This year was exhausting. And that was even with being probably the luckiest leader. It concluded with a strong growth of our population, without even a single death. I had far more ambitious plans. Tree farm that is sadly too small to really matter, but library seems to be a promising project. And third layer of caverns was reached.
But I will leave exploring it to next overseer. Similarly to my broker and manager duties.
And I have a plan to improve our life here by inventing a more reliable pulley system organization. It may take long time but I will complete this project!
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I think that we are securely locked in. Work orders may be quite messy, I let dwarves to try new experience (AKA setup good strange moods).
shift + F7 gets you to location of magma. Starting armor/weapon crafting there is likely a good idea (or pumping magma to the surface?).
We are running out of wood. I tried to start magma forges but have not managed to complete this project. Channels, fortification filters should be ready. But there are some gems/rocks there that should be hauled away.
shift + F8 goes to my pet project, library. I would appreciate if at least my dwarf could be kept as scholar, maybe with someone to accompany him. Note "needs" tab in dwarf therapist - column "think abstractly" (second from the right side). I assigned to scholars dwarves with clear need to be them.
Corpses on surface are not collected, I have not figured out how to check whatever vile goo is currently raining.
We also really should have soap in our hospital.
We need to produce more clothes some dwarves have clothes that are failing apart
And other less critical projects: improving housing, reenabling smoothing labors, removing zombie murdercamels, proper dining room, eliminate upper hospital, increase military...
I also made preparations to drop creatures into caverns, to fight with forgotten beasts for us. And empty cages. Pit locations have hotkeys shift + F1, shift + F2.Drop into caverns needs to be channeled, pit zone created and closing bridges tested.
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I'm chomping at the bit to play.
Save:
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=14970 (note, save got noticeable smaller - uncompressed dropped from 11 to 8 MB, compared to the initial, and mid-year saves. Should I be worried? I noticed this during uploading, game played fine.)
I also want to play again!