This is a masterwork dog leather journal owned by Kogan 'NCommander' Kelnakuth. On its covered is adored images of seven dwarfs. The image related to the founding of Scorchedgravel, the last Dwarven settlement.Spring 553We must look towards long-term survival here. That means we need to defend ourselves. The archery tower is a start, but we need to go further. As such, I'm working in the magma forge.
And have the first squad setup.
Looking long term, we need to gain access to wood. There's no way around it. We might get a few logs every decade or so on the surface, but it will never be enough to sustain us. We need the ash for soap, as well as beds. To put it more bluntly, we need to dig deeper.
Unfortunately, that's not going to be easy.
Evil is lining up in the caverns to wreck us, and webbers can destroy lords. If we are to survive, we need to go better. I've given everyone a silver hammer for the time being; we're out of leather and thus don't have any quivers. At least if we get in caught melee, we won't be completely defenseless, and we can work on building up other useful skills. Like discipline.
(NOTE TO FUTURE OVERSEERS: Order the quivers first, then the rest).
Late Spring 553What a noise. We can hear the beasties fighting below. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll annihilate each other.
Nothing we can do yet. However, I'm getting concerned that we haven't found more iron. I'm starting to suspect we need to go
up, and order Nix to dig several Z levels above the base. She quickly hits paydirt.
I have a new hallway and minecart route ordered constructed so we can start moving the ore down quickly.
Summer 553We're getting there.
Slowly but surely, we are getting there. As our newest members of the fort get close to their first birthday, I realize we need to be able to cloth them. Most of the pig tails have gone to brewing, but we have a flock of llamas to sheer.
And more leather on the way.
I'm also happy that our iron supply is growing nicely. Perhaps this time next year we'll start having a nice supply of steel to go with it.
Despite our good fortune as of late, I worry that trouble is lurking. Are we going to be ready for it ...