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[diefortheswarm]

They must have them because they never get cavities....

[The V Man]

Technically in DF they don't even have teeth!

I guess that explains the lack of cavities.

Now if they still had toothbrushes....

-V

[LegacyCWAL]

I think halfway drowning themselves in alcohol twice as often as they eat would do a good job of getting rid of plaque.

[diefortheswarm]

14th of Granite

Do to a bureaucratic error on the part of ilurker, I am just now taking over control of the fort.  This is a rather larger caravan as far as elves go.  7 traders on camelback.  They better not be bringing 7 camel loads of rope reed cloth.

19th of Granite.

Just concluded trading with the elves.  They brought lots of useful stuff as well as some animals including this thing.

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Now time to get to work.  I had one look at the job settings the dwarves had been given and went into a rage!  It is obvious nobody was using Dwarf Manager the last 3 years.  But even with it you could do a better job then this.  Hauling jobs are distributed at random and many Dwarfs have been left idle.

Now lets look at activity zones.  WTF!!!  There are at least 20 or 30 single tile dumping zones.  Endless labor has been wasted stacking stone at these zones.

Now lets look at what facilities have been provided.  OK who is the jackass that build an underground meeting area instead of using the one with a sunroof I built.  I hope I found out about this before any Dwarves came down with cave adaptation.

6th of Slate

I finished my first project.  A walled off roadway to the edge of the map.  Don't worry I did not wall off the fort from the outside.  I  just mad sure the caravans use this route.

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Now I am fixing up the fortress layout the way I originally intended.

10th of slate

We got some immigrants.  We now have a population of 64.  The new people will be put right to work!

14th of Hematite

The humans have arrived.  Now I get to try out the new protected roadway.

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There was a slaughter at the gates, but the caravan made it to the Trade Depot.  Half our military was not so lucky though.  I hope we have enough coffins.

18th of Hematite

Just finished trading.  Purchased everything useful and gave them 100% profit and a big offering.  Now I am going to meet with the liaison.

18th of Malachite

My miners and masons finally finished the original fort layout.  Now I am going to get some permanent magma workshops going.

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17th of Limestone

The Dwarf Caravan arrived.  All is quiet so far...

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Looks like I spoke too soon...

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We lost 2 wrestles and some civilians but we repelled the invasion.

1st of Timber

We lost a mason to the local wildlife.

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I sent in the military.

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An elite marksdwarf fell in the chasm.

10th of Timber

My other elite marksdwarf has just been stricken with melancholy.

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1st of Moonstone

I just finished pumping magma under our new Magma buildings.

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As you can see the melancholy marksdwarf and his injured horse decided to get a closer look.  This gave me the chance to solve multiple problems at once.

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The pumps were really starting to drain the top of the magma pipe.

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2nd of Opal

The Goblins are back and some Dwarves are outside!

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Luckily I got most of them back inside but there were casualties.

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Then I decided to send out what is left of the military.

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They all fought valiantly before being killed.  The military now consists of 2 injured Dwarves getting bed rest.

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The traps then took care of the remaining Goblins.

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Make that 1 injured military Dwarf.

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The Rhesus Macaques are already after the Goblin crap.

27th of Opal

We got an artifact anvil.  Do bad it was from a possession so we don't have a legendary blacksmith.

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18th of Obsidian

I just finished a block of 50 7/7 rooms for nobles.  Future leaders are going to need to furnish and decorate them though.

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Ok that concludes my turn.  I have some notes for the next guy.

1.  I completed rooms using constructed walls.  You can make them mesh with the natural walls by smoothing the natural wall.  You can do this with far less labor if you smooth only the walls and not the floors.  That will require a lot of designating though.

2.  I started a grand dining hall.  It is up to you to finish it.  It will need a HELL of a lot of work.  My blacksmiths are making sliver furniture for it right now.  I do not want to waste the really valuable stuff till we have a legendary blacksmith.

3.  There are now staircases to the surface.  They are all protected with obsidian hatches.  When the Goblins finally siege I do not think Trolls will be able to break them.  They are all set to open right now.  You will have to close them during ambushes.  You may even want to hook them all up to a lever.

4.  All caravans will now spawn at the beginning of the protected roadway since it is the only wagon accessible route.  You will want to station soldiers at the edge of the map there to make sure they get to the Trade Depot unharmed.

5.  Rebuild the military.  There is a lot of steel Dwarf armor lieing around the fort.

6.  Do NOT melt the Dwarf armor along with the Goblin stuff.  So be careful if you mass designate melting.

7.  The rooms right by the sand with magma underneath them are for the magma glass furnaces.

8.  USE DWARF MANAGER OR I WILL KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!

The Save

[LegacyCWAL]

== 1st Granite, 206 ==

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I sighed as I answered my room's door and saw that it was diefortheswarm.  "Let me guess...you want me to fix it."

"It's not broken!  It's just been a bad year for the military, and I thought it could use your expertise."

"Alright, alright, I'm on it.

===

Alright, let's see what we've got.

Almost completely out of booze...



...despite massive amounts of brewable plants



Massive amounts of excavated stone (seriously, over twenty-one THOUSAND, which nearly freezes my computer when I try to look at it on the stocks screen), but zero rough gems.  And literally the entire goddamn map designated for logging...



...despite the obvious end result of even more ambush casualties.  And oh yeah, the Sasquatch.



Dear Armok, no wonder so many have been killed in ambushes.  I've got dwarves going outside to cut trees...where they're going to get ambushed and killed.  I've got dwarves going outside to gather goblin loot...where they're going to get ambushed and killed.  I've even got one dwarf going outside to retrieve his shoe where, you guessed it, he's going to get ambushed and killed.

My first order of business is to keep my dwarves alive.  I cancel all the outdoor designations and forbid everything outside.  Everything.  Even the logs.  I then find, to my horror, that nearly every single log is outside because the ones we have have been getting turned into practice ammo.

We have no booze because we have no barrels, so the tables get cancelled in favor of metal barrels.  I notice that we have nearly 200 lead bars.  60 lead barrels are queued up in the job manager.  I also queue up a huge number of lavish meals, since that tends to free up barrels.

...and then tell the dwarves to stop tearing down the kitchens.

Next, we have miasma coming from downstairs.  We have to do something about that, so I move the refuse pile back to the outdoor meeting hall.



Next problem: the fortress entrance.  Once again, ambushers will be able to shoot clear down to the trade depot.  I don't feel like having my trader and haulers filled with crossbow bolts, so I order the cover walls put back up.



I take a break from Serious Business to check on the dining room.  Fucking Armok, we could fit the entire world in that space!



Next, those surface hatches.  Leaving them open defeats the entire purpose...ambushers are invisible, and if they're left open, they can't be closed until we've got goblins stabbing the craftsdwarves in the nads.  So they're closing.  And I don't want to risk trolls being able to knock them back open, so the stairs up to them are being replaced with walls.

===

"Holy Armok," I said as I finished the first round of work orders.  "diefortheswarm wasn't kidding."

Security was virtually nil, and what had been there when I left was mostly disassembled by now.  Nothing was safe from the goblin attacks, but everything was where the goblins could get to them.  There was a lot of work to do.

"Now to decide who to do it..."

===

It's only now that I get to Dwarf Manager.

We don't need two woodcrafters.  In fact, we don't need any.  The only thing they're good for is making practice ammo, and the quality of practice ammo doesn't matter.  So they get reassigned.

We don't need a seperate clerk and manager, especially since one already has high skill in both.  The Manager gets reassigned.  I also put the clerk on architecture duty.

We don't need to name the mayor "mayor", we all know who runs this place

We don't need the Sheriff with a special title, the game already calls him that.  Same goes for a whole ton of other dwarves, for that matter.

We don't need two weaponsmiths yet, or three metalcrafters for that matter.  One and two (respectively) are reassigned.

Dear god, we do NOT need eight stonecrafters...plus wood carvers...plus bone carvers.  Sheesh, three or four all-purpose carvers is plenty.  Five, tops.  I get to work on a lot of reassignment.

We need more planters, brewers, cooks, and related farmers...and looky here, we have three.  The brewers and planter get consolidated under the title "Food".

Out of six so-called "masons", only one has squat for skill.  We aren't going to need many masons anytime soon, so a few get reassigned.

We have four mechanics.  I'm reassigning the second legendary to combat duty.  I'm sure he doesn't mind dropping the gold-filled lead bin he was carrying

That leaves me with lots of dwarves to assign new jobs:
Melbil Fikodnunur - Soldier
Sakzul Mozirlorbam - Soldier
Nish Bomrekkod - Soldier
Bomrek Nilkib - Soldier
Dumed Amemnil - Soldier
Melbil Ozsitkeskal - Mason and Engraver
Eshtan Virendok - Mason and Engraver
Lor Koloshur - Furnace Operating
Zefon Zuglaraknun - Stays Cpt. of the Guard.  Gets Furnace Op. and Blacksmithing.
Rith Asmelrul - Leatherworking, Clothesmaking, and Weaving
Tun Kogangusgash - Jeweler and hauling
Tekkud Legonoslan - Glassmaking and hauling
Fath Mengthedak - Food
Rimtar onuliseth - Hauling
Besbar Cogbavast - Hauling
Oddom Takutholtar - Hauling

I kill some of the bedrooms and consolidate Cpt. Zefon's stuff into one room.  I put some nice stuff in there to help with the quality.

And yes, I'm using Dwarf Manager.




===

I blew out a deep breath.  It was almost night, and all of that work was nearly finished.  My second year as mayor was about to begin.

===

And now I unpaused.

== 2nd Granite, 206 ==

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"Legacy!"

It was Inod Bomrekuvar, one of our miners.  He had apparently sprinted to my office, as he was panting and doubled over gasping for breath."

"Take your time, Inod.  What is it?"

"Tsavorites!  I struck Tsavorites!"

"Rough gems?"

"Yeah, rough gems."

"Oh thank Armok, we finally have gems," I said, breathing a sigh of relief.  "Now hopefully we won't lose anybody the next time a fey mood takes them.  Where are they?"

"Eleven levels down, all the way to the northwest."

"Make sure they get mined.  And be careful, we don't want to waste any."

"Will do!"

===

Finally, some rough gems.  They are NOT going to be cut, and they are NOT going to be used.  I'm saving them for strange moods, since I don't feel like losing somebody due to using up our only rough gems.  I'm also going to hotkey the location to shift-f7, since it's in flux.



A few moments later, the same guy strikes Malachite one z-level down.  Yeah, this is gonna be a good spot

I also notice that our champion is back on the job.

== 8th Granite, 206 ==

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I walked into the barracks to check on the new recruits.  Boost morale, you know.  A couple were even getting pretty good at wrestling.  They'd be able to start practicing with weapons soon, Armok help them.  But I noticed a distinct lack of equipment, a lack that I had begun taking care of three years ago.

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What the heck happened to all the armor?



Looks like I need to get the smiths working on armor too.

After an inventory, it isn't as bad as I thought it was: I only have to order 5 sets of gauntlets and 2 pairs of boots.  I have barely enough steel for all of that.  I also order up some silver short swords for sparring practice: with as little (read: no) surplus armor, I can't afford to have the soldiers tearing each others' armor off.

A couple game days later, I decide that it's too much of a bitch to find specific workshops in the ungodly mass of them that we have, so I start tearing them down to color-code them.

At this point, I've temporarily stopped using Dwarf Manager because I have to micromanage jobs too closely at the moment for it to do any good.  Don't worry, I'll start using it again once things get sorted out a bit.

== 12th Granite, 206 ==

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"Hey, Legacy?"

"Two things.  First, a giant eagle landed in a weapon trap up top."

"A giant eagle."

"Yeah."

"In a weapon trap."

"Yeah."

"...what the FUCK was a giant eagle doing landing on a weapon trap?"

"I have no damned clue, but we're having eagleburgers for a while.  Second, the Elf caravan is here, and it looks like they have some useful stuff."

"Alright, get Sodel.  Let's see how the new defensive measures do."

===

The game crashed and I had to restart at about this point.  I used what measures I could to try and replicate what happened between now and the crash, including not using foreknowledge to my advantage.  I also left the originally-written reporting as intact as possible (even if things are now in a different order) so long as the outcome was the same.  So if things are short and terse.

Now, on with the show...

===

I have never, ever seen a Giant Eagle land, much less on the one spot where it would get killed doing so.



I only saw it because I looked topside to check on the Elf caravan.  The first pack animal has logs, so that's a good sign.  Let's see what they bring...

Holy hell, they keep bringing more and more logs.  When the first trader reaches the depot, there's still pack animals with logs entering the map.



All in all, 39 logs.  And some brewable plants.

== 26th Granite, 206 ==

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"AMBUSH!"

One of the cage traps had fired, snaring a goblin wrestler.  All we could see of his squad was another wrestler and a couple lashers.

"Alright boys, time to show me what you got!" shouted Champion Rovoduvar, eliciting a raucous shout from his new squadmates.

He turned around to me and nodded, and the look in his eyes conveyed a message without needing words: "I pray to Armok that they've got something to show".

===

Remember how I said things may get terse?  Yeah, this is the moment I was talking about.  It originally crashed not long past this point.

The first time, the ambush squad was five goblins, only one of which had any fucking clue how to navigate the caravan road.  A second squad came some time later.  This time, the first squad is two wrestlers (one of whom alerted me to the ambush by being caught in a cage trap) and a pair of lashers.  We'll see how things go the rest of the way.



Here we go, squad 2.  First time around it was a spearmaster and wrestlers, this time it's a pair of marksgoblins and wrestlers.  It sure is a good thing I put up those cover walls, isn't it?



===

I've now reached the point of the crash, so things will be back to normal: harrowing to experience and painfully italicized to read about.  In other news, things have settled down enough for me to fire up dwarf manager again.

== 6th Slate, 206 ==

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Our only remaining Champion, Kulet Rovoduvar, walked into my office, his expression unreadable.  "Alright," I said, "give me the bad news."

"That's just it chief: there is none."

"None?"

"Two waves wiped out with zero casualties."

"That's...that's amazing.  Stay on guard, there may be more waves.  But for now, this may be a chance to do some badly-needed cleanup."

"And to decide what to do with the prisoners."

"Prisoners?  You mean they haven't been being executed?"

"Nope, one of your successors dug out the area beneath the ditch.  We don't have an execution chamber anymore."

I facepalmed.  "Alright, you get back on duty, I'll worry about the prisoners."

Kulet gave a big grin.  "If the stories about you are true, it will no doubt be very unpleasant for the goblins."

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Somebody destroyed my firing squad area .  Not that we have any marksdwarves to do the firing, but still.

And yeah, the fight went well:  not a single scratch on my soldiers.  The entry hall, however, badly needs some cleaning up...



I'm prioritizing The Good Stuff.  GCS stuff gets picked up because it's good for trade.  Chain mail and certain other stuff gets melted down because they're the best per-job return out of the loot.  Anything of non-standard metals like bismuth bronze also gets melted.  Finally, whips get melted because it pisses me off that they're at the top of their stocks screen section.



You also probably noticed coffins by the entry hall an update or two back: that's a pet graveyard.  And there's a lot of pets that needed buried.  You guys can move it if you want, I just wanted the crap out of the way.

I also chained a war dog up in the caravan road.  It's not for defense, but because the pre-crash ambush had one squad whose AI broke trying to go down the road...and unbroke when I sent somebody up there.  So I figure chaining a dog up there will keep it unbroken.



Which reminds me that the clerk is idle a lot, so I put him on animal training.  And by animal training, I mean "feed the damn monkeys so I can make monkey babies."

...which, now that I think about it, sounds kinda dirty.  I think I'll keep it that way.

== 9th Slate, 206 ==

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"CHIIIEEEEFFFF!"

I blinked and shook my head in disbelief as diefortheswarm came running up.  "Calm down, what is it?"

"Nobles!  A dungeon master has arrived!"

A Dungeon Master.  The ultimate animal tamer.  It's said that a dwarf only achieves that rank when he has the skill to bend a Dragon to his will.  "You know what this means, don't you?"

diefortheswarm grinned.  "That GCS we have in a cage gets to go out in the open."

"Damned right, diefortheswarm.  Damned right."

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Yay for migrants!  The first thing I do is take the Clerk off animal training duty.  The second thing I do is go take a screenshot of our fort's first full-blown Nobledwarf.



Now, earlier, I screwed up making rooms/offices/etc. for the Mayor and friends, accidentally making an extra.  Now, that screwup comes in handy because I already have one ready to go.  It's a piece of shit and needs more work, but we have 63 gold bars and 50 silver bars...I'm sure I can figure something out .  It's also being used by some putz...but not for long.



Another benefit of migrants is that if they make it to the fort, I'll know there's no ambushes inbound.  If there's no ambushes inbound, I can go pick up a bunch of the logs that diefortheswarm cut.

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"Solon Melbilottem?  Nice name.  'Tomessanctum' doesn't seem appropriate for a DM though."

"Hey," said diefortheswarm, "if she tames the GCS, she can be called Urist McElf for all I care."

"No she couldn't."

"...yeah, McElf is going a little too far."

===

The roster:

Solon Melbilottem, Dungeon Master
Zon Zozdishmab, Bowyer
Domas Delershameb, Peasant
Ast Suvasadil, Hunter
Dastot Alathamost, Animal Trainer
Dumed Kibizeg, Ranger
Kogan Lanlarsodel, Peasant
Imush Rerrasatis, Mason
Dobar Asolzasit, Speardwarf
Urdim Lorzefon, Peasant
Muthkat Erushnamash, Animal Caretaker
Rith Likotfikod, Peasant
Kivish Sazirzustash, Carpenter
Olon Nilesdodok, Wrestler
Nish Odgubbomrek, Mason
Kol Rakustosust, Peasant
Aban Nosingmedtob, Animal Trainer
...fuck it, they keep coming, and I'm tired of listing them.

At any rate, we're up to 72 dwarves.  That's enough both to need and to be able to support some full-time haulers.  We can also now fill some roles with dwarves that belong there (such as having jeweling done by the actual jeweler who showed up).  Needless to say, Dwarf Manager gets a bit of a workout right about now.

I also queue up a fuckton of coffers and cabinets:  I had consolidated most of the population into already-furnished rooms, but now there's a lot more to give rooms to...

== 25th Slate, 206 ==

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"Hey, Legacy, Adil's in a mood," said diefortheswarm.

"So give him some booze and a couple shiny things until he gets over it."

"No, he's in a Mood."

"A...oh.  Alright, let's just pray that we've got everything he needs."

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Ah, the first Mood of my second tenure, and this one's a Secretive, meaning we'll get a legendary...if he doesn't go nuts.

Luckily, since the last update I've managed to find another batch of gems, and another 44 logs brought in from outside, for a total of 83 in the stockpiles.  So logs won't be an issue.  We should have everything we need.

I know the artifact will be wood, meaning a POS in terms of value...but we also know it's going to be furniture of some sort or another.  I'd rather have a Native Aluminum Statue, but an artifact bed will be quite useful.



Speaking of which, I really, really need to set up materials stockpiles to get the guys to use what I need them to during a mood, or I - and all the rest of us - will keep winding up with shit like I got my first time around.

At any rate, it takes until 3rd Felsite to gather all the materials.

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The time it takes to gather the materials illustrates the fact that our stockpile situation is an absolute travesty.  I place:
-Stone stockpiles over the mechanic and mason workshops
-A wood stockpile over the carpenter's workshop
-A bone/skull/shell stockpile over the craftsdwarf's workshops
-Leather, thread, and cloth stockpiles over where I plan to put the leatherworks, loom, and clothier's workshops
-An ore+flux stockpile and a melt-bait stockpile over the smelters
-A bag stockpile by the glassworks
-A bar stockpile over the forges
-Food stockpiles by the dining room
-Various furniture stockpiles in appropriate spots

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And speaking of workshops, I got rid of all but five craftsdwarf's shops as part of my plan to streamline and color-code the area.  It's looking much nicer now, and much easier to use.  The screenshot should show how much easier it will be to tell them apart.  There's more mason's workshops offscreen, and the carpenter's workshops offscreen are nice and yellow.

Also, when I disassembled the craftsdwarf's shops...well, I think it can only be described as a "cluttersplosion".



And what the FUCK, we have an artifact anvil that's not in use?  Well that won't do.



Our architecture wealth went up 150,000☼ when I made a forge using it.

== 7th Felsite, 206 ==

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"He's done."

I looked up at the hauler who had stuck her head in my office.  The message wasn't really all that helpful, given how damned much stuff was going on.  "Who's done?"

"Adil, the Carpenter."

"Oh, him.  What'd he make?"

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Tashemnog Sodazkob, a Cedar weapon rack:



It's only worth 19200☼, but it's useful nonetheless.  It'll go nicely in a noble's room someday, especially if we get one who likes cedar.  I especially like the goblin withering away...I'm tempted to turn on "show full history" in the init just to see what it's about, since the goblins around here tend to be crushed, stabbed, shot, or otherwise killed quickly and violently.

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In other news, two of my recruits got promoted: one to swordsdwarf, the other to marksdwarf.  I'm also thoroughly shocked that, upon checking for spinal injuries, nobody has been stabbed in the spine by a drunken dumbass suffered a serious training accident yet.

The stockpile rearranging I mentioned is also done, after what seemed like hours of work.  Now it's up to the dwarves to sort them out...and judging by the number of idlers (namely zero), they're hopefully getting to it.

== 15th Hematite, 206 ==

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At the moment, I'm kinda out of steam for the in-character narration, so I'll just get to the info.

Today, the humans arrived, along with a guild rep.  The stockpile work has been going more slowly than I had thought, but mechanisms is not one of the lagging areas.  As a trade good and something that gets used out in the entry hall a lot, the stockpile around the depot has turned into a mechanisms+goods stockpile.



The military is looking up.  No recruits left!  However, one guy got busted down to guard because he got a spinal injury and I deemed him too unskilled to want to send into battle.



For the trading itself...dear Armok, again with the leather!  I buy fifteen bins, but that's about a fourth of what they've got, tops.  You want a leather industry?  You got one!  Still, I gotta hand it to diefortheswarm though: almost everything they brought was handy.  Hell, in the first eleven pages, the only things I didn't buy was a graphite block and a basalt block.

All in all, it costs me 37000☼, plus another 10000☼ in offerings.

During the liason meeting, I:
 * Max out wood
 * Max out steel, iron, pig iron, zinc (to make brass), aluminum, and platinum
 * 2 ticks of each diamond
 * Max out bolts
 * Max out platinum nuggets and native aluminum
 * Max out turtles

Yes, zinc will be valuable for us because we have assloads of copper.  Copper has a value multiplier of x2, while brass has a value multiplier of x7.  So a few bars of zinc will help our wealth as much as silver.

I didn't bother asking for leather because A) we have tons, and B) with all the leather we've been buying, they're going to bring fucktons of it anyways.

I do kick myself, however, when the "let's review" thing shows that I forgot some things.  It shouldn't matter much, but still

I also use the opportunity to spiffy up a tomb for myself...



The caravan starts packing up on 20th Malachite, making it a surprisingly uneventful trading session.

== 10th Limestone ==

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"Chief, the caravan from the Mountainhome has arrived.  The liason is with them."

I felt my jaw drop.  Any further, I imagined, and my beard would be sweeping the floor.  "What?  Are you sure?"

"It's wierd, I know.  An entire season without an ambush."

"I don't expect our luck to hold in that regard: Armok's bound to be disappointed, so go get Champion Rovoduvar.  I'll find Nish and Sodel."

===

Yes, you heard me right: not a single ambush this past summer.  Not one.  That's the first season of my playing time on this fort where I haven't had goblins coming for my ass.  Well, we'll see how long it lasts.

Me and the traders pretty much clean each other out.



And that's before I start offering things...though in my defense, the offerings were mostly just loose stone.

===

I get a bit carried away with the liason, and wind up requesting:
* Max GCS silk cloth, silk thread, and chitin (save at least a little chitin for moods!)
* Max tower-cap logs
* Max aluminum, platinum, iron, pig iron, steel, nickel, nickel silver, and zinc
* Max booze
* One tick each of various ingredients like cheese, milk, and flour
* Max turtles, cave lobsters, and fish
* Max pearlash and charcoal
* Max native aluminum blocks, and max of the colored ones we don't have much of (if at all).  Same for stone, plus some ores.
* Max bolts
* Two ticks each of chain mail, plate mail, greaves, gauntlets, high boots, and helms
* Max cows and cats.

Some notes on my orders:
-Nickel and nickel silver are magma-proof, so we can use that to make magma-proof stuff without wasting iron or steel on them.
-I don't really like the ability to turn blocks into ore.  I do it with diefortheswarm's stuff, but it just doesn't feel right to ask for more.  Sorry, everybody .  I get the colored ones because we may want to color-code stuff.
-Cows are the best of the "standard ranch livestock".  Cats because we are being totally overrun by vermin and everybody's too busy doing Important Things to go around chasing down lizards.
-They had shit for gems.  I really mean shit.  I didn't want to use up even more caravan space on stuff that could just as easily be replaced by raw glass.
-I was kinda disappointed in the stone selection.  No magma-proof stuff, no coal, few ores.


The liason then gives his requests:




And once again, no ambush.  It's a welcome respite, allowing me to do some badly-needed cleanup and haul in some more logs.

== 9th Moonstone, 206 ==

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"Chief, another one has gone into one of those bizarre moods."

I shook my head.  There was something about this place that drove us dwarves nuts.  At least we wound up with expensive, high-quality things out of it.  "Who is it?"

"Zas Izegadil, one of the Haulers."

"Great.  Keep an eye on him.  We'll see what he makes."

===

One of the migrant haulers we got in the spring went into a secretive mood.



Let's just hope it goes better than the artifacts I got during my first tenure.  I doubt it will though, since I haven't had a chance to set up artifact material stockpiles.  I'm not even sure it's possible to do that with this place's workshop layout, but I digress.

===

15th Moonstone: Udarnosim, an Obsidian Idol worth 33600☼



Not too shabby.  Not the best I've ever had, but not too shabby.  And we got a legendary stonecrafter out of the deal too.

Since I've already got stonecrafters coming out my ears, I decide to draft him.  He'll make a hell of a soldier...assuming he survives boot camp.

== 16th Moonstone, 206 ==

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"AMBUSH!"

"Armok's balls," I swore as I sighed half in relief.  "I'm not going insane, the goblins really haven't forgotten about us."

"Uh...being relieved by that sounds pretty damned nuts," responded diefortheswarm.

"Better than hallucinating."

"Good point."

===

The first ambush since spring...god, it feels like it's been forever!  Know that war dog I mentioned waaaaaaaaaay back when?  He dies pretty quick, but he's done his job, revealing this first squad of three swordsgobs and two wrestlers.



He also helps keep the pathfinding working alright, but not enough.  Whoever built those ditches seriously fucked some stuff up.

The second squad has a bowgoblin that shoots the other two war dogs to death, then inexplicably walks into one of the weapon traps up top.  The second wave is otherwise pretty uneventful: goblins, traps, dead goblins on traps, the usual.

The third wave is bigger than the first two combined: three speargobs, a lasher, two marksgobs, and several wrestlers.  There's even a mace lord in there, who gets caught in a cage trap.

== 26th Opal, 206 ==

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"What the..." I wondered as I saw dwarves rushing towards the barracks.  I pulled one aside and asked, "What's going on?"

"I heard somebody had a baby."

"Who was it?"

"Urdim Cilobshetbeth."

It took a moment for the name to click in my mind: Urdim Cilobshetbeth, Swordsdwarf.  "Well hell," I said, "let's go see the little bugger."

===

Well shit.



On the plus side, the mother has made herself a brand new layer of armor.  On the minus side, she's probably going to keep making more.  We need soldiers, but...

Well, she can always be stationed in the mining tunnels if things get too bad.

...and yes, things are a little slow at the moment.

== 1st Granite, 207 ==

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"Ah, there you are, Vii," I said as I poked my head into my successor's room.

"That's The V Man the Second," he replied indignantly.

"Vii, V II, that's not important at the moment.  What's important is that I've done my best, and there isn't much more my skills can achieve.  It's time for somebody new to take over for a while."

"Why me?"

"Because The V Man the First did a good job, and you're a lot like him."

"I guess that makes sense.  I'll do my best."

"I'm sure you'll do a great job."

===

Yup, it's that time again: spring is here, and it's time to move on.



The military is in pretty good shape, as is the food situation.  Industry is gearing up, and skills are getting sorted out.  The lava tube has almost refilled from diefortheswarm's draining, stockpiles work, and a lot of loose stone has been cleared out (though there's still a Cray-shattering amount left).  We've got mood ingredients, including expensive bones, GCS silk and chitin, some raw gems, and some very nice cut ones.

I like to think I've left the place in better shape than I found it...but if I did, that wouldn't be very Fun, now would it?

===

Here's my notes for the next guy in line.  I'm sure they're way way WAY more thorugh than needed, but you know what they say: "there is no overkill, there is only 'open fire' and 'I need to reload'."


LAYOUT

Hotkeys:
* Shift-F1 is the front gate, barracks, and depot
* F2 is the nobles' quarters.
* F3 is non-furnace industry.
* Shift-F3 is smelters, forges, glass furnaces, etc.
   --Living quarters are south of F3 and Shift-F3
* F4 is the dining room
* Shift-F4 is the sand collection area.
* Shift-F7 is an area I've mined out and that could use some engraving.

Floor plan:
* Z 146 has the depot, barracks, most of the food-related stuff, and the meeting hall / corpse stockpile.  Use Shift-F1 and look around, it's fairly easy to find stuff.  In the far north is a breeding compound for livestock.  The graveyard is way the fuck to the NE of the main gates.
* Z 145 has stockpiles
* Z 144 has more stockpiles, and the nobles' quarters
* Z 143 has industry.  F3 takes you to the non-magma stuff, which is largely color-coded.  Shift-F3 takes you to the furnaces, with (from west to east) Forges, Smelters, Forges+Glass+Ashery+Kiln, Stills+Butchers+Tanners.  South of all that is the living area
* Z 142 has the dining room (at F4) and the magma tunnel.


PROFESSIONS AND JOBS

Standard professions and their jobs:

* Everybody gets Health Care, Burial, and Wood Hauling, since they're both rare and urgent
* The Furnace Operator gets wood burning (charcoal is needed for steel) and potash making
* All smiths get F.Op.
* All woodworkers get carpentry and wood cutting
* All stoneworkers get both stone detailing and masonry
* The clerk, trader, and sheriff have all hauling enabled

Custom professions and their jobs:

* Food - Tanning, plus pretty much everything that involves food.
* Leather - Anything involving leather
* Clothes - Anything involving making clothes
* Carver - Woodcrafting, bone carving, and stonecrafting
* Hauler - Self-explanatory
* GLASS - Glassmaking + potash making (potash is used for pearlash which is used for clear/crystal glass)

Other notes:

* I gave the non-champion melee soldiers the title "soldier" so as to take up less rows in dwarf manager.
* I named the children "Kid" to make it easier to recognize them, both when assigning rooms and when they grow up.
* I haven't forged enough stuff for most of the smiths to get their "real" professions yet.  They still have different labors though, two for each smithing type.
* The clerk and one of the stonecrafters have architecture enabled.

I'll upload the save and post the link on the RR

[The V Man]

Awesome on a stick.
Nuts to a lack of time, I wanna have a hack at this again.

Well done.
-V

P.S. Err, actually that would be the third V Man - the death of the second was quickly and quietly covered up, and his corpse dumped from the coffin. Had I been thinking I would have just started a body collection in there. Oh well

[diefortheswarm]

Great Turn!  This Succession game is really helping me to deal with your shortcomings.

One question though:  We have an ungodly amount of stone.  Why don't you let the fort have a large number of stonecrafters.  They can go from untrained to legendary in a few years.

About my deblocking reactions:  I put them in to make it possible to import a greater quantity of a given ore.  When Toady improves trading in the next release, this will no longer be necessary.

[LegacyCWAL]

I took dwarves off stonecrafting because we needed them for other important stuff.  You know, things like not getting killed by goblins.

There's also things other than stonecrafting that you can do with stone.  I queued up a few stone block work orders to make blocks for building things, for instance.  You can also make furniture, mechanisms, constructions, etc. out of stone.

On top of that, we have twenty fucking thousand stone.  A dozen legendary stonecrafters would take years to put a dent in that.


As for deblocking reactions, I know why you put them in.  I just don't like them, is all.

[The V Man]

Still working my way through my turn. The fort has been stuck by great tragedy though - I don't know if the dwarves can soldier on through the sadness they must feel in their drunken, hairy little hearts.

-V

[The V Man]

Wow, what a crazy few weeks. Sorry for the delay. Here's the update:

12th Granite
- After orienting myself with the changes to the fort that have occurred over the last few years, I get started on the first of many of my Horrible Grand Projects: A jail.

17th Granite
- Elves have arrived again.


18th Granite
- A snatcher jumped out, at the Elves as they arrived. His intelligence is unrivaled amongst goblin-kind. After briefly breaking the Elves pathing, they marched into the fort.


22nd Granite
- A snatcher, followed quickly by an ambush!


23rd Granite
- After the ambush mostly dealt with itself on our traps, another followed almost immediately.
- A pitched battle at the gates!
- Two war dogs die in traps, and brave Iteb, Soldier, bleeds to death after a goblin - Zas now leads 'The Helmed Pines'. Right after the battle Dumed (Doomed?) slips into a martial trace. The remaining goblins decide it would be fun to give him a try.
- ....and just as he traces, he de-trances. USEFUL.
- The aftermath:


2nd Slate
- Pissed the Elves off trading. Oh well, just useless junk anyway.

9th Slate
- A metal smith has gone all moody.
- ...and claimed a magma forge. Exciting business. I'd better not end up with a hatch or something stupid.


14th Slate
- Tragedy has struck the fort. A tamed Stray Marmot has died of old age. In his honor I'll call him Bill. Funeral services for Bill will be held in the statue garden followed by a procession to the crypts. He will live forever in our hearts.

- In other news: MIGRANTS. Looks like 20 of the mooching buggers.

1st Felsite
- Our sole spear using dwarf has survived long enough to become a Spearmaster. Many goblin spleens will be poked from henceforth.

15th Felsite
- In an attempt to NOT get any more dead, I've installed a screw pump in the coffin storage room. It's location will serve as inspiration for dwarves to be TOUGH or GET IN THE BOX.

18th Felsite
- The mandate barring the sale or Sterling Silver items has been lifted. Since we had none to begin with, I suppose it only makes sense.

24th Felsite
- Minkot, a metalsmith finally went insane. He attacked his pet dog...and was promptly torn to pieces after smacking it on the nose.

25th Felsite
- A grand day - Urdim has become a swordmaster. Many limbs will be hacked off this day. Preferably not Dwarves limbs, but who am I to order a swordmaster around.

26th Felsite
- It seems I have an incredibly short attention span and refuse to man the pump for more than a few minutes in a week. I'll have to reprimand myself.

1st Hematite
- Oh good. The mayor has mandated the construction of two Sterling Silver items. I'm certian this will end well.

3rd Hematite
- Success! We've met the Mayor's mandate (easily, which surprised me). His meddling is, however, become an annoyance. I may have to do something about it.

16ht Hematite
Oh shazbot. I've put all sqauds on standing alert - hopefully it'll be enough to repel the invasion


17th Hematite
- During the early part of the siege, 'Lurker is elected mayor. Congrats! I guess the Dwarves aren't worries about the siege at all.


19th Hematite
- A brave wardog was killed standing his post in the entry way.
- And looks like our traps have proven effective again. The lone remaining goblin flees for his life.



26th Hematite
- In preparation for future sieges, I've ordered two siege workshops built.
- Consturuction of my latest secret project is complete - N.E.D or the Noble Execution Device. MANDATE THIS. Bwahahahaaa AAAAahahahahahahahah!


10th Malachite
- Another pair of swordmasters - huzzah.
- A Bone Carver has gone all secretive on us. Let's hope for something that isn't completely worthless.

13th Malachite
- No migrants this season. Guess the siege was too much for them. I can see how losing one dwarf and a dog would be scary though.

22nd Malachite
- After pissing around for 12 days, the Carver finally got his ass in gear. Shells and a Forest eh?

25th Malachite
- I've built a ballista at the end of the entry way hall. Caution will be the mandate for the Ballista though - we'll need to ensure the friendly squads stay well out of the line of fire. I'll also build some training catapults nearby - which will also help with our excess stone problem. We may want to consider replacing the ballista with a catapult for safety sake.
- The carver finished his Turtle shell mask. He's legendary now. Oh joy.

6th Galena
- .....


16th Galena
- One of our squads was wiped out in a training accident when a wrestler had his throat collapsed. IT's unclear if this was a self-inflicted wound as he was the only remaining member of his squad and appeared to be alone in the barracks.


18th Galena
- Not much exciting news today so I switched my dwarf onto Siege Operating/Engineering to make him somewhat useful. Still considering swapping the entry hall ballista for a catapult to help reduce friendly 'accidents'. Both training catapults are up and running.

20th Galena
- Our first legendary champion (if I recall correctly). Good news for the fort.

24th Galena
- After finally getting his mayoral holdings, 'Lurker felt it wise to stop the export of all Millstones. If we had any, I'd agree with him.

4th Limestone
- I removed the forbidden status on all objects outside (and a few inside, curiously) and was forced to wait while my machine tried not to have a heart attack as all 25 idle dwarves took off in a race for the best junk. This should be entertaining.

9th Limestone
- The tunnel leading to the N.E.D has been smoothed and is being lined with statues. The last tunnel a dwarf should see aught to be a nice one after all.

12th Limestone
- The caravan arrived for trading. I got most of what Legacy asked for I think.

20th Limestone
- Another legendary champion.

24th Limestone
- It seems reasonable offers for goods managed to piss off the caravan on the second round of trading. How dare I offer to let them have a substantial profit!

3rd Sandstone
- Despite the rocky start, we've gotten the import and export agreements hammered out.


19th Sandstone
- Looks like some migrants decided to show up after all. Only 7 of them though.

23rd Timber
- Slow days in late Autumn, but another legendary champion has arisen.

13th Moonstone
- Well, it had to happen sooner or later - one of the champions has given birth. Lets hope she never tantrums.

20th Moonstone
- An ambush showed up on our doorstep. Besmar the Woodcutter fought valiantly, but was cut down. The guard dog was also killed before the last goblin was put down.

23rd Moonstone
- It seems I spoke too soon - a cook was killed when he stepped out by a Goblin wrestler - it seems not all the goblins decided to come in our front door.

25th Moonstone
- I've located the Goblins responsible and have dispatched the military to deal with them.
- one of the children was killed in the fight - I do hope there aren't any tantrums from this.

24th opal
- A metalsmith has been stricken fey

1st Obsidian
- ....and later created an earring. Oh wonderful.

1st Granite
- Well, that wraps my year. It's been eventful enough for the fort. Only a few structural additions as I think we've already gotten too much hollowed out for what we need. Best of luck to the next ruler - the fort is really starting to chug on the framerate.

And the save.

No map for now as for some odd reason the DF map compressor is crashing on the files. I'll have to tinker with it and see what I can come up with.

[Jayj]

25 idlers?! Cripes. I get annoyed when there are 1-2 lazy stunties.

Hey, where's my turn in the progression? There are some things I can see to improve.

[diefortheswarm]

The new progression is as follows.

diefortheswarm
Legacy
The V Man
ilurker
Jayj
Grorx

[ilurker]

As always, click the pictures for full resolution.

Not the MOST eventful turn, pretty steady stream of straggler goblins running at us to no effect, making me think there's a pretty large ambush party lurking about somewhere, but mostly it was constructy:



First thing's first: Annoying diefortheswarm.

After that, the plans for a new, awesome dining room came into swing:



This is the first level. Dwarves will dine on most of the floor, with a large section in the middle and smaller ones to the side cut out for viewing the level below. To the north and the south will be pits creatures may be dropped into, as well as a staircase down for dwarven gladiators/execution squads.



The gladiator level. This has changed somewhat, but the basic gist is the same. Dwarves and monsters will meet one another below the diners and fight amidst a hellish lava pit.



MOAR MAGMA MOAR MAGMA MOAR MAGMA



Getting onto more practical concerns while construction gets underway, I noticed we had a huge number of animals wandering around with no particular function. They are no longer wandering.



Additionally, even with a ton of hauling jobs to be done and a full screen of work orders, full 1/3rd of the population was idle, with rarely used dwarves like carpenters and stoneworkers milling about without function. I assigned jobs across the board, and things soon took a much faster clip.



Millstones? Really?



Soon I was greeted by the customary microcaravan.



It did, thankfully, alert me to the fact that our entrances were totally unattended and practically screaming for an ambush to saunter in. Perhaps the previous mayors were hoping the goblins would come cuddle them. In the kidneys. With an axe.



Typically, the elves had nothing but some wood and a few berries. Bloody hippies. Why aren't we at war with them yet?



Apparently confusing moldy timber for something of marginal value, a friendly kobold wandered over to take a look. He wandered out fairly quickly. Then he wandered into an axedwarf. Then he wandered into a ☼Kobold Bone Mug☼.



Annoyed yet again by the job cancellations which constantly howl in my ear, I check the stocks to find the previous mayor was evidently a local PETA representative.

Note to self: Possible elf. Check if leather bags are forbidden.



HIDE THE WOMEN AND DROWN THE CHILDREN, THE BARON HAS ARRIVED.



Accounting for my hatred of the current layout, I elected to build a grand, if functional, living quarters for the baroness off the dining room.



The hammerer was given a much smaller, if much more interesting, complex in apology for forbidding his hammer before he starts hitting people with it.



The first rumblings of The Silver Crisis, in which every noble in history demands silver and I find out the closest thing to a bar we have laying around is a bunch of tables.

Definitely an elf.



Well... they probably planned on putting silver in it or something.



Can you tell what the hell is going on in this? No. There's stone everywhere. This is why we can't have nice things.



I hate you so much.



On the bright side, the dining room complex is beginning to near completion, and you can see some of the revisions I've made.



The gladiator level again. Notice the island in the middle with retractable bridges, allowing for executions by marksdwarf where the goblins are free to dodge bolts or toss themselves into a fire rather than be eaten by whatever megafauna we care to put in there with them, all for the amusement of the diners upstairs.



Back to practical matters, in order to assist with the framerate issues, I've designated traffic corridors in order to reduce the number of dwarves pathing through rooms and bottlenecking in the doorways.



One of our metalsmiths was possessed and produced this. I haven't put it anywhere yet, so be sure to.



The dorf caravan carried little of use. I bought up all the metal and gems, as well as a few stacks of steel bolts. Didn't even manage to run through the crafts which were there when I showed up.



Yay! Another useless, suckling mouth to feed! To the pumps with you when you're 12 and not a day later!



aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa



It's about time I got one of these. Hadn't completed by the time my turn ended, though.



Filling in the reservour under the dining room emptied and magma tube enough to have access a few levels down, so I channeled through and made a passage for magma to fill into the magma system itself without the need for pumping when we expand it, which should greatly cut down on the chances we all die when magma floods the bedrooms.



And that's it for my turn! The dining room is structurally completed, with all the bridges linked and levers noted. All the next guy will need to do is smooth, engrave, and furnish, and we'll have an awesome dining room.

I'm already thinking up ways to include a waterfall in here.

[ilurker]

And the save.

[diefortheswarm]

Nice turn.  Now all we need is a magma weapon to use on invaders.  We also have HFS which nobody has uncovered yet...





ps.  You realize your irrational hatred of excess stone is very unDwarven.