwarves and goblins over the next two decades with casualty numbers in line with Litast's campaigns. And then there was The Outrageous War from 1043 to 1046. 32,232 casualties inflicted on the goblins with only 5,760 losses across 47 battles. The dwarves basically pillaged every place the goblins had three or four times. Today, the goblins number only 4,581 with 6 dwarven prisoners and 5 dwarves. On the other hand, today The Noiseless Treaty is 19,000 dwarves strong, along with 15,000 goblins.

So I'm working on [URL="http://pastebin.com/Ur9v0vES"]that guide[/URL] on how to get started with a kobold fortress. Tell me what you guys think, and if my opinions are wrong or not.

Reposting for the new page. I am planning a succession fort, if you are a cool Kat and are interested send a PM my way and I will add you to the list.

Update 40.05

aw shit time to get my dorf on [quote]Stopped ghosts from being able to realize dreams after they are dead[/quote] oh man these patch notes

[quote]Stopped hyper-obese digesting dwarves from constantly recalculating insulation/mass data[/quote] my sides.

The horrible thing is that Litast isn't even the biggest asshole in history in this world. These guys have a strong lead so far: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/jAW8GSe.png[/IMG] A truly disturbing number of human settlements belonging to this civilization were pillaged for the 498th time in 1049, the last year of the record. The humans, however, were ruled by a vampiric cave fish man who passed oppressive edicts after suspicion was raised about his mortal integrity, much like Litast, for about 450 years, or about the first half of the war.

[QUOTE=Jrose14;45518214]So I'm working on [URL="http://pastebin.com/Ur9v0vES"]that guide[/URL] on how to get started with a kobold fortress. Tell me what you guys think, and if my opinions are wrong or not.[/QUOTE] Not bad, it eliminates the trial-and-error of starting a kobold fort. Are you working on the industry/workshop guide?

[quote]Stopped trees from growing through floors[/quote] Praise the Toad [editline]Hyenas[/editline] [quote]Re-added elven diplomacy, though it is still unchanged from its first incarnation[/quote] Eehehehehehehehee

[QUOTE=axelord157;45518792]Not bad, it eliminates the trial-and-error of starting a kobold fort. Are you working on the industry/workshop guide?[/QUOTE] Yeppers. Will be out some time tonight maybe. If not, tomorrow.

So my fort has ca 22.5 mil created wealth, from 3 years of work without any adamantite or similar. I just set up a really lucrative thing, a giant cave spider silk farm. I managed to capture one with my cage traps in the caves and now it keeps spewing webs, while my dwarfs safely collect it. My vampire mayor is in a burrow, only allowed to collect webs and spin thread etc. He will do so for eternity, or until the fort goes under. [IMG]http://horobox.co.uk/u/Sax_1406517233.png[/IMG] Oh, and another thing. I am going real with the pimp out of my captain of the guard/the guard squad. [IMG]http://horobox.co.uk/u/Sax_1406604728.png[/IMG] [editline]28th July 2014[/editline] I don't think he has picked up everything I told him to wear yet tho.

so, uh, a goblin liaison just showed up at my fortress okay the dwarves just have a goblin liaison weird edit: now im getting seiged by a vile force of humans what the fuck is this bizarro world bullshit edit: okay i may have modded goblins to reproduce at a ridiculous rate but i wasn't expecting this [img_thumb]http://oi60.tinypic.com/5mwp5f.jpg[/img_thumb] they fucking killed my horses too

[img]http://puu.sh/atZDB/44b99f48c7.png[/img] I got so absorbed into getting my power plant set up that I forgot I had opened the lower cistern floodgate while the river was still frozen [img]http://puu.sh/au038/ffde6b9ab4.png[/img] [img]http://puu.sh/au04h/b721ae1951.png[/img] Whoops On the bright side, the power plant is just a few lever pulls away from completion

The guide is pretty much done, just gotta proof read tomorrow and make some changes (and fact check some of the recipes). But here it is. Not long and I have no pictures, or anything to make it pretty, but it gets the point across: [url]http://pastebin.com/krq65scr[/url] I also don't really know where to put it besides here. Maybe in the Masterwork section of the Bay12 forums. It'd also be nice to use something more flattering than pastebin, but I don't want to stretch the page.

K holy shit I have the weirdest fortress right now. So I embarked near a flat hill and dug under it, making a pretty basic outpost, and immediately the woodcutter goes into a strange mood. Ass. Then my miner strands himself in a cavern with a stairway and four cleared tunnels around it. A rescue party is sent but none of them can seem to grasp the concept of stairs, nor use the other tunnels to retrieve the lost miner. Meanwhile, out of sight a gaggle of wild animals has wandered into the fort and died of thirst, creating a massive amount of miasma. Shit tantrum spiral. But its all ok, as the two dwarfs who havn't been doing anything constructive have been busy. Very busy. For every dwarf that has succumbed to insanity of any form, there are two children to take their place. Also the fort is flooded by insanely frequent migrant waves. At this point I just lost hope and left it running with a resume clicker while i did something else, and 3 hours later, the fortress is going strong. Its turned into a mire of despair, destruction, thieves, robbers, and lizardmen (????????), perhaps the dwarven version of Las Vegas. Anyhow I'm really interested in how this will turn out now, I'm leaving it on for the next 8 or so hours.

[QUOTE]Stopped ghosts from being able to realize dreams after they are dead[/QUOTE] :(

[QUOTE=Trebgarta;45521506]Is that a corridor How big is your embark site, letting you waste places like that, 6x6 or bigger? Or maybe Im just greedy.[/QUOTE] That's the grand dining hall, it's supposed to be stupidly huge It's a 7x7 embark though, and if anything, all the space is underutilized

[QUOTE=Jrose14;45520766]The guide is pretty much done, just gotta proof read tomorrow and make some changes (and fact check some of the recipes). But here it is. Not long and I have no pictures, or anything to make it pretty, but it gets the point across: [url]http://pastebin.com/krq65scr[/url] I also don't really know where to put it besides here. Maybe in the Masterwork section of the Bay12 forums. It'd also be nice to use something more flattering than pastebin, but I don't want to stretch the page.[/QUOTE] Why shouldn't a person take giant jack rats? Do they require too much to graze on?

So because I like massive worlds and I hate myself, I decided to gen a large 1050-year world. I'm currently paging through the legends now, but I did find a necromancer's book, titled "The Tower: A New Approach". It's a 355-page pewter-bound book by Fikod Whipobey about how and why he created his tower, Plaitedwheels. The writing has been called "self-indulgent" and "stiff". So basically, [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyG0HF2BCRY[/media] [editline]28th July 2014[/editline] Found another book, this one by Iton Pillartaper. It's called "Dying: Fact or Fiction?" and it's a 100-page guide to life and death. The writing's incredibly ornate yet reasonably serious. The fuck is this old-age tabloid shit.

You guys always give more informative and correct answers than google so: What's the difference between deep metals and shallow metals besides how far I need to dig?

[QUOTE=ScottyWired;45522084]You guys always give more informative and correct answers than google so: What's the difference between deep metals and shallow metals besides how far I need to dig?[/QUOTE] nothing, just the depth iron is more often near the top though and adamantine obviously at the very bottom (though it doesnt count as a deep metal i think)

I'm in heaven. [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/111996868/2014/dwarfes/heaven.JPG[/IMG] But what's the yellow structure on left?

elf city

oh THOSE guys well then [IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/111996868/2014/dwarfes/fixed.JPG[/IMG]

With the amount of time it took for me to dig out and understand all the info I needed to read about Litast Hammerpainted the vampiric dwarven despot, I completely skipped over mention of a dwarven necromancer from the same world, but the topic of books is perfect. Shorast Paintechoes is a dwarven necromancer, and she lives in the tower Mirrorholy with a bunch of other dumb necromancers, having left her husband and 12 children (all of them quite mature) behind. Allow me to provide a partial bibliography of her works, in chronological order of publishing: Death: the Truth Shorast Paintechoes And the Large Sparkles The Tower Is My Life Shorast Paintechoes Questioned Give Me the Book Shorast Paintechoes: A New Approach Start Your Day With Shorast Paintechoes The Fenced Destructions And Shorast Paintechoes Shorast Paintechoes Questioned: A Brief History The Fat Ace And Shorast Paintechoes The Wizard's Guide To Shorast Paintechoes Pathways To Shorast Paintechoes Questioned: A Brief History Virginal Dwarves The Heliotrope Cinnamon And the Warlord Better Shorast Paintechoes It Must Have Been Shorast Paintechoes Shorast Paintechoes: My Only Mistake All she has done for 960 years is write books. About one third of them are autobiographies, all breathlessly serious.

So, after realizing that Blacklight is essentially in the hottest part of the world I've decided to construct a ventilation system for the keep and apartment districts. While none of this is modeled in the game, I do know a thing or two about airflow and I'm just going to [i]pretend[/i] my dwarves like air conditioning. Starting with the keep at the northeastern corner of the city, the trade depot will sit at the bottom of a square minaret that will serve as a vacuum which will pull the air upward and dissipate it into the winds coming off the mountain peaks. Cold air will be supplied via a vent in the floor nearby, going down into the cavern system below. Normally this would just bring the stench of the caverns up to the surface, but Blacklight is essentially a hole in the ground with walls around it. Surface air is thus pulled down through the big hole going down to the caverns which cools it as it passes over the bare rock and provided a constant circulation of fresh air for the fortress. Additionally, the ventilation shaft also acts as the primary access point to the cavern layers since the entire city is essentially built on the surface. All the mason workshops are within close proximity to the ventilation shaft and a secondary minecart-only shaft is planned for additional ventilation. Unfortunately this design will require extensive fortification of the cavern layer below, as the open shaft leads directly into the heart of Blacklight and is a major security risk. I'm not sure why I'm doing this exactly, all I know is it'll bother me if I don't. :l

[QUOTE=Xubs;45522865]So far my major task has been: build up military more, and drill downwards towards the Fun Circus. I'm getting way farther into that task than I thought I would.[/QUOTE]Drill down, gain access to the dark carnival, and then immediately abandon and make an adventurer. Explore the circus solo, but be warned, if you hear the faint whispering of "WHOOP WHOOP HOW DOES MAGNETITE WORK, NINJA?" [i]prepare yourself,[/i] for you will soon be assaulted from all sides by various types of juggalos.

The second aquifer has been breached, far to the south of my fortress. This is a historical day. Today, the House of Darkness was founded. Let the SCIENCE begin.

god dammit the plug method doesn't seem to work, it only breaches one layer of the aquifer