VabokBakust : OrbUrged ... a Dwarf Fortress community fort

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Edit: Considering clothes, I let our leatherworks and clothworkshop build clothes arround the clock, shouldn't there be some new clothes already? If not we'll probably need mor clothworker

I did a quick scan of dwarves in the dining room and alot of the clothes are at the XsockX stage
All of Blue emu's water launcher minecarts has given me ideas

I'm thinking for the DF game we should setup something similiar except instead of a complex water gun fill the carts up with pointy glass spikes and then shoot them at the goblins

Mmmmm, high speed point glass bits. Perhaps place them over the dodgem trap so we can have goblins get flung into the hole with glass bits sticking out of them

 

[blue emu]

Mmmmm, high speed point glass bits. Perhaps place them over the dodgem trap so we can have goblins get flung into the hole with glass bits sticking out of them

It seems to me that the obvious next evolutionary step is to load the carts with Magma instead of water.

 

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It seems to me that the obvious next evolutionary step is to load the carts with Magma instead of water.

The huge amount of setup turns me off however. I'm sure having a smaller version of your setup is much more manageable (and less FPS intensive)

 

[blue emu]

The huge amount of setup turns me off however. I'm sure having a smaller version of your setup is much more manageable (and less FPS intensive)

Yes, one problem with these Doomsday Devices is that they take YEARS to build and debug.

It is, of course, possible to have very simple un-powered "one-shot" entrance defenses... similar in principle to Claymore Mines... which need to be re-set after using once.

Something like a mine-cart loaded with spears or big spikey balls, sitting at the top of an acceleration ramp, and requiring only a nudge to start rolling down-hill towards the entrance hall.

 

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THE UPDATE OF DEATHS
Many deaths this update. From dwarves being dwarves and well ... my stupidity too
Our first was a already melancholy dwarf who decided that because his wants weren't fulfilled he decided to kill himself

When the game first started we had another dwarf (which I wasn't aware of) demanding(!) that his needs be met. Already gathering admantium and some bones he screamed for more leather stacks, forest, square blocks and bars of shining metal. Yet he constantly refused the several hundred rock blocks we had created and the glass blocks. Realising that he may actually want metal blocks the dwarves set to try to fill his need, but alas, it was too late and the moody dwarf sulked off

The mayor realising the mood in the fortress, decided to sacrifice some goblins for blood sport.

The plan was for the goblins to get dumped down a hole and archers on the other side of fortifications would have to shoot through additional fortifications making it a bit of a challenge (and more enjoyment!) for the dwarves. But the foul green beasts were smart enough to not stand infront of the holes and the archers couldn't get a shot off. The Mayor, still wanting his bloodsport, ordered the wall knocked down and the hammerdwarves to execute the goblins.
As the wall was knocked down the goblins seemed prepared and leapt out of the hole and straight for the door!
A poor engraver had to quickely run to the door and lock it, locking himself in with all the goblins!

Lord Strange and Emu led the charge against the foul creatures:

Note the war hammer being lodged in heads

After the smashing good sport, which the engraver suffered from a smashed toe, it was onto more training for our victorious hammerdwarves. Reports of a fleshball in the caverns prompted the mayor to order the caverns breached. The hammerdwarves were sent down to smash

Erush and Emu eager to smash, led the way and started hammering away at the flesh ball. It was going extremely well until Erush the Fool decided to tackle the flesh ball into the large pool of water!

Emu shaking his head at the stupidity (or dorfyness) of the situation decided to head back, flipping his hammer expertly back into its strap feeling as if he could take on anything with his hammer:

(sorry about the dodgy text)

With spring arrived it was time for the elvish caravan. Only tolerated because of their strawberry wine. As the trading started to commence, the damn green goblins seemed to want revenge for the Mayor's earlier bloodsport. With the drawbridge down to let the elves in, the goblins could easily walk straight in and kill as they liked

The only defense was an offduty crossbowdwarf and a lone Lord Strange

5v1 can Lord Strange do it !? Probably not

*Also that moody dwarf dying happened to be our only metalcrafter who was legendary. Time to train up a new one :/

 

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Beasts n' Stuff
The goblins focused on the elf merchants instead of our dwarves which is great, because dead goblins + dead elves = FUN. The elf merchants ran straight over the cage traps and the goblins followed with at least 3 getting trapped. Meanwhile Lord Strange chased them down and did battle with 2

After the goblins had been dealt with, another ambush!

Fortunately it's just a single bowman who seems a bit confused. Instead of attacking the dwarves he runs away out of our fort, but not before getting chased down by our military. A lucky bolt strikes his leg, slowing him down enough for our swordsdwarf to punish him

Note the ferocity of our dwarf

During the commotion some theives manage to sneak in and do some damage!

Next another thief sprung by Xarkan chops his foot off

After the battle, I assigned our medical dwarf who was terribly inefficient at doing his job. Instead of helping injured dwarves he was wondering around picking stuff up and putting them in stockpiles .
Chief Medical Dwarf 'taklagarn' prepare to be fixing dwarves for the rest of your life . And only ever that job



A few months later we have another incursion, but by something much more threatening!

The alarm is sounded and all the dwarves are herded back into the fort, with at least 4 dwarves exposed to the creature. The creature charges at the dwarves as they just get in through the door. The FB, being a building destroyer, starts to work away at the door and smash it down. While it's doing that our crossbowdwarves make their way down to the fortifications and prepare to fire upon it as it breaches the door

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And that will be the last update until Monday (I might do a small one on sunday night). I'm going to melbourne in 30mins. Here is a last pic showing the progress I'm making on the glass fortress. I'll only do a basic frame work for someone else to build off it. I'm not sure how high it should go or what should go in it. I'm thinking perhaps a small tower surrounded by magma

 

[Lord Strange]

IT'S HAMMERING TIME



Good work!

 

[Iche_Bins]

As you want to do Glass, how about that Idea:

green: green glass - Living quarters and all that
black: obsidian with our magma reservoir, an obsidian caster and our workshops.
whitish: Clear glass with observation deck.
light blue: Adamantine Pickaxe to show the world our glory!

That is scaled with the numbers of tiles in height (10) and width (45) of the river. , although I could of course have miscounted the tiles

 

[the_hdk]

btw if you have problem with text disappearing quickly press f11 twice

 

[Taklagarn]

Chief Medical Dwarf? That is the fanciest title I've ever had!

 

[randakar]

Do I spot a Randakar in that picture?
What, exactly, has become of my dwarfish incarnation?

 

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btw if you have problem with text disappearing quickly press f11 twice

Thank you so much for this. I was restarting DF to fix the issue which was a pain

Chief Medical Dwarf? That is the fanciest title I've ever had!

It's also one of the most important. Except of course when you sow adamantium strands into our patients >_>

Do I spot a Randakar in that picture?
What, exactly, has become of my dwarfish incarnation?

You are Randakar, expert woodcutter and adept carpenter. You were nearly set alight by the FB but it seems you can run fast enough

 

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Forgotten Beast, meet Bolt
With the FB outside the cavern entrance and everyone inside safely, work returned to normal while The Rims of Voicing our designated FB killers, waited for the beast to breach the first door.

Hours. Days. Weeks even. The Rims of Voicing were still waiting for the giant firebreathing beetle to breach that door. It seems dwarven construction was better than expected!* The Glorious Mayor (now his official name) wanted the FB killed though, such a foul creature was most undwarfy and needed to be dispatched. He ordered a hole breached into the roof and so the crossbowman could fire down into the beast. Madness they said. For the beast will surely spit fire and roast all the dwarves alive! But the Mayor demanded that it be killed or he'll get the hammerer to beat them all dead like that Urist McBlue Emu fellow.

The breach was created and the dwarves started to fire into the back of the creature. Fortunately instead of it turning around and flaming the dwarves it attempted to break down the seemingly indestructible door.

With the beast finally dead the dwarves could open the caverns back up, widen the entrance and put fortifications down to avoid any flying nasties to come in.

In other news, we had a troll come in on another cavern layer, break down the doors and nearly walked into the fortress until the backup cage traps got him and I had no idea until I checked on the entrance and noticed the missing doors (and panicked). We have 2 cave crocodiles unfortunately both are female. If we get 1 male we can have war crocodiles . Normally you can't train them but we have a tame crocodile which means all its children will be tame so we can stick them in cages (cages hold infinite animals) and unleash 20 crocodiles in a midst of goblins and watch them get ripped apart

*I believe this is a bug, I've seen it before when building destroyers don't destroy doors. Usually when they are destroying stuff they sit a couple tiles back but this one was right next to the door. At a guess it was still trying to kill the dwarf instead of breaking the door down, but since the door was there it just got stuck. I know you can bug the AI out if you drop a partially constructed door it will get stuck behind the door

 

[tonkatoy5]

Whats my Dwarf Up too? If I may ask

 

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Some excellent additional news. While setting up a mist generator I wanted to use windmills for ease and we have 40 instead of 20 power for the windmills. So mass windmills is certainly an option for generating power

 

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Whats my Dwarf Up too? If I may ask

You are Tonkatoy the Mining Architect. 2 of the most important jobs in any fort. It can also be very dangerous when you dig out underneath yourself or dig into a wall containing lava/water. Fortunately, I know how to avoid such things and you survive

Quick Update
Had a child fall to its death which is a good thing because a)children are useless and take up valuable dwarf spot b) they take up FPS. I'm sitting at 65FPS on a 3.6GHz clock speed and we have currently 65 juveniles all of whom I'd love to throw in some lava.

I'm thinking of experimenting with killing off all the children but it may start a tantrum spiral. So I'm setting up a mist generator and memorial slabs fully engraved to help alleviate some of the stress. Perhaps only kill a few per year.

 

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Well I found out the reason why we didn't have a 'proper' noble yet. The liason that was trying to conduct the meeting couldn't get a meeting with the mayor because he was too busy moving stuff around ... for several months. So I cancelled all the mayors tasks and suddenly we get this:

I assigned myself baron but for whatever reason is seems like a lye maker is too lowly for such a promotion and Tuerlinx got the promotion instead . We must now welcome our new baron and baroness Tuerlinx and the_HDK. May they live forever ... in magma

 

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Just minding my own business when ...

Oh fuck. This was the first FB that was spawned but it wandered out of sight and was removed from the creature list. Now it appears to have wandered back and it's right next to our main stairwell. That leads into everything. It has deadly spittle and we have no axedwarves or preparation for it. Not looking good

 

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FINAL UPDATE
With the FB about to hit our main stairwell I tried to send all civilians up to the top to avoid the creature. However where the FB entered it split the forges and storage area with at least 6 dwarves all working away at the forges. As the FB entered the stairwell an offduty crossbowman and turkey (yes a turkey) started attacking the FB. The FB was staying at range firing it's frozen spittle at the marksdwarf. The marksdwarf was deflecting the spittle with his shield while firing bolts at the creature. The turkey pecked at the FB occasionally latching on. With the FB distracted by the turkey the marksdwarf managed to get enough shots off to bring it down

With the creature dead, I quarantined the entire fortress to make sure the blood wasn't infectious, as a stonecrafter managed to get hit by the spittle and bruised his leg. After a few days spent in quarantine, I didn't see any signs of infections and the fort was freely open again.

More work began on the glass fortress and the cavern entrances were improved with fortifications protecting the start in case many more FBs got stuck on the first door. Our dwarven merchants visited our fort and brougth in total:
- Beer/rum
- Seeds
- Blocks
- some rocks
So in basic terms, utterly useless. Hopefully next year yields some better choices of gear

As our fort grows in wealth we will also experience a bit more of this

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This time they've brought mounts. The mist generator shaft was still open so that was quickely sealed as there were flying creatures and bridges were closed to funnel them into our dodgem trap. However...

I don't know how to open that north bridge, either the lever isn't there or it's labelled wrong. So I went to setup a new lever and tie it to the bridge but spring hit and it's someone elses job to fix.

You know how I said that I had nominated myself but Tuerlinx got the barony? Well it seems my dwarf complained and instead of stripping Tuerlinx's barony we both got one :rofl:

Double the nobleness. Double the mandates
As you can see the mayor has mandated a billion cabinet in his dining room. Do we have billion? We do but not enough, we can't have an easy going noble can we? So I've decided to seperate the barons into 2 seperate areas. Tuerlinx gets the old fortress and midget_roxx gets the new glass fortress

And so ends my turn. The next foreman will have to deal with the siege and seal up the mist generator properly (currently it's a locked door). I'm also thinking we should stop the waterfall to save on FPS since it's slowly decreasing, I think it would be ok to use DFHack for this since it's an annoying having to pipe all that magma just to stop a waterfall flowing. Military is looking good, we've got a couple hammerlords and 4 swordmasters and our xbows are proficient. Just need to do something about all those damn children

 

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