After the completely accidental flooding of my last fort, I have broken ground on a beautiful new site. My entrance is nestled deep in the heart of a mountain valley with a warm climate, plenty of trees, and a brook running through the only entrance. Once the cliffs have been walled off, it should be very secure. As an added bonus, there is a volcano about 29 z-levels below the entrance level of my fortress, and early digging has found a walled-in complex of lizardmen and zombie frogmen 26 levels down. There is no coal of any sort on this map, nor is there flux stone, and although the climate is nice, there is little flat ground for trees to grow on. There are, however, very rich veins of native copper, native silver and hematite, which should do well enough until I can bore down to the HFS. As for steel, the only I'll be getting will shipped from the Mountainhome. This does give me some added safety, however, as the copious amounts of iron and copper ore make goblinite harvesting redundant, allowing me to use more destructive defenses. On another note, I will likely be forced to make the fortress self-sustainable, as there simply isn't enough level ground outside for efficient farming. The supply situation is such that, barring major immigration, this goal should be possible before the second winter.
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