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[BFEL]

Medtob Zeggutid is new favorite migrant.
While he was a mere shearer, he brought with him a golden goose. (just started playing masterwork btw)
For those who don't know, golden geese lay gold bars instead of eggs.
So yeah.

Also having serious issues keeping the fortress in booze and food.
I turned the crappy farming system off, but it seems to have just ignored that and stayed with the FOUR SEASON growth time for my plump helmets.
Trying to divert the local brook into a underground reservoir to compensate.
Sure it won't make my dwarves too happy, but they should be able to handle any inevitable sieges without all dehydrating this way.

Now I just need a way to make my food supplies more sustainable.

[Mr Space Cat]

Don't ever operate pumps near cats.
The spinning rat Remains strikes The Stray Cat in the lower body, but the attack has no force!
The large roach Remains strikes The Stray Cat in the right rear leg, but the attack glances away!
The hamster Remains strikes The Stray Cat in the head, bruising the muscle, jamming the skull through the brain and tearing apart the brain!
The Stray Cat has been knocked unconscious!
The Stray Cat slams into the Stray Cat!
The Stray Cat slams into an obstacle!
The Stray Cat (Tame) has been found dead.

I love how the first hit does nothing, the second hit does nothing, and the third hit just so happens to completely implode the cat's paper mache skull with a dead hamster. Dat headshot.

Now I just need a way to make my food supplies more sustainable.

While playing Masterwork a couple versions back I found the simplest way was to butcher everything that moves for meat for making meals and then save all plants for booze. Getting turkeys for laying eggs provided some extra (and sustainable) fodder for roasts and biscuits, despite egg laying being nerfed for Masterwork (if I recall that correctly, that is).

[bsnott]

Huge migrations waves = military and huge farming community

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[BFEL]

Update!
I have gotten over my sustenance issues, because merchants.
I somehow lucked into having a huge amount of mithril throwing weapons laying around, so I sold them all and got enough food/booze to drown the fort forever as well as the blueprints for nearly every new workshop....yeah that was a really good trade.
Later on some humans and gnomes arrived at the same time. I traded for what I could afford from the humies then seized all the gnomes goods, because they present no threat whatsoever.
Oh, and an elephant siege happened right when the gnomes left in a huff, I think they survived to tell of my treachery, but all the humies died in my airlock.
Ah well, just means I get ALL of their steel plate armor

Also finished the reservoir, and it works awesome, going to use a blood of armok to make a magma reservoir right next to it, and then I shall have magmaforges

Of course now I got an undead siege, and I triggered about 12 gobo ambushes.
Hiding underground, have fun with the corpses gobbies XD

.....Did I mention the undead are on fire?

[matskuman5]

So, I just finished the two towers nobles live in. It was an absolute pain in the ass to build these
since the dwarves would constantly trap themselves, suspend everything and so on.
They're a bit small, but this is my first real above-ground tower construction.

Here's a stonesense screenshot.

[Urist McKoga]

Huge migrations waves = military and huge farming community

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Not sure, but i think this depot is inacessible for any wagon(the traps blocks wagons).

[VerdantSF]

Relicshield, pop. 122, Spring of 296 (Year 45)

A year earlier, Kadol the hammerdwarf was caught outside alone during a siege.  Her fellow soldiers rushed to her aid, but a group of trolls intercepted them right as they emerged from the fortress.  While the majority of Relicshield's defenders were forced to engage the tusked monsters in battle, Captain Dishmab rushed toward the lone hammerdwarf.  Second only to Commander Sphalerite in total kills, Dishmab smashed into foes with her mighty mace.  Together, she and Kadol routed the goblin squad, while their compatriots decimated the trolls.

Once the siege was defeated, attention turned back to preparations for the second cavern expedition.  Scaffolding was taken down from the walls securing the first cavern to regain blocks, but there were two fatal accidents.  Atir the Clothier and Dolomite, Chief Medic and one of the Original Seven, fell to their deaths.  Scaffolding had been taken down before, one level at a time, without incident, but Duke Phyllite demanded the procedures be placed under review. 

The Spring brought renewed hope in the form of Ibmat the Dragon, who was lured into the trade tunnels and captured in a cage.

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[Loud Whispers]

For but a single Dwarven day, everything rose to the speed of 6 FPS.

It was a good day.

An FB was slain by the hordes of zombie crundles that infested the caverns of Silentthunders.

They are still being captured and destroyed.

One got a pick axe in its eyes.

[Valikdu]

So, I filled a stockpile with beds and linked it to a craft workshop linked to a body part stockpile. And set decorations on repeat.

Now all the beds that I'm going to use are menacing with spikes of multiple types of creature bone, shell and horn.

[VerdantSF]

Relicshield, pop. 122, Spring of 296 (Year 45)

Soon after Ibmat the dragon was captured, the goblins laid siege to the fortress.  They were routed, but not without the death of a human diplomat.  While the spoils of war were collected and corpses disposed of, a swamp titan appeared to the west.

The Swamp Titan Dab Ronzoslu Ozse Sostux has come!  A gigantic eyeless scorpionfly.  It has large mandibles and it has a regal bearing.  Its charcoal exoskeleton is waxy.  Beware its poisonous bite!

The defenders of Relicshield readied themselves, but the monster headed toward the roofed courtyard where there were several defenseless civilians.  There were two openings in the roof that had been missed while making an adjacent tower!  By the time the order was given to redirect the troops, the swamp titan had already descended into the courtyard.  Dwarves panicked and fled in terror, however the courtyard also housed the grizzly training grounds.  Six grizzlies charged at the foul monstrosity immediately.

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The fighting was quick, but fierce.  Surrounding the titan, the grizzlies tore into it, biting and latching on from all sides.

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The Swamp Titan grabs The Stray war Grizzly Sow by the fifth left rear toe with its right wing!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow bites The Swamp Titan in the thorax, chipping the chitin and bruising the fat!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow latches on firmly!
The Swamp Titan charges at The Stray war Grizzly Sow!
The Swamp Titan kicks The Stray war Grizzly Sow in the fifth right front toe with its left first foot, tearing apart the hair and bruising the muscle!
The Swamp Titan collides with The Stray war Grizzly Sow!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow is knocked over and tumbles backward!
The Swamp Titan kicks The Stray war Grizzly Sow in the fourth right rear toe with its left third foot, shattering the bone!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow gives in to pain.
The Swamp Titan grabs The Stray war Grizzly Sow by the tail with its right wing!
The Swamp Titan releases the grip of The Swamp Titan's right wing on The Stray war Grizzly Sow's tail.
The Swamp Titan grabs The Stray war Grizzly Sow by the fifth left rear toe with its left wing!
The Swamp Titan releases the grip of The Swamp Titan's left wing on The Stray war Grizzly Sow's fifth left rear toe.
The Swamp Titan grabs The Stray war Grizzly Sow by the left front leg with its right wing!
The Swamp Titan releases the grip of The Swamp Titan's right wing on The Stray war Grizzly Sow's left front leg.
The Stray war Grizzly Sow attacks The Swamp Titan but It jumps away!
`Gypsum Amusedlabors' Idatherith, Woodworker cancels Push Track Vehicle: Interrupted by Swamp Titan.
The Stray war Grizzly Bear scratches The Swamp Titan in the left third leg from behind, fracturing the chitin!
A tendon has been torn!
The Swamp Titan grabs The Stray war Grizzly Sow by the second right front toe with its right wing!
The Stray war Grizzly Bear bites The Swamp Titan in the abdomen from the side, chipping the chitin and bruising the fat!
A tendon has been torn!
The Stray war Grizzly Bear latches on firmly!
The Swamp Titan breaks the grip of The Stray war Grizzly Bear's teeth from The Swamp Titan's abdomen!
The Swamp Titan releases the grip of The Swamp Titan's right wing from The Stray war Grizzly Sow's second right front toe.
`Amost Keyglazed' Likotgidthur, Medic cancels Dump Item: Interrupted by Swamp Titan.
The Stray war Grizzly Sow attacks The Swamp Titan but It scrambles away!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow bites The Swamp Titan in the right mandible, chipping the chitin and bruising the muscle!
A ligament has been torn and a tendon has been torn!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow latches on firmly!
The Swamp Titan breaks the grip of The Stray war Grizzly Sow's teeth on The Swamp Titan's right mandible.
The Stray war Grizzly Bear bites The Swamp Titan in the left first foot, chipping the chitin and bruising the fat!
A ligament has been torn and a tendon has been torn!
The Stray war Grizzly Bear latches on firmly!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow bites The Swamp Titan in the thorax, chipping the chitin and bruising the fat!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow latches on firmly!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow bites The Swamp Titan in the left third foot, chipping the chitin and bruising the fat!
A ligament has been torn and a tendon has been torn!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow latches on firmly!
The Swamp Titan breaks the grip of The Stray war Grizzly Bear's teeth on The Swamp Titan's left first foot.
The Swamp Titan breaks the grip of The Stray war Grizzly Sow's teeth on The Swamp Titan's thorax.
The Swamp Titan breaks the grip of The Stray war Grizzly Sow's teeth on The Swamp Titan's left third foot.
The Stray war Grizzly Bear bites The Swamp Titan in the right first foot, chipping the chitin and bruising the fat!
A ligament has been torn and a tendon has been torn!
The Stray war Grizzly Bear latches on firmly!
The Swamp Titan breaks the grip of The Stray war Grizzly Bear's teeth from The Swamp Titan's right first foot!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow bites The Swamp Titan in the left wing, fracturing it!
A tendon has been torn!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow latches on firmly!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow bites The Swamp Titan in the right third leg, chipping the chitin and bruising the fat!
A tendon has been torn!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow latches on firmly!
The Swamp Titan breaks the grip of The Stray war Grizzly Sow's teeth on The Swamp Titan's left wing.
The Stray war Grizzly Sow bites The Swamp Titan in the left first foot, chipping the chitin and bruising the fat!
A ligament has been torn and a tendon has been torn!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow latches on firmly!
The Swamp Titan breaks the grip of The Stray war Grizzly Sow's teeth on The Swamp Titan's right third leg.
The Swamp Titan breaks the grip of The Stray war Grizzly Sow's teeth on The Swamp Titan's left first foot.
The Stray war Grizzly Sow bites The Swamp Titan in the left third foot, chipping the chitin!
A ligament has been torn and a tendon has been torn!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow latches on firmly!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow bites The Swamp Titan in the head, chipping the chitin and bruising the fat!
A ligament has been torn and a tendon has been torn!
The Stray war Grizzly Sow latches on firmly!
The Swamp Titan breaks the grip of The Stray war Grizzly Sow's teeth on The Swamp Titan's left third foot.
The Swamp Titan breaks the grip of The Stray war Grizzly Sow's teeth on The Swamp Titan's head.
The Stray war Grizzly Sow scratches The Swamp Titan in the head from the side, chipping the chitin and bruising the muscle and bruising the brain!
A tendon has been torn!

By the time the soldiers arrived, the fell beast had already met a grisly end (thank you growth bug fix). 

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Now the cooks of Relicshield are busy making use of the 433 pieces of swamp titan meat that was left.

[Loud Whispers]

I've got over 61 Dwarven children from the first generation of children, all marked from 1st to 10thborn who were born in the buggy age of Dwarven Dwarfs.
I think I won't fix the bug, since I changed the raws to make sure all future children are born the right size. I think it'd be rather interesting to have one generation of Dwarves that are more Dwarfy than the other Dwarves, that old tiny lot!

...And I will give them all crossbows, and they will shoot things.

[ZzarkLinux]

There is a parade of two-humped camels walking through my goblin seige.
Awkward. I guess Camels must be the goblin equivalent of Black Cats or something.

[Loud Whispers]

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The baconing will commence. Only the muscle-laden fat-strapped gigantic boars, sows and piglets will survive this round. Candidates must be gigantic and fat/muscly. All others will be slaughtered and eaten. The surviving brood shall be better organized and prepared for necromancy-baconing.

Meanwhile a forgotten beast emerges from the depths of the Quarry and now harasses mechanics on the surface.

The bacon must hesitate yet more.

[dewboy]

The bacon must hesitate yet more.

"Bacon waits," *looks at Loud Whispers* "For no man."

[Loud Whispers]

The bacon must hesitate yet more.

"Bacon waits," *looks at Loud Whispers* "For no man."

If indeed baconing waits for no man, then perhaps I am fortunate that these are Dwarves! You see, the baconing waits at the next minecart stop for every Dwarf who wishes to take it and make it true...