My first fortress on the new version.
Embarked on a site carefully chosen to be half on/half off a sinistar
biome because I wanted to see what all the fuss was about.
7 dwarves, looked around. Oh hey, yaks! Oh... ZOMBIE yaks. Que a failed attempt to cull the local zombie wildlife I was looking at one dwarf alive and another being chased. Writing the chased dwarf off as dead, and wanting to escape the ressurected corpses of my other dwarves, this one brave soul sealed himself off from the surface in the caves that was to be their home. For the next few weeks he mined downwards, knowing that he had to hit a cavern with water or die of thirst. Finally found water, but was unable to secure any land as there were ominous signs of Giant Cave Spiders as well as a giant toad. I had the dwarf start mining out some rooms to use for masonry and fishing incase he could catch any fish.
Above ground I found the other dwarf had managed to temporarily shake off his persuer. Quickly digging a hole into the soft earth, he hit stone and sealed himself off from the surface as well. Figuring that their chances of survival would be higher together I had this second dwarf mine towards the first. Soon they were both fishing together, desperately trying to find something, but it became clear that the underground lake was bereft of fish.
As a last ditch attempt to save the now starving dwarves, I had them go back towards the surface and unseal the entrance. Through sheer luck they were able to make the short distance to the wagon, grab the much needed food and drink, as well as the bags of seeds for farming, store them underground and seal off the entrance again.
A year has passed, and the entrance has been opened a grand total of 3 times; Twice for some migrants, and once to grab the anvil from the wagon, as well as deconstruct it for the logs. This last expedition nearly resulted in disaster, as a single zombified dwarf chased one of the haulers down the shaft and into the homes near the underground lake. I was frantically trying to get the dwarves to seal off the tunnel infront of the zombie, writing off anyone caught on the other side as dead, when someone amazingly managed to kill the zombie in a single shot without getting hit. I quickly sealed the zombie off in a small constucted box before it could potentially reanimate. (Thankfully it has not the fact of having two seperate biomes means that zombies killed outside of the sinister biome don't reanimate (I think.))
There's now ~9 dwarves living underground, tentavely living off plants and with a growing smithing industry. Oh, and there's about 4 dwarf ghosts haunting them, so they're going to have to be put to rest (Thankfully they're not violent).
!!Fun!!
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