The local necromancer sent an army of 300 or so to siege my fort. It would appear as though the experiments he sent do not have bones. I noticed in combat that my warriors were always bruising or tearing muscle with their blows, with the finishing blows saying they "bruised the brain" but never "jammed the bone" into it. Their rotted corpses leaving behind only scales and feathers confirms this. Coincidentally, this makes cleanup a breeze since they leave behind less clutter. It also adds a new level of horror to the idea of necromancer experimentation in my head.

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After the great invasion of rodent man, there is only one dwarf left, locked in the inn, trying to lose herself in alcohol.
This is not my first fort or smt, but I think that this pic goes hard
if you want to ask some questions (for example, why do we have a sock on a display) feel free to ask, I still have more screenshots and more stories to tell

How do I get seeds from a farmers shop or still to a dedicated stockpile when the workshop is set to dedicated stockpiles only?

My issue: Seeds are not hauled from the farmers shop to the seed stockpile. The Farmers Shop is linked to the following stockpiles
Import: "empty bags", and "Quarry Bushes"
Exports: "Rock Nuts" and "Quarry Bush Leaves".

I have a question. I love df and i love the adventure concept. After you get a described location of a creature, beast or bandits. How do you navigate through the map, since it only shows a town and some smaller other things. When i want to find a named location and i cant just open the whole map searching except me traveling randomly.

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Usually the FB are rare and unique, so I will use dfhack to teleport them to somewhere I wall offed to preserve them. Otherwise my 40 Axe lords will shred them in seconds. But this world I started few days ago, starting at year 100. We already have 23 FBs visited in 9 years. I guess it's time for our dwarves to build up the Pseudomonarchia daemonum. PS: non of them worth a fight, I am waiting something made from steel or iron.

I wonder will they join the debate when the scholars are pondering on topics

This song samples DF around 1:30 in (i think) and its just epic to put on when your mountainhome is getting sieged for the final time. Just wanted to put it out there for people who might be into it

Just want to share the FUN. Details are here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dfworldgen/s/MmnF8msedE

I had some requests for the legends info on the necromancer liaison I encountered in year 1 of a new fortress. This file is from a second game in the same world. In the second game I got an alert saying the liaison would not meet with me and she left as soon as she entered the map. I think it must be because in the second game, I had no corpses for her to raise? The merchants with the liaison traded with me as normal, so not sure what will happen next time she visits.

Here are images from the relevant legends screens. Seems like she is the only necromancer in the Mountainhome chain of command. The king and others seem to be normal dwarfs.

I think she began plotting turning to the dark side after losing the (rigged?) spear throwing competition in year 4.

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For a while, I have been trying to find the full 500 year Archcrystal pdf or a link to the story, but my search has proven unfruitful. Any assistance would be appreciated.

I'm year 58 and I started at year 55. I have a Barony and out of nowhere one of my dwarves became the king.

Is this really rare? It just seems like almost an endgame thing to happen.

Either way it's sick, and will make the lore of my playthrough all the more interesting.