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[puke]

I havent played in a while, and I wanted to start something up again.  I was having a hard time finding nice looking cliff faces (the sheer kind you can get on a large river or lake) with other interesting features, so I decided to go with a nice little Terrifying Glacier I spotted, right next to a couple squares of calm Boreal Forrest.

So far the most dangerous things are unicorns in the woods, though the embark screen warned of sasquatch.

anyway, i brought a mechanic and some bauxite, planning on doing something fancy later with the magma vent.  lots of wardogs, plenty of seeds and booze since it might be a while before i got brewing going or a cistern working for water.

but i totally forgot to bring food.  like, any kind of food at all.

I've had to draft everyone to beat up ice wolves (stayed away from the unicorns though) and quickly reassign my mechanic to be an untrained butcher.  in fact, lots of highly trained specialists are now taking up necessity jobs at untrained levels.

ah... feels like its going to be Fun.

[Flying Carcass]

You brought food.

lots of wardogs

[silhouette]

breed them like cows!

[shadowsofwhite]

If you have dogs, you have food. Eat some, and breed the rest like cows. I almost always use dogs for food because they're cheep, and breed like rabbits.

[Grendus]

Fortress mode unicorns aren't that dangerous. In adventure mode they become hostile, in dwarf mode they're benign and run while your dwarves pump *Ice Wolf Bone Bolt*'s into them. They're actually a good source of valuable meat, tallow, and bone for trade, if you want to hunt them.

A food stockpile in a non-glacier biome will produce vermin as well, which can be captured by dwarves and tamed. If/when you run out of food, your dwarves will eat tame vermin instead of hunting their own, which saves a hell of a lot of time.

[Lord Dakoth]

If you're not against exploits, you could always cook some booze.

[geoduck]

If you're not against exploits, you could always cook some booze.

"Booze! I knew I forgot something else!"

[silhouette]

booze, REAL dwarves would rather eat ice before cooking booze.

[Kallemort]

booze, REAL dwarves would rather eat ice before cooking booze.

But doesn't +Minced Dwarven Rum+ sound so good?

[moki]

Real dorfs would gladly pay 30.000 for a stack of dwarven rum roast (made of finely minced dwarven rum, finely minced dwarven rum, minced dwarven rum and finely minced dwarven ale)... if you do have booze, go make some biscuits. Or don't if you need the booze for drinking.

Unicorns are not that dangerous, or at least less dangerous than  some wolves. They menace with a deadly spike of unicorn horn, but they are cowards and will only attack when you manage to corner them. Hunting unicorns with crossbows has very little potential for more Fun.
Also, dogs, if you do have enough to grill a few. A most useful and self-replenishing ressource, giving you meat, bones for crossbows and bolts, leather for armor and fat for delicious +dog tallow biscuits+.

[Satarus]

Regular dogs are the most efficient source of food on embark.

[puke]

yeah, in that regular dogs are an infinite food source if you can wait to get puppies going, or just kill off the extra males.

but i'd rather keep them as war dogs so i can assign them to military and hunt down the icewolves.  the snow critters respawn faster than the dogs are breeding at this point, and its good to keep injuries minimized since i cant actually bring water to resting dwarves.

my carpenter / expedition leader has a broken or sprained arm (yellow) and i've been periodically resting him by building a bed for him and then destroying it when he gets thirsty.

a little exploity, but he's happer drinking the booze.

i figgure if I  can get farm production going before the first migrant wave hits, i'll be okay for the short term.  I'm planning on starting some wars in the long term, so theres no telling how i will fare.

also, there are totally vermin on this glacier.  i never noticed such a thing in previous versions, but i havent played on a terrifying glacier in quite a while.  and anyway, my food stockpiles are underground  (everything is kind of piled on in a little cave between the obsidian top of the lava tube, and the glacier above) where its at risk from regular glacier vermin (wierd little lizard guys) and also firesnakes.

[Whitney]

It's not too hard to start a quick farm. Then just gather plants on the forest side until the farm produces food.

[Argonnek]

If you build a wall on the obsidian surrounding a magma pipe, then deconstruct it, you'll get soil for a farm. It worked for my most recent fort.

[monkeyfetus]

If you build a wall on the obsidian surrounding a magma pipe, then deconstruct it, you'll get soil for a farm. It worked for my most recent fort.

That also sounds a bit exploit-ey