Galena 17
That fisherdwarf finished up his artifact. It's a figurine depicting the fortress's founding. It's quite valuable, being encrusted with several kinds of gems, but it isn't useful and he gained no skill from it. Everyone knows the most valuable part of an artifact is the skill gained making it.
Limestone 7
Autumn is here, and the dwarven caravan will be arriving soon. The miners have reached warm stone, but I haven't ordered any digging.
I've sent our fledgeling military out into the one cavern we found to do some exploring. They report many kinds of gems and ores. The reports are so many that I can't make much sense of them. There's gold, silver, copper, tin, nickel, and even some platinum and diamond! With flux, iron, and zinc higher up, this fortress will someday be rich in metals. If we survive.
The squad also discovered a deep pit leading down into the cavern below. We can see enough to dig to it from the main stairwell.
Limestone 12
The dwarven caravan has arrived as predicted.
Limestone 20
Ryukan and I met with the outpost liaison. For next year I requested
drinks, seeds, and lye. Then we traded with the merchants, buying drinks, a few seeds, cloth, and a few books. I've been pestered for months by dwarves needing bags to collect sand, but we have no cloth, no thread, and no pig tails. I resolve to change this.
I paid for the whole load with a single masterwork bin of exceptional and masterwork goblets.
Limestone 23
The squad returned from the lower cavern to report that it was much like the upper, but with one addition - adamantine! They're both out in the water, but we can solve that easily enough. For now, though, the whole cavern has been sealed off from the fortress. No need to have two caverns open, when our military is two competent dwarves.
Limestone 28
We're out of coal. I knew this would happen someday. The upper forges will be dismantled and moved down to the magma sea. Excavation will begin immediately. I'm also digging an ore dump from the mines to speed ore hauling.
Sandstone 14
Migrants.
- lye maker
- great metalsmith
- gem cutter
- animal caretaker
- furnace operator/smith
- dyer
- glassmaker
- trader
- child
- fisher
- farmer/cook
- child
Useless, except that metalsmith. Even so, he's only my backup.
Sandstone 20
Forges are dug out. But not complete. Not quite yet.
Sandstone 28
Horrors! During the digging of the ore shaft, Imic was crushed by a fall of boulders from above. The dwarf responsible, formerly named Litast, has taken the name Imic II in his memory. They say a dwarf isn't dead so long as his name is remembered...
To prevent another accident like this, Scourge will finish the shaft alone. One of the new migrants will be given Imic's pick.
Timber 4
The shaft is done, and all the ore in the fort has been ordered dumped down it. I'll set up a minecart to do it later. For now, though, we will smelt some of the copious ore we have. Also, a burial area has been dug out, and Imic buried.
Moonstone 1
Winter is upon us.