Kale Meanwhile, troglodytes are chilling in my stone industry district, so time to squad up https://mastodon.social/media/-XyGax41N3srEzcCiDA
The dorfs roll down, and @balketh and @RoseArtemis engage immediately (though Rose shouuuuld be making that artifact, and I have nfi how that works at all?)
Yeah, the workshop is still claimed.
Did not know you could force them out of the workshop by engaging them?
This couuuuuld cause some weird shit
Not without a fight, tho, three troglodytes are downed
Found out what happened. @MachineLordZero was downstairs a few levels, trying to take on a bunch of trogs by themselves - took two of em out tho
The dorf on the right in that pic is @katelyn occupying the same space as a troglodyte - they've both passed out on top of each other
Oh no!
We also lost @RoseArtemis in that melee, which means... no artifact forever
We're starting to get to the point in a fort where a lot of really bad 'yeah I fucked that up' things are coming through, and I might restart after a little while longer
It's ok, because we're just washing through more and more lore as we do multiple forts, etc
Restarting is especially tempting since Zero was our main miner...
The traders were actually dorf traders, so I'm having to drag a whole bunch more stuff in.
We've also got petitions! (despite not having a tavern, etc)
Quick free militia, here we come
Petitions are still absolutely flooding in despite our lack of a tavern.
*shrug*
Anyway, we've got heaps and heaps of food so we'll take everyone
We should be wary of any military action soon, though, since it's almost winter
Winter == frozen river == no water to give to the sick == dead
That said, the river isn't frozen yet and I have all these free troops, soooo
Hrm, folks who join your fort via petition aren't available for recruitment into squads.
That's a wee bit shit
Actually getting an itch to move on from this fort - again, there's just a lot of small fuckups that are multiplying out over duration to be annoying
STILL - it's been good. Getting back into it, certainly
We actually got far more migrants (and more petititons), so incarnations for
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We've got all these rando petitioned cits that we have little control over, soooo
Ok, so if you all just form up in the tunnels we can wait to hit it with arrows...
*@Fenreliania runs in*
Oh.
Fuck it, let's just roll with kill orders
Swapping the orders to kill, dorfs pour out of the tunnels and start shooting at the Weretortoise
Doubt this is going to go down well
@antstiller and @scutterman are first to make contact. Ant goes in for melee immediately
Fen did a little damage on the weretortoise, it has a damaged left arm and left leg.
Absolute stacks-on now, which means everyone's basically going to be a lycan after this
'Why don't we have any traps'
Because we really fucked up somewhere and our mason/stone supply broke
Sometimes you'll do something to a stockpile and despite being full, it won't actually let anyone take things from it, hence no mechanisms
Bear@DarkestKale It's easy to mark a stockpile as forbidden or dumped; make sure to check the undump/claim controls, as it'll highlight all instances of dumped/forbidden stuff. Every so often I do a big clear of the map to make sure I'm not screwing myself over with my regular usage of dump/forbid.
@balketh Yeah, just one of those things.
I've also noted in the past that if you have a stockpile FULL of barrels, then sell the barrels (wine!), it doesn't always let you get new barrels into that stockpile
@balketh Either way, Spearromanced had a lot of small issues adding up to big problems - for some reason the dorfs weren't stockpiling food at all, so it was rotting in kitchens, etc
@DarkestKale Literally the saddest reason to close a fort, because its death would be slow and boring. :P
@balketh Yeah pretty much.
Like, I don't mind seeing a fort run into the ground in flames, but this is just 'everything is ok... but it's very sub optimal'
@balketh Like, I started new mason workshops in the lower levels, demolished the one on the surface - then the dorfs are like 'oh the blocks we wanted for the lower level mason workshop are GONE'
For no reason, they just ignored all the ones that were sitting up there
@DarkestKale If you find that's happening, try forbidding the whole lot (usually by stack forbidding or area forbidding, IIRC), unpause, repause, then reclaim that forbidden pile. Usually resets their perception of the objects' accessibility, but may be due to different factors.