wedgies.

I wanted to get out my trumpet and play the jesus return fanfare for my neighbors so bad

I'm trying to get established in the hardest biomes, with all of the hardest rules enabled. I want to be desensitized, quit building safe little identical forts.

And the kid who saw a corpse.

I've been trying to address the happiness of my angriest dwarves, but there's not much I could do but kick them out. I just used DFhack on the maddest. Like... the poor haggard stoneworker, who could no longer stand.

After extensive fortification

got some migrant waves, up to 196. started two large training militias. can seal off the lowers with about 30 military in case of any serious incursions. have food and quarters for all. hell, may see if I can enable enemies on this map and start a war with the elves.

Some of the lower levels

Four gates at the exit, closed them to flood the banks in the whole cavern and get it muddy.

I love having full stop start control of my water supplies.

The river capture was top notch at Slingweed.

All of the surface stockpiles are for cleaning puke, lol

Cloth, soap, glass, paper industries. Lots of permanent Militias with quarters. Library #1 doing well, etc.

FPS is around 84 after I empty the trash.

Got a section of cavern sealed off where I routed my own waterfall and am growing trees. Got a waterfall hotel/library/tavern for guests, with green glass grates, starting to accumulate legendary crafts and lots of theives...

also the artificial cavern, a draining natural cavern, the nobles, and a statue hall

starting to build megaprojects, my strategy was to make a pretty cheap and efficient starter fort, to raise a huge workforce fast. So, this was ugly, but it got me to 180 dwarves.

I guess this is a ten year old fort.

Of course that is a puke river leading to the ice block quarry.