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[MightyPaladin]

"So the forge is set up, the fuel ready to go.  Fetch the bronze bars for me so I can make our picks and get this fortress in the ground"
"... I thought you brought the bars"

So I uh, forgot to bring metal bars on my new fortress and I don't have any picks, as is my normal practice.  I have 3 masons and a weaponsmith.  Zero metal.  The only wood is the three from the wagon.  Fortunately I did settle on a reasonably wooded area.

Time to do it the hard way.  Cutting down trees with training axes gets a small hut with a few beds in it built.  then a retaining wall.  then a Depot.  The guilded glassmaker points out that we have sand, and plenty of resources to make coke with   

wood to planks.  planks to blocks in the woodcrafters shop.  blocks to anvils ( ) in the stonecrafters shop.  random wooden crafts from the craftsdwarf shop.  Research study built.  Took 4 tries to research glassforging.

The first picks were made when the dwarf caravan showed up in the fall.  I'm a half a year behind on fort/defense construction.  This should be interesting.

[TalonisWolf]

This sounds like the brilliant intro to a succession fortress... to bad it isn't. It also sounds like something commonplace amongst the Dwarven world, somehow...

[Urist McTeellox]

This is awesome.

I'm actually fond of 'shipwreck' embarks, zero resources adjacent to a large lake or ocean. One of them ended up being partially documented on tumblr.

~ T