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[Aseaheru]

Wait, do we HAVE nails?

[evilcherry]

Wait, do we HAVE nails?

We don't have metal nails (at that moment), and actually any metal. So long for a metalsmith!

Priorities for the month:

1. Smelter
2. Klin
3. Spiked Club
4. Pointed Stick

You first designed the smelter, without much problem, despite an obvious lack of all kinds of material. It consists of a rough ceramic pot, with a beak/channel for running off slag and products, placed directly atop a stone grate atop a fire. Sadly, the lack of insulation means that the temperature is not good enough for iron, but you feel that it would be capable of working with copper.

Spoiler: Mark I Smelter (click to show/hide)

Materials:
Stone: I
Clay: I
Pottery: I

Technology:
Stonecrafting: I
Potter: I

Labour: 7

Allows Mark I Smelting:
Materials:
Ore/scrap (<= Copper, i.e. Tin, Silver, Gold, Lead, Mercury): I
Wood: III or Charcoal: II
Technology:
Furnace operator: II
Labour: 1
Products: I Metal, I Slag

You are still no potter, but you feel that you have perfected the design of the Klin. Its basically shaped stone and bricks lined to give a very hot interior, recessed into the wall for insulation. Fire is contained underneath, separated by a stone grate. You notice that a lot of heat escapes from the open orifice at the side, and thus is wastes a lot of fuel, but it is workable.

Spoiler: Mark I Furnace (click to show/hide)

Materials:
Stone: III
Clay: II

Technology:
Stonecrafting: II
Potter: I

Labour: 14

Allows Mark I Pottery:
Materials:
Clay: I
Wood: IIII or Charcoal: II
Technology:
Furnace operator: I
Labour: 1
Cooldown: 2 days (hopefully with industrialization I can discount CD times)

You also tried to design a spiked club, but you do not feel you have the right type of spikes available. The stonecrafter said he can craft you some, and he suggests that you can ask other dorfs for help for professions you are not familiar with, though they will expect something in return. You stopped designing, anyway, for the lack of time.

You tried to shape sticks into quarterstaffs, but you were really astonished that the carpenters are already offering one for everyone.

General Fort Situation for the month

The Expedition Leader noticed your nice little knife. He demanded that you either give him yours immediately, or he would want two by the end of Galena, that is 2 months later.
A cave-in greatly impeded mining progress.
Your woodcutters brought down an ox, and you have a very limited supply of leather. Use wisely.

Spoiler: current fort situation (click to show/hide)

Total number of Dorfs: 12
In which Military dorfs: 1
In which axedorfs: 1

Weapon Stocks: 2 Axes, 2 Picks, 12 quarterstaffs

Threat level: Very low, limited to wildlife.
Current problems: None at the moment

Spoiler: works situation (click to show/hide)

Workshops under your command:
Cheap Furnace
Mark I Furnace
Stone Forge
Mark I Klin
Apprentices: 0

Spoiler: supply situation (click to show/hide)

Clay: ++++ Abundant
Stone: +++ Good
Wood: 0 Balanced
Charcoal: -- Shortage
Pottery: ----- Restricted
Leather: ---- Rationed
Metal:
Iron:
Bog: +++ Good
We have not encountered any other metal yet.

Spoiler: Skills (click to show/hide)

Wood Burning: II Novice
Furnace operator: III Adequate
Metal crafter: IIII Competent
Blacksmith: IIIII Skilled
Armorsmith: IIII Competent
Weaponsmith: IIII Competent
Potter: I Dabbling
Stonecrafting: I Dabbling

Today is 1 Malachite. What is the order for the month?

Spoiler: GM note (click to show/hide)

While I'm certainly not a metallurgist, I guess I didn't forget my chemistry.

[Armok]

> give him the knife it was mostly testing out the equipment anyway.

> make a mechanism.

[evilcherry]

> give him the knife it was mostly testing out the equipment anyway.

> make a mechanism.

Don't think that this game works like DF. Making a mechanism without description would probably yield you some kind of mechanical-looking abstract art instead.

[Aseaheru]

Give the knife and offer him another at that deadline.
See about making a door for that hole in the kiln, and go check what skills people have.

Then make another knife.

[ICBM pilot]

> give him the knife it was mostly testing out the equipment anyway.

> make a mechanism.

Don't think that this game works like DF. Making a mechanism without description would probably yield you some kind of mechanical-looking abstract art instead.

+1 for abstract art
make a stone coffin menacing with spikes of stone (I was originally going to make a Judas cradle or whatever those are called but I didn't know how to describe the pyramid-thingy) 

[evilcherry]

Minor interlude:

You asked for assessment of the labour situation.

Meltingbog has 2 miner/masons, 2 woodcutters/ carpenters, a few farmers, brewers, fishermen, cleaners, cheese makers, and generally speaking indispensable staff, Urist McPapersTester the leader/trader/loafer, 1 stonecrafter, 1 adequate jeweler, and Uskot Rockmelter the smith.

Urist McPapersTester reminded sternly that your job is to make every metal implement the fort may need.

[Aseaheru]

Allright, well, lets see if we can get the masons to get us some blocks, see how the miners are mining out areas and ask everyone what metal thing they would need first.

Also, do we have any ores at all? We may want to start smelting. Along with getting the carpenters to make us some tool handles.

[evilcherry]

Allright, well, lets see if we can get the masons to get us some blocks, see how the miners are mining out areas and ask everyone what metal thing they would need first.

Also, do we have any ores at all? We may want to start smelting. Along with getting the carpenters to make us some tool handles.

The only metal around for the moment is bog iron, but your equipment is not good enough to smelt them.

[Aseaheru]

Well, its brick producing time then. 

[evilcherry]

Waiting for more suggestions, while trying to keep to at least one update per day.

Timezone blues once again!

[Dorsidwarf]

Build a complex forge setup that smelts metal into puzzleboxes.

[evilcherry]

Build a complex forge setup that smelts metal into puzzleboxes.

Again, designing an SCP-914 for you is not in the spirit of this game. At least please detail how the machine smelts metal AND turn them into puzzleboxes.

[Carnwennan]

Modify the smelter design:
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Adding a lid for more insulation.
Thickening the ceramic for more insulation.
[more insulation]

get the carpenter to make us some bellows (if he can), in exchange for a shiny metal knife later. Use to increase the heat of the fire.

Give the leader our knife. Be sure to make an even better knife for ourselves asap.

[Aseaheru]

Seconding below, although also see that the carpenter uses the leather.