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A screenshot of a series of Mastodon posts by @it_was_inevitable_slow@botsin.space, "Sentient Dwarf Fortress." Chronologically, the first post reads:

I recited It Must Have Been Oozes at The Mechanical Cakes. I enjoyed that.

— Ip Gelubugi, Human Bard

The second post reads:

I recited It Must Have Been Oozes at The Mechanical Cakes. I'm excited.

— Estrur Urarstrodno, Goblin Bard

The final post reads:

I saw a goblin recite It Must Have Been Oozes at The Mechanical Cakes. It's boring.

— Ip Gelubugi, Human Bard

Any idea how to face and defeat this monstrosity?

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I'm tired of carving new burial chambers or adding to the existing mass grave and was thinking of recycling what I already have. The problem is those tombs are already in use.

Will my guys be cool with their friends and family returning to the earth via magma incinerators?

Im migrating my content over from my r*ddit accout, so here was the story about my first fort!

After about 15hrs in my first fort, it finally happened. It imploded on itself.

I had just finished outlasting a siege from a nearby necromancer. Everything was going smooth, I was working on a couple mine cart rails, and getting an underground source of water when I notice that one of the adventurers in my Tavern had turned into a Weregiraffe, and killed one of my Dwarves. Well, I figured I had to stop it, so I send my squad of Dwarves in to dispatch of it, and they make fairly short work of it. No big deal, I think, problem solved. Right?

Well, shortly after, another one of the tavern goers turns into a were giraffe as well. I send my squad to get rid of it. Problem is, I start attacking this one, and about 5 other people turn into weregiraffes and absolutely shred my dwarves, gone in an instant. A giant bloodbath ensues as the remaining tavern members, my remaining dwarves, and the weregiraffes are all fighting inside the tavern. Blood, guts, and body parts everywhere.

I sit there in awe as I watch my dwarves slowly dying, just hoping a few can make it out alive to continue running the fort if at all possible. After about 5 minutes of fighting, I notice that my game is starting to slow down, frame rate dropping harshly. I see that there are no more weregiraffes, only my dwarves, a few tavern members, and ... a bunch of ghouls. I check the logs and see that there are a bunch of dwarven ghouls dying, and immediately being re-animated, then dying again, then being re-animated. It appears that there were a few necromancers among my tavern members as well...

These necromancers appear to be locked in an eternal battle of attacking dwarves, re-animating them, in a never ending fashion. The FPS is unplayable and, looking at legends, the dwarves have been re-animated almost a hundred times each.

So there they shall remain, eternally locked in their battle of black magic. I will be starting anew elsewhere.

Losing really is fun!

It's Fortress Friday, Urists! Everyone upload an image of your current fortress, regardless of your current progress (or its state of cleanliness). Or just tell us a little about your fort!

I'm currently between forts right now. I've got this one, called Cobaltshowers, that I originally intended to be a succession fort, but I fell too in love with the dwarfs to turn it over. Each of the seven is named after a main character in the tv show Succession (which I have never seen), done for the purpose of trolling people who watch that show. I was hoping that if I gave dwarfs names at random, I would create a situation where some son marries his father and together they have a baby.

Instead what I ended up with is seven starting dwarfs who feel an intense need to fight, plus one lily-livered administrator.

Great Toady of course wrote this with the "hopefully" caveat, but here is to hoping.

Here is a image I compiled of Lionhelms, one of my first steam release fortresses. I was inspired by a similar one on Reddit but never got around to uploading mine over there. It met its end in the time honored "FPS death" manner.

I miss the community on reddit. I thought I'd make a questions thread - If you have a question, ask it here, and I'll try my best to answer, even if simply linking the wiki.

If you can answer questions, kindly sort by "New" and try and help out

Hey there, I'm glad to present Vox Uristi, a tool to export fortresses in the .vox voxels format. This can be used to make renders of fortresses, such as the one pictured: Heavenfall by Horrigant. You need to have DFHack installed to use it, and the rendering is done by MagicaVoxel.

Check out the gallery for more renders.

A community with barely any posts or interaction doesn't look very attractive, does it?

Post something, anything! Even just a screenshot of your tavern, we just need content!

So it's basically a flying head? Fair 'nuff... :D

I've got some big plans for this fort. I've got a few megaprojects in mind and I'm going to try and finally make Mountain Home. I'll be sure to post more about it once it's finished.