I've accepted several human monster hunters and entertainers as guests. For the monster hunters I removed their monster hunting labour and trained them a metal working skill until they applied for citizendship.

Using Dwarf Therapist I checked for their size and gave them two-handed swords, great axes and mauls if they were big enough to wear them in one hand. I sent them to train as "The Long Guard" squad.

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Two females were too small to field a two handed weapon. I consiedered to expel them, but there are some family relationships involved and I didn't want the negative thought. Thus they got spears.

Now I recuited another guest as citizend and checked his size in DT.

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To my surprise, those females are significantly bigger now! She was < 77.500 cm³. Now she can wear pikes one-handed without a debuff. Well, my human spearmaster is going to start over!

After so many years of DF, there is still something new to learn every now and then. And i love it!

(Not that it's hidden anywhere. The wiki is very clear on that topic: Size - Dwarf Fortress Wiki)

My conceit for this fortress was to make the world's first grand library and see how many discoveries I could make, which led to the idea that a grand library should really seek to capture a forgotten beast for study. It took about 11 years of trial, error, and distractions, but I finally caught one for the first time! Probably not the most efficient trap setup but I'm pleased with it.

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Totally playing with it, wish me luck.

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Any way i can change the color scheme or ascii tileset in the steam version? Thanks.

Minkot was an odd dwarf. Shorter than normal and while to the untrained human eye just as stocky as any other of his kin, any dwarf could tell he was actually quite thin and fragile.

He was a mess of a dwarf, his hair sticking every which way, his shirt covered in ale and broth and his pants barely held up by a cord, his beard however was neatly tied into twin braids, jutting down from his chin as he cackled by a stone lever, his hand upon it while he looked over the ledge towards the drawbridge watching the goblins skittering through the fortress entrance, each carrying some format of crudely made weapon.

"Icky little gobbies gonna go splat"

Minkot cackled out as he watched the first of the goblins creep their way onto the drawbridge, he waited until a dozen or so were there before pulling the lever, the stone cool on his hand and the screams of goblins ringing in his ears.

The goblins plummeted down into the dark depths below, their screams echoing against the stone walls until distinct splats could be heard. Green bodies covered in deep crimson blood sitting at odd angles with spikes piercing their flesh, their bones sticking out from their skin due to the impact with the crude stone floor.

Minkot gazed down upon his work and smiled with glee as he counted.

"One little two little three little gobbies

Four dead five dead six dead gobbies

Seven scum eight scum nine little greenies

I killed them all"

Minkot was quite proud of his genius, his song a masterpiece of the death and destruction that he had wrought upon the goblin scum with the simple pull of a lever but it reminded Minkot he was not finished, no, no, so many more to kill.

The bridge slowly slid down as the lever thunked into place, the wooden bridge giving the goblins a way to the doors of the dwarven hold yet again, and like the imbecilic fools they were the goblins took it without hesitation, screeching with joyous rage as they charged, running over the bridge towards the large gem encrusted doors of Migruriton.

Gleeful cackles joined in with goblin screeching and the green creatures flailed as they fell, trying to find something, anything to grab onto but they were simply too far from the walls to even reach. More broken and battered goblins joined their comrades, dead in the pits of Migruriton's dry moat.

Minkot smiled and clapped as he watched the three remaining goblins over the chasm, a sick, sinister smile plastered on his face as he watched the remnants of the goblin raiders flee from his home back into the wilderness beyond.

"Bye bye little gobbies. I do hope you die!"

He cheered after them as he waved like an earnest child who had just learnt how to say hello. The goblins did not reply and Minkot's furious clapping and jeers carried through the halls, drowning out the sounds from below.

Bones torn, crackled and mangled as they were, the goblins were most certainly dead. But that did not stop them from rising again, their stumbling lifeless husks tearing free of the spikes, walking, stumbling or crawling towards the wall and they began to climb.

It was a simple arm that reached the ledge first, ceasing Minkot's jeers as his eyes went wide, his face paled and his feet tried to get him to turn but he stumbled and fell, his hand reaching out and he feebly he pulled the lever, the lever which he had used to doom so many goblins to death, the drawbridge falling and raising as Minkot uselessly pulled the lever again and again even as the hand began to crawl over him, leaving a viscous trail of blood in it's wake.

Soon the hands brethren joined it, a small force of undead goblins clambering over and beating Minkot with whatever they could, weapons, fists or stumps it mattered not as they pummeled the dwarf to death and began to descend to the depths below. Into the hallowed halls of Migruriton.

Thus fell Migruriton and a lesson was learned, arrogance will spell your doom.

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Is, uh, is this normal? For an emu to camp out in 7/7 water? (Ignore the floorplate, it's to auto-close something nearby when I flood this pit to a certain level).

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I guess they didn't have enough gods to give everyone one thing each

I also took the opportunity to read up on the King. By the in-game character card, but also in Legends Viewer Next.

Turns out he's a bit of a rascal with a bit of a strange history. He was a cook, then a poet, then when he became the King he moved to the fallen capital Workerseye. The capital had fallen years before and was a hive of sin and villainy. But, the King didn't care, he ruled for years before moving to my fortress years later.

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So... i made a mod with a custom enhanced war hammer, this is my first mod and i would like a feedback on how it looks like before i upload it. Is it too weird? Too fancy? Too shitty? Too immersion breaker? Let me know. I'm not a modder and certainly not an artist, but i hope to get there one day.

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apparently if your fort has an essay on a subject and your scholars read it they will suddenly begin writing their own essays, however I noticed this only happens with essays, novels and other book forms don't seem to be affected by this, I'm currently doing an experiment to see if a dwarf can write an autobiography if I make its life exciting enough or at least making it live through a lot of events that are commonly placed in books.

Did history look about the same as a younger world or was the world very different. My computer crashes when trying it even when making a pocket world. Curious to hear your stories.

A few things before I begin:

• This is the second reddit post, so bear with me in the format.
• The creature of this story is from the More Vanilla Creatures mod (steam version).
• I'm going to do as many egg jokes as I see fit, so that's a warning.
• I think the story may be a bit "gore" (normal DF stuff, but I warn you just in case).

Now, let's begin.

The start

This story starts 2 (in game) years ago, when I arrived at my new fort in my newly created world. The first thing I did, as I always do, was to place my war dogs on the entrance to guard it from any brave creature stupid enough to try to enter and steal anything. I always make my entrance by digging deep into a volcano, so this isn't usually the case.

However, this time, something happened. A mischievous egg woman, Mukar the brave, was attracted by the smell of my plump helmet stockpile. Driven by hunger, she decided to move her eggstatic body from whatever dirty hole she was lying in towards my fort entrance. (Now, as you may already know, dogs tend to get... friendly with creatures trying to steal from you, so this wasn't a very smart move).

Slowly, but surely, she began walking to my fort. Meanwhile, I, completely oblivious as I was making an obsidian farm, wasn't able to prevent what was about to happen...

Tragedy

It was destined to happen, and so it did. Blinded by her hunger, the egg woman committed the eggstupid mistake of trying to enter through the front door and... A COMBAT alert!

Egg yolk! Egg yolk everywhere! It was too late... too late to save her! When I got the notification I immediately paused the game, fear, confusion. What was attacking my dogs?? Another annoying ent?
And that's when I saw it... her poor poor body, mutilated (see pic). In an instant, in less than a second, her weak egg body didn't stand a chance.
Her egg libs... gone, her egg tongue... gone. Her egg eyes, egg mouth, egg ears, everything, everything gone.

And there she lied... inert. And so, I, saddened by the tragic loss of an innocent being decided to... Continue making my obsidian farm since she was already dead.

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Or was she?

The Revenant

First a day, then a week. And before I could notice, a whole year had passed. My fort, now with a working obsidian farm (and still without rooms because I don't know how to prioritize stuff) was growing. My population? Increasing. My wealth? Wealthy.

In the summer of the 51 year, I decided to start preparing my defenses. Some cage traps would do the work. And so I placed them and continued with my business. But then, months later... something happened. Something strange.
One year and 9 months after the incident... An egg woman? In my stockpile? Inside a cage? No, it can't be. Or that's what I thought.

Two years later, there she was, alive and still lacking every single body part. She survived, how? Only Armok knows, but she did. She spent a more than a year crawling in my front door (without me noticing anything). In her incredible misery (and still lacking eyes), Armok blessed her with one last chance, she had accidentally fallen into my traps, an opportunity.

The curse of mortality

Desperate to fix my mistake and repair the damage done to this poor creature, I started to investigate. With the help of the Kitfox discord server and motivated by a lack of ethical codes (and dfhacks) I came up with a plan: I would make her a citizen and move her to my hospital... that would work right?

It didn't. Her wounds healed into scars, limbs and parts that would never be again. She was no longer capable of being healed, so she didn't even try to go to the hospital.

Desperate and feeling guilty, I started to investigate. That same winter, I got a necromancer dwarf (hell yeah!) as a citizen. Could I make the egg woman into an undead egg woman?

The answer was no. Using my brain, I remembered that "object" people didn't leave a body behind, only objects (in this case an egg I guess?). And so killing her and bringing her back was not an option.

Complete defeat.

An epic end

Now is when I ask everyone reading this for ideas. Because if I can't heal her by the end of this year, I will be forced to end her suffering...

Throwing her into my volcano to make fried eggs because that would be cool as heck, and because that's what the great egg in the sky does with every sunrise (according to the "official" egg religion I invented just now).

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The end.

Basically, if anyone could please give me ideas of how to heal her (I don't know if limbs can regrow, but she needs those), that would be fantastic. My plan, if I don't succeed, is to throw her at my volcano and film it to make a short sad movie in her honor. (I would make a comment in this post with said video or another post, I don't know what's the preferred option).

Biting stuff in Adventure mode is a treat

I snuck up to a giraffe and bit it in the throat

The thing then pushed me away, ran away at max speed and bled out like maybe 20 steps away

Getting a good hit on a naked human was way harder though, may have been because that lady had some military position and therefore pretty decent skills (she started it, it was self-defense)

Also when I bit a hippo the damage was obviously superficial and shaking didn't do anything, so I actually used my halberd until it was exhausted, then I wrestled its neck and suffocated it

I can understand why but it's kinda sad that I'm not allowed to use my teeth to latch onto a throat and then start suffocating the enemy

Just wanted to share this old fun gif. This is what happens when you pull the lever and close a bridge with people on top of it. Fun way to deal with invaders. I love this game so much lol.

Was working on a graveyard after some FUN. Thats when i found Dastot Glovebeans sleeping on top of the grave of his friend. His recent thoughts are

"He feels lonely after being away from a friend too long"

"He feels lonely after being unable to make merry for so long."

"He is uneasy after being unable to aquire something for too long."

Wasnt ready for a Dorf to hit me in the feels

My dwarf found a kid dead from dehydration above a tree. Never could imagine that kids could climbed trees and be "trapped", not knowing how to go down, lol.