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[bloop_bleep]

There have definitely been many, many advances in dwarven !!SCIENCE!! over the years, what with Turing-complete computers, werebeast clocks, etc. But there is definitely quite a lot more to explore. Hence, this fort. Olonaroth ("Gearedmagic") will be a fort dedicated entirely to engineering, mechanics and other dwarven !!SCIENCE!! of various kinds. I've created a medium world with a 500-year history and lotsa civs and volcanoes. I've already chosen a pretty interesting embark, with all of the following features:

• A volcano for easy magma access
• Sand, for a glassmaking industry (haven't done much with that)
• A river for unlimited water and machine power
• Warm, forested biome, so wood won't be a problem and the river won't freeze every winter
• A nearby necromancer tower for fun with zombies
• Neighbors will all the kinds of civs.

I've also compiled a list of three tenets for this fort:

• Automation is king.
• Dwarves are expendable.
• No megaproject is beyond our abilities.

This might become a succession fort, but for now it's gonna be just me, though I cannot guarantee the consistency of updates. I might do some roleplaying for this, but I'm not very good at that so I'm not sure.

I'm currently thinking of projects I could attempt, but for now the objective is just getting our stuff inside and setting up basic accommodations. Update should come reasonably soon.

[Darkening Kaos]

   Dorf me as a mechanic/Weapon-smith with a focus on making power systems, (windmill farms to start with, then possibly water reactors, depending on our requirements).

     And, I take it that we are going to over-engineer everything?

[Glass]

Dorf me as Erin Quill, Magitechnician, lord of the traps and king of the mechanism!

[auzewasright]

I will submit a dwarf, but I have an idea for a project: capture a megabeast that has dust that causes numbing, and set it up so that it sprinkles it all over the hospital.

[bloop_bleep]

Bumping to notify all of you that this is not dead before it even starts, I just had to comb through about 10 worlds looking for the embark location because, in my typical fashion, I forgot where it was. 

But I found it now! I did a test embark and ran "prospect all", apparently we have hematite and sphalerite, as well as a flux stone layer. So we can get iron and steel but barely anything else; might actually force us to create a functional, secure trade depot instead of just giving the merchants the cold shoulder every time like I usually do. Running out of materials will not be a problem, since as I mentioned earlier, the embark has tons of sand which means we can make a 100% renewable glass production line.

Another thing worth mentioning is that the embark is going to be 6x6; yes, I know that is just asking for lag, especially considering what we're going to be doing here, but it's the only way I could include a significant portion of the river while also keeping the volcano.

There's also technically aquifer on the map, but because I honestly can't be bothered to deal with that I'll just edit out the [AQUIFER] tags out of all the raws.

Here's the embark location:


I'm just about to embark.