Year 126, Week 5 (Midpring, The Oak)
Oku Ura is emtpy
Aveanaye is waning
You check the in-game help for farming.
Farming
Farming is the most reliable way to obtain food, but it is also the most complicated to prepare. To get started, you must place a farm plot. You can place a farm plot on soil or mud, inside or outside. Dwarves assigned as Farmers will plant seeds according to your selections in the farm plot menu, where you can also see the recommondations of the dwarf who set up the farm plot, and all dwarves helü with the harvest unless you set orders to the contrary. A plant will generally grow either underground or aboveground and have different preferences regarding soil, so be careful with the seeds you select.
Farms require more or less regular irrigation. This can be done by normal rainfall, diverting water sources with channels and floodgates, or by designating areas to be irrigated manually. The latter method can also be used to move mud or soil in order to prepare an otherwise unsuitable area for farming (such as many underground areas).
Some plants that you farm aren't immediately edible, but can be processed at a millstone or farmer's workshop to make flour, sugar, spices, or other plant products such as thread for cloth-making or dyes. Many plants can also be brewed into alcoholic drinks at a brewery.
You can greatly increase your farm output by using a fertilizer such as potash. Potash is obtained from evaporating lye water, and lye water is obtained from soaking wood ash. This can be done at an ashery.
Your available seeds are:
10 Plump helmet spawn - Plump helmet is a purple fungus that can be eaten raw, cooked, and brewed into dwarven wine. It prefers wet, clayish soil or mud, can be grown all year long, and takes 8 weeks to grow. It is an underground crop.
10 Ash morel spawn - Ash morel is an ash-gray fungus that can be eaten raw, cooked, ground into ashdye, and brewed into ash rum. It prefers wet, clayish soil or mud, can be grown all year long, and takes 8 weeks to grow. It is an underground crop.
10 Underwheat seeds - Underwheat is a yellow grain that that can be ground into underwheat flour, and brewed into underbeer. It prefers sandy soil or mud, can be planted in spring, and harvested in the fall. It is an underground crop.
10 Pig tail seeds - Pig tail is a gray crop that can be brewed into dwarven ale and processed into pig tail thread. It prefers clayish soil or mud, can be planted in the early-to-mid fall, and be harvested mid-to-late fall. It is an underground crop.
10 Cave pumpkin seeds - Cave pumpkin is a maroon vegetable that can be eaten raw, and cooked. Its seeds can be pressed for oil. It prefers dry sandy soil, can be grown all year long, and takes 16 weeks to grow. It is an underground crop.
The furnace and the cage are finished, and you order the furniture you have built. You dig into the ground, finding marble and hematite (+3 sandstone, +2 marble, +2 hematite), and use one of the resulting rooms for the sub-lieutenant's office.
The smith refines 2 of the bituminous coal into coke for a net gain of 16 coal.
You send the farmer to harvest the aboveground crops. He picks 4 servings of crow berries, 2 garlicnuts, and 2 garlicnut leaves
Crow berry is a black fruit that can be eaten raw, cooked, and brewed into crow berry wine. It prefers wet, clayish soil, can be grown in spring, and takes 8 weeks to grow. It is an aboveground crop.
Garlicnut is a white nut that can be eaten raw, cooked, and pressed into oil. It grows on a bush whose leaves can be eaten cooked. It prefers wet, clayish soil, can be grown in summer, and takes 8 weeks to grow. It is an aboveground crop.
Shorast Torchtin, Male Miner
Rith Boltsclashed, Male Mason
Thikut Dyegorges, Male Smith
Onol Lancedsoared, Female Carpenter/Woodcutter, expedition leader
Kib Bootrenowned, Female Farmer
Ilral Kindlingmines, Male Sublieutenant Requires simple bedroom, simple office
Fath Quakeamber, Female Axedwarf
Sazir Chewmines, Male Axedwarf
Athser Lilacmountains, Female Sworddwarf
Onol Paintposts, Male Hammerdwarf
2x Ghostly Cat (Tame)
3x Stalking Hound (Tame)
2x Echo Fowl (Tame)
1x Eyeless Viper, caged, untamed
1 scarborn wolf, prowling
50 Plump helmet
50 Ash morels
50 Underwheat
50 Cave pumpkins
50 Dark hog meat
4 Crow berries
2 Garlicnut
2 Garlicnut leaves
48 Dwarven wine
48 Underbeer
47 Ash rum
47 Dwarven ale
10 Plump helmet spawn
10 Ash morel spawn
10 Underwheat seeds
10 Pig tail seeds
10 Cave pumpkin seeds
1 Copper Felling axe
1 Copper Pickaxe
2+3 Copper Crafter's Toolboxes
1 Iron anvil
1 Iron shovel
3 pig tail ropes
3 pig tail bags
3 tower cap buckets
3 tower cap splints
3 tower cap crutches
5 pig tail thread
1 tower cap wheelbarrow
3 silver ore
26 bars of coke
95 hollow birch logs
14 shadowoak logs
22 granite
3 sandstone
2 marble
2 hematite
6 bituminous coal
1 granite table
1 granite throme
5 hollow birch beds with pigtail bedding
5 shadowoak beds with pigtail bedding
1 granite furnace
1 eyeless viper cage (shadowoak)
1 Carpenters workshop (1x Toolbox)
1 Mason's workshop (1x Toolbox)
1 Clothier's workshop (1x Toolbox)
1 Smelter (1x furnace)
10 Bedrooms (beds with pigtail bedding)
1 Dining Room (empty)
1 sub-lieutenant's office (1 chair, 1 table)
1 Aboveground Farm (fallow)
1 Underground Farm (fallow)
"With the new office, your sub-lieutenant now can send messages to your civilization's general, requesting additional military dwarves to be sent or a local dwarf to be elevated along the military hierarchy. If you are supposed to build an outpost, the sub-lieutenant will also send progress reports at certain intervals"
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