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rutsber

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Fort Improbable
« on: April 22, 2011, 10:06:36 pm »
I decided to make a new embark. I chose a great spot with plenty of materials. I have a soldier, a woodcutter/carpenter, a miner/mason, a miner/architect, a healer, a farmer/ brewer, and an expedition leader with purely social type skills. I got rid of all my materials but two copper picks and a copper axe. I went to give myself more things, but I accidentally pressed (e) andembarked. I'm sure this has been done before, but I just got the game a week ago. It is now summer of the first year and my fort is thriving.
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Re: Fort Improbable
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2011, 10:14:27 pm »
I used to do that, accidentally.

Now I consider it a necessity for a fun game.  And I don't mean !!FUN!! but actually enjoyable. I get way more of a sense of accomplishment from starting with nothing.

Recently I've been considering setting the population cap to 0 as well, so that I only get the starting cadre of dwarves, plus 2 waves of migrants.  All the rest of my growth will have to be from keeping children *gasp* alive for *omg* 12 years!
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NecroRebel

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Re: Fort Improbable
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2011, 10:38:10 pm »
Given that people have had thriving forts when they started with no items, no skills, and no animals, I'd imagine that starting skills and tools would make things relatively easy  :P

Really, what you embark with just determines what your priorities are the first year. Nothing is truly necessary. You've just started into the world of embark challenges, the ultimate of which is probably the fabled empty wagon no skills forbidden-creation-of-training-axes embark. Having to survive off the land with only 3 wood for materials and an inability to make barrels (due to needing 3 materials to make a depot) is somewhat difficult.
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Re: Fort Improbable
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2011, 12:47:04 am »
Also fun: sell any tools, etc (not raw materials), you brought with you to the dwarfs the first autumn. And only buy raw materials (wood, stone (no blocks or gems (they're never uncut), clay, plants (no seeds! those come in bags!), thread, prepared food (make into meals), animals (sell cages to the next caravan!), etc). That precludes sand, though (the bags).
Everything will be made yourself!

Extra challenge: bring one bag of dye, use it to dye cloth and make a bag. Sell original bag to next caravan. Only use dyed cloth.
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