I will have the mushroom farm to end all mushroom farms, thanks to aquifer flooding.
A HA HA YEAH RIGHT
GUESS HOW THAT ENDED - GENIUS
synchronized drowningwater ballet with beards...too short for an ark?
I can never end those things.
Had to restart the fort. Halfway through the third year now, twenty immigrants sitting around picking their noses, the rest are all on their way to legendary pump-operator status as they
man dorf? the sixteen pumps, I can see magnetite but it's just out of reach, I have only six mechanisms in the whole fort, I had to wall off half the map when the moat flooded and froze in winter giving the werewolf Greenheal a direct shot at one of my starting seven who was promptly eaten face-first... then the werewolf ripped off his pants (and a sock), and wielded those instead of its claws, and fell to an immigrant after the usual Benny Hill Chase Scene.
(Why do they DO that? I mean, sure, it means each of those rabid pests can only take out one dwarf tops, but socks? When there's a perfectly good (copper axe) on that same gently-cooling body?)
Oh, and the new mayor wants me to waste charcoal on green glass crap. I guess I will make her some because SHE KEEPS DROPPING HER NEW BABY IN THE AQUIFER
Relying heavily on caravans, which is actually working out well since the fort's only successful moods have given me a thong, a miniskirt, and two legendary clothiers. (Buy crappy rope reed cloth from traders. Make masterwork ropes. Sell ropes. Buy more cloth. Repeat. Buy them out of food, booze, and anything vaguely metallic.)
All in all, going swimmingly. Except for the baby. Ah well... needed to empty out all those sand bags, anyway.