Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
No aquifer unless it is hidden for some reason, two miners, a carpenter, a mason, a wood cutter, a grower, and an herbalist/brewer. Two cats and two dogs and the usual general assortment of goods sans an anvil.
Who watches the watchmen?
Always 3:00am in the Filth
It begins!
"But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you." - O'Brien, 1984
Hello!
I admittedly look forward to the fort's beginning, and that I hopefully won't herald its end from incompetency with a shocking adamantine spider forgotten beast with deadly dust. (Is it bad that I'm thinking this could happen?)
"If you have any beefs with Santa, do remember to SETTLE IT IN SMASH!" Quote by Edveed
I have very little (Read: No) experience with the military. so I'll probably not fiddle with that much beyond creating my habitual squad of Marksdwarves in blue livery.
I also appear to be missing a visual C file "MSVCP140.dll" from my laptop and where I haven't used this enough to install all but my most basic defenses I'm a little loathe to start digging around and installing things I find online...
It'll all be moot in about 3 days anyways so It probably isn't a problem.
edited 5th Jul '16 10:50:35 AM by Lanceleoghauni
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
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You want this: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145
And sign me up this time. I will try not to doom you all too badly.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Steve and Rotpar shall I assume you are both interested?
Who watches the watchmen?
Impossible Gender Forge
O o o!
Me me!
Add me for a turn.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Since we have a good list going I will roll with this tomorrow and just keep adding folks as they drop in and indicate they want a turn.
Currently Dwarf Therapist is not updated for this version but it is still playable. Hopefully by the time Journey has completed his turn it will be ready or will be shortly.
edited 5th Jul '16 6:16:11 PM by TuefelHundenIV
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wrt dfhack —
Is it acceptable to use it just for things like automated vein-digging that are pure convenience and don't grant any info I wouldn't have found in vanilla?
... okay, let's be real, automated vein-digging is the only reason I use dfhack. :V
e: Oh, and since we're on the subject, I'm still undecided as to whether I'll play a turn yet. (Perhaps surprisingly, the answer to this question is not part of my decision-making process.)
edited 5th Jul '16 5:39:52 PM by billybobfred
she her hers hOI!!! i'm tempe
Overlording the Underworld
Posting to confirm my turn. I will be fully ready to roll soon as I make a new File Depot account.
ETA: Why no anvil? I don't usually start my military in the first year, but it never hurts to be able to build effective weaponry early on.
edited 5th Jul '16 5:39:10 PM by Journeyman
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Journey: I never bring an anvil and trade it for food, seeds, other tools, animals, and of course booze. I then use trade to pick up an anvil shortly after. Force of habit mostly.
Billy: That's right no DF Hack to find anything or mine a pattern. The only thing DF hack is allowed to be used for is the clean up utilities to clean up the map.
Who watches the watchmen?
Hey Tuefel, what year is Flagcarnal's embark? Do you know yet?
I might be catching up on the annals of Jawmetal which I forgot about for Reasons although I was dorfed in it.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Elle: 15th of Granite in 215. In terms of continuity I think it was more or less agreed upon unofficially that time is never quite tracked the same in each fort and it is in a sense of narrative whether or not a fort is a sequel or a historical note.
edited 5th Jul '16 10:08:32 PM by TuefelHundenIV
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Fair 'nuf. So far I've got fodder to give my tenure some flavor of insanity if I want.
...It might be hampered by the fact that I'm not very good at the game but we'll see.
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Don't feel too bad. I am technically playing with a handicap as I am not well versed in handling DF jobs sans Dwarf Therapist but I have figured a way to do it without too much trouble.
Who watches the watchmen?conversely, I've only rarely used dwarf therapist and have always done job assignments manually.
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
I think everyone will be ok. Que sera, sera.
Who watches the watchmen?
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Regardless since I am under contracts, decrees, commands, and no small number of threats I have to put my best foot forward in the name of the temple. Not only to act as an inhabitant but also as one of a series of Overseers.
Our goal is not to merely settle a foreign land but to build a temple there and expand the kingdoms influence and culture via the temple. We were also entreated to ply the trade lanes and to raise a force to defend the temple, the priests, servants, and those that visit and live among its structures.
The temple is not to be a simple affair either. In order to make its presence known to heathen surfacers, according to the high priest, we are to build a portion above the ground that it might shine as beacon. The rest was to be under the earth and stone such as is proper for our people. We have a number of other tasks writ upon a sealed scroll carried in my pack.
As for the other tasks I dread what dictates the temple has placed upon us but we should get a new one to add to the others with every visit of the home nations representative. I am instructed to break the seal on the scroll case and read its contents when I first see our nations own representative. The smile and then leering of the priest only deepens my dread of what I may find inside.
The lands are in a hot and humid jungle. The abundance of trees that bear something interesting such as lychee, date, finger lime, mango, kumquat and coconut. An abundance of food bearing trees. Should make us some interesting dishes and even more interesting booze. The rest of land is covered in a variety of vegetation and animals were seen all the way to the site. As for water there are numerous murky pools which might serve as ample fishing locations something one of the others suggested we expand into a large pool crossed with walled docks or spots to fish from to expand the resource. For fresh water we are fortunate to have found a shallow freshwater brook source.
The top layer of soil is abundant clay and likely not far down stone. We shall take care to seal our buildings foundations and thoroughly tamp the clay and reinforce it with chippings from our stone work to ensure soundness of the surface structures. Especially if they are to be the surface temple that attracts all others to our location.
Right now I have to figure out where we should dig into to find security from the wilds around us and a place to start our home which may be compounded by a surveyor saying somewhere may lie and aquifer. An annoying challenge that we can doubtless overcome.
~TuefelHundenIV 15th of Granite, 250.
Ps. It was advised of me to take note of all the faiths in our number as we set out and as they pilgrimage to our site. I have started by creating a survey of those on the road with me. The others we will worry about later hopefully we won't run into any problems with any faith overwhelming another.
edited 7th Jul '16 3:00:57 AM by TuefelHundenIV
Who watches the watchmen?
Hello!
I am liking how you've started off with a nice journal, and noticing how we'll eventually have more religions seen, I can't help but wonder if we'll get a temple that will allow for sacrifices to be made. A look at the turn order has made me realize also that I am probably the likely first candidate who will get a siege to worry about (With my forts I suffer, I usually wind up with a year three siege, however small).
I eagerly await the next entry in the journals from our current overseer/archbishop.
"If you have any beefs with Santa, do remember to SETTLE IT IN SMASH!" Quote by Edveed14: ... Sorry, I'm still unclear on whether the rule is "you can't use dfhack to do something that isn't easily replicated in vanilla, except cleanup" or "you can't use dfhack at all, except for cleanup".
Always 3:00am in the Filth
Yeah, I'll take a round.
"But don't give up hope. Everyone is cured sooner or later. In the end we shall shoot you." - O'Brien, 1984
Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
Rotpar good to go.
Billy: The second one. DF Hack has some useful clean up utilities and and other tools that can fix other issues in DF.
Who watches the watchmen?
Since it has been a while since our last succession fort it was suggested we start a new fort. So here it is. This is the new succession game.
It was agreed that we should have some sort of goal for the fort. The goal is to build a temple structure that has elements above and below ground.
The Fort Flagcarnal is awaiting a new location due to corrupt save.
General rules.
Turns
The home page and download of the most recent version can be found here.
The Dwarf Fortress home site forum and community can be found here.
Tvtropes thread on this game and our little slice of the DF community can be found here.
*When the Dwarf Therapist utility updates and becomes available I will post a link here.
Player List <Tentative>
Tentative List
Tuefel Hunden IV
Our fort.
Solonsheced-Flagcarnal
Our location.
A sandy cliff top with a river and a tall water fall. Ample trees of fruit and other goodies as well.
See here.
Watch this space for updates.
edited 26th Aug '16 4:03:44 AM by TuefelHundenIV
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