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There aren't any plants anymore.

Theres ONE planter doing anything. If he didn't keep returning to the meeting hall every five minutes, I could actually have been able to plant some of my 400+ seeds.

I've been making cages, so I can butcher some stray animals- I've got a lot of walking meat walking around.

I've a population of 48 dorfs, and 35-40 don't move. I'm not even able to make anything out of metal, as I lack the coal required.Despite this, my metalsmith has claimed the workshop, when before he had avoided it like the plague. I doubt anything good will come of this.

Ugh,if I abandon and start again, i'll just be put in the same position...

 

Everyone stands around doing nothing.

No-one wants to brew anything... I've got a guy gutting gems, just so he's doing something - I can't trade, so there's no reason to.

And now I need to remember how to move bodies, bacause one of my dorfs went mad, and tried to kill everyone (he was put down instantly). I mean, I've got a coffin and all, it's just...

I'm bored of watching them mill around aimlessly in the meeting hall. Only the Mason and the Carpenter ever do anything, and no-one ever leaves the hall to use the rooms designated to them, despite the rolling clounds of miasma engulfing them.

Because no-one moves, I can't make my depot accesable. There's no way around this...

I can't even kill my dorfs spectacularly, no-one is willing to move to dig to the magma sea- yet they aren't depressed enough to kill each other (the dorf went insane because he must've wanted some kind of workshop I didn't have).

Ugh! It's ironic that one of the only dwarves even doing anything is called Urist!

Nah, the merchant/donkey starved to death.

I just want to grab all the stuff from the bodies.

Now to try and force the dorfs into doing jobs...

N-ooo.

I've been using random, as I got tired of restarting over and over.

When I get the hang of things...

K.

I've been looking through the guides for fort mode.

I just need to get farming down, and I could probably survive.

Anything uploaded yet?

Oh, i've plenty of above-ground soil access. That's where my other farm plots are, and i've set different seeds for different seasons, i'm just sure it's not working.

I'm up to 22 dwarves now, and the pond they all drank from has dried up. I made a mechanics workshop so I could make a well, but it requires something I don't have (a skill not an item)

I'm trying to make a record of everything, and i've a bookeeper with a few relevant stats and an office, but no idea how to make records. So next to food/above drink it always says '200'? even though I have no meat or fish, and one plant. I've got a metric fuckton (pardon my profanity) of seeds though. About 8 of the dorfs are farmers too.
I can't conceivably see how I survived the first year. Hey, at least i'm so poor that nothing has attacked me yet.
What else happened? Oh, yeah, I made a bunch of training weapons for my do-nothing millitary, but they all got stolen. whoopee.

Can't remember what else is happening.