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[Magistrum]

What's a dwarfing?

I believe he means to ask if someone wants to be one of the dwarves, having a custom name and all.

I want one!
Preferably a very wussy military dwarf, but a very wussy civilian is also desirable.

[snow dwarf]

I have more to come, but I need sleep. Hopefully, I'll figure out how to attach images (I probably need to upload them somewhere when I'm awake).

Here http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=162924.0

BTW, there was a dwarf named cheese, could you keep him solely a cheese maker

[Magistrum]

Update the OP to include the littlest cheesemaker then.

[snow dwarf]

Update the OP to include the littlest cheesemaker then.

I honestly think he was a guy....

[Magistrum]

Guys can be little too, right?
((Non native speaker here, my phrase was not gender neutral?))

[Kametec_Housen]

It is gender neutral in the general sense, but not in context of the DF forum, where it is understood as a reference to: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=136384.0

[Magistrum]

How did I forget this!?

[Iduno]

BTW, there was a dwarf named cheese, could you keep him solely a cheese maker

Last I knew, the dwarf "Cheese" was making cheese. Luckily, migrants brought milkable animals (and also all of the other types of animals). You may have been both milking and making cheese, but I won't know for certain (or be able to change it) until I get home. Also, one of the dwarves somewhere has the mechanics skill/job, and I have no idea who.

On a related-ish note, I remember digging out a big room to use as an indoor pasture, but I don't know if we have caverns. Doesn't that prevent growing indoor grasses?

If it does, I can dig out the roof and use the glass furnace to make infinity glass blocks (instead of pots, because barrels are a thing that exists) to act as a greenhouse. It's like 90 z-levels away, but there are already dwarves wheelbarrowing around rocks everywhere. Semi-necessary greenhouse would be a better use for them, but has the downside of allowing light into our fortress.

Goals left: enough steel armor with wooden shields for the whole 14-member army, get the well project like 70% finished, fail to learn why we have more than 15 squares on the y-axis, set up a hospital, hope a legendary doctor (all 5 skills) and a legendary weaponsmith show up or just turn on those jobs for Urist UcRando and let the next player train them. Learn how to post pictures so you know what the merchants want to trade (spoiler: they're getting piles of bone gems instead) and the status screen from the end of my year. If someone knows a lazy way (I don't need to sign up for anything), let me know.

Things I might do: Maybe I'll also create a garbage dump right over the magma sea to dump garbage from butchering and poor-quality wooden shields. Oh, I just (re-)learned mining skill doesn't affect chance of dropping ore, so I might go dig up some adamantine as well. There is literally no chance that will cause our wealth to skyrocket, bringing in more migrants and monsters than we can handle.

[Magistrum]

Oh, isn't it better to use steel or something heavy for shields for bashings to be effective?
(Unless not one has armor user, in which case emcumbrance will do them in for sure)

[Iduno]

Heavy is better for attacking with shields, lighter is better for movement rate. Quality impacts block rate (if I remember correctly), but weight only impacts attacks, and how much you're carrying. I have no idea which is better.

Rest of the year:
Cheese was the only cheesemaker I found (other than the one who...volunteered for military service), and now produces only cheese. You will also no longer haul anything but owned items, refuse, or dead bodies. Because 2 of those cause miasma. To make up for the extra labor Cheese has performed, there is now a farm workshop that is usable only by Cheese.

Magistrum is, I am sorry to report, clumsy and weak (as requested). You are a wrestler, until someone gets around to producing weapons.

I'll post the rest when I'm done.

[scourge728]

Re:Indoor grasses, Opening the caverns causes cave... moss? to start growing all over the place, which IIRC is grazable

[MottledPetrel]

On the shield issue, I know that armor can be broken if it's hit enough. The wiki doesn't specifically say that shields can also be broken, but shields are listed as armor, so I don't know. At the very least, if a wooden shield breaks it can be easily replaced, I'm just bringing up this point because I'm sure nobody wants their shield to break in the middle of deadly combat.

[Iduno]

I hit space, and accidentally played an extra 6 days. Here is the save:
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13671

It's a good way to learn how to use jobs, or go insane because new jobs will show up. We don't have caverns, and I'm hoping the shields get replaced with adamantine (or I guess whatever the heaviest metal we can make shields with) before any non-training combat. I may not have changed the uniforms, so the armor/shields aren't getting used yet. I also haven't actually built the well, so I met my goal of getting that almost finished. New entrance is at the east edge of the map. Also, be careful what you type. Everytime I started talking about a new project, it became necessary.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

14th Sandstone: Migrants.
Fisher, beast hunter/fisher, metalcrafter, peasa....world-class surgeon and head doctor, spare legendary armorer (which is a good problem to have), architect, ranger, horse foal, animal trainer, cow calf, and a wax worker/brewer. As soon as the rangers and hunters have finished with the local wildlife, we'll have to start a

So...giant honey badgers, huh? Good news, Doctor, it's time to practice.

I have not finished the well yet, so our only source of water is ponds. Our new doctor recommends against being injured in the winter. Luckily, the good doctor is pretty sure drinking magma is just as good as water, so as soon as we get some steel buckets, we'll be good to go.

16th Opal: Zefon Dedukkogan made Medgor (the abated pits), a schist coffer. Also, he made a coffer with an image of itself on it. I don't get it.

The new pasture area is complete, and glass blocks are being stockpiled for operation greenhouse. Nobody was injured, and there was no cave-in, no matter what anybody says. It was an intentional removal of a large area by surgically removing the edge support. Snow and I can channel out around the top while someone builds a bridge to keep it from falling. Add a lever, and get everyone (including the nearby pasture) to a safe distance.

We have a well system with a floodgate set up to fill it. Make sure to toggle the lever twice, or we'll have to form a bucket brigade to refill the pond.

We've all got bedrooms, complete with cabinets and coffers, although we'll have to be expanding soon. We have 3 fruit trees that can provide more variety in our booze supply, if someone is willing to risk getting a tan. We should also tell the kitchens not to cook those fancy boozes.

We have enough steel armor to begin outfitting the militias, although we will need more for the additional members we recently picked up.

I have completed my report, and submitted it to archives. I attempted to maintain the spirit of the fortress as much as I could while making my additions, including leaving most of the workshops next to their new locations (not because I'm unfocused). The nobles aren't particularly angry, so good on that front. Now for me to retire to luxury. Hah! I've got all I need, and the fortress needs a few more levels strip-mined. Time for me to ditch this office, and get back to digging.

Pictures!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13666 Artifact 1
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13667 Artifact 2
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13668 Artifact 3
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13669 Merchant requests
http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13670 Population, wealth, etc.

[Kametec_Housen]

Next turn is Psychedelichu's, isn't it?

[Magistrum]

His only post was asking for a turn though,  so let's wait for one or two days, since he is a scaped lunatic.