Kruggsmash Plays Dwarf Fortress: Short Forts - Secrets of the Necromancer Part~2

[@richardmoore5347]

Necromancer Dwarfs: "Well, the lower fort is completely infested with zombies, I suppose we had better move into the upper fort". And little did they realize, they had discovered the reason that necromancers live in towers.

[@thebongmaster]

Necromancers start off living in little huts or bungalows, but then their little hobby gets out of control :I

[@oscill8ocelot]

Uthra: **blindly raises a zombie** "I'm helping!!" **animates a llama head** "Surely this will help!"

[@kruggsmash]

"Don't worry guys! I got it" What a dummy, huh?

[@oscill8ocelot]

Classic blind necromancer antics. =P

[@defensivekobra3873]

**summons an creature opposed to life** Dont worry my living friends, i Will save you!!

[@ChronoTriggerHappy]

Necromancer: OI, crabman, you stealing my books!? Uthra: ......no? Necromancer: Oh, ok then, welcome brother!

[@legion999]

Why...is the necro not controlling the corpses he raises? That's kind of the point of being a necromancer

[@kruggsmash]

He's just learning! Give him a break!

[@defensivekobra3873]

@@kruggsmash if you were to make all your necromancers into combatants, with weapons, armor and such, you can probably remove unwanted zombies from your fort. (Also necromancers cannot become better, so Only become it once you are in a comfortable state

[@ChronoTriggerHappy]

hey, you try raising a zombie while being completely blind, a horshoecrab man, with a bunch of nerds.

[@Destragond]

That's a whole lot of ghosts you have there. There you have your explanation for how those doors got unlocked.

[@kruggsmash]

Would a ghost do that? Jesus. I guess I hadn't thought!

[@Cephalos666]

"Somebody writes a book. I guess it takes a while" - Kruggs, 2017

[@kruggsmash]

I mean, how long does it take to read a book, ACTUALLY. Like, a couple hours or something?

[@giaxo1739]

@@kruggsmash Writing, not reading.

[@deanreaver3268]

What I would think to be a cool use for necromancers is to create a trap pit filled with zombies. Anything that falls in there gets eaten alive and brought back, adding to the traps deadlines.

[@kruggsmash]

Ha! I like it. I'll have to keep it in mind for the future. I'm suuuuure we'll be seeing Necromancers again!

[@fuggenell]

That's evil genius level thinking

[@easyBob100]

With the new update, you could send your necromancers to raid other towns/cities. That'd be fun. :)

[@kruggsmash]

Oh BABY! That'd be crazy, huh?

[@km5405]

I had the same idea! ...I wonder if that would begin spreading a undead plague of sorts?

[@christopherg2347]

@Kevin Miedema: Zombies in DF are not self reproducing. Or even self recovering. They need a Necromaner to reanimate them. And all the enemies they kill. And Necromancers are difficult to make.

[@capolol5976]

I'm kinda late... Necromancers will start fights with zombies (even the ones they raised) when they are on an active squad.

[@Empmortakaten]

Yeah, it's the same issue as with tamed Megabeasts. They will fight military units on sight regardless of taming level, as will zombies.

[@canmex9422]

now i want to make a fort whos goal it is to make a HUGE library. and then make an adventurer and bring books back from all dwarfsettlements (if this is possible) so the library has an entery of every dwarf settlement that ever existed

[@kruggsmash]

That certainly seems like an awesome idea, dude. I really like that, actually. Hrmmmm- serious food for thought.

[@DAMD01]

Canmex It already exists, it's called The great library, search or it, it's quite an interesting series

[@DarxusC]

@@Asymmetree I'm guessing this is what they're talking about: kzbin.info/aero/PLF2baVq6xe6t3zxxXmrLe3MiVRCnZI-pn 191 videos, each roughly half an hour long.

[@Syniron]

The thought of some merchants showing up to this "trading" fortress, seeing a pile of dwarf necromancers (and a crabman) come running out screaming for help, followed by a horde of zombies is hilarious to me. "Hey glad you're here we made some mistakes please save us from ourselves"

[@veng3r663]

:P

[@ettinakitten5047]

I want to run a D&D oneshot where the PCs are the merchants' guards.

[@GaldirEonai]

I've had some success with a necromancer (created the same way you did it, by adventure-moding, sneaking into a tower and then going to my retired fort) as a fort defender by placing him in a moat that'd become the only access point for invading goblins if the "goblinite vein spotted!" lever got pulled. I kept dumping corpses down there with him. When goblins came, they got torn up by traps and crossbows from above and bogged down by lots and lots of undead. Once the siege was over, I'd order the necromancer to loot the fresh goblinite and deposit it into a chute leading to the safe areas of the fort. It worked. Kinda. See, the problem was that all those animated critter bits, despite a pretty damn beefy rig, were causing the kind of framerate drops more commonly associated with late-stage kittensplosion in a 50-dwarf fort. After a while it got completely unplayable and I retired the fort. Not sure if I still have the world saved, but I imagine it'd be an interesting place to visit :P.

[@kruggsmash]

Ha! That's one hell of a fortress right there! I'd like to have another go at this sorta thing. Such potential!

[@WireMosasaur]

Ha! I love that the fact that horseshoe crab blood being blue is included, I love the details in this game....

[@AsiniusNaso]

!!THE UPDATE IS OUT!! And it has pedestals for museums and the displaying of artifacts! I guess that means "throw it in the pile and get back to work!" will change to "put it on the pedestal and get back to work!" or something.

[@Toxic9813]

AsiniusNaso this

[@kruggsmash]

Violently aware! Honestoly, though.I still imagine i'll be throwing artifacts in a pile frequently!

[@bloodhat3097]

No one cares about muzeums.... You can raid viliges :D Thats the importatnt part :D

[@EmperorSmith]

:Hey Boss! I traversed the savage wilderness and the evil swamps - I raided the Goblin fortress and slayed the hideous squirrel-demon - and now we have the legendary left shoe of insane moods! Many a brave dorf died to bring this treasure back! I am the last survivor of our raiding party! :Nice Work Dorf - Throw it in the pile and get back to work!

[@net_spider]

I believe that in fortress mode, the necromancers don't necessarily control undead that they make, but the undead can't attack your necromancers as long as it was created by one of your necromancers... not so sure about other undead or those that other necromancers create. However, this does mean that you can have a necromancer fortress, you just have to have everyone be a necromancer and resign yourself to having a difficult time with visitors, new citizens and caravans. Kinda similar to a vamp fortress in a way.

[@MrClickity]

5:20 Only in DF would you say "Okay, we're looking pretty good" when you're completely overrun by zombies and attempting to lock the survivors in a storeroom.

[@SirDamned]

I need to read through all these manuals, thank God I'm blind.

[@TheAnon03]

your undead might be fighting your own dwarves because they're in military squads. Similar to how tamed megabeasts still get into fights with military dwarves

[@kruggsmash]

Oooohh..hrmm. i'd like to try this whole thing again in the future. I'll have to take this into consideration.

[@Isvoor]

I think the answer is a private library that only very few people have access to. That way you could regulate the amount of necromancers and probably keep them there so that they don't reanimate corpses by accident elsewhere in the fortress. The biggest problem is getting the books there if you have another library. And then make sure they stay there. It will probably work fine if you just have the necromancer books dumped to a zone inside the correct library. Also those necromancers should stay away from the other libraries, so that they won't write anything there. Just in case. Then just have them enlisted to the army when needed and use fortifications.

[@kruggsmash]

Oh baby. Wouldn't it be sick to have a caste based fortress with the upper class dwarfs as necromancers? I've really been diggin' the idea of a caste based fortress lately.

[@kyokyoniizukyo7171]

Kruggsmash Maybe you can make a narrative story from this, a grimdark world where the dwarven count/duke leads necromantic cults across the empire and summons snail demigods to hunt the great artifacts of the world for personal use...

[@ight_of_heart]

Here's a curious post on caste based fortresses from 3 years ago: www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/2nm2bw/so_i_had_an_idea_about_caste_organization/ Caste idea seems to have been around a while, here's it being mentioned 5 years ago: www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/tayzk/im_bored_with_the_standard_fortress_ideas/ In the second thread, there's also an idea of separating waves into mini-fortresses. I wonder if there's a practical sense in a distributed society (failure resistance?) combined with a caste system.

[@McgoganLives]

Looking forward to seeing you send your Dwarves off on Crusade in the new update.

[@kruggsmash]

THAT makes two of us, dude :)

[@karthiknambiar9839]

damn! that ending with the ghost children playing make believe..... so haunting.... so goooooodddd!!!

[@EmperorSmith]

A professional Zombie Wrangler may have been a good idea. A dedicated military dwarf who's job it is to lay to rest the errant undead raised by your Necromancers. Equipped with Hammers or Maces, something blunt.

[@kruggsmash]

Hey that'd be sick, huh? Reanimated zombies don't carry weapons so they're usually fairly easy to kill for armed/skilled dorfs. I think the whole undead army defense might work well if I had a squad or two of fighting dorfs around to take care of the straggler-zombs. Good thinkin'!

[@Akranejames]

Aren't the zombies (your zombies, I guess) "friendly" to necromancers? Because that's kinda the answer then; just make sure everyone becomes a necro and you're set. Might need a somewhat elaborate set-up to make it work well, though.

[@morpheus_uat]

This was an epic story about the rise and fall of Uthra Medinacu's Fortress, a Necromancer Fortress

[@martinrobert358]

This has really got me thinking about advantages of necromancers. I don't see much use of necromancers in hand to hand combat. Imagine this if you will... A fortress with fortifications and a corpse stockpile outside near the fort. Put the necros in a burrow inside the fort next to the outside corpses so they can see them through the fortifications. A siege happens with goblins. The corpses get resurrected because the necros can see the corpses but they can't get them through the fortifications and take down the vile force of darkness automatically. Make a few hammerlord squads and take down the corpses that were resurrected. Rinse, repeat. This sounds like loads of fun. I'm going to try this.

[@greatlordbalder788]

Pretty interesting stuff. I guess for a roleplay concept you could create an immortal character, but I don't see it working to well in Fortress mode. Unless you want your monarch to be immortal. That would be pretty cool.

[@kruggsmash]

Yeah, what the heck! I mean, you could really do a lot of neat things with this I think.

[@TheeFoolishNoob]

Wow. A dwarf fortress series that doesn't bore the crap outta me. Good job! Time to watch the rest of your videos

[@FifinatorKlon]

Dude. That's an interesting and underrated video format you got there. Hope you make more stuff.

[@grizzledude344]

It's not super new anymore but that opening sequence is catchy as hell.

[@kruggsmash]

Thanks, dude. Chriswk210 made it. You can find him and his work on Fiverr.com. He does the BEST work around!

[@MisterUnlikely]

Until the undead have better friend/foe detection, I think it's safe to say that they're not a great option: hard on frame rate, likely to kill your own fortress members, et cetera... I can see where they might be handy as deep cavern guards, as expendible critters to fight with the creatures that spawn in the caves, but again, they're not particularly easy to locate where you want them.

[@kruggsmash]

As unfeasible as they seem, I still can't help but think they can have SOME use in fortress defense. We'll figure it out one day!

[@monst3rderek259]

@@kruggsmash you can get rid of migrants, and vampire check them with zombies.

[@michaelwildermoth8508]

Dwarves will write boring books if they have no scholarly skills, but are set to be scholars. Reading in the library is a recreational activity for dwarves, so they do it when they'd otherwise be idle. So if you've got a library, but no tavern or temple, I guess the dwarves will spend alot of time reading. Were the zombies really hostile to the necromancers? That might be a bug. AFAIK zombies are only supposed to attack the living, and necromancers count as undead. Though if zombies are fighting other zombies, something weirds definately going on. Weird faction stuff, I guess. Thanks for the episode!

[@kruggsmash]

Yeah this whole goddamn thing was just loaded with the bugs, eh? Oh well! I sill had fun, anyways. Thanks for watching, pal!

[@XiaoYuanHao]

Awesome, Krugg! And quite creepy, too xD I must say, I quite enjoy such little experiments! You might be the first to try this one ... I would have thought, the zombies would leave any necromancers alone, they should have all power over life an death after all, especially other undead. Do necromancers at least get left alone by the ones they raised themselves?

[@kruggsmash]

Thanks, bro! Nah, man. Looks like necromancers zombies just try to kill all living things they see! That's ok, though. One day we'll figure out how to use their powers for fortress defense!

[@monst3rderek259]

@@kruggsmash in the new update zombies are enslaved by necromancer who raises them. They will not attack if he does not want it. Most of the time.

[@MooseRouse]

Didn’t think there would be a video out today because of the Turkey day, but you never cease to amaze me! Great video as always And the Serpent Men fled their cave homes to the surface, only to find fiends of bones and mist. But they rejoiced, for their savior cast down the fiends and offered his undead hand to them, he would teach them the ways of his art, if only they would accept him as the one true god. And so the Undead King, Uthra The All Knowing swept his undead army across the land, with his Necromancer Snakepeople keeping order in the conquered lands. The world would know only suffering, for years, and years.

[@kruggsmash]

Hey, a lot of you beautiful bastards aren't even from America! What about them?! Oh man, I WISH I could explore the serpent men a bit more. I love that little story!

[@danflanagan3406]

I've been hooked and binge watching for ten day love dwarf fortress this is the best content I've watched since Onefjef maybe even better keep it up :-D

[@Dillinify]

About the locked doors - it could be a ghost. Those otherworldly bastards sometimes like to mess with doors and hatch covers.

[@Areanyusernamesleft]

See the beginning shows why you should train your would be scholars to be warrior-monks first. :p

[@ss-oq9pc]

Dwarf fortress defenses with necromancers and their zombies: This is just an idea that popped into my head while watching this, I've never done it. A draw bridge and moat, but instead of water I imagine you could get your necromancers in there. OR, you could have a narrow passage way that enemy traffic gets diverted to during a siege, the passage has traps that either slice them up or knock them down into a pit below which has the nercos and zombies. If the enemies get sliced up then you have more zombie parts crawling around. Sounds pretty cool actually.

[@christopherclayton5500]

"Well, not really the end I had envisioned for our horseshoe crab man necromancer leader, but here we are."

[@Empmortakaten]

I really hope you revisit this, because with a little more testing knowledge and forethought you can make it a workable and dangerous idea. Just be prepared to occasionally flood the map with lava to clear up the unkillable undead, or use masses of cage traps to contain the useful/whole ones and dispose of the buggy unkillable type by magma pit/atom smash...etc.

[@Astrobiologica]

goddamn werellamas, life throws them at you just when you least expect them !

[@kruggsmash]

Every damn time! Got the wallets btw! I keep forgetting to tell you, heh. They are so goddamn amazing, dude. I couldn't even tell you how amazing we think they are! Thanks so much!

[@GrahamFox]

loved this mini-series you narrate these really well.

[@kruggsmash]

Thanks, dude! It's not easy sometimes!

[@reviewreaper8508]

At the time, Krugg's trader fort had never heard of the rise of zombie bacon, which really re-defined the "foodchain". Some argue it also revolutionized meat farming (even in evil biomes), but (mermaid) farming in ocean biomes took the cake in farming history.

[@lion9575]

No, the dwarves reading necro books is definitely tied to retiring fortresses. They wont read them at all unless you retire their fort. Also I am really glad to see that someone finally learned to use my technique to disengage immortal zombies by using burrows!

[@kruggsmash]

Damn buggy necros, huh? Yeah, the burrow trick is pretty damn handy, huh? Works like a charm most of the time!

[@arbitrarylines5076]

Hope you’re having an excellent thanksgiving, this video has made mine that much better! Thank you for all that you do

[@kruggsmash]

I am, dude. Glad to have made yours better! truly, dude!

[@sminserk6769]

I just started playing DF and watching your videos(short fortress series first) and it's so cool 👍

[@reviewreaper8508]

Is the last part a Steins;Gate quote?

[@tomasalfani874]

Hey Krugg, i have a fun idea, Make two rooms, the necromancer one, that would get a burrow for necromancers, and a 2 door little path to a food stockpile, The necromancers would live outside and the non-undead would live inside the fortress and when the necromancers were hungry you just locked their door, open the other one, haul some food, reverse the progress and the necromancers would eat!

[@kruggsmash]

Hey, fun fact. Necromancers don't need to eat, drink or sleep! I could just lock em' underground in a 1x1 space and they'd live till the end of days! that sound goddamn horrendous.

[@Yggdrasil42]

What an amazing story. Loved it.

[@teemuk2027]

Hey cool stuff. Would you consider making a short fort about vampires too? Maybe you can create dual-society where other half is plain dwarf while the other half or fewer are vampires; walled out living in the same fortress so they don't actually see each other. Only at full moon a few chosen are led to the gates and offered to the 'Great ones'. The pact is that at times of turmoil the Great ones shall come to defend the dwarfs from outside intruders. Or something.

[@NationalDevin]

You could always get two necromancer's and build a wall outside of your main Fortress. There should be two walls for your bodies to get collected between oh, and you could either make a sub fort for your necromancer 2 live in or just have it aside remote he gets sent to, so that way if you guys get invaded you can let them into the walled section, then pull the lever to seal off the area and then send your Necromancer into the sub room that would expose them to the body of the undead and just have them destroy it from there. And then you just lock the zombies up in there until the next Siege and then open the door and let them charge out and pick off the stragglers of both sides that way. Kind of similar to The War Dog versus the demon cenario I proposed

[@ronanlyons5525]

Possible epic there if you circulate a copy of the book to every library in the world. Very entertaining short fort.

[@semitesupreme175]

Oh man! That was great! this episode would have fit great in October.

[@kruggsmash]

Yeah! Damn, I wish I could have gotten this closer to Halloween!

[@ultimategrungo]

I wonder if you could pull off a Tomb King thing, where you make your monarch a necromancer and entomb them in a dedicated crypt at the end of a long fort. Ritually sacrifice all their followers (with the promise of eternal life), have the necro carry the last few corpses to coffins.... I'm not sure what would happen at that point. You might need an adventurer to actually raise all those zombies and bring them to battle. Point is, you have an army to reanimate when the time comes to retake your place as ruler over the living.

[@kruggsmash]

Hey, I mean why the hell not? I'm sure we'll be exploring the necro-fort again at SOME point!

[@williamsrosewald6173]

Happy thanksgiving krogg!!!! The new update is out too, thank u gravy gods!!!! 1)Omg they fixed the artifacts categories in legend mode, no longer have you dig through hundreds of codexes, to look for that slightly more interesting artifact made in a retired fort!!!! PS: I am fine with waiting a few bug releases before you drop in for a new long fort. Maybe a short fort so you can review the update and let the community know of interesting new features and your personal opinions/noticed bugs etc. 2) I noticed that trolls can adopt artifacts as family heirlooms, which is weird. I wasn’t that trolls can reproduce well outside of world gen. Doesn’t matter, i like it.

[@kruggsmash]

Happy Thanky-G to you too, bro :) Yeah! New update! I'm already planning out next week's Short Fort which will hopefully feature the new update. I't gonna be sick :D 1) Oh snap! That is killer! 2) Again, sick! Man this is gonna be amazing!

[@etmuir]

That intro is f****** amazing

[@DAMD01]

The new update is out now!!!!

[@valentinfelix1708]

Time to grow a new beard \o/.

[@Toxic9813]

WHAT?!???!

[@nickmachock1200]

Dario Martínez hold on a second

[@mishadonchenko4362]

Be warned, the release is very, VERY unstable, and is not yet available for Linux due to a technicality. An important thing is that the game crashes if you try to run worldgen in fullscreen mode, so don't do that!

[@DAMD01]

Misha Donchenko meh, i never use fullscreen so shouldn't be a problem :)

[@NRaah]

From what I know about this, when dwarves become necromancers or vampires, their physical stats double. So if a dwarf is superdwarvenly strong, they will be double that by becoming a necro or vamp, then they can double it again by becoming the other. Why would you want these guys in your fort? Military. Put them in separate buildings outside to train (make then very high quality) and lock them in until you are invaded.

[@kruggsmash]

Certainly an idea right there! I really hope I get another chance in the future to try out something like this. We WILL figure out a way to utilize their power for fort defense!

[@Accan2]

Thanks for another awesome episode, and happy thanksgiving, Kruggo! You rule! Enjoy the feast!

[@kruggsmash]

You're very welcome, pal! You're too kind :) Happy, Thanky-G to you too!

[@christopherg2347]

16:00 "Have you tried closing the game, and loading the save back up again?"

[@austin7203]

Great short fort glad to see that it worked hope you'll enjoy the new update

[@austin7203]

Also happy Thanksgiving everyone

[@kruggsmash]

Thanks, brother! I' ll be working on another Short Fort for next week featuring the update! Hopefully I don't have too much trouble with that, lol!

[@austin7203]

Nah man you'll do something sweet like lead a squad of famers that takes on a vault and steal the table binding a demon to you in the fort

[@bookybrony526]

I'd say this teaches us the Necromancers might be more trouble than they're worth, at least with the current build of the game. That said, the library was pretty fun, I never played around with them before myself, but I'll give it a go next time. I hope in the future some of your fortresses will include a small library with a scholar or two and a scribe. Could be a fun addition to add to it all. As for future fortresses, I still hope you'll give a volcano a go.

[@kruggsmash]

I'm sure that ONE day i'll have another go at the whole Necro thing. I see some real potential there, honestly. I will DEFINITELY be giving a volcano a try at some point!

[@sagridlocked2963]

I really love the book art Krugg, it's great.

[@tsunamio7750]

ooOooo MY goood! This is the horseshoe crab necromancer part two! I have been waiting for it for so loooong! Thank you!

[@kruggsmash]

Glad to please! I really hope you liked the conclusion, dude :D

[@tsunamio7750]

I did! You might want the dev to have a look at your experiment by the way, might give him some ideas. :-)

[@matthewspencer2094]

10 months too late, but assuming zombies keep their old allegiance (so your corpse pile of enemies still want you dead) maybe combine necromancers and war dogs. They are allied to you... The dogs would be fodder their first life, unkillable on their second.

[@LokleyTheo]

Can't believe that after this you've chosen crocodile pit over zombie pit in Monsterkiller!

[@keeperofthetriforce7]

maybe they need to learn another spell one to control said animated corpses

[@kruggsmash]

f'real now- sheesh!

[@Felix.Fictus]

Yea we need a "better necromancy" mod. Pretty silly that the zombies you summon attack your allies.

[@ryap1]

Happy thanksgiving and happy New Update!

[@vidsmaker556]

Can't wait to see a fort with the new update!

[@kruggsmash]

THAT MAKES TWO OF US!

[@StarFoth]

Kinda wish that the zombies were friendly to the fortress and those that it is neutral or allied to.

[@ecbrd8478]

If you don't want a fort full of walking corpses, then don't keep so many necromancers around! Why not embrace it?

[@MidnightSt]

1:35 Dwarf Fortress lecturing us on what "critical mass" and "chain nuclear reaction" is =D

[@LordWoffingshire]

The annoying thing about necromancers is that they don't actually command their undead. Sure, the zombies follow around the one who raised them, but the necromancer doesn't tell the zombie what to do. As such, unless you have a fort entirely of necromancers and make a safe way for children and migrants to also become necromancers super quickly, The zombies of the necromancers in the fort will kill any new dwarves simply because those dwarves aren't undead or necromancers.

[@kruggsmash]

I'm *fairly* certain that the raised corpses just attack any of your fortresses' residents including necromancers. That seems to be what was happening anyways. I am not discouraged, though! One day we will utilize their deadly powers!

[@XX-sp3tt]

You can't command your zombie army? What a drag!

[@kruggsmash]

Y'know? Totally stinks!

[@noahmiller8042]

Happy thanksgiving Kruggsmash! also i hear the new update is out, i cat hardly wait to see what your gonna do next

[@kruggsmash]

Thanks, Noah! I hope you have a happy Thanky-G too! I am excited to see what I do next, too!

[@niles1492]

I kinda liked this Undead War... The Ghost children, though were absolutely terrifying

[@ShadowmarkReturns]

I feel like it's a bug, like the game can't figure out what is an enemy raised zombie and an ally raised zombie, just labeling it an enemy.

[@tomt5745]

A sad end. A great story. Cudos!

[@kruggsmash]

Glad you liked it, buddy!

[@KaosKontrol92]

Make a separated library building, that is exclusive for a few select Necromancers.

[@tomaszprzyby784]

I kind of expected it to not go well. This game need the necromancy update ;p

[@kruggsmash]

I always have my hopes up! Guess I should learn my lesson already, lol

[@nickmachock1200]

Happy thanksgiving my man

[@kruggsmash]

To you as well, buddy :)

[@saiyanwannabe6896]

Wooo, two shortforts in one month

[@kruggsmash]

And hopefully another to come next Thurs featuring the new update!

[@saiyanwannabe6896]

Oh hell yea, the UPDATE! *jumps with joy*

[@Z3r0Sk83r]

So, do zombies only ignore necromancers in adventure mode? Seems like it. Guess it would be a little broken if nothing undead decided to hurt a fort of 30ish necromancers

[@pauliusthemad3498]

I think new update allows to make these forts easier - as mine now has one necromancer running about by accident - Used raid option that been added to get some books you see

[@AugustusSinclairWhite]

Seems like a cluster of Necromancy.

[@kruggsmash]

A seriously cluster-nec, yes.

[@johannes7107]

Such a great series!

[@camzxlegendary9649]

Happy thanks giving :D

[@kruggsmash]

Thanks, bro :) You too dude.

[@bloodhat3097]

Amazing and epic. Its really shame that necromancers arent so usefull. And its also shame you in past didnt used Libraries., they seems fun. Also i am reallly looking for another Forts. They are always amazing :)

[@loszhor]

His quest for revenge only lead to his demise! Such a waste.

[@madcapbone2656]

make a zombie fight pit, throw the corpses down a hole and rez them at the bottom. then make the main entrance a retractable bridge over i the death pit. pits too deep to escape but not deep enough to kill

[@nathantoy5711]

Give them dark steel armour and massive dark metal maces and they'll be of great use in battle.

[@trunksn1]

Krugg, you had ghosts, and they can open locked doors...

[@VeritasPsyche]

Why doesn't my [very recently blinded] crab-necro scribe books?!?!

[@kruggsmash]

you suggest I use logic when dealing with my..horseshoe crab man necromancer. Thats fun {:))

[@ouanlynch6404]

Yeah! Dorfs!

[@kruggsmash]

Woo! Dorfs!

[@ProfessorVuubik]

The is it with Dorfs and bloody undead heads? Seems to seize their ability to function or something.

[@kruggsmash]

I mean, to be fair...I'd probably cease to function as well!

[@bantuatha]

Well it worked but it backfired at the end also the brand new update is out Happy Thanksgiving!

[@kruggsmash]

Spectacularly as well! Happy Thanky-G to you too buddy :D

[@bjarnes.4423]

Why were none of the reanimated corpses intelligent undead? Did they get added in a later update?

[@keith5615]

Necromancy? Bah, true evil involves Wagonmancy.

[@kruggsmash]

Wagonmancy? Never heard of this dark magick. I'll have to look into it.

[@lobstertail]

Ready for more

[@kruggsmash]

More to come! I hope to have another short fort next week featuring the new release!

[@SuperZergMan]

I guess those tower necromancers were more ticked off about those stolen books than they let on...

[@SuperZergMan]

This video reminded me of a fort I had a while back. I had a zombie siege and all my dwarves got killed, except one. Turns out he was a vampire, so the zombies didn't attack him. He lived in the zombie-infested fort for a while, until I got board trying to do stuff with just one dwarf.

[@kruggsmash]

THAT is goddamn amazing right there. The vampire king of a zombie fortress. I like it!

[@yugiohcoolguy]

have you ever seen a dwarf who dreams of immortality try making one of those into a scholar maybe he will make his own necromancy books

[@Mateo-oq7ui]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the zombies did not attack the necromancers, just the regular dwarves. So maybe the lower fortress wasn't all that unsafe.

[@kruggsmash]

Oh, they attacked the necromancers alright.

[@jamesgoudreau1940]

Turkey, football and zombies what a day.

[@kruggsmash]

Heck yeah, bruh :)