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Another method for not running out of seeds would be to ensure that you have several types of food available, so that when you're running out of your standard plump helmet spawn or your favourite above-ground crop, is to immediately start brewing it. When you use the plants for anything other than cooking you will get seeds from them, so if you're low on plump helmet spawn, cave wheat seeds, or even blackberry seeds, just brew up more alcohol! Sure, this could give you more booze than you need, but I'm running forts of 120 dorfs and with total booze stockpiles of over 1500 units of alcohol spread between 11 types. I've got the dwarf ones of wine, ale, rum, and beer, then strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, pineapple (modded so they're any land because dangit, I want pineapples!), potato, and carrot wines, and rye beer. Add in cotton for my textiles and I'm growing 12 types of plants, which is really giving me over 2k plants in storage, plus I've got turkeys giving me eggs and meat, pigs and animals my military hunts giving me more meat, and fisherdwarves bringing home the fish from the brook on the map.

At this point, I don't have any problem with food or seeds for my crops.

A Dwarven Child of Combatcloistered just punched a rhesus macaque in the head and killed it...

She sounds like my two-year-old nephew...

After our second goblin siege, in which we unfortunately lost one brave recruit who proved herself a macedwarf that day by slaying two of the almost twenty goblins that had her surrounded (rest in peace, Sibruk Limullogen) due to being caught by their massed horde while on patrol, we mined out the interior of the brook and created a tavern/skating rink during the winter! Now our dwarves and visitors can enjoy the chill of winter all year long with iced rye beer in the ice walled and ice floored building with a clear glass block roof.

The truly sad part about the dwarf's death was that it's possible it could have been prevented. I miscalculated the amount of armour I had produced and sent her and most of her squad out there with only a helm, shield, mace, and breastplate. She was missing gauntlets, greaves, her mail shirt, and high boots.

After uncovering a source of hematite and rapidly producing sets of armour, the dwarves of The Radiant Hall of Business are now frantically stamping every piece of it with their crest, which is taking quite a long time, truth be told.

One of my militia captains got into a scuffle with my weaponsmith and mayor in the tavern, and ended up smashing open the weaponsmith's right foot. Thankfully the hospital was only a few steps away and was well-stocked and able to very quickly and efficiently deal with the situation, which was good, since it would have been terrible to lose one of my two legendary weaponsmiths.

So the elves did show up with a caravan after all. It just took a few weeks. Then nothing eventful happened until autumn besides the brave militia of The Radiant Hall of Business fending off some white storks and a flock of Keas. Soon after the start of autumn, the goblin siege we'd been dreading appeared in the east, but my dwarves were well-trained and knew their orders well. The moment they appeared, the alarms went throughout the fortress for the civilians to take shelter inside while the majority of the militia went out to battle, with the squad of marksdwarves heading to their posts upon the eastern wall and towers as the main gates shut and the axe and spear dwarves headed to their positions in the courtyard. Evidently this was just a test of our preparedness, as the goblins numbered at only a baker's dozen or so.

The first bolt fired from our crossbows skewered a goblin through the head, dropping him instantly, and several others were soon to follow as the crossbow bolts dropped their ranks. Then, to our disbelief, a human bard decided that it was time to leave and made a break for it as three goblins crept along the south wall, out of the firing range of the deadly marksdwarves. Despite a quick re-organizing of the defenses, it proved unnecessary, as the bard was able to evade combat and escape safely. With the majority of the enemy force successfully incapacitated in front of the east wall and towers, the three brave goblins that had been heading south made it to the heavily trapped and left-open west entrance, only for one of them to be pinned to the wall as he walked right in front of a redeployed marksdwarf. The other two pressed onward, only to be immediately slain by the sharp glass traps that stood in their path.

Seeing the end in sight with the promise of a complete and total route of the goblin skirmishers, the order was given, and the twenty axe and spear dwarves waiting for their chance rushed out through the trap corridor, slaying the pinned goblin with two quick spear thrusts before advancing onto the others that were already in retreat to the east. The last two surviving goblins died with crossbow bolts and spears in their back, and our first Elite Marksdwarf was forged this day in our first battle.

Only a couple days later, the caravan arrived to witness us cleaning up the bodies and what they'd left behind, and their traders came to the tavern to hear of the battle. Glory to the barony of Ateshiton Kitig, The Radiant Hall of Business!

Speaking of elves, the tree-huggers skipped out on sending a caravan and instead delivered a diplomat, warning those of The Radiant Hall of Business of their displeasure in the number of trees we've cut down. Well sorry, elves, but without a source of coal and until we mine down to the magma your precious trees will have to serve as the fuel for our forges. We have business top conduct!