6th of Granite:
I have ordered the miners to get to work on digging out more stone for the construction of the tower. Currently the tower will exist over the top of the current magma levee.
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I have also ordered the building of a bridge off to the edge of the map. Hopefully we can get some traders to spawn from here.
17th of Granite:
The bridge is complete. And so is the first level of our pumping tower.
10th of Slate:
Work on the pump tower is slowing as we do not have enough pumps. In the mean time I have ordered the masons to connect the new bridge to the outside world with our trade depot.
16th of Slate, to tidy up the stench around here. I have ordered the mass culling of all animals that can not help out around the fortress. This includes the established colony of pigs and piglets that have grown to overwhelming numbers. Hmm it looks like pork roast for dinner tonight... And the rest of the year...
The animals that are slightly more useful are to be caged.
25th of Slate:
The new traders bridge is done. I am now about to test it to see if traders can cross it. Currently the bridge is raised, I don't know if any nasty creatures lurk on the other side of it, thus i will station the military nearby in case of an ambush.
26th of Slate:
Our new bridge works! And even better there were no creatures waiting in ambush. Now all I have to do is wait for the traders and or immigrants and we can be rich again. For the time being I will leave the drawbridge down, just to test if we do get traders, if I keep the military stationed there we should be alright.