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[Araph]

This looks interesting, but I have one question: when the community is thriving and nobles start arriving, will their ever be a walled keep or anything?

[HiritconOvermindGibbross]

This is what we need to listen to while playing, at all times.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=R5rXqAsZnGU

 

[utilitarian]

This looks interesting, but I have one question: when the community is thriving and nobles start arriving, will their ever be a walled keep or anything?

I'll start up a discussing about maybe allowing a managed quarry sometime around 80 dwarves or so. Until then all stone will need to be imported.

[utilitarian]

It might be a day or two until I have finally have the first turn up. The good news is that I've finally found the duplicated raw! So hopefully no more glitches of any sort. In the meantime here are some screens from the last Harvest Dwarf game that show what things might end up looking like in the early game. The first one is a topography map, the second is a stonesence screenshot. Credit goes to JamCat and Armeleon, respectively.

Topography

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Stonesence:

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[Coolnesstod]

Very nice, I wouldve asked to join the old HarvestDwarf but my skills were rather.... Lacking. So thats why i asked today. And by the time im done with it, we will be the most Dwarvenly Dwarves of Land.

[Urist McKiwi]

I'll assume that anyone who wants to be mayor'd also wants to be dorf'd, no?

Hmm. So where does the Dwarven Caravan come from then?

That, my friend, is what we call a plot hole.

Dwarves have recently colonised a new planet with their space-wagon. Cunningly disguised supply drones and caches have been set up with the mere semblance of being very old fortresses with kings and the like. Unfortunately, the space-wagon, like its terrestrial counterparts, is not the most well-built of machines, and may randomly blow up on landing.

(The dwarven caravan is a mandated plot-hole even on regular games....how do they get to my island fortress? How did they cross the rivers in the way? We'll never know. But the dwarves evidently build REALLY good [up to a point] wagons to get you across oceans and mountains and suchlike.)

Edit: oh yeah, and Dorf me as...well...someone. If he dies, gimme a child who causes troubles.

[utilitarian]

I'll assume that anyone who wants to be mayor'd also wants to be dorf'd, no?

Hmm. So where does the Dwarven Caravan come from then?

That, my friend, is what we call a plot hole.

Dwarves have recently colonised a new planet with their space-wagon. Cunningly disguised supply drones and caches have been set up with the mere semblance of being very old fortresses with kings and the like. Unfortunately, the space-wagon, like its terrestrial counterparts, is not the most well-built of machines, and may randomly blow up on landing.

(The dwarven caravan is a mandated plot-hole even on regular games....how do they get to my island fortress? How did they cross the rivers in the way? We'll never know. But the dwarves evidently build REALLY good [up to a point] wagons to get you across oceans and mountains and suchlike.)

Hehe, that's a lot more creative than what I did. I just edited the OP My explanation won't need to be nearly so elaborate now.

[Vgray]

Goes looking for edit.

[utilitarian]

Goes looking for edit.

Satisfied now? 

[Vgray]

What did you edit? It looks the same to me.

[utilitarian]

Prologue


The wheels of the wagon bounced and slipped down the muddy slope, unable to provide any meaningful traction against the sheer face of the hill. Hog, Kirby and Broseph walked behind the wagon, and it was only by their efforts that the wagon did not slide free  and tumble down into the valley below. Each dwarf had a duty to perform. Zon and Roved held the pack animals, a pair of yaks, and Ingish guided the wagon from the front. Ute oversaw the effort. She knew that it would only take one slip and their expedition would be doomed to failure, lost without tool or provision in an alien land.

As they descended into the valley, the air became thicker and thicker with humidity. The heat was overwhelming. Ute stopped to catch her breath, and wiped her brow clear of sweat for what seemed like the fifth time that minute. The 6 settlers took a similar break, fetching provisions from their wagon for a snack. They looked exhausted. Ute might not have had a physical burden on her back, but the knowledge that she was responsible for the lives of these six dwarves, not to mention the success of her expedition, lay heavily upon her.

Ute knew they could not stop for long. They had precious few hours of daylight to bring the wagon into and back out of this valley. It would be suicide trying to maneuver such a load in the dark, not to mention the risk of attracting the attention of valley's less friendly denizens. She loosened her throat.

"Oi! Git a move on, ye short-bearded bunch o' Kobolds!" The dwarves quickened their pace. The yaks grunted in the heat, and the wagon began shifting down the face once again.

                                                                                 . . .

Ute stood numbly in front of the roaring mass of water in front of her. The travelers had just begun celebrating their successful passage down the valley when Zon ran through the trees with news of the river. Not just any river, Ute mused, but the biggest river she had ever seen, and certainly far too big for them to cross. That was nearly an hour ago, and the skies were beginning to darken. Ute had to give the settlers her word on what they would do. There was, of course, only one option available to them, as it would take the strength of Armok himself to get that wagon up the hill again. They would have to settle here, Ute decided. For better or worse.

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[utilitarian]

What did you edit? It looks the same to me.

I didn't change much, but I don't think anything there creates any glaring contradictions anymore.

[Coolnesstod]

A major River ay? Fun time just got, funner. 

[Llamainaspitfire]

So who wants to claim the River Bridge project?

[HiritconOvermindGibbross]

So who wants to claim the River Bridge project?

I can try it. How big do we want this Bridge?
O how deep is it?