I started a fortress in a freezing environment with scarse trees.
I dug my fortress into the side of the cliff face and then started digging down into the mountain and setting upo my fortress as spring progressed. I was worried this was going to be a very short lived fortress as it was late spring and the ice still hadnt melted. I had set up my farming area and was ready to flood it as soon as the ice melted.
By mid Summer the ice finally melted. Little did I know that my wagon had been placed on a sheet of ice and as soon as the ice melted 3 of my 7 dwarves died(My cook, brewer, and carpenter/woodcutter). I set my miners to go expand the area of this pond so that the water could thin out and I could retrieve my belongings. This was succesful, and then my dwarves started wading through the water which was at depth 1-3/7 to retireve my belongings from the fallen wagon. Then, the water froze over. Encasing another 3 of my dwarves (the 2 miners and my leader). Then a band of kobolds came and slaughtered my last remaining dwarf.
Now ive started a fortress in a desert environment and things arent going too bad. Well, pretty bad. One of my miners decided he wanted to handle the channeling jobs in such a way that caused the mine to collapse on him and he died. Then my other miner did the exact same thing, except she survived with major injuries, and a case of narcolepsy- she would keep falling asleep. Then she had a tantrum and severly wounded my replacement-miner(peasent). Not sure how im going to fix this one
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