[Flipside]

Try hitting 'M', going to the squad details using 'V', and make sure they are set to off duty, activated soldiers won't train whilst they are on duty, they will just stand guard.

[qazwsx]

Only started this game a couple of weeks ago, still on my fist fortress, (It's actually surviving!) I've really got into it though. IMO the worst part tends to be nobles, with their ridiculous mandates and demands...
I kill them off by assigning a room to them, then locking the door when they enter, causing them to starve to death >_>

-- The Fortress --

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-7671-cryptcrescent

The water cascading down into the main passageway may seem a little weird, but the mist created gives dwarves a happy thought, it also doubles as a way of getting water down to my farming level, I'm currently in the process of building screw pumps in order to bring the water back up one level to make the floor muddy and suitable for crop growing.

[NGTM-1R]

Until you're building pointless doomsday mechanisms like Headshoots' WEAPON or Boatmurder's Project **** THE WORLD...

(I call mine DOOMSDAY. It's a three-tiered mechanism to flood the fortress and drain it again in the event of Hidden Fun Stuff.)

[qazwsx]

Haha, this fortress doesn't have magma or underground lakes, I'm surviving on a large supply of surface-dwelling trees >_>

[FireSpawn]

This game is EVIL. But so, so addictive, it's like crack but worse for your mental health.
I was on my n^th fortress actually got past two winters and then a large portion collapses then it gets attacked by undead!
By all rights i should have stopped, but...i....just can't leave it alone. Is there like a detox clinic for this game because all my others are sad i left them alone for so long.

[Colonol Dekker]

I have never got into this. . . . Can't explain why, the graphics etc just don't grab me.

[Flipside]

There are no graphics that could sufficiently represent the short, violent, mentally un-hinging episode that is the life of a Dwarven colonist

[BloodEagle]

One of my dwarves tamed a roach. 

[Pred the Penguin]

What's it supposed to do?

[BloodEagle]

It seems to be stuck in an animal trap, now.

I can't imagine the how or the why of this occurrence. 

[FireSpawn]

Was he a rasta-dwarfian? because if not, you should feel ashamed that your dwarfs must resort to dru-OH, a roach as in the insect! My bad

[BloodEagle]

Hark! I have made a discovery!

Not only are cages watertight, but they come with built-in oxygen scrubbers! Seven unruly goblin warriors are now trapped in a watery abyss, for all eternity.

[BloodEagle]

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First volcano run:

There were only three dangerous monsters (fire-imps) on the map at the start.  In an attempt to stop the threat early, I decided to wall-off / ceiling-off the mouth of the volcano.  I didn't expect the imps to move quite that quickly (3 z-tiles in as many rounds).

My mason was killed in the fiery blast, his corpse still burning as I type this.  His death seems to have triggered a rather amusing incident.  Apparently, one of my dwarves (the carpenter) didn't like two of my others (the trapper and woodcutter), and the death of the mason caused him to snap.  He throttled the two dwarves near instantaneously.

Okay, that kind of sucks, but I can roll with that punch because they weren't doing anything important.  Unfortunately, my grandmaster miner (my only miner) just happened to be the best friend to one, and lover to the other.  She is now chasing the carpenter around, with the only job listed as 'attending a meeting'.  Now nothing is getting done, and my only other mason (the carpenter) is about to be murdered by my miner.

So, yeah.  I predict a complete downfall within a few turns.

[Dr. Pwnguin]

I had a Dwarf-Fortress going for a while, got pretty intense with some beautiful inside-architecture. However, one of the Dwarfs went kinda crazy, kill two soldiers with an axe and walked into the middle of a battlefield , then drowned himself :/

[DarkBasilisk]

New version. Go get it.

[Wobble73]

Of what and why?


Link plox!

[Ransom]

This is what is best in life.

[BloodEagle]

They updated on the first of April?   

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I had an idea. 

I have an underground river in one of my cities.  But rather than simply have a pump chain set up to flood the lower section of the map, I'm thinking of building a huge water tank in the air.  It will be supported by numerous spires, and all of the drains (see: the entire floor) will be covered in lever-triggered hatches.  I'm thinking it should be at least five levels high.

[LordMelvin]

I had an idea. 

I have an underground river in one of my cities.  But rather than simply have a pump chain set up to flood the lower section of the map, I'm thinking of building a huge water tank in the air.  It will be supported by numerous spires, and all of the drains (see: the entire floor) will be covered in lever-triggered hatches.  I'm thinking it should be at least five levels high.

I had the same idea! it's like an environmentally conscious boatmurdered!

[BloodEagle]

My original mayor was replaced, and the new one keeps mandating the construction of cages.

I have to admit, I'm growing concerned.