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PTW!

This looks great. I'm downloading now to give it a go.

Suggestion for your patch notes... add the date of the update so people can more clearly see your progress over time.

Thanks for this cool experience!

You put the grate in the water tunnel leading to the well, not directly below the well.

If it's okay, I'm going to chronicle a little bit here of my experience with the guide...

First off, I selected a few different settings during world generation.
Large World & Minerals everywhere

Next, I took 2 males and 3 females of each recommended animal (untrained dogs), which dented my points a bit, but also speeds up animal production. The smaller number of points saw me leaving cooking off my skill list. Otherwise, I pretty much followed the setup guidelines. Looking at my dwarves today, though (I set up yesterday), it seems I have two dwarves with carpentry and woodcutting... I may have made a mistake. Oh well!

My parent civilization, The Wayward Mine (only 609 of us left), has been beset by a grand total of five wars, all perpetrated by a nearby large tribe of goblins (over 4k!) led by the female fox demon Arido Rulednoble the Bug of Dragons. Luckily, it seems that after the year 71, they decided to rest for 10 years before becoming engaged in three wars with other dwarven holdings.

The Entangled Helms of Drilling set out on the 1st of Slate, year 125 to found Gangmetal. The site is quite satisfactory, with plentiful lignite, hematite, native platinum, and more just sitting exposed on the surface. There aren't many trees and clay is sparse, but we have sand and it seems we'll be swimming in ores before long. The stream to the NorthWest will help ensure we have plenty of water.

It is now the 12th of Slate. We have begun preparing the large courtyard entrance to the fort. I understand the plans we received described a large portion of the fort as being exterior, but with the goblins and TWO towers in the vicinity, as well as kobolds, we have decided to restrict as much exterior access to the fortress as possible. Once we have enough stone, we'll construct a wall with a drawbridge entrance and build it high enough to prevent the damned greenskins from firing down on us from the cliffside. We've begun digging out the main entrance hallway for the fortress... it might be time soon to begin actually preparing designs for the fortress... I'll have to further consult the plans to see if we can use them.

Greetings, I'm abandoning my current fort on a volcano (Lots of gems, gold, copper/silver, lead/silver, etc., but not enough useful ores) and starting fresh in a new world with your guide just to see how it goes. I've played a lot in the past, but I wouldn't claim much in the way of expertise, mostly just a pretty decent familiarity with the game as a whole. Let's see how this goes.

I usually do medium history, any size world, medium beasts, medium savagery and very high everything else, but it seems like Kobolds are always completely absent from the embark screen. Am I doing something wrong, or do they die out at ridiculous rates? (I searched every term and phrase I could think of, but I couldn't find anything related to this issue directly)

Edit: Kobolds do not show on the embark screen and that does not mean that they haven't survived world creation. Thanks for the info!

So... just to summarize, it is best to only post on an old thread when you have something new to add, right?

Awesome! I'll be giving the mod another go once the update lands.

Is the new instrument system in? I haven't really seen instrument crafting at all, though I've bought some from the elves, lol.