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"Hey, barkeep!  What is this swill?  I thought I asked for my usual poison!"

I start with sheep, turkeys, and geese for my food production.  Sheep produce wool, milk and meat, and have one of the smallest pasture requirements.  They're the most effecient grazer in the game that has multiple products.  Turkeys are the most productive birds in terms of eggs and meat.  Geese produce nearly as much meat as turkeys, but mature much quicker, the downside is that they don't lay as many eggs.

The draft animals that come with the wagon get butchered ASAP.  I like to keep the animals pastured inside for safety, and the draft animals take up far too much space.

This is the sort of thing for which dorfs have invented atom smashers, upright spikes, magma chambers, and the like.

Better defended roads being causeways surrounded by magma of course.

Keep the bogeymen, they're supposed to be part of adventure mode.

Yup, I learned the hard way to have an access stairwell whenever I dig out pits.

Processed the migration wave. 



Best dwarf in the group, a Great Weapon/Armor/Metalsmith.  She's going to be spending the rest of her life down in the foundry.  Some minor combat levels, but she's not getting wasted on the army.  She arrived with her husband, who is getting drafted, since he also has some minor combat skills, and is otherwise just a Glazer, and their four youngest children.  The other children are adults and the oldest ones have some families of their own.  Some of them are warriors.  Three of them are dead, and the two oldest kids that arrived got in a scuffle with a cave dragon a few years back and survived.  It might be interesting to see if this family becomes one of the major pillars of my fort's community.

Few other notables, mostly farmers, rangers, and fishers.  There was a young niece of one of my immigrants who is a doctor, and there was a pretty good trader, who will replace the expedition leader as broker.  The dwarves who had some basic combat skills but no useful civilian skills will form the nucleus of our military force.  Three fishers were pressed into service as miners, and the rest were assigned jobs as needed through the fort.

Yeah, I don't really expect much from this computer, it's a cruddy little netbook.  And I'm used to turning everything off and turning it back on bit by bit to see what I can run.

PC gaming can get so frustrating.

Anyway, turning everything off didn't seem to help much at all.  And I can't switch between z-levels either.