I'd like to be a different dwarf please. Maybe a fortifications commissioner?
Sure, I have two more noble ladies that are not involved in any frivolous activities yet (though being such a small fort with no migrants so far I cannot guarantee anything in future
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If you want a male noble though you will need to pick male migrant and convince current nobles that they need another noble family and you are the best candidate for it.
Speaking of current nobles:
We have successfully extracted some stone and ores from our small mine, but our population is still pretty small. (3 dwarves less then it was year ago.)
So what should we do next?
To the options from previous vote I would like to explicitly add:
change "c - dig for stone, possibly freezing out any aquifer." to read:
c - mine for resources, emphasizing -this-, where this is the ore, stone or other digable resource you would recommend to hoard.
add:
f - create crafts en-masse to demonstrate to the next caravan and hope that migrants will be impressed sooner then goblins.
g - segregate society as is and hope that 8 dwarves can support 7 nobles. Nobles should switch do doing -this-, where this is an activity. It can be military pursuits (24/7 training), politics (chatting in the longhall 24/7) or whatever you wish would be nice to do while Derpislava, Cain, Dwarf4Explosive, cyberTripping and their few relatives do all the work.
h - create arms and armor for everyone and brace ourselves for inevitable hostiles (after all something in this wood have already eaten 3 waves of migrants before they even arrived to our settlement)