Noob question

[JimmyJazz]

Hi. Im new player. I have my second succesful forteress now and it's going really good. I got almost 170 dwarves now and... I noticed it's cool becouse Im basically on an Island with allies around (didnt notice it at creating base becouse its not that obvious at the first glance). My question is - is caverns my "max" danger and for more extreme raids etc. I should start a new fortress? I wanted to get raided by a goblin army or something like that. I killed one cyclop which raided me and one weresomething. RN Im figthing skavenlike people in caverns and some other tryglidites... :)

[graalGGTV]

It's unlikely you'll meet goblins if there aren't any in your island. You could get attacked by other random beasts and such, but other than that, cave might be the biggest threat.

I'm guessing there are no necromancer towers and such nearby either?

[Alexandyr]

Technically your biggest threat will be lower than the caverns, but that's spoiler territory. But yeah, if no goblins can reach you then you won't have any goblin sieges. If you want to have more fun, keep digging down.

[Shot_Trip]

Diggy diggy down, my friend. And keep us updated.

[Teemo]

Originally posted by JimmyJazz:

Hi. Im new player. I have my second succesful forteress now and it's going really good. I got almost 170 dwarves now and... I noticed it's cool becouse Im basically on an Island with allies around (didnt notice it at creating base becouse its not that obvious at the first glance). My question is - is caverns my "max" danger and for more extreme raids etc. I should start a new fortress? I wanted to get raided by a goblin army or something like that. I killed one cyclop which raided me and one weresomething. RN Im figthing skavenlike people in caverns and some other tryglidites... :)

Best way to get raiding by goblins often is embark near goblins, maybe 1 day away from them. Then you're sure to have some fun with sieges.

[JimmyJazz]

ok then :) second question - why most of deaths in my fortress is from dehydtaion even thou I got hundereds of drinks and goblets and that leather things for soldiers to fill?

[CoolNitro]

You could always anger you allies and start a war although I don't fancy your chances if you get raided by dwarfs.

[Shot_Trip]

Originally posted by JimmyJazz:

ok then :) second question - why most of deaths in my fortress is from dehydtaion even thou I got hundereds of drinks and goblets and that leather things for soldiers to fill?

You need to have your still running full tilt and have a lot of barrels (if you're in a decently wooded area/hit caverns for woody shrooms) or pots (if you prefer rocks), then keep on top of gathering the surface/caverns and farming. Personally I import drinks VERY aggressively as well as plants to brew, I find gemcutting to be very useful for this. Keeping dwarves drunk is probably one of the bigger newbie humps.

[Ghiron]

You can start raiding sites. They'll declare war pretty quick and send retalliatory sieges on you. Sieges can come from really far away, go wild.

As for your dehydration deaths, do you have access to water? When dwarves are injured, they can only drink water until they recover. They could be getting injured in combat and then dying while recovering due to no water to drink.

Edit: They won't drink saltwater, so make sure you have freshwater from either a river or from digging into an aquifer.

[Shot_Trip]

Originally posted by Ghiron:

You can start raiding sites. They'll declare war pretty quick and send retalliatory sieges on you. Sieges can come from really far away, go wild.

As for your dehydration deaths, do you have access to water? When dwarves are injured, they can only drink water until they recover. They could be getting injured in combat and then dying while recovering due to no water to drink.

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention: You need a well in case of this. It's not just a fallback against lack of alcohol!

[JimmyJazz]

last question - I have temples, guilds, smooth walls, statues, nice bedrooms and othe obvious ♥♥♥♥ but there are always some very angry dwarves in my fortress. I noticed its less important than in Rimworld. I guess I cant make everyone happy in this game right?

[Alexandyr]

Originally posted by JimmyJazz:

last question - I have temples, guilds, smooth walls, statues, nice bedrooms and othe obvious ♥♥♥♥ but there are always some very angry dwarves in my fortress. I noticed its less important than in Rimworld. I guess I cant make everyone happy in this game right?

Check the thoughts and personalities of the unhappy ones. They might just be very prone to stress, or maybe they've lost a loved one, or any number of things. Generally yeah, it's true that for some reason or another at least a couple of dwarfs will be unhappy.

[Ghiron]

Originally posted by JimmyJazz:

last question - I have temples, guilds, smooth walls, statues, nice bedrooms and othe obvious ♥♥♥♥ but there are always some very angry dwarves in my fortress. I noticed its less important than in Rimworld. I guess I cant make everyone happy in this game right?

Yep. Most dwarves are perfectly content with work to do, and booze to drink. But there's always a chance that a dwarf can roll a certain combination of traits that make it impossible for them to ever be happy. Sometimes they worship too many gods and can't pray to them all. Sometimes they just keep reminding themselves about getting rained on 3 years ago until they go insane.

[JimmyJazz]

thank you for help! I learned a lot ;)

[JimmyJazz]

Killed some legendary beast and then the Forgotten beast in caverns appeared. I watched as it... was swarmed by that scavenlike cave people horde. Prepared my army and saw the forgotten beast getting killed very fast. Then I went to battle the scavenpeople - there were a lot. My whole 2 squads just dissappeared but reinforcements stopped them. I catched a lot in cages - what can I do with them?

[JimmyJazz]

ok - that ratmen came with like enourmous numbers and killed about 100 dwarfs now :D