Alright. Alright. I think I've got a grip on things here. at least slightly. I'm being notified repeatedly of things that were finished at Exodius' request. I'm not complaining about that, the sooner they get done his stuff - I KNOW ABOUT THE SAND! Don't make me make you take a tour of the magma sea.
At least the people yelling me about iron are yelling about something I can actually deal with. I really need to deal with the efficiency of this place. That begins now. There are also people yelling about some sort of skinless poisonous beast. I checked the walls down there myself, and they are secure.
Step one: No more of this lugging everything about by hand. I know, I know, devices to aid us cost resources, but frankly, we're swimming in cruft after Exodius got the brilliant plan to buy an entire caravan on credit??? of course those will have to wait until the other forgework is done, unless I can step them up in production a bit. I'm sure he won't mind. I just... won't tell him. Not that I can hide much from our bookkeeper but I can try. At the very least making some barrows will hopefully increase our efficiency.
Step one B: It's almost as if the storage plan, except for the kitchens, is "shove things wherever you can". ... This needs to be fixed. I can find some rhyme or reason but we have people working in extremely cluttered workshops which only makes them work slower. On a hunch, I did see what was stored in our masons' shops. Piles upon piles upon PILES of stone blocks. HOW. More storage - PROPER storage. Designating a stockpile JUST for the furniture now - currently the furniture is lumped in with blocks of stone?? Nobody can tell what's what.
Step two: Minecart routes. I'm not sure I want to put in tracks yet, those are a good way to get dwarves killed and I don't have enough of a grip on this forsaken hell hole (by Armok's beard, I've never seen dwarves move more slowly in my life!) to try adn get them made at the moment. I 'll settle for the carts. That will at least let us move larger quantities of common goods. I plan on using that at least for ores. ((And may I not kill any dwarves with this. However I saw this method and it seems safe enough... seems.))
Step three: Try to get a good supply of bins forged so we can shove stuff in them so it can stop lying around everywhere, cluttering the place up.
Step four: Stop people from needing to run forever and a day to get iron bars! Actually that's going to become more of a priority or by my beard, I'll go mad.
Let's not even get into the hives the magma forges are giving me. It's almost as if they were plopped down whever there was some magma! I'll get our miners on helping me remedy this problem. That'll notch in well with trying to improve the efficiency of our smelting. Stopgap measure is adding another magma forge down there.
Step five: ... Do we even have any soap?! Not that I need to be bathed oranything, but the hospital needs it. If not...
Of for the love of... What is it NOW?! Someone's barking at me that they can't store something because there's monkeys. I'm not kidding. Monkeys. That's about the time the screaming started, and before I really knew what was going on, those monkeys had killed someone. I thought we had traps for...
WHY DID NOBODY PUT ANY TRAPS ON THE PATHWAY INTO ARE ARMOK BE DAMNED OUTPOST?!
((ooc: I was actually wondering that, by the way. I'm to blame too, not seeing the weakness))
I hastily ordered some be put there but of course. the monkeys scared off those who were going to put them in place. It didn't take long for me to turn the military loose on them. Thankfully, the monkeys managed to not outrun all of them. There are several dead monkeys now. though unfortunately, we lost a marksdwarf, one Thob. I ordered him to be buried in his section of the catacombs - there was thankfully many glass coffins free (Glass is a rather good coffin material. We can venerate our dead military, and more importantly, get a very good look at what killed them.)
However, I think, related to this issue... well...
I engraved a slab to this weaver, because I have no idea where their body went because of course everyone here is too beardless to do a simple thing like KEEP TRACK OF CORPSES. By Armok's hiruste <selection looks crossed out> Things like that are what was killing morale before! That and corpses laying in the hallways, rotting.
Things seem to have calmed down some. There are some recovering in the hospital I didn't know we had upstairs.
Speaking of hospital, I had to corner Exodius and ask him if in the pile of cruft he ordered if he happened to get his hands on some soap. ... Which is the point where he found me and told me WE MUST HAVE AN ANVIL.
It's like he's trying to run the fort from the shadows. Besides... we... already have anvils? I think? Unless he wants his own made out of silver in his room? I might just do that. I at least did commission the anvil to be made. After I perhaps convince the military to take the occasional break in their training. I admire their dedication, but the constant sparring is giving me a headache. I really need to finish their barracks.
((OOC: Honestly the constant sparring KILLS my fps. I stopped the sparring, it jumped up from TWO to about 85.))
Beginning of summer note: I understand how using blocks is far more efficient than using raw stone. HOWEVER.
Do we really need so many?!
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