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I'm going to try my hand at adventure mode.

I looked in the wiki and there is surprisingly little on adventuring than a fortress.

There really isn't a good tutorial or description of anything, the Adventure Mode category only has 3 articles, mostly just on keyboard commands.

I would love for someone just to add what you can to the wiki. I'll see if I can add any information after a while.

I just sent all my dwarves to their extra crispy doom just for fun.

Wow, you guys have tons of advice.

I had too much lag starting out so I'm gonna try a new fortress in a smaller location.

Reducing to 1 proficient grower and far fewer seeds, that is what I needed to hear.

Played a couple adventure mode a couple times, but it gets graphic and cave spiders are nasty.

I'm trying to start a new fortress in a mountainous location.
I already checked out the site quickly and then quit.
As far as I can see there is a chasm, volcano, and running water (non-frozen)
Sand is also plentiful, however trees are not. I stretched the area horizontally so I have a favorable biome and can embark.

My build relies on building farms, (by flooding chambers) and setting up magma buildings for glass and metal. I am not starting with a metalsmith. Dwarfs will do multiple jobs.

By the way, how do you get purring maggots?

My dwarfs are as follows:

Leader: Miner; Carpenter; novice in leather worker, ambusher, judge of intent, appraiser, organizer, record keeper

I plan on using her for making bags from leather and barrels from wood, and as an extra miner.

Crafter: Skilled mason; Stone Crafter; Bone Carver; Mechanic

This guy is going to make bolts and other items I need, and smooth stone in his spare time.

MarksDwarf: Novice Ambusher; Wrestler; Proficient Marksdwarf; Armor user

His description called him adventurous, so he'll be my soldier

Main miner: Proficient Miner; Building Designer; Novice wrestler; novice armor user; novice ambusher

This guy will mine all the valuable ore and has some combat ability

Grower: Skilled Grower; Competent Brewer; Novice cheese maker; Novice Milker; Novice Animal Caretaker; novice miner

this guy likes purring maggots so I made him a milker, novice miner for digging out farms

Farmer: Miller; Thresher; Cook; Weaver; Novice Clothier; Novice Dyer

For doing all the farm stuff and making clothes

Glassdwarf: Furnace Operator; Wood Burner; Miner; Grower; Glassmaker

Wood burner to get steel for magma buildings, eventually going to make stuff with glass. Also will assist with growing and mining until I get everything set up.

My items are as follows:

Alcohol: 41 dwarven rum, 41 dwarven ale, and 41 dwarven beer

Seeds: 101 Plump helmet spawn, 35 pig tail seeds, 26 rock nuts, 26 cave wheat seeds, 26 sweet pod seeds, 26 Dimple cup spawns

Food: 30 plump helmet, 101 turtle, one of each of 14 2-point meats

For making stuff: 200 tower cap logs, 10 hoary marmot leather

Animals: 4 dogs and 4 cats

So, how badly did I screw up? I'm should expect some fight so I'll need to figure out a trapped enterance hall. I need to divert water to an underground supply for farming and drinking. I'm going to use a magma smelter and magma glass furnace.

I am open to suggestions, no ridiculously big changes. I want to see how it turns out.

The milking think may be unnecessary and I could take fewer animals. Dwarves could have their skills swapped around. The number of seeds might be ridiculous but I'll use them all, eventually. Have no surplus points so they will have to be moved around and taken from my starting supplys.

I'm going to eat a thanksgiving meal, and leave the embark window open. I'll wait a few hours and if nobody comments I'll look over everything one last time and embark.

Only problem is I'm on an island. For some reason, I didn't pay attention the the layers when I started, so I sunk a deep shaft into the ground. Under my starting position goes 4 layers siltstone, 7 layers gneiss, and 5 layers of granite. I'm going to send out a few side shafts and see if I can find any good ore; I've already found some bituminous coal, native silver, microcline, orthoclaste, mica, more magnetite deposits, and a few different gems. I'm going to sink a shaft into the desert and see what I get there too, there is an aquifer I'll have to go under from my current shaft though. I also can try digging under the nearby lake.

So far, besides the fishing incident, everything is going fine, except I'm a bit worried I won't have enough fuel.

This is my first real game, and its helping me get to know how to get everything done. The location has nothing fancy (that I know of) and the surroundings are calm.

Finally done with editing the wiki, I did major changes to that tutorial to fit it in the smelting page, added it to the guides category, and added a few links here and there.

Everything has been going smoothly so far. I started off with an anvil, no axes, four cats, and used the extra points on food, alcohol,seeds, 4 cats, a few logs because there are only a few trees around and skills.

My dwarves:

Leader: Wood Cutter, Carpenter, Bone Cutter, Novice Judge of Intent, Novice Appraiser, Novice Organizer, Novice Record Keeper
Metalsmith: Furnace Operator, Skilled Metalsmith, Competent Metal Crafter, Novice Wood Burner, Dabbling Wrestler
Cook: Proficient Herbalist, Proficient Cook
Miner: Adept Miner, Proficient Mason
Miner: Adept Miner, Competent Stone Crafter, Competent Building Designer, Dabbling Wrestler
Farmer: Proficient Brewer, Proficient Grower
Deceased Fisher: Proficient fisherdwarf, proficient fish cleaner

So far I've been mining, and I was wrong previously, I found lignite, not limonite, lignite is a fuel, I can smelt it for coke.
I haven't excavate too much lignite, I think I need one or two per piece of ore to make something, however I've mined quite a bit of magnetite and I've encountered fairly large deposits of platinum and a few gems. The magnetite deposit is big. I've already set up workshops, and need to start farming. I'm going to stop mining magnetite and try and get some more lignite, though I think I forgot I need weaponsmith for an axe.
I didn't do very much planning of the entrance and don't have a mechanic, so I might have problems if a zombie hippos attack me. I wouldn't mind some advice if anyone has any.
I could upload a file if anyone wants to take a look.

edit: oh yeah, I built a coffin for my fisherdwarf, but by now the corpse has decomposed and I can't figure out how to bury him.

[ November 18, 2007: Message edited by: RaSchumann ]

Only one?

There should of been a lot more, and a wizard, and a hobbit might of been somewhere.

Sure you didn't miscount?