Bay 12 Games Forum

Sparse is equal to 2500 in advanced gen, and frequent is equal to 500.  Everywhere I think might be 100, but that gives so much stuf fit almost feels cheaty, so I usually don't use it.  I like the scarcity around 500-1000 to give a decent amount of stuff, but not so much that I'm not challenged. 

Autumn comes, and that oldest immigrant brat grew up.  He's doing some basic hauling while I figure out which starting industry he's likely to spend the rest of his life in.

The autumn immigrant wave arrives.  Once again half kids.    Of the three adults, two have fishing related skills.  The other is a mason with Hammerdwarf ranks.  Lovely.  There's no river on the map, and the first cavern appears to be as dry as a bone (looking for a spot to drain my resevoir into, if necessary, I'll just have it drain into the lowest point that opens to the edge of the map.)  There are murky pools on the map, but they are few in number and small.  What the hell do these fishers (noob fishers at that) think they're going to catch here?  Maybe if they're lucky, they might find some turtles.  I'm not wasting labor on fishing though, so time to see where they're needed.  One just has 2 ranks in Fish Cleaning and no other skills.  He's the other fisher's cousin, but she doesn't seem to know him at all.  He has no other family in the fort.  So he got "volunteered" to tap the volcano.

Got what ore was useful in the tunnels I dug under the spaces where the magma smelther and forges will be.  Then I send him in to carve the fortifications.  I read magma's acting a bit differently, so I sent an expendable dorf in who wouldn't be missed, the magma is more important than he is right now.  He carved it and ran like hell, didn't even get singed, but then I had the fortifications set where the magma would have to flow diagonally out of the volcano and then diagonally into the tunnels.  That may have slowed it enough to be tapped safely.  He maybe ne needed to do this again later, I'm also setting up an obsidian farm, and I'll need to tap magma for that too.

Most migrants, about 1/2 are between 12 en 18 years old. Most are about 16 years.
Considered adult and they can work, but they are just like bunnies. I have about 5, 6 births a season if not more.

That's cause they're horny teenagers.

Ok, genned up a new world.  Even if there are no good sites for a fort, it'll be good for adventuring -- I found 4 necro towers and at least one human ☼town☼.

Unfortunately, my game keeps crashing on me when the humans come to trade, so I think I'll have to scrap this fort.  I'll just say it sank into the swamp.

A shame too, I had finally reached the magma sea and was carving out my forges, and I was starting to lay the foundations of the outer walls.

Did I just never notice this before or is it new? Grazing animals that are starving (from never being anywhere near grass) actually get fed by their owners now. Is this part of animal caretaking skill?

Pets get fed somehow.  It's the stray grazers that starve.

Checking out the world with Iso World and found this:


It's a mountainous spike in the middle of a small valley.  This made me curious to see what it was so I embarked there.  What is it?  Why Urist, it's a volcano:



Luckily, the nearby dwarves didn't actually build anything on the spike.  The nearby embark squares are totally crapped up with dwarf and human settlements.

Mineral wealth isn't so hot though.  Prospector reports only native copper, galena, and a little bit of tetrahedrite.   Lots of clay, but no sand. The map is pretty shallow too, the surface is at z 149 and the bottom is z 103.  First cavern isn't very deep either, and has some water if the stream isn't to the player's liking.

Yeah, there's a lot of couples.  I'm finding the migration waves have a alot of spouses coming in, sometimes with children.  And they're often related to other people in the fort too, they're cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts, and uncles of previous immigrants.