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☼Teachfortress☼ is an embark with intentions of include tutorials as well as some story to weave in the tasks and labors necessary in building a fortress.

The group embarking name themselves, "The Pointy Way", and I am using v43.03 LNP, Phoebus tile set.

Save Files
1. Teachfortress Worldgen

Posts
Introduction
Prelude
- “World map legends, Phoebus tile set”
- “Region map legends, Phoebus tile set”
Chapter 1 Assign Labor
- “How to assign Architect labor”
- “How to assign Architect labor in Dwarf Therapist”
Chapter 2 Designate Plans
- “How to Look around”
- “How to Designate Chop Down Tree”
- “How to Mark Channel”
- “How to Dig/Carve Down Stairs on Surface”
Chapter 3 Mason’s Workshop
- “How to construct a specific rock block in mason's shop”
- “How to make macro of constructing rock blocks in mason's shop”
- “How to construct a specific rock door in mason's shop on repeat, now”
- “How to construct a specific rock coffer in mason's shop on repeat, now”
- “How to construct a specific rock cabinet in mason's shop on repeat, now”
- “How to Promote a task from the mason's workshop”
Chapter 4 Farm Plots
- “How to Channel Surface to expose the layer below”
- “How to Construct Floors”
- “How to Remove Ramps”
- “How to Dig”
- “How to Build Farm Plots”
Chapter 5 Carpenter Workshop
- “How to Build a Carpenter’s Workshop”
- “How to Set Wood Stockpile”
- “How to Remove Portion of Wood Stockpile”
- “How to Build Items in the Carpenter’s Workshop”
Chapter 6 Brewing Preparations
- “How to Set Custom Stockpile for Seeds”
- “How to Set Custom Stockpile for Plants and Fruits”
- “How to Build a Still”
- “How to Gather Plants”
Chapter 7 Hotkey, Dig Work Area, Tables and Chairs
“How to Set Hotkey”
“How to construct a specific rock table in mason's shop”
“How to construct a specific rock thrones in mason's shop”
Chapter 8 Ingredient Permission & Brewing Drinks
- “How to Look inside a Barrel”
- “How to set ingredients for brewing and/or cooking”
- “How to set drinks not permitted for cooking”
- “How to brew alcohol drink”
Chapter 9 No Job & Bedrooms
- “How to look what everyone is doing”
- “How to hide boulders”
- “How to place bed”
+ Option 1: Place first available bed
+ Option 2: Place bed, select material
+ Option 3: Place specific bed
- “How to place door”
- “How to place cabinet”
- “How to place container”
- “How to make a bedroom”
Chapter 10 Make a Tavern
- “How to make a meeting area, and make it a tavern”
- “How to Restrict tavern for citizens only”
- “How to Set Drink stockpile”
- “How to Set Prepared Meal stockpile”
- “How to Build Craftsdwarf’s Workshop”
- “How to Make Rock Mugs from a Craftsdwarf’s Workshop”

Plans
1. Embark maps, embark starting skills, embark items.
1a. Assign labor vanilla, assign labor Dtherapist
2. Things to do: Designate Standard/Marker, Chop Trees, Dig Stairs
3. Mason, Macro
4. Farm Above and Below
5. Carpenter, Wood, Bed, Barrel, Bucket, Wheelbarrow
6. Seed and Plants Stockpile, Still, Gather Plants
7. Hotkey, Dig Rooms, Tables, Thrones
8. Brew Drinks
9. No Job, Bedrooms
10. Tavern
11. Farm Plant
12. Need OP image.

Future Plans / To Do:
shared bedroom, manager office, forge.

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Second Post to contain (reserve) for now.

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Introduction

The world is known “Enramul,” The Legendary Planes, has eight existing civilizations currently in the 125 years of written history.  This is a story of the dwarven civilization of The Mythical Urn. 

The First Queen
The first queen reigned in times of peace and attained her goals of mastering skills.  The late queen Erush Vaultfair was a great wrestler, great thrower, and competent swordsdwarf.  Queen Erush did not have any heir when she died of old age in the year 102.

The Regning Queen
Eral Rampartdikes succeeded the throne then became the current queen of The Mythical Urn.  She is a wood cutter and have dreams of starting a family, and this dream has been achieved, albeit, in the path of tragedy.

Queen Eral is a bard from the mountain halls, Snarlgirders.  She is a great consoler, great musician, professional comedian and professional pacifier.  She authored her first musical composition in year 59, after a nightmare. 

She married Kogsak Tomesparted in year 60 and they have had 11 children:

• Ezum Cityreward, male child, born 67, (struck by the moon woman Asen Obeyedship in 69
• Fikod Submergesteel, female child, born 69 (devoured by polar bear in year 77)
• Logem Armbridge, male child, born  74 (devoured by polar bear in year 77)
• Morul Diamondrhythmic, male child, born 76, (abducted by goblin in year 76), currently a master farmer in the hillock, Paintlancers
• Mebzuth Blockaderaces, female child, born 102 (struck down by forgotten beast Oggez Chuckskin in year 104)
• Rovod Chamberspikes, male child, born 106 (imprisoned by goblin in year 122), currently alive and ranger in dark fortress, Stealrushes
• Muthkat Ravencrystals, female child, born 110, (abducted by goblin in year 113), and murdered by dwarf Amxu Yelldoomed in year 124
• Imush Helmedpools, male child, born 112, (abducted by goblin in year 113), and murdered by a goblin in year 124
• Kib Clasptrades, male child, bown 114, (abducted by goblin in year 117), and currently alive in dark fortress, Stealrushes
• Mistem Oakmerchant, female child, born 118, (abducted by goblin in year 117), and struck by shadow horror Rustu Abysstunneled in year 118
• Nish Torchbegins, male child, born 122, and currently alive

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

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Prelude

It’s been over eight decades since an outpost for the The Mythical Urn has been establish. When Aban Splashaxes turned the age of 60, he requested the nobles' permission to establish a tavern out there in the lands of Enramul.

Aban’s request has been granted for a site in The Invisible Jungles, a temperate conifer forest in the middle of the Queendom's territory.

Spoiler: World Map, Biome (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: World Map, Phoebus tileset (click to show/hide)

The chosen site also boasts plenty of neighbors, including two mysterious towers.

Spoiler: Region & Local Maps (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Region Map, Phoebus tileset (click to show/hide)

The outpost will be named Teachfortress and the founders name their group, ‘The Pointy Way’:

’Cmdr’ Momuz Urncelings, ‘The Commander’ can handle stress yet he actively avoids excitement or stressful situations.  He does dream of raising a family someday.

’Mech’ Vucar Bridgedomens, ‘The Admin’ is in a constant internal rage yet is often cheerful and curious and eager to learn.  He values martial prowess and dreams of mastering a skill.

’Hammer’ Tulon Lashdanger, ‘The Carpenter’ is stubborn and thoroughly disgusted by cooperation.  He also can handle stress and dreams of mastering a skill.

‘Herb’ Aban Splashaxes, ‘The Brewer’ is trusting and likes to brawl which is should be easy to find in taverns.  He dreams of creating a great work of art.

’Miner’ Zas Paddleswarf, ‘The Forge’ is a friendly individual yet can be considered rude.  She values martial prowess yet finds the pursuit of skill mastery off-putting.  She dreams of creating a great work of art.

’Miner’ Limul Shipbraids, ‘The Cook’ is often sad and dejected, but also often cheerful.  He values hard work and finds friendship burdensome while dreaming of raising a family someday.

’Miner’ Erush Netknew, ‘The Mason’ is bashful and has a calm demeanor.  He finds merrymaking and partying worthwhile activities.

Spoiler: Embark items (click to show/hide)

3 copper pickaxe
2 copper battle-axe
7 seeds each: plump, pig tail, sweet pod, cave wheat, quarry bush.
15 booze each: wine, ale, beer, rum
5 meat each: duck, goat, eagle
5 gypsum plaster
5 silk thread
5 wool cloth
5 silk cloth
4 bag sand
2 gold nugget for goblets.
4 silver nugget - for war hammers.
3 bituminous coal - for fuel.
21 rutile stones - for 7 chest, 7 cabinets, 7 doors
4 orthoclase stones - for blocks
1 orthoclase block - for the Mason

Spoiler: Founders’ skills (click to show/hide)

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Chapter 1 Assign Labor

The group stopped the wagon in the middle of the forest.  Although the founders have worthy skills, they are many other skills they dabble on so everyone is now dabbles as an architect. 

And since we two 2 battle axes are brought along, ‘Mech’ Vucar is now dabbling as a wood cutter.

“How to assign Architect labor?”
Units u
Left or Right Arrow highlight to Citizens tab (default)
Up or Down Arrow highlight to dwarf
Go to unit z
Preference p
Labor l
+ or - to highlight ‘Other Jobs’, enter
+ or - to highlight Architecture’, enter to toggle on

Repeat enabling Architect to the other 6 dwarfs.

Spoiler: Set Architect Labor (click to show/hide)

“How to assign Architect labor in Dwarf Therapist?”
Open Dwarf Therapist
Click Role tab
Click Toggle “Architect” column to all 7 dwarfs
Click Commit

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[Fleeting Frames]

Hm, how much to say....
1. Legends viewer could probably use a link to it (1.17 unofficial). As could use Phoebus use an installation guide link. (Not sure about your target audience, tbh.)

2. That update's blue text could be a little brighter: 0077ff

3. "good" meat? Goat meat, you mean?

Good diagrams, I must say.

[TheKaspa]

PTW.
Why assign architect to all dwarves? I usually assign it to the jeweler, as he doesn't have a time consuming job (at least not at the beginning).
I agree that the blue text should be brighter

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I've thought of the Legend's Viewer and Tileset Installs; but I felt that I was taking longer to get the actual embark going.
I even had notes on the embark skills and items and some discussions on dwarf traits and stats.
So, I think a solution for me would be to start with a world gen save, then go this route of with some detail, and the starting 7 I got for this fort.
The next save upload will have the basic self-sufficient setup for the first 7 and looking forward to some migrants up to 20 pop.

I'll edit that blue code.  And yeah, it's goat meat.  I just pick the cheapest meat, should have been 20 total, but buzzard was not available but 15 is good enough.

Re: Architect.
I usually give it all to those with dreams of art the architect labor; but in this case,  I do not like waiting for the few architect to get the temp workshops done. 

As much as I want to do one thing at a time, I tend to do more things in parallel. Minimal hauling, more micro, specific count of items made.

Thanks

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Chapter 2 Designate Plans

Task: Look around near the wagon while the early spring season still have the land snow-covered.
“How to Look Around”
Look k
Use the arrow keys to move the cursor over a tile and read the description of items on that tile.

Spoiler: Phoebus tile set, Look around (click to show/hide)

The excitement to strike the earth is euphoric for the enthusiastic founders despite the large amount of tasks that lay ahead.  Aban, the expedition leader, list the following tasks:

• Cut trees around the wagon
• Mark the spot for the Mason’s workshop
• Mark the area for the Farms
• Dig to see what is down there

Spoiler: Designate Cut Trees, Marker Channel (click to show/hide)

Task: Chop trees immediately around the wagon perimeter.
“How to Designate Chop Down Tree”
Designate d
Chop Down Tree t
Toggle Standard m
+ or - to set priority to 1.
Use arrow keys to move cursor to corner spot, enter
Use arrow keys to move cursor to opposite corner spot, enter

Spoiler: How to Designate Cut Trees (click to show/hide)

Task: For Planning, mark channels over the farm plots 3x7 in size, and over the Mason shop 3x3.
Marking designations helps the overseer to visualize plans.
“How to Mark Channel”
Designate d
Channel h
Toggle Marker m
+ or - to set priority to 7.
Use arrow keys to move cursor to corner spot, enter
Use arrow keys to move cursor to opposite corner spot, enter

Spoiler: How to Designate Marker Channel (click to show/hide)

Task: Designate a down stairs on the surface z148. 
“How to Dig/Carve Down Stairs on Surface”
Designate d
Down Stairs j
Toggle Standard m
+ or - to set priority to 1.
Use arrow keys to move cursor to spot, enter
Since this is the only tile for a down stairs, press enter again to complete designation.

Task: And Designate a up/down stairs on the z147 through z143.
“How to Dig/Carve Up/Down Stairs on multiple levels”
Use arrow keys to move cursor over the down stairs
Switch view to z147 (1 level below surface), shift >
Designate d
U/D (Up/Down) Stairs i
Toggle Standard m
+ or - to set priority to 1.
Press enter to start on z147
Move view down to z143 shift > 4 times, then enter

[Spriggans]

PTW

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One of the biggest challenges for me initially reading about DF was not knowing what tile is what. Graphics pack help with this, but further help was gained by going over boatmurdered's introduction guide.

Ex: But what is the gray wavy stuff? (Snow here, white sand other times, living-hurting rain in Sinister/Haunted/Terrifying biome)

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I added in the Prelude.

Spoiler: World Map, Phoebus tileset (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Region Map, Phoebus tileset (click to show/hide)

[Fleeting Frames]

That's...really good, I wish I had that when even just reading the lets plays. Definitely makes me lean to consider phoebus tileset first if/when I change up from vanilla ascii.

Though you sure the "Ruin" isn't "Tomb" in the 2nd image, with the goblet tile ¶ being elf site and crown tile µ being ruin?

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Do tombs show in the map? 

I know of "show caves" as option in the world gen parameter.

Ruins for lack of better word seems to be abandoned forts.

I'm not sure on the crowns.  I thought they were larger city types / mountain home / capital perhaps?

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Yeah, they do. Seen them myself, they're always built right next to a human site. Caves use dug-out stone icon by default and can congregate lairs around them, both of which prevent placement of sites.

µ icon refers to ruins and crowns in ascii, but checking because this might be different in Phoebus. They also have colour corresponding to parent civ. Though I believe hamlets become browned out rather than changing the icon (however, goblin civ greying out has different reason: infighting). The larger site types reference market + typically larger population; dwarven mountain halls are dark gray in the middle of the mountains. Outside of initial (dark) fortress placement, no market can be built within 7 tile radius of an existing market, though as you can see in the second linked image that doesn't mean they'll go for minimum distance - could also be near maximum, really.

You get better descriptions of sites hovering over them when it has finished world gen for you to decide to accept. If it is still belonging to civ, it says things like "dwarven fortress of <>", while otherwise it is just "fortress of <>". (Usually of a FB because Moria dwarves. This is actually how I quickly determine if any wars or rampages have occurred.)