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[Curious Key]

So I'm coming back to Dwarf Fortress, having not played since the days of 34.11, and I'm gonna post my progress here. Lets see what happens.

In spring of the year 1051, on the Planet of Soul, in the Land of Breaking, the dwarves of The Trustworthy Arches sent an expedition to start a new fort. Long they journeyed, through many a strange land, until they came upon the Steppe of Harmonizing. Here they decided to establish their new edifice to the glory of dwarf-kind.

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Here's the world. I'll be on embarking on the southern peninsula of the main continent.

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And here's our embark site. (I actually moved one tile to the right after taking this image)

Strike The Earth!

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Here's where we turned up. Nestled into a corner next to the river, which is a T-junction affair with a nicely deep canyon.

My starting dwarfs:

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Ok, so I'll post below with updates as the fort progresses. For Armok, Blood, and Magma!

[Curious Key]

Update #1
Spring of 1050
Ok, so I'm gonna start out by building a basic entrance and a farm.

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Here I've just gone up a level from the wagon and carved a basic entrance through the canyon walls and put a bridge over the river. The stairs go down to the level below the river where I'll put my farms.

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At the bottom of the stairs I carved a tunnel west where there's better soil layers and hollowed out a little farm area. Nice and cozy!

So a simple start to a fortress, everything going nice and smoothly. And... this:

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Idiotic dwarf got himself trapped across a river and needs a bridge to rescue him.

I... Don't understand how that happened. There's no way across the river at all, and dwarfs don't normally swim on their own. He also wasn't forced to dodge into the river. Is my dwarf so stupid he accidentally became four-dimensional briefly? Bugger me if I know.

I also saw a giant sponge get killed by an alligator. Apparently they can die now?

Also... Alligators in the river. Yes. I've heard they're wonderful for egg production, and I can use them as scaly meatshields!

Overseer Report #1
Spring report, 1050: Expedition Leader Adil Furnacevessel
With great fortune, we found a wonderfully defensive spot to strike the earth! There's a river with an easily defensible canyon, with a deep valley to the west with abundant trees and plantlife. Carving out the entrance and digging the farms went smoothly, with the single hitch of a dwarf... Somehow ending up on the other side of the river. Note to self: He can be the first to "Experiment" with taming the local alligators! If there's one thing I believe in as a modern dwarf, it's natural selection, and he just chose himself for some species improvement! Ok, I'm getting damn tired of sleeping under these dumb trees. Screw giving the miners a break, back to work you slackers!

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I... Don't understand how that happened. There's no way across the river at all, and dwarfs don't normally swim on their own. He also wasn't forced to dodge into the river. Is my dwarf so stupid he accidentally became four-dimensional briefly? Bugger me if I know.

I've had that happen. My dwarfs just ran over the water like nobodies business when the game started to get to a massive magnetite cluster.

I also saw a giant sponge get killed by an alligator. Apparently they can die now?

Yup.

[Curious Key]

I... Don't understand how that happened. There's no way across the river at all, and dwarfs don't normally swim on their own. He also wasn't forced to dodge into the river. Is my dwarf so stupid he accidentally became four-dimensional briefly? Bugger me if I know.

I've had that happen. My dwarfs just ran over the water like nobodies business when the game started to get to a massive magnetite cluster.

I also saw a giant sponge get killed by an alligator. Apparently they can die now?

Yup.

That's... Incredibly odd.  Well, my dwarf sat around for a while complaining of hunger, which would have made me feel a tad sympathetic if he hadn't been sitting right next to a load of passion fruit bushes.

[Curious Key]

Update #2
Summer of 1050
Continued getting basic living requirements set-up. It takes a while with only two pickaxes.

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Migrants.

Ok, so this session is mostly spent waiting on my dwarfs to decide that mining is more important than sleeping. For weeks at a time.

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Getting a basic food storage room dug out.

After I got that set up and started feeling it with food and sweet passion fruit wine, I put 6 cage traps in the entrance hall, just to help prevent snatchers.
By this time it was getting quite late in the summer, so I began digging out some bedrooms.

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My habitual habitat layout (get it?)

This update wasn't very productive, mostly due to dwarfs being lazy. But once things get set up it should start speeding up a little.

Overseer Report #2
Summer report 1050, Expedition Leader: Adil Furnacevessel
It's summers like these that make me wish dwarfs knew how to make whips. And no, I don't mean for the usual social reasons. I mean for LAZINESS reasons. My miners continue to sleep on a stone floor. I thought making them dig out the bedrooms last would keep them too uncomfortable to sleep, but noooo.... Must be the passionfruit wine. In any case, they'd better start respecting my orders around here, or I'll make damn sure research is poured into discovering the secret of whips! Absolutely for discipline purposes. Ahem.

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I also had a time when they swum all by themselves over a shallow part in the river to fish, and then when an order came for fish to be cleaned at a fishery they suddenly forgot how to swim.

'Urist cancels Job: Clean Fish. Dangerous Terrain.'

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Hello Lurkers!

[Curious Key]

I also had a time when they swum all by themselves over a shallow part in the river to fish, and then when an order came for fish to be cleaned at a fishery they suddenly forgot how to swim.

'Urist cancels Job: Clean Fish. Dangerous Terrain.'

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Hello Lurkers!

Swimming has always been a bit odd in DF. But that one is quite hilarious. 

[Aslandus]

Don't forget beds, bedrooms mean very little without actual beds to sleep on

[Curious Key]

Update #3
Autumn of 1050

Setting up some simple dining hall and workshop facilities for the most part.

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Digging out a dining hall to give the dwarfs somewhere to puke and fight.

Gonna need workshop space too, I badly need to get production started

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Basic little workshop area designated

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Hobo influx.

Migrants! So, more bellies to feed, and more hands to put to work. Also, I get some "news" from the surrounding area:

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Gee, what a drama queen.

As if piqued by the lack of essential gossip about our neighbors, a dwarf is hit by a mood!

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Possessed by the spirit of town gossips everywhere.

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Turns out they needed a metalsmith forge. Hopefully it's not a damn figurine.

So, not the most eventful of seasons, but we're in the infrastructure phase of the first year, so that's to be expected. Also, my designs are incredibly simple, I know. They're probably not permanent though. I'm getting familiar with the game again before I start doing anything crazy, and I'll eventually embark on some form of megaproject! Also, if you have any thoughts on what I should do/try, then go ahead and let me know.

Overseer Report #3
Autumn report 1050, Expedition Leader: Adil Furnacevessel
The autumn has thus far treated us kindly, as we continue to hew and carve a home in this hillside. We were also "blessed" by the influx of more peasants to serve my honour! Ahem. The honour of dwarfs everywhere I mean. The miners were actually working hard this season, so I have delayed the research of whips for the moment. One of the migrants came up to me and told me he came bearing news of the outside world and then just stood there grinning for a minute, and said everything is the same. I've decided it would be best if he is put to work far away from the other dwarfs. That kind of stupidity may be contagious. Luckily for my sanity it wasn't long after this baffling confrontation that one of the dwarfs started to twitch uncontrollably and babble in a strange tongue, before demanding we construct a forge for him, and supply him with metal! I decided to indulge him, but this had better be worth my damn time.

[Curious Key]

Don't forget beds, bedrooms mean very little without actual beds to sleep on

Oh I may be rusty, but I'm not that rusty.  Dwarfs like bedrooms filled with alligators... Right?

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Turns out they needed a metalsmith forge. Hopefully it's not a damn figurine.

Well, that was quick. 
Let's hope it indeed is not a figurine.

[Aslandus]

Artifact gold axe here we come

[Curious Key]

Artifact gold axe here we come

I'd absolutely have to theme the entire fort around the old Golden Axe games then.  I'm in the process of deciding how to handle a few things that happened for the next update, so you'll have to wait until then to see. 

[Curious Key]

Update #4
Winter of 1050

Quite an eventful season, first off, that artifact was completed:

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Well.. Shit.

Straight after that, a werebeast turned up:

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This just in: Australia is more dangerous than previously thought.

He immediately had a furious and fatal confrontation with my hunter, and moved onto...

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This just happens to be Adil, my expedition leader. Fucksticks.

He doesn't seem entirely thrilled with the situation.

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Well, he's probably going to have to cancel his kickboxing membership.

Because he's been rather effectively "scratched" by the werebeast, he'll probably turn into another australia-themed nightmare next full moon. So, I've locked him in a mock "hospital" where he can continue to "lead" the fortress.

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Adil's "inner sanctum".

The way I see it, we now have a blood-crazed lunatic in charge of the fortress, so in keeping with the theme, it seems right to start working on a megaproject idea:

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The beginning of a green-glass block factory.

I used the idea of the fortress being run by an insane kangaroo as inspiration to start a rather audacious project with the fort. You'll see as it develops!

Overseer Report #4
Winter report of 1050, Expedition Leader: Adil Furnacevessel
*Mumbles incoherently* ...Blood, need... Blood. Wait... I had something to say. Yes. I'm still the leader here. I need to focus. Yes... The thing that possessed dwarf decided to create was a bracelet. Perhaps it'll his flesh I tear and eat. Yes..... No wait. Focus. After that... A strange creature showed up, half kangaroo, and half olm-woman. I thought the hunter could subdue it, but it tore straight through the poor sod and then got to me... Ever since it tore my foot apart and bit my head, I've been getting... Hungry... Yes... Now the other dwarfs have sealed me away, they told me I'd be treated, and then... There was a wall. I was trapped. I think they fear me. But they left a small opening, through which they explained that I'm still their leader, even if I'm too dangerous to be let out. Yes... I'll show them what kind of leader I can be... Damn dwarfs didn't protect me, and they've been lazy fools since we started this disastrous fort! It's time to make them do some real work! I'll turn this place into a fortress that will never be forgotten! And then... Maybe I'll be let out, or I'll escape... And there'll be no need to be hungry anymore...

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Quite an eventful season, first off, that artifact was completed:

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Well.. Shit.

Somehow I thought it was going to be something useless like that.

Because he's been rather effectively "scratched" by the werebeast, he'll probably turn into another australia-themed nightmare next full moon. So, I've locked him in a mock "hospital" where he can continue to "lead" the fortress.

Was he bitten? Infection only occurs in bites that pierce the skin.

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Adil's "inner sanctum".