Smoothing the halls and soaking up the mud with dwarves is progressing as well, and as a bit of indulgence, I issue a temporary order that anyone who contributes to the effort gets double drink rations until the end of the year.Īs it is impossible to smooth over mud that has already sprouted moss, I painstakingly designate a number of patches to be floored over by the Haulers, in order to complete my eradication of unwanted flora in our halls. They have finished paving over the Well Room and my Hospital with new stones, further reducing the clutter in the halls and making them presentable once again. The Haulers' suggestion seems to be working. Our fortress's population now stands at 105 adults, 13 children, and 7 infants. Her younger sister Uxion had a child earlier this year as well, just a month or so ago. This is her fifth child and the second infant being carried in her arms, and it is with bemusement that I wonder if she will try for a sixth babe soon. Happy news, Osmodi has given birth to a baby girl. I set a note in each of the Craftsmith workshops to start carving pots from stone, so as to preserve our wood stockpiles, but if it turns up that there are no clean stones for such a purpose we will have to make barrels after all.

I previous set a blanket order for the gaggle of Farmsmiths to continue cooking excellent meals and brewing excellent drinks, but I begin receiving rapid complaints of a lack of containers to put them in. At some point, we should add more bookshelves, as well as tables, chairs, and containers, but there are enough tasks that require my attention at the moment and I do not think I will get around to doing that. Designs based around this concept can route civilians and trap-vulnerable creatures one way, and divert everything that doesn't trigger the pressure plate through another corridor- perhaps one filled with retracting spikes connected to a repeater.Overseer's Journal: Chief Medical Dwarf UnwelcomeStormĪs it does not detract from the ongoing labors of the Minesmiths and Haulers to clean up the living areas of the fort, I decide to redefine the boundaries of our common temple and our meager library, moving the temple upstairs into what used to be the Trading Depot's main hall for easier access, and expanding the library to include the nearby rooms. By building a pressure plate set to be triggered by all weights, including civilians, you can be relatively certain that anything that doesn't set off the pressure plate is a trapavoider. The very fact that trapavoiders are unable to set off pressure plates allows one to build special traps to catch trapavoiders.

One can take advantage of this, usually to cage the uncageable, by building traps in a silk farm or by building a constructed floor on top of a support and surrounding the area under it with traditional traps- what is known as a cave-in trap. Trapavoiders become vulnerable to traditional traps when they are webbed or unconscious. (Any other manually triggerable trap design can be used instead.) Of course, such traps need to be triggered somehow, either by lever, or by a repeater of some sort. Retracting spike traps can be used against trapavoiders as easily as against any other creature. Several special trapping techniques can be used instead. Note that all tamed and formerly tame animals, along with dwarves, will never trigger traps, so it's safe to put traps right in front of your doorways.ĭespite the difficulty in trapping trapavoiders, it's not necessary to rely on your military to defeat them.

Dwarf fortress cave in trap