Jude says:
Don't bring ... pig tail seeds.
i disagree. pig tails are grate to make booze. good booze. different booze. will prevent your dwarfs from saying : getting annoyed from the same old booze all the time
Security. Stonefall traps at the entrance help.
i dissagree.
altrough stonefall traps are the most easy traps to build, they will cause lots of rearm jobs.
spiked balls are by far the most devastating trap weapons. they have 3 hits with 1 critical each. 3 of them made of wood will savely kill any crature with organs and with a verry high chance creatures without organs, like bronce colossi. in the rare case a mega beast survives, he will be utterly crippeld by the 3x3 hits.
Cloth. Pig tails can give you all the cloth you need.
i disagree. you will need NO cloth exept for moods, and these can be imported.
why not need any? because worn off clothes are buggy and can not be dumped. as they will decay verry slowly (like within 100 jears) they will get checked every frame, killing your fps seriously.
dwarfs are absolutely happy when walking around nude. so i wuld suggest a nudist camp.
Metal is good for:
...
- Coins
i disagree. coins are good for nothing, exept trowing munition for adventurers.
i miss:
---betumous coal.
you will want to bring in as much as possible.
put in any spare points you have over after buying skills, booze and food.
even if you have magma, you will need the coal to make steel, and if you have sand, your logs will proberbly all be turned into ash.
usualy i end with 100-150 pices of them, thats like 300-450 bars of steel: enugh for ever if you have gold, enugh for a long time if you have to make your furniture out of steel, too.
---two-humped camels
REALY worht it. size of 10 will make staks of 50 bone bolts. not bad. also much fat.. .mhhh fat! and they can be milked. verry good over-all performance, and if the population is keeped small, only a verry low fps hit.
i wuld suggest in general :
never ever collect body parts.
these will spawn single bones, with will be turned into staks of 5 bolts: not even woth the way to the stockpile.
for the same reason i wuld not suggest to butcher cats, kittys or puppys:
to small bonestaks that need to be dumped.