Context:For your starting embark in this challenge, you've been given 7 Dwarven Chefs, along with the following starting equipment:
10 pig tail seeds
10 sweet pod seeds
10 cave wheat seeds
1 copper battle axes
7 copper picks
10 gabbro blocks
1 iron anvil
1 pig tail rope
40 dwarven ale
40 large rat meat
3 peahens
1 peacock
Guidelines:This is a challenge for version 0.42.04 of Dwarf Fortress, unmodded. (vanilla)
You may use Dwarf Therapist.
You may, if desired, use DFHack:Reveal/Unreveal. Only. No other DFHack scripts or features, please. DFHack is not required and I have completed the challenge myself, entirely without DFHack. The only reason this guideline is here is so that FPS may be preserved by avoiding the caverns.
No reclaims, please, but savescum as often as you wish.
Goal:As quickly as possible, by the in-game calendar, be the first fort to produce a Clown Stew. A Fine Meal, made in your kitchen, by one of your Chefs, composed of three parts of a butchered Demon corpse!
Download: Here is the save,ready for extraction & placement into your data/save/ folder. There's nothing special about this save, all raws are default.
Notes:There is an aquifer, but it does not cover the entire embark. It is specific to one biome.
You should not receive any caravans. Nor liaisons. Nor additional migrants beyond the two hard coded waves.
Half of the clowns in this world are potentially edible.
The in-game starting date for the challenge is: 15 Granite, Year 1000, Early Spring
Winning:The posted/linked saved region that has a Clown Stew in the fortress, with the fewest in-game days between embark and stew, will be the winner.The challenge starts as of this posting time/date. Go go go!
The challenge will end on Monday, Feb 1, 2016, 11:59pm, MDT.
At that point, I'll review all the submitted forts to see who produced their Clown Stew in the fewest number of in-game days.
One submission per player, please! Just post your submission in this thread.
Any issues or questions, PM me or reply.