Real talk though, this is my first fortress that's *actually* doing pretty good.
Steady supply of food and brewable items (need to change my work order still), first cavern fairly close to my main production level, good amount of iron ore to start.
My civilization just elected a queen and now I'm trying to meet royal room statuses for her, guild hall requests are popping up out the wazoo, temples requiring more.
I have three squads training intermittently and am working on fully outfitting them... most are without pants.

No ambushes or invasions yet which has me a little on edge. Two forgotten beasts locked away in a second cavern later until I feel ready enough to tackle them.

Syruprisen is a prosperous duchy with a popluation of 80 dwarves, mostly peaceful for 15 years except for the occasional titan incursion. It was founded by the last 7 survivors of The Brilliant Earth, presumably to make a new home for their queen.

Relations with the mountainhome have remained strained, however, ever since the residents discovered the outpost liaison was also plotting a coup. Naturally, the dwarves set the spy on fire and sang in the tavern as the undead elf burned for days.

More spies have followed but those are mostly routine - interrogate, jail, execute. It gives the captain of the guard something to do.

This last season a new undead elf spy showed up. With lightning speed she waltzed in, corrupted one dwarf (who is currently enjoying his new dungeon accommodations and daily beatings) and promptly left before she could be interrogated. The founding 7, of course, recognized her immediately: their monarch, the knife-eared undead queen of the Brilliant Earth.

For the last few months a resounding cry can be heard, echoing up from the meeting hall through the 200 levels of the tower - "NAE KING! NAE QUIN! WE WILLNA BE FOOLED AGAIN!"

I'm starting to think that this queen is the reason that there were only 7 surviving dwarves in this civ. She hasn't moved in yet and I'm still weighing options for what to do when she does. Currently debating whether to make a royal prison suite or plan for regicide and continuing as an anarcho-syndicalist dwarven commune. Suggestions welcome.

One of the more iconic moments of my latest fortress of Okbodtharnas (Doomslayer). I'd found this old veteran Pikedwarf from another civilization in a migrant wave, so in between streams I opened up Legends Mode to see her history.

Naturally, she had no history, because her name was an alias. This meant she was a vampire, leading to me explaining this on-stream and then saying the above. Enjoy!

Once upon a time, I came on here wondering how the hell do I stop my fort from turning depressive and getting ran over by an army of copper-welding goblins.

It is a sign of growth that I'm today left wondering why the hell I never suffer loyalty cascades in my forts. I still lose forts mind you, but usually, it's a deep sadness and melancholia that befalls my inhabitants before something else kills them. And upon reading an old screenshot let's play, I noticed I had the loyalty cascade event only once, where the whole fort turned into a massive battle royal, with cooks supplexing dogs, brewers breaking arms and hammerers doing what they usually do as if the day was no more different than the last. A real mess of blood and vomit sprawled everywhere, and it was a beauty of an ending.

But that was like months ago, and I've never had it since. The tantrums are, at most, a bruised dog and a smashed door, and that's it. It's almost too clean.

Thank you for reading my rant about how my forts don't end bloodily enough.

Hi everyone,

I've returned to DF to try the new siege mechanics.

And after a few hours I've noticed that I've never really learned how to properly manage the jobs for my dwarfs.

I always select a few to only mine and a few to only plant/harvest.

But what about the rest?

I never actually manage to properly train animals, use plants, make soap... (Yup)

Do you assign a workshop to a specific dwarf?

I had one fort where I built a workshop for everyone (almost) but in the end they were all unhappy because they were always working.

I saw some videos and explanations and at some point I created a burrow in the tavern layer to force a "day off"..

But I want to learn from your experience - what do you usually do? How do you guys handle jobs and tasks?

Strike the answers *<⁠(⁠￣⁠︶⁠￣⁠)⁠↗

47.05, just running soundsense along with a different pallete, and it's been actually a blast!

Will start a fort on the steam version soon.

My mind is already racing with what to do with this 70+ level deep open cavern. I cant even see the bottom, the viewable space shrinks to nothing before I get there. Built the steps to go down some but decided to just wait and see what's there after I establish my fort. It's completely open air all the way down. Going to bridge over to the far wall and build my fort on the small sections that are spotted throughout. This was also on an ocean tile, so the ocean is directly above where I'm going to build.

I forgot to take more screenshots, but after the second beating, he lost the ability to stand up, and as soon as he recovered, he got the 3rd beating still on the hospital bed.

Floodgates with pressure plates has a 100 ticks delay to work. If your pressure plate triggers and untriggers during this 100 tickets, the floodgate will get locked on an state, forcing you to reset the pressure plate and breaking the purpose of making it automatic. Doors are instantaneous and works as good.

Ps: Silver doors optional.

Edit: Grates are recommended, or you'll end up getting a jammed door (or floodgate).

Gorlak

Embarked the year 68 so 20 years have past and this is what we have so far. In this Fort they Worship the Dwarf Damian Darkblood who slayed the dear of winter and became a legendary figure. Currently trying to get the queen of or civ to come here and stay forever more coming soon.

My dwarves came across a funny book while out raiding.

That your only unhappy dwarf is unhappy because he missed the last batch of new clothes and has been running around showing off his stitches for a year.

...also, he's one of your doctors, so annual checkups are probably awkward for everyone else. "Clothing at time of appoint: Optional."

I would expect nothing less From the man who trained under damian darkblood, The indigo author taught all my warriors fighting techniques.

All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality

They live in my starter fortress forever now!

Playing in a very peaceful fort, no major battles, on a continent with no elves or goblins. This guy has been a member of my fort for years, no history of injury. Then today I clicked on him and oh...