Something I noticed but forgot to mention. You can have multiple brokers/record keepers/managers. I'm pretty sure that isn't intentional.
Anyway. Starting! Embarked along a river, flowing between a shrubland and a rocky wasteland. Well, apparently "temperate" means "frozen", cause the river is frozen and everything's snowed over in the northern (forested) biome. Goody goody!
I did, however, find something interesting. Rock! Genuine rock! Not something I'd expected to see, to be frank. I'm quite pleased, and will be sending my miner to go dig it out... later. Right now we need to get our asses inside and prepare plans for an underground cistern. Not having drinking water during the frozen months will not be acceptable. The biome WAS listed as temperate, so it should thaw. Good thing, because I was briefly tempted to embark on the tundra..... Yeah. Haha. Funny, right?
Anyway, first order of business is going to be getting these halflings out of the cold. I've ordered a rudimentary underground halfling hole to be dug out, containing the area where I will eventually build a series of cage traps, a barracks, and a drawbridge for defense, and then past that, a small area for halflings to congregate. I've got a tiny farm on the surface, because it's telling me "No mud/soil for farming" even though there's clearly dirt. I'm not sure if it'll let me farm, so I'm testing that out.
I brought the following supplies to start us off:
1 shovel
2 hatchets
11 flaxseeds
11 pumpkin seeds
11 pumpkins
5 sheets of flax cloth
3 flax ropes
3 wood buckets
3 wood crutches
3 wood splints
45 wood logs
3 ducks, 2 female 1 male
3 hounds, 2 female 1 male
I'm gonna be training the hounds for war, have them follow my archer around. I took with me a miner/cook, two farmers, a wood cutter/herbalist, an archer, a butcher/tanner/noble, and a carpenter, who will likely be very busy here.
One week in and the halflings have proved quite industrious. We're still carving out the barracks, as we came across an unexpected deposit of stone, which takes far longer to dig through. We're having the nearby wood chopped down and nearby plants gathered, to be stored in an aboveground stockpile until we can move everything to the fortified underground bunker. I may build the bridge now that I can get it hooked up with stone mechanisms. Our carpenter has produced several nest boxes for the ducks to use, and is starting on the bows next. The farmers have finished sowing the pumpkin seeds, and I may have them do the same with flaxseeds just to increase our potential yield, even if we don't have much of a need for a textile industry yet... not to mention the workforce to support one. The snow finally melted on the 11th, and it looks like the river might thaw soon. We're hopeful that it does, because I'm going to need to dig out a cistern soon. If we don't get a holding tank for water during the winter, we'll starve. Period. At least now I can see the ground...
20th Granite: The river is thawed at last! One halfling rushes off for his first drink.
17th Slate: Progress is being made... We've got beds and tables installed, and we're digging out underground workshop areas. Suddenly I get a notification that someone threw a rock at a hound! Luckily the bastard ran off with its toes bleeding, but still. Yikes. That's frightening. Our mayor mandated we make some bows. I already made some bows. We don't need five bows for our one archer.
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