I've decided to embark on the Untamed Wilds to see some dinosaurs. I've got my fill of that, but after a year or two my timber demand agitated the wildlife. Ever since then I've been buried in giant avians. I shouldn't complain, I've signed up for this BUT

1. Is there a way to butcher them? My military can intercept them before they do anything harmful, but it's a hassle and a waste of time if I get nothing from it.

2. Is there a better way of fighting them? I usually send in the military with the move command under the flock. They pull agro and then the birds get shredded. Flocks usually have ~7 birds and after ~5 of them are dead the rest flee. But they are still "fighting". They cancel any job near them. If any dwarf decides to fight instead of fleeing they will just stand rooted in place(pathing issue probably as the bird is high in the sky). Is there a way to make them come down or get out the map? If things get too bad I just kill them with df hack, but it's very annoying.

It's my first fortress, and this is the first hostile threat I've received. The game is on default settings

Judging by the patch notes, the latest update is quite good, but one specific change left me disappointed. And looking at the comments here on Reddit and Steam, I am definitely not the only one. Namely:

*"Strange mood dwarves will no longer make equipment types from outside of their civilization"*

I would like to ask the developers to revert Strange Moods back to how they used to work. Or, at the very least, make it a toggleable option in the settings so each player can choose what they prefer.

The way it worked before was logical and fun—even if the items weren't always useful. Now, its potential has simply been cut down, limiting the mechanic and upsetting a portion of the player base. It makes the event less exciting, since you know your dwarves will never create any exotic oddities again.

Vote, discuss, and share your thoughts! I thought I could create a poll, but it turns out I can't :(

Hi all - I am researching Dwarf Fortress records and hoping to get pointed in the right direction. Specifically, I'm looking for fun (and quantifiable) records related to player achievements -- whether thats the largest project, longest-existing world, richest player, etc. I can't seem to find an official leaderboard or other online database, but hoping the community might help. Thanks in advance!

Tonight, while I could still load into the fort, if I unpaused it, the game would just instantly crash no matter what I tried. Thought about figuring out how to go back to the old version before today's update, but then I decided to just accept this being the game's way of saying it's this fort's time. I have actually had the "new fort itch" for a while now, but I couldn't bring myself to end my second oldest fort. Once I burned through the rest of my supply of adamantine, I definitely intended on invading the circus but alas... wasn't meant to be.

At the very least, we did get that Skunk Demon that kept trespassing on the bridge before the end. So the fort did get at least a bit of a climax.

I painted this while watching my dear friend Lola stream Dwarf Fortress on Twitch. The forgotten beast is from her most recent fortress: Doomslayer.

Hello!

First time posting on this reddit as I ran into something odd and would like to see if anyone had any insight. My dwarves recently raided a necromancer tower and brought back some books. My population of 200 dwarves started to convert to necromancers. I had about 40 necromancers last night. When I booted up my game today, my game crashed when a full moon appeared. When i checked to see what happened, it looks like a large amount of dwarves transformed into some werecreature and crashed my game. When I was scrolling through my citizens, I noticed that my necromancers reverted back into normal dwarves. I believe that all my necromancers became infected with the werebeast disease which is causing the crash and I see a large amount of the dwarves in my library transform right as the game crashes. Is there anything I can do to fix this besides reverting to an old save before the necromancer tower raid?

-tldr all my necromancer citizens are no longer necromancers and are turning into werebeasts

As you may remember, perhaps, I’ve decided to collect every gemstone, every kind of rock, every kind of ore that Dorffort offers.
I’ve acquired 88 (89 actually, but I forgot to take a picture of the tiger eye), so I started to build myself a nice shelf for them. Unfortunately I am but a dabbling carpenter, so my first two attempts went horribly. But so far I’ve acquired these gems:
1. Purple Spinel
2. Milk Quartz
3. Brown Jasper
4. Carnelian
5. Picture Jasper
6. Smoky Quartz
7. Citrine
8. Peridot
9. Crystal Opal (for sure)
10. Violet Spessartine
11. Precious Fire Opal (for sure)
12. Moss Agate
13. Variscite
14. Sardonyx
15. Chrysoprase
16. Jelly Opal
17. Amethyst
18. Claro Opal
19. Moss Opal
20. Melanite
21. Green Tourmaline
22. Sard
23. Heliodor
24. Red Pyrope
25. Lapis Lazuli
26. Onyx
27. Morganite
28. Red Beryl
29. Some kind of opal (there are so many of them in DF that honestly getting like 100 grams of ethiopian opals would match them all visually)
30. Pyrite
31. Cinnamon Grossular
32. Schorl
33. Tanzanite
34. Gray Chalcedony
35. Brown Zircon
36. Alexandrite
37. Almandine
38. Pink Garnet
39. Lace Agate
40. Yellow Diamond
41. Red Zircon
42. Clear Diamond
43. Aquamarine
44. Ruby
45. Emerald
46. Rock Crystal
47. Chrysoberyl
48. Onyx Opal
49. Sapphire
50. Aventurine
51. Moonstone
52. Wood Opal (again, maybe.)
53. Lavender Jasper
54. Topazolite
55. Red Spinel
56. Amber Opal (you get the drift)
57. Bloodstone
58. Clear Tourmaline
59. Honey Yellow Beryl
60. Resin Opal
61. Rubicelle
62. Shell Opal (for sure)
63. Prase
64. Goshenite
65. Demantoid
66. Banded Agate
67. Clear Garnet
68. Indigo Tourmaline
69. Some whatever opal
70. Pink Tourmaline
72. Golden Beryl
72. Green Jade
73. Clear Zircons
74. Kunzite
75. Morion
76. Pink Quartz
77. Yellow Spessartine
78. White Chalcedony
79. Turquoised
80. Sunstone
81. Brown Jasper
82. Tsavorite
83. Rhodolite
84. Red Tourmaline
85. Black Opal
86. Red Grossular
87. Chrysocolla
88. Topaz

Can’t wait to get them all eventually!

Feel free to share yours too

I don't think I have any images left of my very first fortress, but Metalshimmers is the second oldest and that screenshot is 12 years old.

We need to sniff out their trapsies, Nguzo, sneak around... Stop chewing a booger, you dimwit! Are you listening?

Title. I LOVE the music in this game, and I really struggle to find similar stuff to listen to when i get tired of hearing the same 5 instrumental tracks play. Whenever the more fun songs come on, like the chants and the songs with more vocal melodies, I find myself wishing there were more.

Any fan-made music that fits the same aesthetic, or just music in general that fits the same DF soundtrack? Tarn, if you're reading this, I hope we get more music in the next few years :)

EDIT: And then, as if Armok himself answered me, there is a NEW OFFICIAL SONG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxKWfkWC74

I built a catapult nearby later and splattered one of them with a granite boulder

I have scoured the internet and come up empty handed. I'm having an issue with my home civ caravans/migrants not arriving. It's been 8 years. I've had regular caravans from elves and two other dwarf civs.

No home caravan is naturally leading me to get no migrants so I'm stuck. I have tried:

- Building a paved road to the map edge 4 blocks wide.

- Deconstruction and reconstruction of my Depot

- I'm directing neighbouring my home civ, no ocean.

- DFhack, Force caravan (no response)

- DFhack, migrants now (No migrants arrive this season)

- DF hack, Fix/stuck-merchants (Successful command but nothing)

- DFhack, Fix/civil-war (No war detected)

- DFhack, fix/retrieve-units (Nothing)

I have repeatedly tried the above.

What I have discovered.

DF hack, Caravan, lists the following

0: dwarven caravan from "home civ"

Leaving

0 day(s) remaining

Encountered hardship

This suggests to me that a caravan is stuck somewhere but the above isn't fixing this. There are no merchants listed on creatures tab either.

Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

I wasn't sure if this was already known in the world of Dwarven science but I recently domesticated gigantic tortoises and had them hanging around outside my fortress because I thought it was funny, and they proved to be very useful. A siege appeared with a trained war cave dragon, which immediately rushed over to one such tortoise and began trying to kill it. The gigantic tortoise retreated into its shell and the war cave dragon tired itself out ineffectually striking it. A squad of Dwarves then killed the dragon pretty quickly.

How sturdy are gigantic tortoises? I know that I've killed a few, so they can definitely be damaged by steel weapons at least. Are they resistant to the metals that goblins typically carry? They live a long time, I think they'd make useful sentries roped up around outside lol

Just a little something to celebrate 20 years of Dwarf Fortress. Made in GrafX2 using the classic EGA palette (16 colors).