So, I have a different fort going on. I embarked on the very tip of a mountainous region, while the bulk is on a woodlandish area. At the beginning, badgers were tormenting my woodcutter and herbalist, until I realized I didn't assign them a war dog each. After I assigned them, moments later a badger lay dead near my wagon. That might have taught those other badgers a lesson or two.
When I embarked, I saw that the hill that I dug into was composed of some microcline. This made me happy, as that is one of my favorite stones to build rooms/furniture with. So I did the basic thing where I build stuff, dig rooms, and just in general try and get set up.
One thing I wish was implemented in this game is the option to make furniture out of materials that you specify, not the random grab that the dwarfs do, because I want all my furniture made out of microcline. Setting up a stockpile with only microcline allowed near the mason workshop is a start, but sometimes my mason decides he want to go grab some rhyolite from the burial chamber. In retrospect, this was not so bad, because rhyolite looks pretty pimpin' too.
Plan for this fort: Build a base outside composed of microcline and maybe some other colourful stones. This will take a lot of stone to do though, and I don't know if I will have enough. Maybe I'll do each floor in a different colour.
Question: What are the most colourful stones? I am using the Pheobus graphics pack if that makes any difference.