CREATUREFEST JULY 2025

[Blue_Fox]

Dwarf Fortress Continued!


This is our first artifact. I didn't inspect it too closely, kinda got into a weird flow state.
It is currently the year 103. We've made a few artifacts by now, mostly in the realm of hematite bracelets and lignite earrings, but we do have an artifact iron sword, which is cool.

We've gotten a few thieves, nothing too serious. No armies at our doorstep, probably because we aren't at war.
I also made a tavern! I forgot its name.

My dwarves did a line dance! That was cool to see. You may also notice the suspiciously pale dwarf in the center. We had some necromancers move in as migrants in like, 102, I think? There's 3 of them currently. I think it'd be funny to make more of them. One of the necromancers has a daughter with a miner in the fortress. I also dropped that miner down a well on accident, realized she'd left her child in the cave waters, and used DFHack to teleport it out. May be cheating but I don't wanna deal with that kind of heartbreak so early on.
Also, one of these necromacners reanimated a kobold thief like, 40 times. It was still fighting while it was being put down by my small speardwarf militia, and one dwarf killed the same kobold 39 times. They got a title from this.

Here is one of the necromancers! He is a priest of The Oily Communion. I think they worship jewels and something else. Could be funny to design a morbitian god based off one of these. I'll check up on the names of gods later.

Things that have happened that I don't have pictures of:
- Built a functional well specifically so that I could get my hospital up and running because one of the necromancers got in a fight and lost his nose. I took so long to get soap that the poor bastard had an infection in literally every infectable part of his body. Somehow didn't die and got better, actually.
- There are two corpses in the well. I memorialized them.
- There are stuck traders in my plot of land. They haven't left yet.
- I constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed some outdoor farm plots.
- I tried to set up automatic food production using work orders. This is hard.
- I made a library with some necromancers as scholars hoping they'll write a silly book.
- My main export is really well made wooden bolts.
- I have purchased a herd of alpacas for wool.
- I have one (1) giant boar and one (1) black bear.
- The elves are mad at me.
- I've given most children in this fort nicknames so I can track them throughout history.
- I've been visited by many animal people. Some highlights being a kestrel woman archer, a rat man hammerman, and an elephant woman scholar.
- I've somehow, magically, not been raided by cave civilizations, forgotten beasts, or surface monstrosities like were-creatures and titans.
- I've been training a team of engravers to enhance my rooms.
- I have some quantum stockpiles set up for wood, corpses, and stone. This is in an effort to unclog my main stockpile. I might try to make a quantum for furniture too, as I'm using a few traps.
- I am agonizing over how the Fuck I'm going to make a mist machine because I don't know how to build a pump stack.
- We are now a barony! We have one (1) holding somewhere in the hills nearby.
That's all for now! Please let me know if there's anything you'd like expanded upon and I'll do my best to show cool stuff.