Previous PostLushmines is doing rather well. Better than could be expected, considering
how it all started.I forgot to take notes last time, so I'm posting this from memory (and the few screenshots I grabbed).
Lets see, I dug past the first cavern (and only) cavern, searching for stone that wasn't brown. As I suspected, the way my central staircase intersected the cavern made it exceptionally easy to wall off. I'll explore the caverns more when I'm better prepared to do so.
Beneath the caverns I found granite. Dark grey is marginally better than brown, and granite is a very dwarfy stone, but I kept going. Next was phyllite, light grey didn't please me either. After that was quartzite, which is a nice bright white.
After digging into the quartize a little ways, I hit warm stone at -30z. From the way my miner found the warm stone, it looked as if I was about to hit magma from above, rather than intersecting one of the sides. I channelled out the stone a little to the side of the main stairs and hit the great magma sea. Hooray for magma.
I immediately floored over the open channels and started planning my forge area. Granted, there are no metals on this map, but I'll be able to melt any goblinite when the bastards return. The second soil layer is black sand so I also set up some glass furnaces. A mix of Green and white should make a pretty aesthetically pleasing fortress, eventually.
Stākud, the all around competent smith turned axedwarf, got in a strange mood. It was a possession, sadly. Stākud likes shortswords. The only metals I have are imported steel, iron and pig iron. Thankfully, he grabbed the right one.
Now, if you remember, I had originally set up a squad of swordsdwarves which latter got split into two squads with axes and hammers. The reason I went with swords at first was because I had an immigrant, Unib Kabzasit, who had decent physical stats and was a skilled swordsdwarf. I figured he could help teach the new recruits. Well, with a new shiny shortsword in our possession, I decided to reinstate Unib as a swordsdwarf. I'll probably give him his own squad next time I get migrants.
Then I noticed something odd. Anybody care to guess what "Kabzasit" translates as?
Sometimes I think the RNG is just screwing with me...
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