Notes from the journal of Theyflower the Mechanic.
That well is cute, but we need something bigger, something more powerful! I'm going to design and construct an amazing underground aqueduct with a power plant of bewildering power to match. As long as our monarch is happy I'm sure they won't get in the way. Gold furnite for you!
Also, there's some elves. I'm going to walk over and ask for yearly tribute. Hopefully they don't kill me... I'm back, they're going to give us some free stuff every autumn. SCORE!
That sky walkway is exposed, time to wall it all in.
Some migrants showed up. Twenty two of them. There's plenty of hauling to be done, but I sent a few to the mines and had a couple make carpenter workshops out where the logs are. We're going to need a lot of beds, barrels, and wooden things.
Craftsdwarves! They don't make anything actually useful but they want a guild. I told them yes and I'll get around to it... eventually.
Editor's note: Theyflower did not get around to it.Spring is nearly done and so is my Aqueduct! Time to get the control room dug out.
Our great and noble monarch who we will not write mean things about keeps rambling on about bins. I'm going to have some made just to shut them up about it.
Lots of the new migrants are just sleeping in the dining hall... going to carve out a dormitory for them.
The monarch's quarters are nearing completion. I'm going to move in the furniture and... that tomb above them? It's mine. Why are there stairs in MY tomb? It leads to the plumbing control room. Don't you dare question it!
Summer arrived and the last of the control room levers are being linked to the bridges. I made sure to leave a few outlets so that water can get sent to where it is needed later on. Time to have the miners channel a connection to the river! I'm so excited, hopefully there isn't a catastrophic flood!
Here comes the water...
And it stopped where I wanted it to!
Pull the lever, fill the plumbing!
Perfect! Pull the lever, fill the power plant!
While my... our power plant was filling up nine more migrants arrived. I told ten random dwarves they were in the military now and to go train or something. I had a bed placed in the entryhall area and told them it was a barracks.
Also, we need a real hospital. I had the miners dig out a farm for pig tails so we can get some thread and cloth along with a hospital area by the well.
Some kid went insane.
Autumn is here now, and I feel rather accomplished. My tomb is all engraved and has a nice gold statue of me. To top it all of it leads to the lever control room so people will NEVER be able to forget me. The power plant was starting to fill up properly so I had a bit of water drained from it, this would agitate the water so that it flows in just the right way to make the waterwheels keep going. Now we have unlimited power!
The caravan arrived. I traded some buckets, splints, and crutches for whatever animals they had and some bins of cloth and leather.
Pull this lever, it's time to flood some water to irrigate our future farms.
More migrants? Seven more dwarves. I'm going to have one of them start cutting our large pile of rough gems. That crazy kid also ended up dying. Delphanso seems a bit down, was probably his son. I had some coffins built in the remnants of a gold vein so that our dead can rest better.
The throne room is done. Those pillars in the middle make it look regal. Maybe it's not dune until the sides are lined with golden statues but the Monarch seems happy.
I had a stockpile for pig tails, dimple cups, thread, cloth, and dye setup along with some of the cooresponding workshops including a mill powered from my... erm our amazing power plant.
My amazing and wonderfu- our power plant is filled with water. I closed off the plumbing system as no more water is needed.
One of the dwarves fell into a mood and made a weapon rack. I'm going to have it placed in my tomb.
The year is done and so are my big dreams of a dye industry. To support it we needed power so I went with an oversized power plant fed by an extensible and high capacity plumbing system. On top of all of that I made the monarch satisfied. This was a good year. Maybe the power plant didn't need to be that big, but hopefully someone will find a use for it later.
Sure, maybe the military doesn't have armor. Sure, maybe we don't have enough bronze bars to outfit them all. Sure, maybe we don't have enough ore to make more bars. Those aren't my problems.
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