The real question is, should I start #streaming this game I've been playing for a decade or more, or just post some quick video clips of favourite moments?
Quick clip of forgotten beast getting owned by dwarves, no voice-over:
A minotaur has visited my #DwarfFortress. This is our first visit from such a creature, but I'm hopeful we'll survive. See if I'm right:
"Polder Flees Filltomes" #art #DwarfFortress #kobold
Units → Polder, Kobold Thief → Items → large iron dagger, small kenaf tunic, coating of Polder's kobold tears (right eye), coating of Polder's kobold tears (left eye)
In #DwarfFortress, I've just got iron production going again, so I was expecting that I'd be getting that working right tonight. But looking at this list I think I may need to pay more attention to the soap situation. Join me, if you like:
This also means that when you plan out engineering projects involving redirecting the flow of water, you don't have to wait until there is no water flowing so that you can do your digging/building while it's safely dry, so as to not risk drowning your citizens.
You can just order floodgates and dams built right from the get-go. They'll happily swim out there and build them, provided you've placed a path.
Ah.
It's important to keep in mind that beavers aren't dwarves. Not only can they all swim, they *enjoy* it. So instead of building bridges across streams, all you need to do (and all you should do) is build a stairs down into the water, a path along the riverbed, and a stairs on the other side.
This gives your citizens a mood bonus from having wet fur. Which is not, you might think, a penalty.
In #DwarfFortress, I'm tidying up after the recent elven ambush and maybe working out how to lose fewer dwarves to the next one.
In #DwarfFortress, an elven ambush has arrived just as I was re-building the entrance, which has led to some dwarves' being stuck outside. Let's see how saving them goes (and whether the invaders manage to get run over by minecarts).
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