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Going by how my college statistics class went, our instructor made up 98% of the class as she went.

Alright, so I have my magma forges and smelters set up above a volcano (yay!) and every time I designate a magma smelter to be built, dwarves rush in and pile up bins full of metal bars, ores, and other miscellaneous stuff from the nearby stockpiles. It all ends up next to the opening in the floor to ensure the smelter has power, and has to be moved before the smelter can be placed.

Is this a bug, or just dwarves being dwarves?

Make a separate seed stockpile that doesn't accept barrels, but takes in seeds. Bags of seeds should begin to pile up there, without being placed in barrels.

That, or individual seeds will be stocked there, but it achieves the same effect.

Bold part is important, or else seeds will stay in barrels.

I've started using a few different embark profiles, depending on the area I'm trying to settle.

I usually take 2 picks, food and booze (trying to max out as many barrels as I can by buying all the 2point meat), some plump helmets, seeds for plump helmet, cave wheat, and sweet pod (ordering more from the first caravan), 10 or so logs, and some stone to turn into blocks. Sometimes I get some turkeys and make nest boxes, depending on the situation.

As for skills, I don't worry about mining, since I like to carve out the first soil layer for farms and basic essentials until I get enough migrants to do the heavy work. I take a proficient mason with building design and mechanics (try to increase mechanic skill as high as I can manage), a carpenter/woodcutter, a doctor/protonoble, 2 proficient farmers (one with brewing, other with cooking) and 2 basic military guys who start out as miners and get turned into full-time soldiers after the first or second migrant wave.

But its all about what YOU feel is needed, and how YOU want the game to play out. I think everyone will agree that no embark profile is "the best", there are just "optimal for this situation" and "you will die if you do this" (evil biome!)

Its still only in alpha, and adventure mode is really quite new to the game in the first place.

At least we get more world interactions soon

My current adventure involves several realtime days of making a fort, filling it with goodies, and causing it to fall. Then making an adventurer and going back to attempt to recover the goodies hidden there. Might make an entrance to HFS and all the caverns, make for more Fun. Might also make it into a story, not sure yet.

1. Go to the beach.

2. Find a crab of some sort, horseshoe or normal.

3. Pick it up and hold it, and one-step (.) for a day.

4. ?

5. Profit!