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-If repeatedly defending a besieged fortress isn't difficult enough for you, here are a few challenges you can set for yourself. You might also want to check out the [[Game goals|List of goals]] for other ways to challenge yourself.
+#REDIRECT [[Challenges]]
-== ASPCA ==
-* No [[animals]]
-Don't bring any [[animals|pets]]. Furthermore, due to the possibility of animals being caught in them, don't build any [[traps]], either. If [[immigrants]] bring pets, get rid of them somehow. (If you're a particularly rabid ASPCA member, you could get rid of the pet-bearing immigrants, too, but that's probably excessive.)
-== City-States ==
-* No [[skill]]s
-* 7 or multiple of 7 of everything you bring
-At the start your dwarves split everything equally and move to 7 different locales that are not interconnected. They have to mine their own rooms, plant their own crops, use their own craft piles. This will probably require a bit of cross-fertilization until you get [[door]]s and can lock everyone in, but after that it is every dwarf for him/herself!
-== Dieting Dwarves ==
-'''Fishing Village'''
-Give your dwarves only the fishing skill and other fishing related skills (like bonecrafting.) Try to survive off a [[fish]] only diet. Flood the river and build houses above it so the dwarves can fish through their floors. There will be an extra challenge if the river freezes in the winter.
-'''Carnivore'''
-* No plants or seeds
-Only eat strays, pets, and animals you trap and hunt. No farming or plant gathering. Keep all your pets in cages and care for them as little as possible. Eat your dwarves' pets first for an extra challenge. If this upsets your dwarves, ridicule or ignore them. (If you are particularly heartless, you could cage those dwarves as well because anyone that empathizes with animals doesn't deserve any rights either.)
-'''Vegan'''
-* Obviously, no meat, fish, or dairy
-* Also, no leather, silk, or shell
-* In essence, construct an [http://archive.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Main_Glade Elven Forest]
-A fairly easy challenge. Take no meat and buy no meat. Butcher no animals. Gut no fish. Use no animal products like the [[Elf|elves]].
-'''IOGT/AA'''
-* No alcohol
-Quite possibly, this is the cruelest challenge that your dwarves can be given. Don't ever brew any alcohol. Build [[well]]s instead and watch your now teetotaller dwarves work slower and slower by the season.
-== Diplomacy ==
-* Six dwarves with only social [[skill]]s
-* One skilled dwarf
-Six courtiers of the king's court made some ill-advised remarks within earshot of the king, and as a result have been ordered to go found an outpost. They've hired you to make sure they survive. The six nobles only have social skills and refuse to do any work that is beneath them.
-== Dwarfsicles==
-Select a map region in the northern extremities (or another very cold area), where water is frozen for much or all of the year. All construction that can be undertaken with stone must use [[ice]], instead. Be sure to bring plenty of [[Plump helmet|Plump Helmets]] for brewing drinks!
-For an insane challenge, forbid yourself from digging in any material that can yield resources other than ice.
-== Exiled Warlord ==
-* Seven starting dwarves with no military skills
-* All immigrants immediately activated into the military
-* No killing them off on purpose!
-== Fort Geneva ==
-* Build only nonlethal (cage) traps
-* Sentient creatures ([[Goblins]], etc.) are to be considered prisoners of war and treated humanely
-* Suggested provisions for prisoners: a bed, a personal cell, a commons area, aboveground exercise yard, and the clothes the creature was wearing when captured
-* Inspiration: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions Geneva Conventions]
-== Gone to the dogs ==
-* One [[pick]]
-* A ton of [[animals]]
-Replace the starting equipment with an equal value in [[dog]]s or [[cat]]s.
-== Hermit ==
-* No [[skill]]s
-* One [[pick]] and no other supplies
-A well known and popular challenge. Kill off the 6 starting dwarves and any [[immigrants]] as they arrive, and try to make a living for the last dwarf.
-== Humanlike Fortress ==
-Pretend you're a filthy above-ground dwelling humie.
-* Build a town wall.
-**Only hovels and farms outside the town walls.
-*House your dwarves in small town homes
-**5-10 dwarves per house (they had pretty big families back in the day)
-**upstairs bedrooms, small dining room, maybe a single level basement.
-*House your workshops according to profession, not conveinance.
-*Build warehouses for stockpiles, and set guards outside them.
-*Create a keep, with its own wall, barracks, treasury, etc.
-*Create a market square.
-*Create a main street from the town wall to the market square and/or keep. Well-paved blocks, statues and decorative shubbery are a must.
-*No underground interconnections between different areas.
-* BONUS: Make a fountain at least 3 Z squares high in the center of the keep, with a +statue+(or better) on top of it.
-* BONUS: The fortress is built around a human town.
-* BONUS: Town has an awesome inn operating in same building as the brewery. REGULAR parties there, or it isn't good enough!
-* BONUS: All booze is kept within a town inn.
-* ÜBERBONUS : Make all of the fortress out of wood. And have a dragon attack it. Send us pictures!
-==Hunter Gatherers==
-*No skills
-*No pets
-*No items.
-Yes - no items. No anvil, no seeds, no food, <i>no booze</i> - nothing. Just the three [[tower-cap]] logs from the wagon.
-== Hunting Party ==
-* One marksman/ambusher
-* Two camp servants (e.g. one cook/brewer/herbalist, one butcher/tanner/leatherworker/woodcutter)
-* Four clients, all dabbling in marksman/ambusher but with primarily civilian skills.
-No anvil, lots of hunting dogs ... and a haunted wood. (In a terrifying wood, you may find all the trees & plants are dead, severely reducing long-term prospects.)
-== Immigration and Customs Enforcement ==
-* One miner/mason/architect
-* One woodcutter/carpenter/architect
-* Five military dwarves
-No anvil, lots of food, in a canyon - spend the first year building fortifications to interdict traffic. Immigrants can build a town around you, but your original dwarves remain dedicated to their mission.
-== <insert material> Fort ==
-'''Wooden'''
-Start on any treeless map and make everything that you can out of wood. That means no underground forts, though you may destroy hills and such. You lose points for bringing wood at the start.
-'''Glass'''
-Construct an above-ground fortress made entirely out of glass. Bonus points for not using magma, constructing your fortress under water, or using [[clear glass]] exclusively. No stone may be used. Metal may only be used for creating stuff that cannot be made out of glass.
-'''Soap'''
-Cleanliness is next to godliness! Soap is in the form of "bars", and so can be used as a building material just like any other type of bar. Show those elven traders just how much you despise their philosophies by building your trading outpost out of stuff derived from dead trees ''and'' dead animals. Too many cats? Build with cat tallow soap.
-== Jack Of All Trades ==
-* No starting skills for any dwarfs
-* All starting dwarfs and all immigrants immediately have all possible jobs activated
-* All workshops must be available at all times for all dwarfs of all skill levels
-Pray for strange moods!
-== Luddite ==
-* No mechanics or [[mechanism]]s
-* No [[machine]]s
-[[Traps]] and moving [[bridge]]s are forbidden, [[farming]] must be accomplished by hand.
-== Master Of One ==
-* All starting dwarfs can have one skill and one skill only
-* No changes are allowed on any dwarfs labour screen
-* All immigrants must stay with the profession/professions they arrive with
-* All peasants must be activated into the military
-Note: Since all dwarfs start with all hauling activated then that's fine- alternatively you could limit the peasants to hauling duties and only allow dwarfs with military skills into the military...
-== No Traders ==
-Whenever someone tries to trade with you, destroy them in the most unhumane way possible.
-Ideas;
-:*Drop them into a chasm/pit via a retracting bridge.
-:*Cause a cave-in.
-:*Attack them with seige weapons.
-Try to come up with imaginative ways of destroying the traders! --[[User:AlexFili|AlexFili]] 10:47, 10 June 2008 (EDT)
-== Outcast ==
-* No [[skill]]s
-* One [[pick]] and no other supplies
-Same as the hermit challenge, only with multiple hermits. Turn off immigrants or kill them.
-== Roughing it ==
-* No picks
-Don't [[dig]] or build at all. Bring no [[pick]]s, and don't ask for them in [[Trade depot|trade]]. Watch as the more "weather-averse" dwarves slowly go mad.
-== Siege Master ==
-* No traps
-* No drawbridges
-* No locked doors
-* No magma/water based defences
-== The Mad Butcher ==
-<sub>(this requires a tiny amount of editing to the raws)</sub><br>
-#Edit Dwarf Fortress\Raw\object\Creature_Domestic.txt. Remove the tag [BUTCHERABLE_NONSTANDARD] from cats and dogs. <br>
-#Start with a normal build except:
-#*One dwarf should be a dedicated butcher/leather worker
-#*buy minimal food
-#*bring as many puppies or kittens as possible
-#Drop all your puppies or kittens into cages or into animal pits as soon as possible. <br>
-#Dig a shaft 10 or more Z-levels deep, mark the top an animal pit.<br>
-#At the bottom of the shaft set up a butcher shop, a tanner shop, a bedroom, and some food and leather stockpiles.<br>
-#Set it all up so that the mad butcher cannot escape.<br>
-#As you need food, begin selecting animals to be dropped into your deep pit, next to the butcher. <br>
-#See how long a single butcher, butchering splattered kittens, can keep your fortress fed! Cooking and farming are cheating... raw meat for everyone!<br>
-== This. Is. SPARTAAAA ==
-At least 50% of your dwarves should be military 100% of the time, and train in spears, shield use and [[wrestling]]. All other dwarves are "helots" and shouldn't be given any skills &ndash; they can be pressed into the military during times of war, but given no equipment or at most a bare minimum of inferior weapons.
-You should refuse trade with caravans, instead attacking them if possible.
-Whenever a messenger appears, promptly enter aggressive negotiations and throw them down the well screaming; "THIS IS SPAARRTAAAAA...".
-You should forbid the use of gold and silver, the making of crafts, and the smoothing of walls or any other task that makes your fortress "beautiful."
-You shouldn't create chainmail or plate armour. <!-- why? --Savok --> <!-- because spartans don't wear chest armor. you should definately watch 300, it's like Dwarf Fortress on crack! --AlexFili --><!-- from what I've read, 300 isn't an accurate depiction of Spartan life. However, this challenge build is based on 300 --Savok --><-- Alright, fair point, 300 was based from a graphic novel, but many similarities between Spartans in 300 and in real history are present. --[[User:AlexFili|AlexFili]] 10:39, 9 June 2008 (EDT) -->You should only brew wine.
-[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta#Society Read more about the real Sparta]

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