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7th Limestone

What? ... Look, I've had no me-time for six months. I deserve it, all right?

19th Limestone
More migrants! More hands! Yay!

16th Timber
Finally something happens! This autumn has been dull dull dull up until now, but merchants are here!

22nd Timber

Yeah, these are gneiss mugs, aren't they? ... Oh, fine.

27th Timber
So, I had a nice little chat with the outpost liaison about how next year, the merchants should bring metal bars, booze, and coal. In return, they requested that we produce powder, earrings, and cheese, among other things. =/


Winter has arrived on the calendar.
End-of-season report
Wealth: 14068☼ created, 18209☼ imported
Siege: No
Orders: 0 out of 0 mandates unmet
Population: 20 (up from 14)
Death: 0
Borders: 0 caravans turned away of 1 arrival, Trade Depot accessible

Economic rule updated:  "If fortress wealth is unavailabe after first year because of lack of broker, it is assumed that fortress wealth is 0 and level 4 restrictions will be imposed."

Yeah, that seemed like the obvious solution and what I would have totally done if I hadn't had my traditional broker-appointment thingy at the first caravan.

Seasonal report of Alath Etesdumat:

17th Limestone, 200
The Beer of Legends has decided to join the Dwarven Free Trade Alliance.

Unfortunately, the rest of the Mountainhome thinks this is a stupid idea. So we have to set out and make our own fort to do it.

As is tradition, we began the embark planning meeting by throwing a dart at the world map. Unusually, the dart landed in a favorable position, so the normal next step of saying "Armok does that location suck, just cross-reference the prospector data already" was skipped. Deep and shallow metals, many trees to slay, and flux stone were all present. Good enough for us!

As is tradition, we chose seven dwarves to lead the way and get something set up for those who would follow.

As is also tradition, we requested a guiding spirit from Armok, who would choose what we would take on our journey and what we would research in the few months' travel time.


It is well within the guiding spirit's right to give us nicknames and titles so that it may more easily remember us, and they are known for choosing them to fit a theme, but... this is not a theme I understand. Oh well. (I have been dubbed the "Heir of Breath", as it happens. I don't know what that means.)

1st Granite, 201
We have arrived.


First thoughts: that is a LOT of galena. (not shown: a lot of galena)

"Serket", "Maryam" and I have begun digging out the fort entrance. "Vantas" is waging noble war against the foul trees that infest this landscape, "Leijon" is hunting, and "Makara" and "Harley" are setting up temporary workshops. "Harley" gets straight to work on beds for us, while "Makara" prepares to butcher anything "Leijon" brings back. While he waits, he sets up a temporary pasture for the turkeys we brought with us; with any luck, their eggs will provide enough food for quite some time.

Where does the guiding spirit get these names?

15th Granite
We've started digging out a bedroom area.


I've been in a few forts, and this is the least sucky bedroom design I've seen. It's still kind of awful, though.

26th Granite
With that done, we've laid down plans for a farm. They're a bit vague at the moment, since we don't know where the boundary is between the soil and the stone, but we'll find it soon enough.

15th Slate
So, apparently, "Leijon" isn't actually any good at hunting, as she's used up all her ammo and brought back nothing. So "Vantas" takes some of the logs he created in his holy war and makes bolts out of them. lrn2aim, honestly.

And while he's there he can make pots for storage and mugs for trading. yay

4th Felsite
In addition to all this galena, there is also tetrahedrite. double silver all the way cross the sky


Also the farms are dug out and "Harley" is getting to work on, uh, farming.

27th Felsite
"Leijon" has finally brought back a kill, and


spore we're falling down all these eggs

i warned you about birdsplosions, Urist
i TOLD you dog!!!!

Summer has arrived on the calendar.
End-of-season report
Wealth: Unknown (no broker)
Siege: No
Orders: 0 out of 0 mandates unmet
Population: 7 (no change from 7)
Deaths: 0
Borders: 0 caravans turned away this season of 0 arrivals, Trade Depot accessible

All right, genning a vanilla world now... The only thing I'll really miss is the display case mod. Useless-ass artifact cups... (useless ass-artifact cups?)

I'll try this. Are mods allowed? (if they aren't I'll change my restriction to not be meaningless)

Main:
Booze
Weapons

Types:
Bins
Alloy metal bars
Stone blocks
Stone crafts
Coffins

Specific items:
Dimple cups
Adamantine breastplate
Nether-cap barrels
Ice walls (Constructions count as items, right?)
Tower-cap training spears
Bauxite mechanisms
Iron buckets
Tin bins
Gold statues
Steel battle axes

Restriction:
Moody dwarves must not be aided


eta: And how do we decide which restrictions to use on waves 1-3?

We're on .25 now.

Is he going to release a new version every day now or what?

I got this today too with the new version.

Mining out more gems fixed it, sorta. It seems it doesn't start keeping track of your gems until you build the workshop. (dunno how a second one would handle it yet)

Crutches got fixed yesterday, man.

Both, once dual-wielding gets fixed.

Never mind that dual-wielding is completely impractical.