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[They Got Leader]

THE CHALLENGE:
To span land to island.

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THE EFFORT:
7 dwarves. No migrants, no digging. 1000 pieces of towercap wood. One bridge.

I will kill these dwarves, spanning this gap between two lands. This is my project. I will do it.

PROJECT EDIT: short lived. My dwarves refused to work because a "squad" of groundhogs migrated on the short piece of land I was using as my anchor. I recruited my dwarves into the military to clean up the groundhogs. THis ended in complete failure as one by one, my dwarves dodged groundhogs and drowned.

PROJECT #2: Embarked with a slightly smaller gap between island and land. I started with a mix of stone and wood, 1000 pieces of granite and 1000 pieces of tower cap wood, turned off immigrants. So far I have completed their room and half of the bridge. The gatehouse on the starting side is a large dome which doubles as quarters until the bridge is completed. Wood supplies are running low, so logging has begun.

[Karik]

Ah those clever ground hogs, they are always underfoot *tehe*

[They Got Leader]

Yeah, really...

[Rotten]

Reclaim!

Also, you will get migrants if any part of passable land connects to the screen edge. Learned this the hard way when I tried to do an island fort, one tiny part of the island was cut off and I then got migrants from that edge, even though it had no access to land anyways. I think the game just spawns migrants from nowhere, for now.

[TKGP]

Reclaim!

Also, you will get migrants if any part of passable land connects to the screen edge. Learned this the hard way when I tried to do an island fort, one tiny part of the island was cut off and I then got migrants from that edge, even though it had no access to land anyways. I think the game just spawns migrants from nowhere, for now.

That's exactly what happens; and why truly isolated embarks are so hard to find.

[They Got Leader]

I had migrants turned off so that it would only be my 7 dwarves from start to finish. I might reclaim, or I might just start again, but with 1 hunter (who has legendary swimming )

[Particleman]

God I love the stories this game produces.

[nenjin]

The fact is was groundhogs was awesome, but I can't help wishing it was wolves. And that there was a helicopter crashing involved.

I'm now inspired to fill a world with failed mega-projects for my adventurer to explore though.

[IronyOwl]

You know, with stories like this all the inane carvings and names start to make more sense. I mean, if seven dwarves can haul a thousand pieces of mushroom lumber over to an island, start building a bridge just for the sake of building a bridge, get frightened by groundhogs, rally to arms, and end up tumbling off into the sea in battle with said groundhogs, it stands to reason that The Triumphant Flower of Consent, a turtle shell idol featuring ashes in pine, just might have some sort of convoluted logic to it.

[BodyGripper]

That's a pretty sweet idea.  Maybe try again after modding groundhogs to be more peaceful?

[opsneakie]

I'm inspired, and I'm going for it.

EDIT: Although I'm also being kinda lame about it in that I'm allowing digging and migrants. I embarked without anvil or axe though, and the bridge is going to be solely wood, and I think I'm going to call this a no-trading game too, so immigrant woodcutter? Maybe I can make it with a 1-tile bridge across.

[Darkond2100]

Today IS Groundhog's Day

[They Got Leader]

I am going to start it up again. This time, I'm going to find a brand new place to try it in. Its going to be mix stone/wood. Stone bridge with wooden buildings. Its going to be like a city out on a lake that doubles as a bridge. But! If you try the challenge, make it fun by allowing NO immigrants.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

I am going to start it up again. This time, I'm going to find a brand new place to try it in. Its going to be mix stone/wood. Stone bridge with wooden buildings. Its going to be like a city out on a lake that doubles as a bridge. But! If you try the challenge, make it fun by allowing NO immigrants.

Bah! Build the bridge out of steel! That is what a real dwarf would do!

[They Got Leader]

I thought of that. However, though dwarfy, when using wood and stone, I can double their use for carpenter and masons shops. There is no magma on this map and aquifiers.