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« on: February 28, 2012, 01:48:28 am »
this embark i pick one of the two available goblin civs. neither one seems to have any settlements. it is hard to find where the goblin caves are, i've only found one cave (and it belonged to kobolds, and even went into the first cavern layer) in adventure mode.
my migrants may be autogenned, presumably from populations of bandits scattered throughout the land. i have a few families, but have not experienced waves of child emigrants, snatched or otherwise. so far, all of my emigrants have only been members of this civ, and have been around hundreds of years, somehow, without doing anything notable.
i chose a flat jungle, bisected by a stream. i am at war with the elves, the dwarves, and the humans. there have been kobolds.
i immediately channel out the courtyard, and then build a wall around my diggings. i send a shaft down two z-s to get some stone, and build workshops in the courtyard. namely craftsgoblins workshop, butchers, kitchen, masonry, carpentry, and mechanics. i have a hunter shooting emus.
i pasture my trolls at the opening to my walled, sunken courtyard, and build a raising bridge to serve as the final portion of the wall, for defensive reasons. i send out woodcutters. everyone else starts hauling stone to the mason's to make stone blocks.
blocks take too long, so i build a floor in the courtyard, then a wall around it. i put in stairs up in the corner, then start roofing it off. then i wall in the roof, and the tower is started. it is summer.
by autumn, my warlord is pissed. he does not yet have his bedroom, office, or dining room. in fact, he has been sleeping in the dirt with all of the lower goblins. he's been forced to drink out of a murky pond. so the second floor of the tower becomes the warlord's chambers. i get his requirements met, just as i start construction on the third and fourth levels of the tower, the start of the goblin apartments. i section out the tower to make 6 single rooms (bed, cabinet, and coffer/chest) with a larger space for two groupings of three tables and chairs. on some floors i replace a room with a staircase, so that the ways up and down vary from floor to floor.
i start up the furnaces making charcoal out of the jungle i am clearcutting, and smelting the ore ive extracted in my thirst for building stone. i start cutting the channels for the well. it is winter. i forgot something. everything freezes in winter. all of my goblins are thirsty. i quickly sent herbalists out, build a still and start pumping out barrels. we make enough booze, just in time to sustain us till the spring thaw. all the while my cook stealing some for his concoctions, as i had forgotten to forbid booze as a cooking item.
we've got a thriving hunting industry. getting migrants has slowed construction of the site as a whole because of the need to house them. the tower keeps going up in levels of apartments. i also have to keep lining the well channel with stone. the migrants bring a bunch of trolls. i DO get a lot of troll children migrants. ive also had several troll births. troll children keep throwing parties at tables they can never attend because of their pasture.
the diplomat shows up, with a trading caravan. i dont have a depot, and i'm pretty sure i dont need anything, so i let them hang.
the next year though, i have a depot. and the well is finished. i started a moat, cross-able by drawbridge, 5 tiles wide. i clearcut paths to the traders. they had wagons pulled by trolls. i traded food for leather, so i can finish up making all the leather items my first military squad will need. i lost one to dehydration that year. i think it was the shearer that got his leg broken by a macaque.
i lost two more because they were idiots, and decided they wanted to build the moat edging on the slope that was underwater instead of the nice open tile on the other side. they have slabs now, for their corpses shall rot in the moat.
trolls to a good job of keeping kobolds out, as well as beating the holy hell out of those damn dirty apes.
i have a stockpile of various metal bars, primarily silver and copper. i think i still have some leather, but i am pretty sure i do have all the backpacks and waterskins i need for the first squad.
i have yet to assign that squad, or make weapons and armor. ive been building the tower down as well, walling off where i had mined out, and now carving into the rock itself. i have two artifacts. a bed (a "gift" to the warlord) and an amulet, both of galana.
it is spring.
an ambush, curse the friends of nature!
