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It just ticked over into winter.  Winter may not go that well.



Yes, that's right.  Eight ambushes.  In a row.

After consideration, I believe I have an answer that is ultimately dwarf-burglar-proof.  It is exceedingly simple.  I shall test it out.

I don't think it'd be difficult to survive.  I think it'd just be annoying.  I wouldn't do this on a frozen tundra map, and I wouldn't do it with orcs, but it should be eminently survivable.  I had an empty wagon/unskilled peasant challenge in Legendary Lands, and they managed to survive nearly two years before acquiring an axe or pick.  Granted, they had fishing, but...

What to bring:
1) Thread
2) Dye
3) Brewable plants, at least some plump helmets until cooking is started
4) Logs/stone for furniture, buildings.  Don't need much.  50?
5) Pick(s)
6) Barrels
7) Bucket, barrel, block for the dyer's workshop.

Dwarves would be:
1. Proficient dyer
2. Proficient weaver
3. Proficient clothier
4. Proficient brewer
5. Proficient cook
6. Appraiser/judge of intent
7. Whatever

1.  Embark somewhere with water.  Soil would be nice.
2.  Dig out rooms (preferably in soil), move stuff inside.
3.  Build a carpenter's workshop, still, kitchen, dyer's workshop, loom, clothier's workshop, optionally, mason's workshop if you brought stone
4.  Carpenter/mason builds beds, tables, chairs, etc.
5.  Dyer/weaver/clothier make your trade goods.
6.  Brewer brews all of your plants.  Cook then cooks, I dunno, 75% of your drinks.


Even a no-modifier thread, no-modifier cloth, non-finely dyed pig tail shirt is going to sell for 100 dwarfbucks or so; in comparison, a masterpiece stone craft sells for 50.  Get a masterpiece pig tail shirt out of masterpiece thread and finely dyed, and it'll sell for hundreds of dwarfbucks -- you can always sew on images to jack it up some more.

You can get reams of cloth and dye from the elves, and more cloth from the humans, whereas stone and wood are pretty limited.  So if you can get to Spring, you should be good. 

After you've switched the dwarf's labors, you can always go to the 'j'ob list and cancel (with 'r') his current job.

What Squirrelwizard said.  As long as your legendary armorer is the only person with Armorsmithing active, she's the only one who'll process armor jobs, regardless of which forge they go to.  So you don't have to mess with workshop profiles.

But in the longterm, yes, workshop profiles + job manager do not play together.  I tend to have one or two of each type of workshop setup for legendaries -- when I crank out beds, I don't really care who does it, but when I crank out a bed for a noble's room, I want my legendary carpenter to do it.  You can play around with forbidding the workshop (and remembering to unforbid it when you want to use it), but I find in those cases I just tend to assign jobs to the shops manually.

Seems that you would be awfully screwed simply by having dead trade liaisons.  I started a map recently where the dwarf trade liaison arrived in the first autumn...on fire.

So, to ensure I have this right, you'd be able to mine as much as you want, as long as you dumped/forbid all of the stone thereof?

That grotto is *awesome*!

I thought about trying to do something based off of the name, but it never occurred to me to make the fort into a real grotto.  It looks amazing.