Let's Sperg Dwarf Fortress Community Succession Fortress 2020 - YEAR 1 - NEW FORT STARTED!

[Trigger Me Timbers]

The thing that absolutely blows my mind (from the really old days just after 3D) is how absolutely LONG this fort is surviving in a complete shitstorm.

And on an older version. I hope Fragg can get us limping along to another year because that’s gonna be my turn!

also since were all admitting to mistakes we made....

I was the one who put the animal pen/pastor over the farmlands.

God that feels good to get off my chest!

 

[AnOminous]

The thing that absolutely blows my mind (from the really old days just after 3D) is how absolutely LONG this fort is surviving in a complete shitstorm.

Especially considering brilliant "strategies" like how I spent most of my own tenure deliberately murdering 2/3 of the fortress. The concept was that I'd get rid of the weak and the survivors would be a smaller, but stronger group. Well look how that turned out.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

I think it’s the enhanced stress development - in the past when a dwarf flipped it’d immediately cause a tantrum spiral and many would be murderous.

 

[AnOminous]

I think it’s the enhanced stress development - in the past when a dwarf flipped it’d immediately cause a tantrum spiral and many would be murderous.

This particular version of DF has notoriously bugged stress mechanics.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Yeah, it just seems that in current year dwarves end up with crippling depression more than they turn into wielding maniacs.
Could just be my play style tho - I have never had a starvation problem in any of my forte and always went nuts with engraving.

 

[AnOminous]

Yeah, it just seems that in current year dwarves end up with crippling depression more than they turn into wielding maniacs.
Could just be my play style tho - I have never had a starvation problem in any of my forte and always went nuts with engraving.

Smoothing/engraving all dwelling rooms has an enormous effect. I also always try to pick rooms with precious substances as walls, so the engraving is even more pronounced. Once you get a couple Legendary engravers, the effect is enormous. I also give them furniture made out of things they like, furniture they like, and put everyone in the military.

This particular fort is so utterly fucked it's practically impossible to do anything at all at this point, though.

On the good side, there are lots of actually good quarters, since almost everyone is dead. I made sure to give everyone the top level quarters we had, although actually improving the existing ones was barely possible. @Randall Fragg should probably check to make sure nobody is sleeping rough. It's about the only thing that can be done without any actual jobs having to take place.

(To find unowned rooms, press "R" and look for quarters, bedrooms, and similar names. The stress benefit from "slept in a room like a personal palace" is pretty good and is about the only de-stresser that can just be turned on by simply assigning someone to a room they can then sleep in. Make sure to let military sleep in their own rooms.)

 

[Randall Fragg]

Small update:

Spoiler

So, this happened.

A bard beat a guy to death with a book. He pulled a fucking Mozgus.

The book now has a killcount. Holy shit.
Also, a tantruming dwarf knocked over a shrine and was cursed. He turned into a werelizard before getting yeeted by the military. So far, nobody else has transformed, so hopefully the infection was nipped in the bud. Make that two strains of werecreatures which were driven extinct by this fort.
And this is the general mental state of the fort.

Yeah, we're in a full death spiral. I'm trying to carve out a bunker to save the few sane dwarves and let the fortress collapse, but that's not really going anywhere.

 

[Some Manajerk]

Small update:

Spoiler

So, this happened. View attachment 1441954A bard beat a guy to death with a book. He pulled a fucking Mozgus.
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The book now has a killcount. Holy shit.
Also, a tantruming dwarf knocked over a shrine and was cursed. He turned into a werelizard before getting yeeted by the military. So far, nobody else has transformed, so hopefully the infection was nipped in the bud. Make that two strains of werecreatures which were driven extinct by this fort.
And this is the general mental state of the fort.
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Yeah, we're in a full death spiral. I'm trying to carve out a bunker to save the few sane dwarves and let the fortress collapse, but that's not really going anywhere.

you could do what they did in the Headshoots LP ages ago. gather all the sane dwarves in the section of the fort with the food stocks, then wall that off rather than spending a lot of time digging out a fresh burrow.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

Small update:

Spoiler

So, this happened. View attachment 1441954A bard beat a guy to death with a book. He pulled a fucking Mozgus.
View attachment 1441956
The book now has a killcount. Holy shit.
Also, a tantruming dwarf knocked over a shrine and was cursed. He turned into a werelizard before getting yeeted by the military. So far, nobody else has transformed, so hopefully the infection was nipped in the bud. Make that two strains of werecreatures which were driven extinct by this fort.
And this is the general mental state of the fort.
View attachment 1441961
Yeah, we're in a full death spiral. I'm trying to carve out a bunker to save the few sane dwarves and let the fortress collapse, but that's not really going anywhere.

Fallout: Dwarf Fortress.

 

[An Ghost]

Even the happy dwarves have to continue working tho. The dwarf i affectionately named "this fucking bitch" always tantrumed because she was a legendary wood crafter with no wood. As long as more migrants show up, and they should as a mountain home with a stupid amount of wealth, itll outweigh locals going crazy.

Or somebody fails to pull a lever and everybody dies.

 

[spiritofamermaid]

I was wondering - because of the tantrum spiral bug, would it be considered cheating if you used DFHack to delete the almost-dead dwarves (that are a result of tantrum spiral)? After all, the tantrum-death pipeline (which I'm assuming is what a tantrum spiral means) is known to be caused by a bug, so would fixing that not be considered cheating?

 

[An Ghost]

I was wondering - because of the tantrum spiral bug, would it be considered cheating if you used DFHack to delete the almost-dead dwarves (that are a result of tantrum spiral)? After all, the tantrum-death pipeline (which I'm assuming is what a tantrum spiral means) is known to be caused by a bug, so would fixing that not be considered cheating?

Just seal em off until they starve or atom smash em. Yeah theyre gonna die eventually but isnt everybody?

 

[AnOminous]

I was wondering - because of the tantrum spiral bug, would it be considered cheating if you used DFHack to delete the almost-dead dwarves (that are a result of tantrum spiral)? After all, the tantrum-death pipeline (which I'm assuming is what a tantrum spiral means) is known to be caused by a bug, so would fixing that not be considered cheating?

The tantrums stress out other dwarves, plus they attack each other and that causes more stress, and plus they eventually go insane, leaving dead bodies around, which then cause even more stress every time another dwarf sees them.

Magma is a good solution, especially in a location where nobody has to witness it. I have a bridge right on the caldera that doesn't quite launch dwarves correctly into it, but usually you can then crush them with the bridge itself, atom smashing them out of existence. The problem is the ones who have completely lost their minds and can no longer be ordered to do anything at all.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

Can you assign war to insane dwarves? Will the dogs eat them? Can you then yeet the now stressed dogs into a volcano?

 

[AnOminous]

Can you assign war to insane dwarves? Will the dogs eat them? Can you then yeet the now stressed dogs into a volcano?

The doge solution is usually the one for dwarves you expect to go insane, I dunno if it works for ones who already have. Also they're usually okay after you launch their owners into magma. At least they're well fed.

 

[Randall Fragg]

Here's the Update. About halfway through the year, and we're going down in flames.

Spoiler

Father Mozgus crushes the skull of another heathen, a berserk miner who killed enough people to get a nickname: The Punch of Prophecy.

The guild representative decided to show up for some godforsaken reason. The caravans that could reach our site were completely bought out for a few bins of trinkets.

I'm trying desperately to keep things together, but it is not working. We're down to 69 dwarves, only about 3/4th of which can work. The others, which I've taken to nicknaming "Walking Dead" to easily identify, are either too depressed or to crazy to do anything.

Even the King is depressed.
I'm sending as many as I can to the 'Therapy' bridge, but they become depressed faster than I can kill them.

Of course, then there's the people who go completely apeshit and start flat out killing people.

This spreads blood and gore around the living areas, which is never cleaned or dumped because of the severe labor shortage. So it rots, making miasma, which then makes everyone else more crazy.
The one good thing is one of the crazy people made an heirloom.

It promplely got dumped down the magma chute by the 'therapy' bridge.
I have a feeling that the fort will either die a slow death via attrition, or a rapid one due to invasion.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

Here's the Update. About halfway through the year, and we're going down in flames.

Spoiler

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Father Mozgus crushes the skull of another heathen, a berserk miner who killed enough people to get a nickname: The Punch of Prophecy.
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The guild representative decided to show up for some godforsaken reason. The caravans that could reach our site were completely bought out for a few bins of trinkets.
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I'm trying desperately to keep things together, but it is not working. We're down to 69 dwarves, only about 3/4th of which can work. The others, which I've taken to nicknaming "Walking Dead" to easily identify, are either too depressed or to crazy to do anything.
View attachment 1457018
Even the King is depressed.
I'm sending as many as I can to the 'Therapy' bridge, but they become depressed faster than I can kill them.
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Of course, then there's the people who go completely apeshit and start flat out killing people.
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This spreads blood and gore around the living areas, which is never cleaned or dumped because of the severe labor shortage. So it rots, making miasma, which then makes everyone else more crazy.
The one good thing is one of the crazy people made an heirloom.
View attachment 1457038
It promplely got dumped down the magma chute by the 'therapy' bridge.
I have a feeling that the fort will either die a slow death via attrition, or a rapid one due to invasion.

“ The therapy bridge“ fucking amazing name for it.

I think the chances that I will get another go are dwindling with every report....

Keep up the hard work dude. May Armok smile on you.

 

[spiritofamermaid]

Is it time? I think it's been 2 weeks.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

Is it time? I think it's been 2 weeks.

Yes it has. I’ve been a little lax since the save is running slow but @Randall Fragg hows it going fam?

 

[AnOminous]

If the fort somehow miraculously survives, maybe the next taker should either be an optimization wizard or have Big Iron. By the time my run was done, it was so slow that if I just gave some orders and let a month run down without even touching it, it would take a couple hours to get through a month. I'm on a potato, but it's fairly bad.

Then there's also the fact the fort is such a dismal hellhole it's actually kind of depressing to play.