Dwarf Fortress Megathread! - Necro'd enough to count as a vampire

[Littledude]

I know you cvan use dwarf therapist to make them haul stuff, so maybe you can use it to put them in squads.

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[Tomcat]

assign them to a burrow near some danger or use them as unarmed grunts.

[rockslide26]

Hao2notdie in Adventure mode?

[Byteswarm]

Hao2notdie in Adventure mode?

Rollback to previous version.

[Jacob/Lee]

After about 15 companions, many real-life minutes, a couple dozen tossed swords, much stabbing and punching and about 10 dead necromancers, I have learned the secrets of life and death!

[Corbiere]

what about all these dwarven children? that's whats taking up my population, all the useless children. i cant put them in squads.

Assign all dwarves to one big squad (except the childen), station them all outside, and the flood your fort with lava.

Problem solved, until they start making more dwarves.

Alternatively you could just make a massive farm and train up some herbalists and planters.

[Doomonkey]

Also, when a bandit team ambushes you and the leader spawns right next to you and threatens you, does the game ignore your defensive rolls or something? Every single time a bandit crossbowman leader spawns next to me he shoots me in the leg 100% right after he threatens me and brings me down, which always gets me killed.

I wonder this as well. I ran into a Kobold ambush and easily killed them all. Then I realized I missed one bow guy way at the top of the map. 2 shots and two hits. Took me down, so I had to crawl away and never walk again.

[heedicalking]

well, the overpopulation led to the death of the fort. Not enough food, raids from weak enemies, bridges being destroyed, disease from the dead.

Bringing up magma sounds like a huge pain to do...

[Jacob/Lee]

Oh man, corpses you raise actually follow you around! I have about 20 bandit and hyena corpses stalking me right now, now I just need a dragon...

Sadly, the zombies count as companions. If you have too many then you'll be the only fleshling in your party.

[Corbiere]

Found a cave today, went into it and found a guy who agreed to tell me how to make stuff live again (in the straight to the point language these things use) if I did some task for him. I hit the wrong key and walked into him, slashing him in the head, tearing the muscle, smashing apart the skull and tearing the brain.

Now I got about 50 clans trying to kill me...
Oh well, Legendary Dwarf Swordsman vs Death = Legendary Dwarf Swordsman

[Jacob/Lee]

139 zombies and counting. I'm standing in the middle of a pasture bordered by 2 city streets while peasants pour in through the west side and my zombies pour in through the east.

[Doomonkey]

139 zombies and counting. I'm standing in the middle of a pasture bordered by 2 city streets while peasants pour in through the west side and my zombies pour in through the east.

Neat. I'm still trying to make a successful character.

[OneWithFire]

Jacob i want your adventure save wif the necromancer D:

[Doomonkey]

Jacob i want your adventure save wif the necromancer D:

It's no fun if you don't get there yourself.

[Jacob/Lee]

Learning the secrets is surprisingly easy if you're patient. Get a nice squad of companions to stall the zombies for you and sit back and wait for the necromancer(s) to run out the door, get around to the back of the zombie horde and ram your weapon into the forgeter's head. As far as I know, zombie necromancers aren't capable of using their power so you should be okay if one of his buds raises him. Kill the rest of the nearby necromancers and then take apart the zombie horde. Zombies have bullstuff attack + defense rolls and are really weak so you won't have any trouble killing them.

Make sure you have good shield user/dodger first, though. Some of the zombies in the necromancer's tower have crossbows.


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