>>1957603
A magnetic cult?

NEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW THREADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Is the archive up?

And can I be told where it is via the medium of links?

>>1957838
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/1917552/

>>1957802
MAAAAGNEEEEETS

Man, what you smoking? You don't make bedrooms out of magnetite. You mine it out and MAKE DAT IRON.

>>1957891
I had a guy make a legendary bed out of limonite once. I didn't know whether I should face palm or cry out of sheer awesomeness. So I decided to do both.

>>1957891
I didn't know there was magnetite at the time. I'm just letting them finish mining it all out before I break down the walls and construct new ones.

>>1957905
"That bed looks AWESOME!"
"YOU CAN'T SLEEP IN IT, IT TOOK ME THIRTY TWO YEARS TO MAKE!"

>>1957906
Leave it up, it'll make a great bedroom for He-Man!

1st Obsidian

They are not my friends.

I thought I had allies here, but they are not my friends. The farmers are in line with them. Now I know why the others look so strangely upon them. They are above them. Only the engraver seems to have power akin to those two.

We had finally finished up half of the rooms and the engraver was delegating to us our beds. When I sleep he is to the right of me and one of the farmers is to the left of me. Last night as I laid myself down to sleep I heard the farmers talking. They speak strangely and often finish each other's sentences, but what I heard scared me. They spoke of the river and its connection to me. They noted that no one else but I in this fortress can see the river clearly. How could they know that?

And they, they are the ones that stopped me. I heard them speak of that event. An event no one else should know, but they know it. They spoke of how they do not know if they can recreate that magic again. That the fortress is getting too large and its will is too strong to bend to a lesser.

How can a fortress have a will of its own? It is but rocks and metal! These things do not think, and yet they speak of the fortress, of the entire mountain range, as one large entity. Slumbering but aware. Amused yet frustrated with the meanderings and diversions the fortress has immersed itself in.

They also spoke of the Engraver as not quite a dwarf. That he is somehow more than any other living creature. 'Not an extension', they said, 'But a child. An ignorant child.' What does that mean?

I am beginning to think it unsafe to regularly maintain this journal. Perhaps... I will think of that later.

>>1957905
I had some one make a bed out of slate. I'm not completely sure how comfortable that'd be, but fuck it it was awesome.

>>1957919
I don't know if magnetite is hardkore enough for He-Man.

>>1957906

But you can't make engravings on constructed walls, so your nobles will piss and moan about their sub-par accommodation.

>>1957989
The only nobles I give a fuck about will have non-constructed walls. Like my records keeper. And He-Man. the rest can go fuck themselves, I need steel.

>>1957989
By the time nobles turn up he'll probably have high level engravers. Besides, he can always just throw some statues or some shit in there to bump up the value if need be.

>>1957968
One of my Dorfs made a table out of gems.

Nothing else. Just gems.

>>1958015

>>1958033
It was a pretty damn good table. It's the kind of table I'd like to own.

I wish my guys would make cool artifacts. I mean, all I've done recently is get about 25 if them slaughter after throwing my entire population at an invasion force of eighty goblins, with all their leaders with them. I do suspect though that any engravings they make now will include lot's of dead people.

>>1958081
Please proofread your posts, that was painful to read.

How did you manage to get besieged before you got a population of 80? And my first sieges are usually about 20 goblins, what did you DO to piss them off so bad?

So far, my fortress's artifacts have been:
A willow crown
A chalk bed
An iron crossbow
A highwood earring
A wolf leather thong

>>1958140
>Wolf leather thong

Sexy.

>>1958140
Does an artifact crossbow have a damage multiplier or would you need artifact bolts for that?

>>1958153
If I remember correctly both the crossbow and the bolts have damage modifiers. Part of the reason ranged is OH GOD GOBLIN ARCHERS

>>1958153
Melee damage multiplier.

Yes, I know. Shit sucks.

>>1958166
WHY DO THEY HATE OUR WAY OF LIFE?

>>1958166
But don't all crossbows do the same damage at range regardless of material?

>>1958179
Because otherwise our way of life would be really really boring.

>>1958184
I suppose. And we'd have less iron.

>>1958153
From the wiki:
>The quality of the crossbow is added to the marksdwarf skill. The material of the crossbow DOES NOT affect the damage done when firing, however it does affect the damage done when used as a melee weapon.

>>1958193
Exactly.
So, an artifact crossbow makes an AWESOME hammer.

>>1958187
And we might have to consider making stuff to sell rather than just gathering all the loincloths.

>>1958219
They pay way too much for those loincloths. It reminds me why we left the Mountainhomes. They're fucking crazy up there.

>>1958187
Goblins > Dorfs

At mining apparently.

Also, I thought that when a Dorf made an artifact he would be reluctant to let anyone else touch it? i.e. he carries it around until the day her dies?

>>1958237
Giant cave spider silk? No matter whose nether regions it's been girdling, it's in high demand.

One day, I'm gonna have a war giant cave spider guarding my fortress. One day.

>>1958328
That was the old version. Artifacts can be used now.

>>1958328Nah, those bastards stole it all from dwarves, how many fortresses full of iron have YOU lost to those narrow gits?

>>1958328
thats a random chance on completion, its fairly rare tho

>>1958470

Jesus christ.

AWESOME.

>>1958470
Mmmm, sounds nice and soft.

If macedwarf slept in it, you'd have artifact buttock marks for posterity.

>>1958491
>>1958529
Yeah, and that bed seems to be the only awesome artifact in the world because every time I find something with an image or is engraved, the damn thing is on it.
Goblins/Humans/Elves/Dwarves loev gold bed it seems.

>>1958470
Now THAT is fit for a Dorf king

>>1958557
Out of curiosity, what happens if your King dies\is murdered\meets an "unfortunate" accident?

>>1958598

Game over. Followed by hot dickings.

>>1958598
I take it you've struck adamantine?

SKULLMURDERED

Oh fuck.
Angricus, did any dwarf happen to migrate FROM your fortress? I think I might've got one.

>>1959353
And here is the product.
Sure, it's fucking awesome but the name is...
Well, disturbing.

>>1959383
I suck cocks. Forgot the pic.

>>1959353
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>1959353
Any magnetite nearby?

I'm going to be paranoid whenever I find that stuff now.

1st Granite

I am going to have to space my entries out by another month. This journal is the last thing that is keeping me sane in this hole in the ground, filled as it is with enemies and fanatics, but my work load is getting increasingly worse. I have been told by the engraver to prepare the other miners for exploratory mining. We are only half finished with the Noble's Quarters and the metal smithing district but he expects us to delve deep underground soon. He pushes all of us hard these days. We have one metal smith, and he is expected to turn our mounds of coal into usable fuel and then smelt as much steel as possible.

We cannot rest. He expects us to dig deep into the ground in search of something. He cannot be looking for more iron, for we have so much of it. It cannot be more coal, for we could power the mountain homes for a year with the amount we have and we are barely a fraction of the capital. He wants something more. Something of greater value than the most precious of gems.

He has told me there is something of great value in the rocks. He will not name it, but I think I know what he speaks of. This place is filled with gems and valuable ore, so I would not be surprised if indeed we did stumble across adamantite but...

But I have heard nothing good come of it. Any adamantite the mountainhomes have is picked from destroyed fortresses. Most of it is lost to forces unnamed. I have always been told that adamantite is the personal bounty of the rocks and should not be taken from it. Perhaps there is some truth to that, but the engraver is confident.

And worst of all, our leader. I cannot say no to him. I can only prepare for what I imagine will be a storm of foul forces and malicious entities.

>I have always been told that adamantite is the personal bounty of the rocks

Fucking love this line, dwarven legends are born here!

Oh, and tiny typo to fix for the archive, Adamatite)

>>1960033

NO U

l2spell fantasy materials

look it up on the wiki

>>1960113
Damn, I did as well.

Searching adamantite linked me to the adamantine page and I couldn't find any mention of adamantite there.

I'm just going to blame my spellchecker.

>>1959565
Yes.
Lots and lots and lots of magnitite.

>>1960168
To be fair, both spellings are used in fantasy and comic books.

1st Felsite

Things are becoming a bit hectic. The farmers entered into some sort of trance or state. I don't know for sure. They were mindlessly walking the halls, carrying objects to who knows where. Our food stores have been low up until now but this was absolutely devastating. If that weren't enough, we had to deal with elves and twenty for more migrants have come to the fortress. All undoubtedly a part of that foul cult. But our food stores could not handle the surge, and our food stores quickly hit bottom. We still have no plump helmets and the alcohol has run dry.

But there is a bright side to this. The migrants brought three more farmers and the other two farmers have finally snapped out of their trance. We have many plump helmet seeds and given their quick growing nature we can hopefully rebuild our food stores. In my downtime it is almost beautiful to watch them work, so devoted and dedicated. Perhaps...

No, their cult is as bad as I imagine it to be. I know the nature of the foul and malign beast they worship and serve. I cannot be lulled into a sense of false security now out of exhaustion.

The Noble's Quarters is rich in gems and ore. More so than initially anticipated. Exploratory mining has been pushed back as we mine out all that we can from this place. That part is my doing. What he wants us to look for is dangerous. The practical uses of gems and ore convinced the engraver, but he still mutters of riches beyond what we have now below the surface. He is becoming increasingly erratic and withdrawn from me. I worry I may lose the closest thing I have to a friend here.

There is not much else to speak of. Another mason has walled himself in, this time while building a mason's workshop. I don't understand why they do that, but I'm beginning to find it a little amusing.

Seeing as there's a thread up for DF.

New player here, found a volcano in a mirthful area with a stream near by and I was wondering two things.

1: Will this make a good site?

2: I know it's a volcano, but where can I ensure there will be Magma?

>>1960604
You see that little wavy red tile? That is where the magma is.

You'll probably want to include the river, since water is nice to have.

>>1960604
Use the umkh keys to move your area over the red lava tile.

>>1960604
Open magma vent = fire imps. You'll have FUN :D

>>1960749
LOSING IS FUN!

>>1960755
Just had to rape the subtlety right out of my joke, didn't you? >:(

Is there a graphical tile set patch for this game? I lost interest in ascii games back when dialup BBS's were all the rage, but the concept of this one intrigues me.

>>1960783
http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.htm

>>1960749

YAY FUN.

That said, whenever I park on a map with an open lava vent I generally bring a general "bitch-dwarf" who is a trained marksdwarf. Ironically, not a single imp attacked me last time but I got harassed by three firemen (which the marksdwarf easily took out but not before me losing two of my initial seven dwarves. My carpenter and my mason :( ).

>>1960749
Yeah I've heard about such things, the magma vent is half exposed above ground in it's own little cave.

Is there any way I can use this to my advantage? Also, any tips on how to design\layout my interior?

>>1960815
Wall it off until you're ready for magma? Getting them in caves like that is great, it makes stopping the imps from getting to you easy.

>>1957989
>>1957997
if you dig out an area you can engrave the floor under it and then throw the wall up with blocks insted of raw stone, i hear doing that is close to if not the same value as a normal engraved wall

>>1960917
Have a legendary engrave engrave the floors, then rewall with Platinum Blocks.

THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DON'T STRIKE ANYTHING INTERESTING IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF MINING.

>>1961016
Oh wow.

So, me fortress is being hacked out of the stone itself right now and I have a few idlers. Should I plunk some workshops outside to put them to work right now or should they do something like smooth walls?

>>1961067
yes

>>1961067
Smoothing walls is a fast way to up their stats. You might also want to have them harvest plants or fish, if you are low on food. Aside from that, maybe make them stone-crafters and start making things to sell to the merchants?

Hay guise, what happens if I kill the King when he arrives? Will I have a massis clusterfuck of grief-spawned murders?

>>1961067
if its just starting, i would suggest get the starting items you would want, 7 beds, a bucket, and a chest/coffer for each dorf. maybe some outside gathering/treecutting. set up the workshops outside if you need, its alot faster than waiting for them to be dug out and you can just take them apart later though if you do want to smooth for value, make a craftdorf workshop also, rock crafts /R gets you alot of value/trading items quick even with an untrained dorf set to do only that (though you want alot of bins)

>>1961078
The regular, non-adamantine King? You'll get a new one. I don't know about the adamantine King; I think he can die without anything special happening as well.

>>1961078
the game starts to put random 0s and 1s to your hardrive

>>1961083
Why do people bother getting dwarves coffers so early? I don't know anyone that starts the economy until much later...

>>1961083
Beds will be fine, bucket can be wood right? Do I have to make bins? Where do you stockpile stone crafts? How long will 100 food stores (that's what status tells me) last? How can I tell the passage of time?

>>1961134
>Is their a god? how do I use Google? How do I shoot web? Hey did we have homework over the summer? Whats a meme?

>>1961134
Bins are nice because you can transport a bin full of stone crafts and such in one go. Not strictly necessary if you have plenty of extra dwarves to do hauling. Bins also mean you require fewer stockpile squares. Stone crafts go in a "finished goods" stockpile.

100 food should last you at least until autumn, probably into winter. That said, get started growing plump helmets by summer at least.

Press 'z' to bring up a page with the time of year.

You guys should make a Skullmurdered page on the DFwiki and link it to the AnoniB board.

>>1961150
>>>Is their a god?
>>Their

How about, how do I grammar? Fuck off

>>1961134
Oh yeah, bins can be made from wood or metal. You'll probably need more barrels before you need bins, though; empty barrels are needed to make booze.

>>1961171
He's asking if there's a god known as their.

>>1961134
Have to? No. Should you? Unholy hell yes. Bins can store a lot of stuff on one square. 10 metal bars can be stored in a bin which takes up one square, or 10 metal bars can be stored without a bin taking up 10 squares.

THE CHOICE IS YOUR'S! MAKE THE RIGHT ONE!

Why did I start the game with 7000 monies worth of architecture? I haven't even built anything yet.

I've got a shit load of murky pools as water near by but I can't find any fresh running water, is this bad?

>>1961276
:D you got hidden fun stuff

>>1961279
your map is hot, it evaporated. unless you have a running stream/aquifer you will need a underground lake for water now

>>1961279
I dug a underground cistern (2 levels) and channeled three or four pools into it, IIRC dorfs get bad thoughts from drinking pond water but they don't get one from a well.

>>1961304
its not the quality of the water, its just that they have a bucket and dont have to lie on the ground face to face with carp to drink

>>1961095
i just list it cause it makes the fucks happy, and your first 2 nobles mayor/sheriff want one anyway
>>1961172
and yes, i forgot barrels on that list, needed for boose and food storage.

>>1961279
Well, this means that any injured people will definitely die. That's all. However minor the injury.
The common cold, they're toast.

>>1961488
Wiki says it's only going to make them unhappy. Anyway, found some silty cavern floors which means I can grow stuff there right? Then I'm set for food I guess.


Yes sir, Musclesteel is turning into a fine little hole in the wall. Once I'm settled in, what do I do?

>>1961518

Duh, bring down the wrath of every man, elf, and goblin in the area.

>>1961518
Anything silty, sandy, or just plain soil you can grow on without having to make it muddy.

>>1961518
prosper, make crafts. increase the value of your fort with doors/statues/smooth shit. get workshops up. get a military(and metal working system) mine for more shit/bigger area

>>1961518
it does make dorfs unhappy to be unaccessible to water, but wounded/hurt dorfs ONLY drink water.
no water=no drink=dehydration=dead

Steel muscle now proudly can boast native copper and Oripment in our mountain! Anyway, how do I look at stuff I've made, like statues or crafts?

>>1961841
go to the related storage they would be in, you can see the statues that arnt placed, and the crafts if not in bins, 'k' highlight and enter if they are. if you have your recordkeeper keeping tabs though, you can look through the stocks screen at all items you got (n scroll to bookkeeper i think then change his setting to all accounts accurate for a while and he counts it all)

>>1962254
Somebody here saved the grindstone made out of chalk?

my dwarves made the best legendary item ever

its was a rose gold warhammer, with sapphire incrusted images of a burning goblin, it also has menacing spikes of platinum.

i have it to my legendary wammerdwarf

Shit, immigrants! Now I have to stop my sweet ass engraving project to make a home for them.

Should they prove a threat to my current dorfs by eating too much and working too little, what can I do to murder them? Can I assign the meeting area over the volcanic vent and watch them walk in?

>>1962402
http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-355-bodypartexplosion
this

My dwarves like dwarves. A lot.

>>1962633
Hey, you got a new puppy!

>>1962633
...Wow. Population density much?

>>1962685
FUCK YA PUPPIES!

HIGH FIVE!

>>1962719

Can you make one of these in Dwarf Fortress?

>>1962748
Oh, and at the moment I have 54 idlers.

>>1962757
yes actually. in two exotic flavors.

I tried really fucking hard to get into Dorf Fortress, it's just too damn difficult.

Spent a good two weeks trying to figure out all the commands, after like 40 failed attempts I finally got a decent upstart.

Dug down into an underground pool, tried to get the silt wet by setting up a channel with a lever.

It fucked up, completely ruined everything, drowned two of my dorfs.

Haven't played since.

>>1962889
a tip for people starting out is turn off invasions, it lets you get the actual mechanics of the game down, that and possibly turning down the max pop cap to 50. less to worry about going on at one specific time

>>1962889
Oh Yeah? I just tried to kill my fortress off because I felt like a fresh start, only my plan failed when I realized that murky pools dry up over the summer

>>1962889
Well, just so you know if you ever try again, silt doesn't need to get wet. Everything else does, but anything that's brown in the embark menu and that your guys dig through very quickly is considered soil and doesn't need any water to farm on. It's assumed it magically gets all it needs.

>>1962889
Pussy.

>>1964032
nearly 3 hours too late

1st Malachite

Our little food crisis has been averted. The food stores were fluctuating between non-existent and transient for all of Felsite and most of Hematite, but they've finally begun to grow. The stills are starting to rumble to life again so soon enough I can stop having to deal with everything while sober. I hope.

Yet things are still going south. We ran into a small chunk of platinum while digging out another district, this time room for a community tomb and a jail. The jail has been finished and the tomb is coming along nicely, both things we'll need if we continue to have these long months of sobriety. But that's all that we've managed to find recently. It's becoming increasingly more difficult to convince the engraver that we need to finish more of the fortress before we begin the exploratory project. I can only hope that the adamantite is either deeper under the surface than anticipated or, if we're lucky, above the Noble's Quarters.

The dreams have started to return. Up until last night they have been more fragments of a vision than a genuine dream. In this dream I am back in the mountainhomes. I am attempting to rest in my bed, lulled by the soft sounds of mining and away from Skullmurdered. But the bed... the bed is too soft. It's not the wooden bed I am familiar with. I eventually give up on sleeping and head towards the door so that I may walk the familiar streets of the mountainhomes only to discover the bed I sleep upon is composed of flesh. The sounds I hear are is labored breaths as it seems to struggle to stay alive. I turn to run through the door and there is the engraver, his face covered in cracks revealing a red sky dotted with stars. He takes my hand and I realize then my body has changed. My skin has peeled backwards in some places to reveal a barely stable watery form. As he touches my hand his body unravels, swallowing all the world inside him.

I hate this place.

>>1964347
oh god, i dont even know what the fuck is going down in skullmurdered anymore...
FUCK YEAH!

>>1964347
Alright.
You're pretty good at Dwarf FOrtress but you're far better at this fiction.

...and now I'm prowling the internet to find me some Dwarf Fortress.

>>1962757
You can build a traditional catapult.
You can build a drawbridge catapult - whether wooden or rock. Or even metal, I am not sure.

Does the glowing pit extend all the way to the bottom level? Could you not collapse the chamber on top of it or dig really deep below, cut into the pit's shaft and seal that tunnel up while you claim the precious admanintium above?

>>1964752
If you have the reveal utility, you can just mine out the squares which don't connect to the chamber and just leave a one tile wall up around it. Kind of cheating, but if it makes you feel better you can kit out your champions in adamantine gear and send them to KILL BY DEMONS.

I never thought I would say this but..
FUCK OFF I DON'T WANT ANY MORE MOODS I DON'T WANT ANY MORE ARTIFACTS SO STOP GETTING SO POSSESSED!
Christ, Toothrot's got all the crazies.

So has anyone made a city beneath the ocean where the Craftdwarf would not fear the censor, where the Butcherdwarf would not be bound by petty morality and where the small would not be constrained by the tall?

>>1965000
yep. Takes MASSIVE pump constructions on the top floor until you build down into the bedrock, or alternatively a tunnel system from the beach under the water which is later collapsed... but building a whole glass structure IN the ocean normally requires you dig a hooooge hole in the beach, build the city in there, then break the wall causing the hole to flood.

>>1965029
This is so awesome.

>>1965029
http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-302-drainedoceanpool

1st Limestone, 1502

I have decided to date this better, for when I die I want some one to know my story.

The engraver has become increasingly frustrated with my putting off of the mining project. We found a small cluster of limonite and the need for a large residential district has been enough, but just barely. I've been putting off ordering the miners to mine out the magnetite deposits, much to the engraver's dissatisfaction but he accepts my explanation of 'residential expansion and stone based instability'. The second half is a load of bull, but I think he may be too busy with something else to properly inquire into it.

He's gotten so busy in fact I've had to turn to one of the farmers for companionship. It's desperate and when I think about it I feel my stomach churn, but I need some one to talk to here. The farmers may hold me in some sort of reverence, I don't know, but they have no problem speaking freely with me now. That alone has begun to spoil my alcohol. It may be better than being universally hated by these cultists, but not by much.

Something of interest happened Galena. One of the engravers was taken by an odd mood. I had heard of such fey moods before but this... this was different. The stories spoke of dwarves possessed by passion and laboring over the production of some artifact with great care. This was different. The engraver wasn't even really present. When the mood came upon him his neck went limp, his head lolling about his shoulders and occasionally being seized by spasming fits as his mouth uttered a demon's name over and over followed by foul passages in forgotten tongues. The engraver ordered a hauler to drop his job and build a craftdwarf's shop. How he could know that is what the babbling mason wanted I do not know, but the second it was finished the mason scurried from the residential district to the shop. He produced a bracelet of chalk, gabbro, and almandine named ódad Lakàl. I have never seen something so foul in my life. The very air around it tastes smoky and charred yet the Engraver looked upon it as an almost holy artifact.

>>1964959
you can turn those off in the init.txt as well. God damned turtle shells killing off all my dwarves.

I just get the feeling that skull murdered will end up being a fine example of a fortress rather than a travesty.

what was the seed for the skull map again?

>>1967034
If the Emperor wills it.

>>1967090
Check the archived first thread. It's one of the early posts.

>>1967034
Adamantite. That'll ruin it if nothing else does.

>>1968112
The finest fortresses are the ones with the most awesome destructions.

Oh, cool. Adamantite. So what's this... huh. A big hole underground. Looks... weird. All sorts of weird carvings and OH FUCKING CHRIST SEAL IT BACK UP SEAL IT BACK--

>>1965000
I chose the unthinkable; I chose.. Dwarf Fortress

>>1965029

you do know DF physics just require 1 square contected to earth to hold up anything. Theoretically you could build the entire fortress above the Ocean with a lever to the support, once you build the entire enclosed fortress you close up and pull the lever dropping your fortress underwater. Most of your Dworfs will die in the fall and the ones that live will probably be a injured and all your workshops destroyed but you would have an entire fortress underwater.

>>1968400
i think constructed walls can be hurt in the fall too, not too sure though

>>1968435
They can. Natural stone, however, can't. So you can get away with this plan if you build the fortress out of cooled magma.

Getting your dwarves to survive the fall, however, is a different story.

>>1968400
I thought that your floors start collapsing once you get more than 9 tiles away from some kind of support.

>>1968453
well if you are building it out of anything becides cristal and gem glass, why even bother

>>1968462
nope, toady might want to make it that way, but if there is at least 1 support, you can dig out a whole mountain

>>1968470
Then you remove the support and the mountain drops on top of your fortress.
WHOOPS.

>>1968521
Yeah. He's not particularly pleased with the current cave in formula, but won't deal with it again until he hast he time to really get it right.

>>1968453
Put your dwarves outside and build the entrance to the fort as a tower that will stick just above the water.

That is the least dwarfish dwarf i've ever heard of, OP.
He should die.

>>1968464
You could use the obsidian to contain an air-bubble inside of which you can build your crystal fortress. I haven't QUITE figured out how you can mine out the obsidian later, but I am sure someone will come up with a clever plan.

>>1966436
Needs more lava tube release system to burn the outer landscape.

Well, what happens then?

>>1969428
you mean in inquisitor's story? he has been playing/writing the fort for a week i think. he is writing it as it happens so we are probablly up to date.

Guys, carve huge area, leave large block, carve fort into block, channel and pump water into the carved out area
to seal it of, DWARF LAKE KINGDOM

>>1969565
Yeah. Every time I finish a two month period I snag a picture of something quasi relevant, save, and write the next journal entry.

does anyone know if water pressure works? is it used like multiple heights of water are released and its the sheer amount that makes the pressureor is it water dropped from a height then freely flows with force? i want to piss off the goblins obviously

>>1970598
Water has 7 levels. If another water level is pushed into that tile, it then becomes 'pressurized' and will spew out another tile in the nearest direction. If it's at 7/7, that more or less means up. Water pressure more or less has to be forced by containing a source of water or pumping water into a contained room, since an aquifer will never produce more water than can be contained without pressure and a river would have to be dammed to do anything like that.

>>1970641
ah sweet thanks, i dont need to build a fancy dropout floor to get it to work then, just a vertical lake

1st Timber, 1502

There has been a birth in the fortress. Were I back in the mountainhomes I'd join the festivities but this child has been born in Skullmurdered. The baby's eyes look dead. I would not be surprised if this place has sucked out its soul while it was in the womb. These people... the event was so somber. I glanced down upon it while digging out the magnetite in the Noble's Quarters. They laid the baby on a makeshift altar in the downpour. It did not cry, it simply stared up in that ever cloudy sky. They made motions, spoke words... they do not hide their vile faith from me. But what am I to do? I am stranded here, subject to their whims. I can only hope to keep on their good side.

And soon that will mean digging for adamantite. The magnetite vein, while massive, has been mostly dug up at this point. The communal areas have been expanded and we have room to grow in the residential district. Though some veins of coal are still only half mined, our coke stores are well into the hundreds and the veins are being mined more to get them out of the way rather than necessity. It is getting harder and harder to convince the engraver to delay the project much longer. Shin save my soul when we mine out that foul substance for there is nothing left I can do but mine and wait until that day we doom ourselves with the ore.

The only other thing of interest that happened in the last two months was the caravan arriving from the mountainhomes. But, just as before, we traded nothing and communicated none. They set up shop and looked ready to receive any trade goods we could provide them with, but we simply have no need of anything they have. This mountain is rich in gems, fuel, wood, and ore. Unless they bring magma with them next time I believe we will ignore them again.

Holy shit, I just got around 17 migrants.

>>1971116
Yeah. Fortress wealth seems to factor into that, and the first few years tend to lead towards explosive growth as your industries get up and running, meaning lots of cheese makers and future wrestlers.