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Spring is here, and we have grudgingly embarked upon the shadow of a rather ominous volcano under the leadership of I, Arber Towerrazors.  Just looking in the immediate vicinity of where we stopped I already have visions of building a stone wall to block off this little indent.

We are the first in generations to venture from our icy home, to the warmer lands our more mountain adapted brethren have claimed as their own. We are sun dwarves. (the major difference between sun dwarves and vanilla dwarves is the weapon list, and the randomly generated animal list.



Eyeing over the steep slopes I saw things to make my beard swear sobriety. Having not yet even struck the earth I've found sources of pentlandite (nickel), hematite (iron), and marble (flux). Everything we need to make the fabled starmetal to trade to the mountain homes.
I already can see the gleam in the eyes of our metal worker.





I've sent our resident farmer Kothvir Cryptpracticed to go out and gather some local plants in hopes of finding something brewable, while Fath Yellpanther (and he does) begins cutting trees.




Finally I take stock of the animals that we brought with us.



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My fellow dwarves have struck down a considerable amount of the forest, and we have completed our first measure of defense against the outside world. I've encased the starting site in a wall and have given the control of our only means of access and egress to a single lever. The positive upshot of this is we now have some viable farmland on the surface.

Cob Flyseals has !!died!! in the worthy goal of obtaining magma. His pick will be missed more though.
But now we can make more picks!!!  (immigrant miners)

Our have been working nonstop, saving the iron for weapons and trade goods, I have commissioned the creation of several sets of bronze armor, these should help when the inevitable drafting of immigrant dwarves arrives this spring.

The traders have come and gone, luckily we'd finally found everything needed to make cold steel and have been able to sell them swords made of the material. (nickel, iron, colbaltite)  I think we may have been cheated somewhat after appraising our import and export.

we've exported 11880 so far.

Soon production of starmetal shall proceed now that we've found a source of anthracite coal. Our magma forges will glow through out the night.  Only a month then my time as administrator will have come to an end, and it will be finally time for the next unfortunate soul to take over.