The first few times that I tried to start with a reclaimed fort it was pretty small / empty / not interesting at all. But this time ! Omg so many objects, made from various metals?!

First time I have a whole fort like this ! (and I didn't showed it all)

After reclaiming a fort full of treasures / metal objects / Artefacts etc I pleaying something like, what? 5 minutes? And then I got this message.

Apparently, the previous occupants had discovered the circus? And I don’t even know where the entrance is, it seemed to me that they had stopped at a lava lake.

I just started and my dwarves have no training so... Yup, RIP.

Finally obsidian and marble museum is finished :)

Also, pretty sure I fished the whole ocean out of shells, but I'll cross that bridge when all the armor breaks down

(no mining, no farming playthrough)

After years of trying to play / understand DF and bouncing off , it finally clicked for me and i was playing my first "successful" fort the past days non-stop. After surviving many sieges and forgotten beasts over 13 years the "child-tantrum-brawl" happened i have so much read and heard about and now i can say "i know how you feel"

Maybe its "normal" or not but the actual disaster was not even the child that started it all but another one (screenshot) , the 4 year old would not stop , continuing his rampage and acquiring legendary fighter and striker (the one undead punching bag helped surly) until he had to drink and eat

i know the fort could very likely continue , but ill probably retire it and come back in 14 years time , when this legend is a grown man and rdy to redeem himself (or .. something)

thanks for reading and please excuse me now, cause i cannot wait to strike the earth once more

>Be me, Tun Dorenunal, novice mason
>Was mining
>Was possessed
>Went to a Mason workshop
>Worried everyone in the city of Angels
>Made a masterpiece of a weaponrack

Mind you this happened after the siege of the seven cities, where 3 dwarves died, one baby fell into the river and died after, because the guy who cut the tree cut it onto himself with the baby on his other hand.

So I do not know if the ghosts are calling me out.

*ghost whispers*
"Skill.... issueeeeee... and Take... this... weaponrackkk... ...youAbsoluteNoob-"
*sudden cut off*

Imma take it for granite and assume that's the scenario.
I don't want to be haunted by my teammates man, buncha backseaters, I already buried and slabbed them.

I made my first mod. After seeing the changes to dyeing on clothes I wanted a similar simple system for coloring pottery. This allows glazers to create 24 new glaze colors and mix them to create 17 more. All colors have a basis in real mineral and oxide glazes with my favorite being turning pitchblende into fiestaware radioactive red glaze.

I would love feedback on the mod as I try and refine it.

Details

Base glazes — one ingredient each

Mixed glazes — a full bag of each parent → two full bags

Mixing is order-independent, and both recipes work at the magma kiln too. Glaze value carries onto the item through the GLAZED improvement, so a gold-lustred statue is worth a lot more than an ash-glazed one.

DF mobile in portrait mode. Yes it's clunky. Yes it took way too much time to set up. Yes it was worth it.

Winlator on Android with custom portrait resolution. Screen Rotation Control to force orientation.

No idea when fps death will kick in, but it's been great for a 1x1 embark on the go

Feathered daemons they are!

This episode, we celebrate killing the Bison Brute Queen by holding a festival to let the vampires get new gear and clothing. Come and see if we can keep the dwarves locked up, in the Festival Of Lords And Ladies!

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Fight 4A: General Doom vs. Marchae March
Fight log: https://pastebin.com/nQmc9BaJ

General Doom (managed by Detyan) marches at a stately pace into the arena, his belly protruding before him. The dodo man has shed much of his former armor, and in its place, now wears an adamantine helm and gauntlets, to protect his most valuable assets. With his head and weapon wielding hands secure, how will the flightless bird man compare to his distant cousin, who wields his own adamantine crossbow?

Marchae March (managed by Eris235) soars out into the arena, a new adamantine crossbow gleaning in his talons. Against WASP, the archaeoptryx man revealed a previously unseen level of brutality, pummeling the jumping spider woman to a pulp. His mean streak seems to have only grown then, as the battling bard flaps overhead General Doom, belting out “Everyone knows dodo men are fat waddling dolts/By the end of the day, your feathers will adorn my bolts!”

At the ring of the bell, the two gladiators simultaneously fire their shots, as blue bolts of pure adamantine fly through the arena like lightning between duelling gods! Marchae March is the first to reveal his mortal fragility though, as a shot to his leg from General Doom knocks him out of the air and to the ground. Appearing more stunned than injured though, Marchae March fires in return, and his razor sharp bolt slices open General Doom’s vast stomach! Ropy intestines begin to slide out among the gushing blood, and as the General struggles to stay on his feet, another bolt takes him in the right thigh, causing him to collapse in pain as his leg gives out. A third bolt strikes the dodo man deep in the chest, and his limbs seem to go numb, as he drops his bolts and crossbow.

The crowd can only watch as the dodo man tenaciously remains in the fight despite his numb limbs, as Marchae March continues to shower him with adamantine bolts. As the poor dodo man begins to resemble a blue hedgehog more than a flightless bird, he finally collapses to the ground, and does not rise. Congratulations on your victory against a fellow tenacious bird man Marchae March! But who will your opponent for the finals be?

Fight 4B: Guy Ape vs. Junior
Fight log: https://pastebin.com/RT5ZhJAp

Guy Ape (managed by u/TotallyClueless69) pauses in the shadow of the gates for a moment. Instead of being shoved out of the gates by grumpy guards, he seems to have a rattlesnake woman wrapped…rather tightly around him. Hm, didn’t know they could be constrictors like that. As Guy Ape finally steps into the light, the crowd cheers as his new steel armor shines, lifting up an adamantine longsword to catch the light. It seems that he has finally found something (or someone) worth spending them on!

Opposite him, Junior (managed by SlitherPapi) seethes with barely restrained rage. Those unlucky enough to be wandering near his dwellings in the last week have heard his rants about “probability”, “rizz” and, “maximizing his canthal tilt” among other strange arcane mutterings. The pond turtle man clutches his pale metal crossbow in a white knuckled grip, and seems only too eager to use it.

And use it he does, right as the bell rings and Guy Ape the leopard man attempts to close the distance! A pale metal bolt draws first blood as it strikes his left forearm, spattering blood onto the arena floor. The ghostly projectiles continue to sail through the air into the oncoming leopard man, tearing holes and rents into his steel armor. Despite the onslaught though, Guy Ape closes to striking distance with the terrified Junior, whose eyes appear wide as dinner plates. Drawing back his sword, he first hews into the pond turtle man’s belly, his sword easily cutting into his shell, before Guy Ape cuts off Junior’s right arm at the elbow.

The pain only seems to feed the vicious pond turtle man though, as he clutches all the tighter onto his crossbow with his other hand, resetting it as he attempts to dodge the blows of Guy Ape’s humming blue sword. Two more bolts strike Guy Ape hard in the right side of his chest, and he begins to wheeze as he stumbles after his bleeding foe. The rapid flurry of bolts appears to be too much for Guy Ape’s steel armor, as the mortal material yields to the divine. Another bolt punctures his left side, and the breath seems to catch in Guy Ape’s chest, as he collapses to the arena floor. The crowd can only watch in silence as Guy Ape’s lover sobs against the arena portcullis, while Junior slowly approaches the downed, but not yet defeated, gladiator. Placing the tip of his crossbow against Guy Ape’s battered helm, Junior glares at the sobbing rattlesnake woman. With a smirk, he pulls the trigger, and secures his place in the finals.