r/dwarffortress

Just a quick public service announcement.

Given the new siege update has brought some new challenges, I decided I should up my forts answer. When a minotaur came along and was caught in a trap, we decided he could either join us (dfhack: makeown), or die.

He is now the head of one of our militias. And if you make armor sizes for alligator men, the minotaur can equip them. He is now leading many demonstrations, based on his 133 yes of experience) on the proper use of a battle axe and leveling up his own skill.

Next goal is to see how tough a fully armed and armed, legendary axe minotaur is.

As much as I want to capture sharks & merfolk, that dream is on pause for awhile. In the mean time I have been making quick Forts with various starting dinosaurs. I swiftly concluded that Dinos are ridiculously OP. Fun mind you, but easily removes any challenge.

They pump out eggs better than any bird; some are even on par with the reigning egg king, the Cave Crocodile. Even the species that don't have numbers to swarm are still terrifying in combat. Give them war training, attach them to a plebs squad with crappy iron equipment, and watch them successfully raid a Dark Pit of thousands (Clown master not withstanding).

My current fixation is building an Arctic Ocean Fortress with Wooly Mammoths as the centerpiece, but that must wait until the aforementioned update. Until then, embarking with tamed Dinos is a fun diversion. You can steamroll just about any threat from the start, which presents some fun challenges - i.e. Can you defeat the Clown Car using only your Dwarves and war Dinos in less than 3 years?

How have you all been enjoying our new critters?

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I never figured out how to make a proper bug report so I'm posting this here again. As with my post three months ago, Dragonfire Targeting is still bugged. Domesticated Dragons will breathe fire at megabeasts and some HFS entities, however, they will not breathe fire on say, an invading goblin army. Having spent as long as I did to capture two wild dragons and breed them, this deeply pains me.

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So i have NO IDEA how i got so lucky on my first migrant wave on this fort, but 5 of the 7 migrants in my first waves are Adequate+ Weaponsmiths, with 2 of them being Legendary! [I changed their profession with the nickname tool to "Legend Weaponsmith" so i can see it in the units menu.

The first year I had Dwarf, Human, and Elf caravans come by. They all brought the usual items, and I bought some grizzly bears from the Humans. It's been 5 years since embark and now the caravans only bring meat/plants/cheese and whatever I've specifically requested (steel bars, grizzly bears). And now they don't even send diplomats to ask (except the Dwarves).

Why would this be happening? I've given them great trade deals and offerings. I normally buy leather/cloth/grizzly bears when they're brought incidentally, but now it's only food and I'd like more things to buy. Thanks for any suggestions.

Planning to play again come magic update and, yeah, I just really hope that all the most game ruining bugs are fixed by then. Can anyone tell me if they've had trouble with unretiring their old fort or any other behavior related to dwarves getting stuck, frozen or items becoming unusable in fortress mode? Thanks!

I've been playing on and off since around 2007/8 seeing a few things that used to be fairly common wisdom (eg keep dwarves' rooms small, nobles should be treated like scum, always bring a mechanic etc) being overturned in a few different places.

What do you know of that used to hold true that is no longer the case in Dwarf Fortress?

guys ive been avoiding playing df for the past week or more cause of this bug but im only trying ot fix it now since i have no other games to play so im really bored. when i send my squads ona mission only llike 90% of the dwarfs actually leave, the others dont leave and the mission doesnt start until everyone has left so i have to unassighn the dwarfs from the squad to make the mission work but some of them cant be unassighn cause of thier roles or something so i have to relaod or just expel them from the colony,

Hello !
In order to make a long lasting fortress I've tried reducing embark size to 2x2 and population cap to 100, which works nicely enough, however I just only realized that it meant the monarch will never come to my fortress since it requires a metropolis (140+ population) for that to happen, my goal was to try and reach the endgame and achievements with this long lasting fortress, is there any way to edit requirements so that monarch will come ?
(I promise I already have really nicely furnished quarters for him/her)

Edit : I just saw that there was a dfhack command to make a dwarf monarch, that might be a last resort option too. (although I would prefer it to be more natural since I already met the monarch in my last retired fortress)

(No this isn't something I can find in the FAQ or through searching google) I'm just wondering if I entirely missed something about the profession because although mechanisms, traps, defenses, waterworks, lavaworks, etc. are all super useful, you don't need a specialist to set them up.

And yet I've seen in multiple guides on the wiki, youtube, steam forums, and reddit people always insist on bringing a dwarf with mechanic as a maxed skill.