OVERSEER'S LOG, ENTRY FOUR
Back in the seat, I immediately order the buckets to be produced repeatedly, as with the lye and the soap. Next, i will furnish and smooth my new home. Excitement wells up from within, and I almost exclaim my utter ecstasy at finally having the much coveted soap in my fingertips. Yes, we will finally be clean. No more injured dwarves will be put to death by a petty infection. We will have more soap than the mountainhome could hope to produce. It all starts with one bucket, one pile of ash, and one soaper's workshop.
Now, in order to keep relations with the elves at a comfortable level, which, mind you, isn't particularly high, but not low enough to start a war, I will want us to make a small offering to their leader the next time they come by. One thing that I can do now to improve relations as well as keep the stockpiles high, is delve deep into the caves below and harvest the fungal wood which grows there.
While making designations for the new public cemetery, I learn that we have a massive stockpile of coffins just laying around, so I put them to what will hopefully be well worthwhile and decorative use.
Now, time to delve deeper than ever before. I notice a one tile wide staircase leading straight down, and in no time, notice a cavern at the bottom of it's reaches.
Time to harvest, everyone. I designate several of the fungal trees to be removed, and this will hopefully be enough to fuel our soap production for a while.
Now, I tell the masons to stop making coffins. Enough is enough, guys. Instead you will be making statues. We will not be without aesthetics, now.
I designate the statuary, and notice that the coffins were hauled down here with incredible speed.
Excavating the statuary also supplies us with more aluminum, which will allow us to lavish our dwarves with shiny furniture and grand statues. It will also make for good crafting material. I make jobs at the smelters to make gold, iron, and aluminum. Hopefully the production of that will be as quick as the coffin hauling.
Next, I order several animals to be slaughtered. We will have no complaints of "Same old food," if there ever were any, anymore.
Next, I mandate that four farmer's workshops be built near the farms for obvious reasons. Here we will extract oils to make MORE SOAP, milk animals, and make cheese.
Also, we will be producing thread here, so I suppose a textile industry will be underway as well.
This will hopefully be the budding of a new life for us here in Doomforests. I assure you that our fortress will not be living up to its name during MY reign.
...And that's all the time I have for now, guys! The soap is so real right now.
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