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[Chevaleresse]

Sure. First wave of migrants, you'll get one. Though, with my management skills, whether he'll be a mason is questionable. . .

[Dunamisdeos]

I am excite!

I haven't done a community fort before :3

[Chevaleresse]

Some interesting locales I found on worldgen:

A sinister glacier. Any masochists want to give that a go?
Freezing haunted mountains.
Freezing temperate shrubland. . .?
Aquifers everywhere.

Overall, flux stone and metals are in abundance. As are aquifers.

[4maskwolf]

Hmm....

Try the sinister glacier, and if you last through to the first migrant wave do that one.  Otherwise, haunted mountains.

[pisskop]

Are you familiar with glaciers?  Bring spare rock, at least for the staircase where the ice and rock meet.

[4maskwolf]

Are you familiar with glaciers?  Bring spare rock, at least for the staircase where the ice and rock meet.

Ice works just fine for that staircase.  I've done it.

[August]

A sinister glacier? Well, this should certainly be a lot of fun!
Hope you guys know how to break through the aquifer layer, 'cause I sure don't.

EDIT: If you haven't embarked yet, make sure to bring along some egg-bearing fowl! I love making an egg industry, as it's a great alternate source of sustainable food. Very low maintenance, and basically fully automatic once set up.

[Chevaleresse]

I'm going to put the embark mostly on the sinister/haunted glacier (there are areas of both) with a small part on the taiga. Any notes on dorfs/items to bring along?


Oh yeah, and which dwarf should be which person? I'm going to make myself expedition leader aka "Noob King," probably with some management-related or masonry skills.


EDIT2: I've got myself as a novice bookkeeper and mason, an axedwarf (Competent, adequate dodger), a hammerdwarf (same), a competent grower/novice brewer, and a couple marksdwarves. Did I miss anything? I figured we should pack plenty of military because lol evil biome.


As for equipment, I brought 2 copper picks, a copper battle axe, an anvil, 40 dwarven ales, 20 dwarven rums, 10 plump helmet spawn, 5 of pretty much every seed, 15 water buffalo tripe, 15 plump helmets, 5 of pig tail fiber thread, cloth, bags, and ropes, 3 leather quivers, 3 buckets, splints, crutches, a wheelbarrow, a war hammer, 10 gabbro (someone mentioned bringing stone along,) and 2 crossbows. Animal-wise, we have two breeding pairs of dogs, a breeding pair of cats, three hens and a rooster.

[August]

Sounds good! Could I be that Hammerdwarf, please?
Let's see if my dwarf can skill up fast enough to stay ahead of the curve and survive this frigid hellhole.

To glory and death!

[4maskwolf]

I'll take the axedwarf

Long live the cause!

[Chevaleresse]

Just to get this show moving, I'll give everyone else assignments. Dunamisdeos and Skullsploder get to be marksdwarves. Our other two noobs get to be the civilians.


EDIT: Alright, Day 1. We've settled down in an area we called Slingblock. We were greeted by some. . . interesting. . . weather.

[August]

Snowing frozen blood? A good omen if I've ever seen one!
Clearly, Armok himself has blessed this place.

[Nail]

I'll be observing this, it's always fun to see some new people getting slaughtered making their baby steps in a succession game. While I'm not exactly a newbie I don't have a lot of experience with evil biomes. Hope it's not reanimating.

I would like a dwarf as well, maybe a miner which are, !!HINT!!, helpful to bring to evil biomes so you can quickly carve yourself a shelter from hostile wildlife.
Speaking of which, could you tell us if there is any?

_{Please tell me there are skelks...}

[Chevaleresse]

Actually, there is virtually no wildlife other than vermin, a beehive, and the occasional blizzard man. Seems the "glacier" negates most of the "evil" part, namely the deadly-skeletal-wildlife-eating-your-dorfs part. Since there's virtually no reason to go outside, I haven't had much trouble with the outdoors yet, and a glacial fort looks kind of neat.


EDIT: Shitshitshit. We're almost out of meat. Fortunately there's a bit of dirt that's useable for farming underground.

[August]

So what's the water plan, Mr. Overseer? Did we embark over an Aquifer? Are we going to just drill straight down until we find some caverns for the pools of water?
When you get a craftsdwarf workshop, make sure to make a couple nestboxes and place them down for the fowl to start laying eggs.