Despite realizing that my modified boiler design may not work as well as I thought, I can still modify it enough to still make it work. But it would require a windmill.
Nonetheless, it's main purpose is to serve as a repeater anyway. So I guess it doesn't necessarily need to be a boiler. As long as the hatch does what I think it would, it should be of great assistance.
Speaking of which, my security building is finished, and I have also established a perimeter before my first ambush. Unfortunately, my wrestlers were still rather under-experienced, and I lost a guy, and broke another rather badly (hoping they wake up soon); and in other news, I lost my first fisherdwarf/dissector to Carpe Diem, but as long as the numbers remain low. Nonetheless, the main security features are getting worked on, I have some goblinite I expect to smelt soon enough so I can craft me some spikes, and am also making tons of mechanisms to make use of them all.
Once all that is settled, I might construct a mini-arena where necessary so I can further train my military and make room for the cages. I'll still need to harvest more goblinite if I want to make further/better use of it all. Thanks to claiming a perimeter early as well, fuel should hopefully not be a problem anytime soon (unless I get a massive amount of migrants).
All things considering, I'm on the start of Year 3, and made a surprising amount of progress compared to Old Wavehandle. Sure, I still lack the key features of the sewers and dining room; but at least I now have a proper graveyard area planned/set, as well as fewer lives lost, and a far better security system than I expected to form.
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