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[Dish It Out!]

I've done something I usually don't do and embarked in an area devoid of trees.  It's a desert next to a volcano.

I have an abundance of copper, silver, gold, zinc, lead, and sand, but no clay.  There's some iron around as well as some marble but I have no coke/coal/lignite.  I pretty much need the wood for construction when I come by it.  The caverns were headed for and breached immediately and I'm mining out the sand to start farming trees.

I have three dwarves with pig tail fiber fabric in their preferences.  One I made a weaver, one I made a dyer, and the third likes both pig tail fabric and brass.  So here's the questions:

Should I use the brass to make the buckets and bins I'll need?  What would you do with it?  It's sort of a pretty metal and in forts past I might use it for doors but without any wood I think I'll need the bins.  Or should I have the PigtailBrass guy make clothing and bags?  Or split his time 50/50?

Also, I have a guy who likes green glass currently training glassmaking with goblets.  Should I make a bunch more glassmakers?  I have infinite sand and infinite energy, I could have a master glassmaker who constructs lots of serrated disks, intermediate glassmakers for cages, vials, and furniture, and everyone else for raw glass and glass blocks.  Do you kids like GLASS?

[SRD]

You can get wood from the caravans as they come around, candy requires no fuel if you have a volcano, and you can make pots out of rocks which are basically just barrels.

[Dish It Out!]

You can get wood from the caravans as they come around, candy requires no fuel if you have a volcano, and you can make pots out of rocks which are basically just barrels.

Right, I mean, the barrels are covered, and I'm ordering wood, I'm just wondering what you guys do with stuff like lead and brass, and if people use glassmakers a lot.

[Corai]

You can make bins from metals.

[masquerine]

I like using green glass for things. All you need for green glass is magma+sand+bag (to hold the sand). The only things named differently for green glass compared to stone is terrarium, which is simply cage. The other is portal, which is a door. Most importantly, everything is uniform and green

Sometimes the cavern layers are sand, so it could be a shorter distance to collect it compared to the surface. If you set the item producing furnace to a particular dwarf or skill level, you can leave all the others with collect sand on repeat and give glassmaking to some hauler dwarves. That will let them grab sand but not make anything, speeding up the process. Serrated discs are great against unarmored things too.

Green!

[SRD]

I like using green glass for things. All you need for green glass is magma+sand+bag (to hold the sand). The only things named differently for green glass compared to stone is terrarium, which is simply cage. The other is portal, which is a door. Most importantly, everything is uniform and green

Sometimes the cavern layers are sand, so it could be a shorter distance to collect it compared to the surface. If you set the item producing furnace to a particular dwarf or skill level, you can leave all the others with collect sand on repeat and give glassmaking to some hauler dwarves. That will let them grab sand but not make anything, speeding up the process. Serrated discs are great against unarmored things too.

Green!

He has a volcano so he won't need to go down to the caverns for anything but fun, candy, WOOD, ...

Yeah you can get wood from the caverns

[Linenoise02]

Glass also sells for a good amount..  glass trap components are quite valuable to trade to caravans, and its an infinite resource.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Build a curious glass structure rising out of the desert, something like this: