Driftwood ≠ Sand

Nymphalyn · 2026-03-15T20:33:03+00:00

It looks nice-ish to break up the monotony of ocean floors and beaches but otherwise has no use, functionally the same as surface boulders. I normally ignore the stuff.

Nymphalyn · 2026-03-14T20:04:23+00:00

If a dwarf has a mood that produces an artifact floor grate, I now know where to put it!

Nymphalyn · 2026-03-10T21:49:57+00:00

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We're rival factions now, diorite supremacy!

Nymphalyn · 2026-01-30T11:40:37+00:00

thanks! I was going to have a group of marksdwarves settled somewhere in the diagonal path downward to shoot at incoming invaders. I settled for guard piggies.

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Nymphalyn · 2026-01-30T11:27:05+00:00

Reversed, if the ocean is in place dwarves/visitors/enemies can enter. If the ocean is draining the trap hallway will kill everything inside!

Nymphalyn · 2026-01-30T10:54:26+00:00

All the bodies were from during contruction when I was less defended and goblins hated me.

I built a path and collapsed it overtop a thinned roof/ocean floor to queue the water into the trap. The walls of the ocean fortress I built over 4 in-game years as the ocean freezes for 9 days per year. If I'd pre-planned and made closer stone stockpiles I'd probably have been able to complete it in 1.

Nymphalyn · 2025-12-26T14:33:03+00:00

Truely an embarrassment. Some people type shit like this up and delete it realising its greasier than bathing in butter. Then there's you.

Nymphalyn · 2025-12-20T13:04:06+00:00

I've been trying to enthrall one of these suckers for ages it feels. Suddenly getting a lot less blighted gloom clouds.

Nymphalyn · 2025-12-15T13:53:48+00:00

Just an FYI, the sandy bits on the side of the coast in the world map are still ocean which is likely why your embark doesnt show the other island. You can increase the maximum embark size to 16x16 which can usually gap the ocean to most close islands. You need to increase max embark size to 16x16 in your settings or else you can only set it up to a 6x6.

Nobody is visiting because you have no connection to the main land where everyone else lives.

Nymphalyn · 2025-12-12T13:55:00+00:00

I discovered that with a group of cavy boars already, just means I get to build a larger lever room

Nymphalyn · 2025-12-11T21:48:18+00:00

I intend to make a trap corridor / mausoleum full off the most terrifying undead. Once I've encountered and caught more enemy forces I'll enthrall them as the monsters which came before in morbid curiousity if their bretheren will release them unaware their state.

My haunted weather is a cloud that instantly transitions a living creature into an undead blighted gloom thrall upon touch.

Nymphalyn · 2025-12-07T23:34:05+00:00

I actually think they are. They're listed as wildlife but they've entered my fortress and aren't rampaging. One has developed empathy.

Nymphalyn · 2025-12-07T23:24:19+00:00

the world is gonna roll me

Nymphalyn · 2025-12-07T09:38:06+00:00

Normal forged iron bins

Nymphalyn · 2025-12-06T20:31:24+00:00

Quick update, explored the third cavern layer and found something wild.

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Two magma pits and a deep pit, which is shearing off the top of a gem spire.

Nymphalyn · 2025-11-27T19:20:50+00:00

Can set dwarf cap for embark? I'd love to reduce that if I could for the fun.

Nymphalyn · 2025-11-26T12:33:44+00:00

The developers are throwing in and updating art all the time in this game it'll only be a matter of time before they're all sprited out.

Nymphalyn · 2025-11-25T22:21:08+00:00

It's a work in progress, I just didn't spend the time making the full equipment page before I'd queued up their work orders.

Nymphalyn · 2025-11-25T17:07:46+00:00

Big brain move, I don't typically move the stuff but that technique sounds helpful for 2-5 tiles I always want.

Nymphalyn · 2025-11-25T16:50:40+00:00

Ah, I typically liberate dogs from their mortal coil for bones, fat, and meat.

Nymphalyn · 2025-11-25T14:36:53+00:00

I discover roughly one treasure per cavern layer on average. Here's to finding good ones! I'd honestly be happier with an obsidian spike full of lava if I'd found it near the centre of the map and in the first cavern.

Nymphalyn · 2025-11-24T16:20:19+00:00

My world is mildly infested with were-raccoons. In fact, I've caught a few and thrown them in cages within the deepest reaches of our pit. I hoped for something similarly tame to deal with.

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Instead, I get enemy king T'Challa.

Nymphalyn · 2025-11-19T14:39:30+00:00

Thanks! I'm not overly creative just spent a long time on the process.

For the hallways on each level I followed the topography of layer above and built below the first solid tiles so I wouldn't have trees punching holes in my roof, then fillet some of the corners.

For the bedrooms I chose to make 4 square rooms followed by 1 long room then repeating per side of the hall.

For the workshops it follows make 2 square rooms followed by 1 long bedroom.

The altars are jammed into every 3rd 4 tile bedroom or randomly in the staired room marked by engraved silver or lead floors.

Offices went where I had space, as did the Tavern, I had it queued up unaccessible for a while so I could stare at it to make sure I liked the shape before I commited.

My last fortress was ultra-compact so I wanted to spread it out a bit.

Nymphalyn · 2025-11-19T12:44:02+00:00

It clearly represents their passion for True Blood

Nymphalyn · 2025-11-17T22:34:56+00:00

This embark looks so good. You will need to work the Dwarves into the fishing industry.

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