TVTropes Dwarf Fortress Succession Fort 4: Sparklebulwarks

Welcome to Tattoopaints. Ignore the thread name, we couldn't get that town to transfer. The rest of the thread is everyone's posts, this is just the list of players.

So far the list is: 1. Tuefel Hinden 2. Condorito 3. Durza 4. Gand Aand R 5. Bladebound

Just tell us you want a turn and we'll add you to the list.

edited 3rd Jun '14 12:58:30 PM by Journeyman

SPARKLEBULWARKS. it's like a wonderful happy name. that's a first. I got Angelruin on my last fort.

By the end of the first year we've already had three kobold thieves, a dead dog, and a clothier who's soon to join it. Happy?

There's two of us who've been people'd. You as yourself, and me under the name Mr. Chin. I Personned myself before the game even started, and lucked out that I was the Expedition Leader. How's that for luck?

SPARKLEBULWARS!!!! :O

I am THIS close to suggesting that you mod my hummie to be a legendary musician, and then give him the name Freddie. But that would get weird in a hurry, and I'm sure that I'd have more explaining to do than I'd like to when the wife reads this. :)

So when you got enough people, can you put me down as a hunter/plant gatherer/lumberjack/animal caretaker/farmer? Because I shall not be Condorito the Boozesmith, I shall be Condorito, Masterwork Ranger!

edited 5th May '14 11:50:47 PM by Condorito

It makes sense that the one with the happy name is the one that's not a dwarf fort. because when do happy things ever happen to dwarves in the end?

So, y'all know how our fortresses tend to run into technical difficulties? Well, this one is no exception. My upload speed is jack for something this big, so I've handed the mod files and description of a good embark over to Tuefel and he'll reset us. I'm not giving up on getting my first year out there, but maybe I'll keep tinkering with it and save the files for the next time we do a surface embark.

Because we all should have options, no?

all I request is that I get personed as someone at least similar to the previous personing so that I remember who I am.

I would request the bookkeeper or manager, and also a turn running this place. I already have my idea for the mass sacrifice weapon... I mean, completely harmless and totally beneficial project that will aid everyone.

For some reason, I also get the feeling that an alicorn commissioned this fortress.

edited 6th May '14 11:21:38 AM by Durza

<Looks up alicorn on Google>
<Parsing>
<Parsing>
<Encounters NSFW, cries>

edited 7th May '14 3:36:01 AM by Condorito

This should be fun with Tuefel at the helm. He's already looking for a more hairy embark than the one I started.

Might as well use embark anywhere to start on top of a necromancer tower that's right next to a goblin civ.

What NSFW could you have found looking through alicorn pictures?

edited 6th May '14 12:37:17 PM by Durza

Nevermind, he was looking for something more hairy than "Hey look guys, we're all alone!"

Ironically, that could have referred to either Teufel or myself.

edited 6th May '14 2:09:20 PM by Condorito

You really have to freakin' ask what kind of NSFW stuff a person can find online looking up Alicorn? Or any talking animal for that instance. Rule34 My friends.

don't look up pokemon and rule 34 at the same time. just don't.

did I just singlehandedly kill the thread?

I killed the fort already. :/ We have to do be more "dorfy" to survive. Getting up a basic protected area without burrowing into a mountain takes a lot of materials be they logs or blocks of stone.

The caravan came and I did some trade. There was an ambush after it left for some reason. They killed everyone rather easily. All 12 dwarves were cornered and butchered in the temporary dinning hall and sleep area.

The only way this will work is if we live in caves in the cliffs without burrowing too far down and then building a large protected area in which place buildings.

Go a bit more primitive? A longhouse for sleeping and open aired workshops?

• plays sad tuba* wa wa waaaaaa

Condo: We were pretty primitive as it was. Most of the stuff was made with logs until we could make enough stone blocks. Doors, beds, workshops, floors, and roofs. Mostly because we can get logs more quickly then we can get rock into block.

We can do this but I think we have to accept we are going to live in fortified cliff side caves or even in walled up hidey holes like with Water Burned.

edited 7th May '14 6:16:09 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Yeah, that's why I keep mentioning berming. You can build houses like crazy if you have the hillsides to cover it.

There's also another option . . .

Strip the surface clean within the confines of your settlement, and dig out the buildings. It's mining, but you still live in an open settlement on the surface.

ETA: I've done the longhouse thing, too. I once did a longhouse, and designed the perimeter walls with tombs incorporated. I call it the grave tower. Bottom floor's a coffin-based tomb, and a couple ramps lead up to an archery tower rimmed with fortifications. Just connect the walls, and there you go.

Further ETA: Keep playing around with it until Monday. It's my next day off. Early afternoon I want to see if I can transfer my town's files in smaller chunks. If I can, I guess Sparklebulwarks will go back to my vision. MUAHAHAHAHA-Cough cough-

edited 7th May '14 7:50:12 PM by Journeyman

I have an idea to try that I think will work.

Go for it. Just still expect me to send mine just to see if I can. I'll leave it to you whether the old one gets used or not.

I've always liked the idea of playing in a succession fortress, and my net's always been irksome, so . . . I'm not going to quit.

Ok new Embark on a much more interesting location. We are embarked right next to a road by a bridged river. Again some hills and lots of sand. I am already digging in.

well, the road is a good sign.