Never mind fam, found the time
Welcome back to simple fort, year 550 where somehow, nobody has died yet!
Due to concerns about our food, we butchered a horse, but don't worry, skin and hair are easy to kill now, so we're fine and we can feast on tasty horse meat (ew)
Using the huge amount of coke we have from our coal hole, I've decided to for-go making iron weapons and just head straight to steel, maybe they'll defend us better, we even have some silver for maces so we can use that too.
when the merchants arrived, i ordered the general basics as to what we would need in the future, food, booze, seeds, cloth, leather etc. Didn't bother asking for animals because we have little use for them and no point asking for metal because, well, we have shit tons of the stuff.
We bought a lot of food and stuff from the merchants, i traded some beautiful gem encrusted golden crafts for it, maybe i shouldn't have done that but whats some gold crowns next to a slice of pig cheese right
In case anyone in particular is worried about our wood supplies, don't:
We also had an artefact made, by our leader Snowdwarf too!
I don't know if we'll get much use out of it, but hey, it looks nice
The year however was not without loss, a fisherdwarf was murdered by a zombie ibex outside during a drawbridge opening incident (we have them now, there's a switch in the tavern that controls both doors so we can leave and enter from both. We avenged her but unfortunately, it was too late....
After decking out the hospital, a graveyard, a small military (Fully armoured and equipped but untrained) and some last minute preparations, we're done for the year. Overall, we have a decent foothold in the map now, just be very careful when opening the front doors, Giant Zombie Eagles are just around the corner.
Thanks for putting up with my first succession fort guys
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