Log entry 4:This took awhile, but now we have some proper housing! The rooms are yet to be smoothed and engraved, although one belonging to the broker is already completed.
Dr. Blackhat spends most of his time making farm plots and trying to grow something here in the desert. And he also found some rye for us to brew into beer. Great job, I say!
Thanks to ShieldBash's efforts, we've caught some two-humped camels! They're relatively easy to train, so now we have additional cattle.
At last, the migrants! Now we've up to... Wait... 10 dwarves?! How we are supposed to do this? We surely need more workers.
Professor Saintly greeted me shortly after the arrival, stating that he "is willing to contribute his knowledge in the project". I was really glad that such a famous engineer decided to help us out. He also presented me two blueprints, one of which I've already seen - it was a magma derrick project developed by the National Academy geological and natural department, with Saintly as a consultant. This structure was originally meant to be used for lab construction, but the professor claims that it will produse from 3600 to 4500 units of energy while consuming only 1120 - 1400, which means he might come up with something more efficient.
A rather skilled mason named UltraMagna arrived as well. The third migrant was a wrestler, so I put him into ShieldBashes's squad. They now train together.
OOC note: I don't really have any experience with such elaborate megaprojects. Actually, I thought it would look like this:
But we don't need magma. We'd end up with the above-ground fort being even deeper and more expansive than the underwater fort, which kind of defeats the purpose of the excursion. We can reach the ocean floor by hooking pumps up together in a square reverse-pyramid fashion down as deep as we need to go. Hell, we can rig a power generator to it, too, and automate the whole thing with a shut-off lever.
As the Chief Engineer, I would gladly take command of this project and construct the device that make life at the bottom of the sea possible. I've done such mega-projects before, after all.
The only expancive thing I intended to place outside was the magma elevator (a 6x5 tube rising from the ground like a giant crane.) Everything else was going to be pretty simple, as we don't have much place above.
Anyway, I would really appreciate any help with setting this up.
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Topic: Project Underwater: Utopian undeground adventure (Succession/community fort) (Read 4929 times)