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[Mishrak]

I totally found a volcano near a necromancer tower.  This is going to be awesome.

[Kon]

The World of Cyclones
The Age of Myth, Year 1050

One year completed, but has taken nearly 7 hours starting from using Find to find a good site:
Find: Flux, shallow metals, deep metal
Found: Freashwater Swamp, Warm, Heavily Forested, Thick, Calm

I haven't made a story of it, but may do that after the 10 hours are up. I'm not concerned that it has taken so long, considering that I've accomplished a lot in one year.

After one year, FPS is at max (I set max to 80)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

3:15 pm, 3/1/13
World gen completed

Find:   Flux, shallow metals, deep metal
Found: Freashwater Swamp, Warm, Heavily Forested, Thick, Calm
Biome 1: flux, deep metals
Biomes 2 and 3:  shallow and deep metals

3:28 pm
Prepare for the journey carefully:
3 dogs, 3 cats, 2 pigs, 2 geese
Meat, plump helmets, seeds, alcohol, milk
Anvil, marble, tetrahedrite
Leather, thread, yarn
No picks or axes - will make them after embark.

Starting 7
Uvash K   Teacher/Shield: 9, Organizer/Axe: 6
Tosid K   Teacher: 9, Shield/Xbow: 8
Ducim S   Miner/Bowyer: 10
Ral U   Cook/Brewer: 9, Grower/Herb: 6
Vutok N   Arch/Mech: 9, Mason: 7
Kadol L   Woodcutter/Carpenter: 9, Woodcrafter: 7
Tun A   Weaponsmith/Armorsmith: 9, Metalsmith: 7

4:07 pm
Embark
 
2 horses who pulled the wagon are pastured with pigs and geese.

5:50 pm
Summer has arrived, year 1051
Taking Break
2 hours, 35 minutes have passed

Accomplishments first season:
Dug out dining room, which has 3 tables, 3 chairs
Dug out bedrooms - 4 have beds.
Dug out barracks, made weapon rack.
Workshops and stockpiles are still on surface, except mason workshops in dining room - making tables, chairs, and doors.
Have food: 34 cheese - from milk, 17 prepared meals - from meat and plants gathered at surface
Have 93 drinks.
Discovered tetrahedrite
Made extra picks and axes

Resume 6:17 pm

10th of Malachite, Mid Summer, 1051 - Migrants have arrived
Athel S - Furn Op - married to Shorast, nephew: Id
Shorast S - no skills worth note
Id A - Nov Marks/Ambusher - married to Eral, Aunt Athel
Eral E - Nov Marks - married to Id
Donkey: Butcher donkey for meat

The Inks of Fog
Uvash K (Military Commander)
Tosid K

14th of Malachite, 1051 - discovered a cavern.
13th Galena, late Summer - Id is hunting white storks.
24th Galena, discovered 2nd cavern.

7:47 pm
Autumn has come, year 1051
Taking Break
4 hours, 5 minutes have passed

Summary after two seasons:
Only 11 dwarves
Uvash and Tosid are training and already sparring.
Almost all workshops and stockpiles are still above ground.
Have depot, dining room with 4 tables and chairs, 12 3x3 bedrooms, 4 crops growing underground.
Have nest box - getting eggs and milk for cheese.
2 caverns discovered but need to dig out areas for workshops and stockpiles before digging deeper.

Resume 8:42 am, 3/2/13

Athel and Shorast are now helping with the mining.
Id is hunting white storks again.
Uvash and Tosid habve 14 pages of sparring logs, 51 lines per page
They have leather armor and shield and copper axes.
Tun is making them copper armor, but is complaining about no magma to do it right.

8:56 am   
Discovered 3rd cavern, a magma pool, and great magma sea.

9:04 am
Six More migrants
Aban Melbilamid, Competent Swords, married to Vutok
Vutok B, Adequate Weaponsmith
Dobar U, child, son of Aban Mel and Vutok
Aban Morulzim, Skilled Swords, married to Inod, arrives with 36 kills
Inod S, Butcher/Tanner/Cook
Vucar B, Mason/Engraver

10:14 am
12th Timber, late Autumn, 1051
A Caravan from Astesh Sirek has arrived
Traded 3 copper battle axes for some metal bars, leather, thread, and a few other items.

While working on fortress walls, scared off a couple of Kobold thieves.

10:35 am
Winter has arrived

Finishing fortress walls.
Have two draw bridges, above ground farm plots, and pastures at surface level.

10:42 am
Levers in dining room connected to two draw bridges at entrance.
Beginning to dig out magma forge room and accompanying dining room and bedrooms.
At level z+1, building floors and walls for Marksdwarf patrol routes.

11:33 am
Spring has arrived, Fortress is one year old
Six hours, 56 minutes have passed

1st Year Summary:
Squad of two has been sparring frequently and have copper axes and copper armor.
Four bedrooms below barracks with two assigned to squad.
Hunter has five kills and is gaining XBow skill (proficient marksdwarf).
Magma forge room is ready for magma to be let in below forge room.
Have dining room and bedrooms dug out near magma forge room for smiths.
Initial marksdwarf patrol routes, above entrance, level z+1, behind fortifications, are ready.
Fortress is secure with war dog at entrance - can raise fortress drawbridges using levers in main dining hall and safely shoot enemies from above.
Main dining hall has been smoothed.
Farm plots above and below ground.
Plenty of food and alcohol.
17 dwarves: 8 content, 8 happy, 1 ecstatic.

[flabort]

Only 3 hours in, I have but 4 dorfs, and am still in my first year. How's that? 
I should probably abandon and try another fort to submit. 

[hermes]

I dunno I was enjoying reading about your undersea fort, especially where the dorf dashed out for the axe.  Did the immigrants die?  Maybe you could see how deep you can create a sustainable fort for the four?  Either that or engineer a retaking of the surface?   

[Thatdude]

Hill titans suck. Just over 6 hours in and a webbing hill titan has sparked a massive tantrum spiral that has so far killed half the fortress and isn't showing signs of slowing. Hopefully with less dwarves there'll be less bad thoughts from not having their own personal rooms . I also always forget how messy above ground forts can become. My meeting hall is just covered in blood, abandoned clothes and puke and I feel that using dwarf hack to clean it up would be cheating (following that new players wont know about pop cap, they wouldn't know about df hack).

[Gigaz]

My 10 hours fortress is ready.
I used phoebus graphics, the dwarf therapist and soundsense, nothing else.

I chose a site with a waterfall, woodland and shallow metal/deep metals in a scorching climate. I also had a necromancer tower nearby.
I started with:

2 Miners
1 Carpenter/Mechanic
1 Woodcutter/Engraver
1 Stonecrafter/Brewer
1 Grower/Mason
1 Grower/Axedwarf

All skills were chosen carfully based on the dwarfs personalities. Besides food, seeds, picks and two axes I took with me a set of copper armor, some threads, bituminous coal, sand bags and leather. I Also had three cats and three dogs and I was blessed with a Yak couple which surely suffered a lot in the scorching climate.

The fortress strived and I was able to play from Granite 1, 251 to Moonstone 11, 253. Two years, nine months and eleven days. In the end I accumulated 120 dwarfs (including a mayor and a baron) and 1.03 million dwarfsbucks of wealth. My FPS was 100 in the first year, then it went down slowly to about 60 at the end of the ten hours.

Special features of the fortress include:

- The Great Urist Dam and Lake Urist which is only to about 3/4 filled at the moment.
- 84 personal rooms, one for each dwarf or dwarf couple. Each room with a door, a bed, a mudstone cabinet and chest and a gem window through which the dwarf can see into the fishy depths of Lake Urist. The rooms were engraved by my two legendary engravers.
- Two big noble quarters with silver furniture and gem windows. Only smooved, no engravings.
- A power plant which produces 800 Urist*tile˛/tickł power. I use only 370 for my minecart-based fog generator and the millstones.
- A necromancer-based shooting range which does not work at the moment because I accidentally placed an undead instead of a necromancer behind the windows.
- Tons of copper arrows and armor and quite a few captured goblins and undeads. Also a minotaur child and a goblin who is also a weresquirrel.

File: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=7442
Saved in ASCII graphics.

[HavingPhun]

Now I feel silly. I thought tomorrow was the eleventh. But next monday is.

[flabort]

Hermes: That reminds me:

Spoiler: Day 2 (click to show/hide)

1240 "PM", March 2nd
I use my last wagon log to make a wooden training axe. Duh. Should have known that would work.

The remaining water bufalo, who is still on the surface, is surounded on all sides, N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, and NW, as well as the tile it's in, by raven corpses. BRAINS.

1250
These eyballs are starting to creep me out. FPS at 70, or thereabouts. the dead buffalo hauled himself out of the ocean.

OK, I'm giving up on the migrants. Back below ground.

1254
Ocean freezes. I guess the migrants can spend whatever time they have hauling corpses and refuse to the middle of the sea.

100 PM
Carpenter migrant dead. 3/4 dead, infact.

105
Autumn arives. I'm trying to figure out a way pastthe aquifiers.

110
I get an anouncement that the last migrant has been missing for a week. I also run out of wood below ground.

120
Don't want to admit it, but I dug through theice again to collect some wood from up top. Now my dorfs are running around like idiots from harmless zombie crabs. And oh, there's one less of them.

That's it. Making sure the remaining 5 are all inside. Yes. Locking the doors.

More migrants, instantly attacked. No point in saving them.

135
All the dorfs are upset. I must build slabs and dining rooms to apease them.

140
No! Don't go on break! we need all the dorf power we can get!

And now ghosts and a caravan. Hopefully the liason just leaves. Go. Now.

Melancoly takes it's first victim. My brewer.

145
Winter arives.

155
A miner was found dehydrated. I guess he was the insane one. Hope they move the body to the stockpile for such things before he reanimates.
And my expidition leader is tantruming.

200
Save and quit. Let's take some time to recover our morale before continuing. Time spent so far: 2 hours 50 minutes.

Spoiler: Day 3 (click to show/hide)

1035 AM March 3rd
The dorfs don't seem to want to do any work. They just keep rearanging the quantum food pile. And the farmer wants to attend a meeting with the mason.

The ghost was put to rest, slabs do work. Meanwhile, the farmer's mood has gone up to "fine", but he still wants that meeting. FPS at 65 and holding.

1050
Taking the beds out of the dormitory and giving each dorf his own room. In an effort to improve moods. Also, thiefs are stealing stuff from dead migrants, like steel crossbows, iron bolts, and llama wool quivers.

1055
Spring has arived, I survived a whole year. In just over 3 hours. The dining room and seperate bedrooms seems to have worked. Just to be on the safe side, though, I am making a statue garden.

1100
I still have a ghost in my fort. Darn, more slabs need doing. And I've run out of barrels to brew drinks in. I'll be making pots later, but I don't have the dorfpower to yet.

1105
Ghost put to rest. My first 3x3 memorial hall is full, the second is started. No statues made for the garden yet, lazy mason.

1111
Migrants. I may or may not be able to get them inside this time. Yes, flee from the crabs. Get to the burrow.

AH! I forgot about the water buffalo waiting at the doors. Locked again.

1117-19 phone call, from dad. Brother's surgery is going well, they're removing his apendix.

1120
Enough ranger migrants to form a marksdorf squad. They're cleaning up, sort of. And the other 21 migrants are hauling the bodies to the sea. Yay?!

1127
What does light blue on the wounds screen mean? The dead water buffalo is showing that on it's upper spine.

1130
All the undead are out of my doors, trying to clear the dropped armors and stuff out to close them again.

1135
Most of the migrants were saved this time around. I got them through the doors. I've locked them again, knowing there's still at least one soul out there, but the raven corpses were closer then he.

1140
A dorf just threw a door across the room to be my statue garden. She's tantruming, alright. And recently lost a sibling, yikes. That's what I'm hoping doesn't happen to me...

1147
Elves arive to trade. Yeah, you and what dorfs? There's a single dorf (that I know of) up top, able to do anything of the sort. I don't even have a depot. And the guy's being chased by raven skeletons.

Also? A kobold ambush shows up. Good thing I'm under the ocean.

1150
Oh, did I mention the elves brought horses, and a giant eagle? Yeah, I hope they stay put, where they are, on the ocean, so that SOMETHING doesn't reanimate when it dies. Wait, too late. They're being chased to shore now. RUN, FOREST LOVER, RUN!

1157
It is now summer. The elves are dead, but the caged animals seem to be imune to undead attacks.

1200
Saving. There are lots and lots, of blinky red down arrows. A lot of those dorfs had families that were slaughtered above trying to get the rest below ground. Now I need wood again. Time to look for the caverns? Time spent by this point: 4 hours 15 minutes, assuming my math is right.

I won't be abandoning after all.

[Kon]

The World of Cyclones
The Age of Myth, Year 1050

One year completed, but has taken nearly 7 hours starting from using Find to find a good site:
Find: Flux, shallow metals, deep metal
Found: Freashwater Swamp, Warm, Heavily Forested, Thick, Calm

I haven't made a story of it, but may do that after the 10 hours are up. I'm not concerned that it has taken so long, considering that I've accomplished a lot in one year.

After one year, FPS is at max (I set max to 80)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

3:15 pm, 3/1/13
World gen completed

Find:   Flux, shallow metals, deep metal
Found: Freashwater Swamp, Warm, Heavily Forested, Thick, Calm
Biome 1: flux, deep metals
Biomes 2 and 3:  shallow and deep metals

3:28 pm
Prepare for the journey carefully:
3 dogs, 3 cats, 2 pigs, 2 geese
Meat, plump helmets, seeds, alcohol, milk
Anvil, marble, tetrahedrite
Leather, thread, yarn
No picks or axes - will make them after embark.

Starting 7
Uvash K   Teacher/Shield: 9, Organizer/Axe: 6
Tosid K   Teacher: 9, Shield/Xbow: 8
Ducim S   Miner/Bowyer: 10
Ral U   Cook/Brewer: 9, Grower/Herb: 6
Vutok N   Arch/Mech: 9, Mason: 7
Kadol L   Woodcutter/Carpenter: 9, Woodcrafter: 7
Tun A   Weaponsmith/Armorsmith: 9, Metalsmith: 7

4:07 pm
Embark
 
2 horses who pulled the wagon are pastured with pigs and geese.

5:50 pm
Summer has arrived, year 1051
Taking Break
2 hours, 35 minutes have passed

Accomplishments first season:
Dug out dining room, which has 3 tables, 3 chairs
Dug out bedrooms - 4 have beds.
Dug out barracks, made weapon rack.
Workshops and stockpiles are still on surface, except mason workshops in dining room - making tables, chairs, and doors.
Have food: 34 cheese - from milk, 17 prepared meals - from meat and plants gathered at surface
Have 93 drinks.
Discovered tetrahedrite
Made extra picks and axes

Resume 6:17 pm

10th of Malachite, Mid Summer, 1051 - Migrants have arrived
Athel S - Furn Op - married to Shorast, nephew: Id
Shorast S - no skills worth note
Id A - Nov Marks/Ambusher - married to Eral, Aunt Athel
Eral E - Nov Marks - married to Id
Donkey: Butcher donkey for meat

The Inks of Fog
Uvash K (Military Commander)
Tosid K

14th of Malachite, 1051 - discovered a cavern.
13th Galena, late Summer - Id is hunting white storks.
24th Galena, discovered 2nd cavern.

7:47 pm
Autumn has come, year 1051
Taking Break
4 hours, 5 minutes have passed

Summary after two seasons:
Only 11 dwarves
Uvash and Tosid are training and already sparring.
Almost all workshops and stockpiles are still above ground.
Have depot, dining room with 4 tables and chairs, 12 3x3 bedrooms, 4 crops growing underground.
Have nest box - getting eggs and milk for cheese.
2 caverns discovered but need to dig out areas for workshops and stockpiles before digging deeper.

Resume 8:42 am, 3/2/13

Athel and Shorast are now helping with the mining.
Id is hunting white storks again.
Uvash and Tosid habve 14 pages of sparring logs, 51 lines per page
They have leather armor and shield and copper axes.
Tun is making them copper armor, but is complaining about no magma to do it right.

8:56 am   
Discovered 3rd cavern, a magma pool, and great magma sea.

9:04 am
Six more migrants
Aban Melbilamid, Competent Swords, married to Vutok
Vutok B, Adequate Weaponsmith
Dobar U, child, son of Aban Mel and Vutok
Aban Morulzim, Skilled Swords, married to Inod, arrives with 36 kills
Inod S, Butcher/Tanner/Cook
Vucar B, Mason/Engraver

10:14 am
12th Timber, late Autumn, 1051
A Caravan from Astesh Sirek has arrived
Traded 3 copper battle axes for some metal bars, leather, thread, and a few other items.

While working on fortress walls, scared off a couple of Kobold thieves.

10:35 am
Winter has arrived

Finishing fortress walls.
Have two draw bridges, above ground farm plots, and pastures at surface level.

10:42 am
Levers in dining room connected to two draw bridges at entrance.
Beginning to dig out magma forge room and accompanying dining room and bedrooms.
At level z+1, building floors and walls for Marksdwarf patrol routes.

11:33 am
Spring has arrived, Fortress is one year old
Six hours, 56 minutes have passed

1st Year Summary:
Squad of two has been sparring frequently and have copper axes and copper armor.
Four bedrooms below barracks with two assigned to squad.
Hunter has five kills and is gaining XBow skill (proficient marksdwarf).
Magma forge room is ready for magma to be let in below forge room.
Have dining room and bedrooms dug out near magma forge room for smiths.
Initial marksdwarf patrol routes, above entrance, level z+1, behind fortifications, are ready.
Fortress is secure with war dog at entrance - can raise fortress drawbridges using levers in main dining hall and safely shoot enemies from above.
Main dining hall has been smoothed.
Farm plots above and below ground.
Plenty of food and alcohol.
17 dwarves: 8 content, 8 happy, 1 ecstatic.

Take Break 3rd Granite 1052 Early Spring
Resume 2:31 pm 3/3

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

2:52
Some Migrants have arrived

Late Spring 1052
Sibrek S has claimed a magma forge - made a copper right gauntlet - now legendary armorsmith!
An elven caravan has arrived - sold some copper picks for plants, thread, wood, and barrels.
Have 2 squads of 2 now - one copper armor, one leather armor.

Summer has arrived, 1052
Horses are fighting - need more pasture.

3:06   Take Break
Eight hours, 31 minutes
10 more migrants have arrived: total 40 dwarves

Starting building a road for caravan.
Magma smelters are producing, copper, silver, and lead.
Expanding above ground fortress.
Out of wood.
Need hospital.
Need a third barracks.
Need more copper armor.
Need to make more clothes.

Some Migrants have arrived:
Atir O, Competent Axe
Besmar S, Nov Marks
Udil T, Skilled Marks
Ushrir S, Nov Marks

Resume 1:28 pm 3/3

A human caravan has arrived.
Trading axes for barrels, thread, cloth, and rope weed seeds.

Autumn has come, 1st Limestone 1052
Have four sets of copper armor, making 2 more.
Have picked out 4 more dwarves to add to military.
Have built hospital.
Making clothing too slowly.
Hard to keep up with making wood bins.
Most bedrooms now have cabinets.
Need more bedrooms for migrants.

Late Autumn, 1052
A Dwarven Caravan has arrived, followed immediately by first ambush.
Ambushers (goblin lashers) driven off by a marksdwarf squad above entrance and an axedwarf squad at entrance - no casualties

Traded axes, picks, and crossbows for iron, steel, logs, barrrels, leather, thread, cloth.

Stopped playing on 2nd Opal, Mid Winter, 1052
Total time: One year, 10 months (started counting after 1050 year world gen over, but before using 'Find' to find a site with flux and metals - ran 'Find' over entire 'large region.')

FPS still at max of 80.
Population 53
Happiness: 1 Fine (in military), 8 Content (6 military and 2 babies), 20 Happy (7 from recent migration wave), 24 Ecstatic.
Have flux, tetrahedrite, and galena only.

Military: 2 squads of 4 each
Patrol routes Above East of entrance and Above West of entrance behind fortifications.
Repelled small ambush of goblin lashers with one squad of axedwarves and one squad of marksdwarves.
Military has copper armor, shields, and battle axes, wood crossbows, and copper bolts.

Great Magma Forge chamber with 3 magma smelters and 2 magma forges:
Metal Bars: 325 copper, 215 silver, 228 lead, 2 iron, 1 steel, 49 charcoal, etc

Hospital with 6 beds and 2 traction benches - hasn't been used.
Two moods: an ashen bracelet and a copper right gauntlet => a legendary armorsmith.

Two dining rooms - one a level above the Great Magma Forge chamber for smiths and a main dining hall that has been smoothed and has two levers for two drawbridges at entrance.
Bedrooms for military one level below barracks. Bedrooms for smiths two levels above Great Magma Forge chamber.

Mistakes:
If I was going to count world gen, I would have chosen much less than 1050 years.
I could have sped up finding a site if I had not chosen a 'large region' and ran 'Find' over the entire region.
Spent a lot of time paused, but that is how I always play.
I had FPS capped at 80. That's where I usually set it, but should have increased it for this competition.
Ran out of wood several times.
Too slow making wood bins.
Too slow making clothing.

Final thoughts: I varied little from how I usually play, other than rushing and worrying about running out of time. I did put more of an emphasis than usual on getting my military running very early on, and I believe that I did quite well to get my military where it is after only one year and ten months. Military is not only prepared for ambushes, but prepared for a siege. I intentionally did not train my military in marksmanship since I have found that dwarves train crossbow skill very quickly once they begin repelling ambushes and sieges. I prefer to initially have them train in melee skills to raise shield, dodge, and other skills and attributes. Had no problems with hunters hunting or marksdwarves equipping bolts and firing at enemies. No equipment problems with military. By the way, currently only one of the two squad is assigned bolts. At the moment, no hunters are assigned the hunting skill and hunters have no bolts assigned to them. This is because I had just prepared for a possible ambush as the dwarven caravan was about to arrive. I do have a 'Danger' alert and associated 'Danger' burrow to call in dwarves from outside if necessary.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/download.php?id=7445&f=The+Blanketed+Sacks.zip

[Ruhn]

OP updated with Kon's and Gigaz's submissions.


Some ideas of things to include in articles:
- jokes
- notes of anything you had to lookup in wiki or forum
- thoughts you had along the way about your fort (this post from Thatdude is a great example!)

Hill titans suck. Just over 6 hours in and a webbing hill titan has sparked a massive tantrum spiral that has so far killed half the fortress and isn't showing signs of slowing. Hopefully with less dwarves there'll be less bad thoughts from not having their own personal rooms . I also always forget how messy above ground forts can become. My meeting hall is just covered in blood, abandoned clothes and puke and I feel that using dwarf hack to clean it up would be cheating (following that new players wont know about pop cap, they wouldn't know about df hack).

[flabort]

especially where the dorf dashed out for the axe. 

Oh, yes, and another thing.  He didn't dash OUT for the axe. He dashed IN with the axe, after being TRAPPED outside. I thought it might improve his survivability.

[vjek]

Yep, it is possible! 

[HavingPhun]

I'm about 4 hours into my fort. It has lots of gold tetahedrite, magnetite, etc. I also found two adamantine viens. I have my magma forges built off of a magma tube. I have a Sinister biome bordering the north so I have undead coming in and out. I built two canals outside. One has a wall so far. I have around 60 dwarfs. I just stopped playing for tonight. Right before I left I got a surprise. A dwarf was drained of blood. My first vampire ever. I put the amount of vampire curses to 1000 in world gen. Now I have to find it. 4 dwarfs are dead. One was killed because undead goats were chasing him through the woods. I couldn't save him without losing my military. They are untrained. Another died after getting a cut on his hand. Before I noticed he was starving and dehydrated in the hospital it was too late. The third got killed saving a caravan and migrants while killing an undead water buffalo. The vampire killed the fourth.

   I shouldnt have wood problems now. I surrounded a decent sized area with a canal and filled it with water. I will build my second row of walls soon. Now I want to focus on training my military. Getting adamantine and iron armor and weapons. I have several large deposits of magnetite. The admantine tubes seem to go down pretty far. I dug through the center. But I don't want to dig too far yet. I will probably have an assault on hell as my grand finally. If everything works out I am going to design this fort to kill demons and clear hell. Lots of cave ins and adamantine.

PS: The reason I had wood problems was bacause I had a range of undead outside ready to shatter peoples skulls. But now I have the area outside more secure. I have a necromancers tower nearby. Hopefully they will send sieges.

[flabort]

More progress. Won't be taking the surface, draining the ocean, or attacking hell, but I will survive. And that's the important thing.

Spoiler: Day 4 (click to show/hide)

Thoughts: I need to make an entryway that can be accessed during all seasons, but that is safe to go through. Also, that is not safe for invaders to go through. I'm thinking a Grinder. I saw a very efficient minecart design that I think I have an improvement on (maybe). If the original design fit a minecart into 1/4 of the tiles, I think I can put one in 1/3 of them. Of course, I need either wood or coal to do so. Metal is no problem, this haunted biome is just chock full of iron and copper. The fuel to make it is... nonexistent, it seems.
For interests note, it's at this point, at 715 PM, march 4th, that I've looked up Trap Design on the wiki. At 735, I have absorbed the information on the page.

740 PM, March 4th
Load game, try to remember what I was doing. Oh, yeah. Either going up or going down. Well, I don't think I can impliment my design yet, so down it is. There's a thin gap between the two aquifiers, so I have a tunnel through it. I designate some stairs to send a miner down to find the caverns, and hope that the passive reanimation doesn't reach down there. Sonic the Hedgehog, in his game Adventure 2:Battle, summed it up nicely in the first level with "Guess what lies ahead, only one way to find out."

742
The merchants will be leaving soon. What merchants? *sees one surviving elf* Oh. Uh oh. Well, he's being mobbed anyways. No problem.

745
He's "embarked". Too bad he's a bit too unconsious to actually go anywhere. To report the death of his fellows to anyone. A "Fisherdwarf" is mining my tunnels to find the caverns, finding lots of various rocks and-

748
You have discovered an expansive cavern deep underground. Too bad revealing it didn't create any anouncements of finding fuel! Time to dig a tree farm.

755
No signs of cavern life yet, but the oceans thawed, dumping 50+ corpses and body parts into the sea. Surprisingly still in the patterns they had while they were stockpiled. Easy to seal off the stairs where they breached the caverns, and spores have already drifted up, so I should expect trees, soon. The fisherdwarf became a miner, yippee!

Considering the death around here, how is my leader still only a dabbling consoler?

800
expanding my mason and crafts workshops. Making stone stockpiles, too. Population at 19, FPS at ~70.

Aparently the thawing of the oceans caused some undead to fall and die. Not the flying ones, but the ones at my gates for sure.

... I have some names showing up as memorialized, but no slabs engraved. I didn't bury them, so what's up? The names seem elvish, perhaps their civ found out somehow anyways and memorialized them.

811
I see fuel! Near the north edge of the shore, there's some lignite. Aditionally, some migrants arive. At the south edge. On an islet. Surounded by mist, with no way to the submerged fort. Flying zombies are closing in. Seems to be a single farmer, that's it. Her husband came here in the last migrant wave, and died a swordsdorf with no sword.

816
Wait, I was mistaken. There he is, it's not a 1 dorf wave. I was thinking of a different peasent. Let the hauling job cancellation spam begin! (wood stockpile on the shore, lots of trees marked cut down, spare training axes up top)

821
Kill the left hand! Escape the edge of the map! Dead migrant, dead migrant, dead migrant. Darn. 1 dead, 2 dead, famer dead, ranger dead.

825
One of the dorfs that arived, a potter, killed a raven, before even claiming his axe. And he's a competent axedorf. Yay?

Also, I found Konvudthar Enorrodum, Konvudthar Enorrodum's corpse. I believe this is what happens when a water buffalo has died twice or more and comes back again.

833
There are orcas on my map. "KILLER" whales. Please don't die and reanimate. Found another ghost in the halls. Missed the start of a mood, but I see it clearly now. A farmer, claimed a crafts shop. claimed one stone and started.

840
I have a bauxite earing. In a haunted area where I couldn't trade it away even if I artifacts could be.

842 Game momentarily froze. My best guess, the ocean froze. Yup. If any mirgrants from this wave had survived, they'd be getting in about now.

Also, the reason my tree farms weren't being built fast enough is my miners thought they were also haulers. Wrong.

845
Kobold ambush. Meh. And another. Hmm.

850
Get those rocks and gems out of my tree farm! Also, still no cavern life on the 'U' tab. I can't be that lucky... Somehow I missed summer and autumn ariving, too. It's almost winter.

900
Don't know why it didn't show up before, but profane mist has arived on the map. Wonder what it does? It dissapeared at the biome's edge, but then another immediately popped up. Doesn't do anything to the undead, and leaves nothing behind. So...? FPS was at 80 when I glanced at it, and it immediately dropped to 70, as if to say, "Oh, silly me, I'm only supposed to boil when you're NOT watching the pot". Then went to 65 for good measure.

My cat is clawing my legs. And purring.

I've run out of plump helmet spawn. Probly the large farm's fault. Cat's on the keyboard.

910
How long have I played so far? Including wiki time. 6 hours... 40 minutes. Also, finding wonderful lignite everywhere now, even in my bedrooms. Do'h.

912
Bituminous coal, finally.

913- 916
break to feed kitty cat. Grab myself some juice, too. Obviously forgot to pause, as I spy migrants with my little eye. They are instantly set upon by the last wave and a ghost. The ghost doesn't hurt them, though.

927
I spot a rabbit trailing it's guts behind it. 2 tiles of ~, that move when it does and don't show up on the loo'k' screen. Bleck, undead are gross.

Still only have 5 beds, for 19 dorfs. Plus the migrants battling undead with training axes up above. But they could make beds if they weren't spamming my anouncements. The ones down here can't.

931
A migrant jeweler becomes possesed. Fun. With a capital F, because I don't even have a workshop for him below, not to mention above. Possesion, though, so no worry. I'd have lost him anyways.

I have enough statues, already! Stop the production!
Oh, and the garden is complete.

935
Kobold ambush. yawn. These ones engaged some undead. Oh, and another ambush. And a dorfen caravan. Agh, I wish, I wish, I wish I had a depot.

Jeweler cancels strange mood: dead.

More kobolds. And another ambush. These ones brought cross bows, impressive. But a dead leader means they ran off again.

AHH! Run away from the rabbit gaurding the axe! it's guts are spilling out, it must be dangerous![/sarcasm]

940
time to set up space for forges, I think I have enough lignite. For now. I go to find a dorf who's throwing a tantrum, but he aparently died. must've been a migrant. Four still out there.

Found more lignite while mining the forge space. Yay! Fuel abounds, just not vertically. Still no cavern life? Well, I'm still not unsealing that cap. Some trees in the farm are mature enough to cut now. YAY!

The earing made earlier? it's creator is now making masterwork pots. Good.

950
I struck gold. In pursuit of coal. Save and quit. Time spent total: 7 hours, 20 minutes. Time remaining: 2 hours, 40 minutes.

So yeah. Not enough time to try my trap design idea, but more success in taking this fort then I thought I'd have.

[Mishrak]

So the fort entry deadline is tomorrow, March 6th.

Will that also be the conclusion for voting on the submission deadline?