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[juhis]

Ok, I have a little problem with DF.
I tried to figure out as hard as possible starting point for my game so I picked a volcano
which is in middle of an ocean.

The map itself is just a rocky slop and one crater and its snowing all the time.
There is two problems now: How to melt snow to drinking water, I tried all kinds of tricks
drilling holes here and there where the snow would pile up and also near the crater to that
to melt it, but no success. So eventually my dwarfs will die from thirst.

The second problem is, why there is now monsters, traders, diplomats coming to my mine
My dwarf migrants can come to there all fine ! So where are the rest of the creatures of the world ?

If there would be some sort of traders coming to my trading depot, I could buy water and wood so
I could play that map, but now i can't.

[Psieye]

No you cannot buy water from caravans. You need to desalinate the ocean for your water... after you heat it up with magma to melt it first. For wood, you'll need to dig into the underground caverns.