Oruksmata. Year 6. Age of Myth
Found a spot with a sheer (almost) cliff face next to a jungle/marsh (I don't know but it has tons of palm trees and snakes).
This time I'm going to do it right.
Granite.Breaking earth.
I heard there was clay and sand here but looking around I see only sand. Lots of sand, and palm trees. But no beach. Or tiki bar.
Got everything under ground. Why aren't the farms going? It appears I brought along a "plant processor" instead of a farmer. Great.
Starting to dig down and what do you know, an aquifer. Supposed to have clay. Supposed to not have an aquifer. Alrighty then. Lets dig under that huge wall of rock instead of the jungle. It can't extend all the way to the edge of the map. Can it?
It doesn't. It appears I have one of those convenient, friendly, aquifers. And looking around it is a little quirky too. It seems to extend up a rock spire above the jungle. Interesting. I'll have to figure out how best to capitalize on this opportunity without flooding my entire fortress. Hatch covers will solve all my potential problems. I'll make six of them, just in case.
Beds. Check. Tables. Check. Chairs. Check. Brewery. What?
So my non-farming plant processor doesn't brew. I'm pretty sure brewing is similar to plant processing. So I give him the job. Urvad "Lifewheels" member of the Virginal Trade. Weak, quick to tire, bad spatial sense, poor focus, socially inept (hence a member of the virginal trade), clumsy, likes horse hoof and enormous corkscrews. I guess that's why they made him the expedition leader.
Slate.Set up a wood furnace, a couple of smelters and a metalsmith's forge. Making charcoal, coke and bronze bars.
Miners Digging down. Bump. Cavern 1. Adjust. Bump. Cavern 2. Adjust. Bump. Cavern 3. Good gravy! Candy, and lots of it. I have to find out the
facts about candy and determine how best to proceed....
Felsite.Found the magma sea and four more candy canes. Not seeing coal or lignite anywhere. Guess I've got to char all of those trees in a wood furnace instead of with a magma and booze fueled wild fire. The booze is for the explosions, and there's nothing better to do with all the crappy hooch the pig ears bring each spring.
Found three good spots for magma pump stacks. Got an aquifer for limitless power. A huge rock wall. A jungle. A quiet jungle. Sand. 28 separate magnetite deposits I can see from the cliff face. Marble. Tons of trees. Five candy canes that I 've found, so far.
Gotta take a break and do a little planning.