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[hamburgerfan]

Title says it all. There are no trees, so a woodcutter won't come in handy. What skills and equipment should I get?

[haywire]

Nothing.  At least if it were me.  I always go underground, so how hot or cold it is outside doesn't have much effect on my fort.  If you're playing 2010 though, a woodcutter is still very much needed.

EDIT:  in 40d I would have brought some extra wood just for making beds, but again, in 2010 the surface doesn't change much.

[BigD145]

A woodcutter will come in handy when you open up the caverns.

Now, other than that, bring along some wood. Traders won't bring much of it in the first year or two and you're going to need it for barrels and beds and maybe bins.

[Steely Glint]

Depending on how aggressively you colonize the caverns, you may want 50-100 logs and an ample supply of booze, food, or livestock.

[Retro]

Make sure to bring an anvil or two and set up your forges early. With the copious amount of ore now found in maps, I'd suggest making bins and barrels out of metal primarily to conserve wood.

[Satarus]

I never embark with a woodcutter.  The skill is easy enough to raise.  The skill doesn't effect value of the logs, just the logging speed.  You can give any friendless peasent an axe and have him go chop down trees.  That way when he is ambushed you loose nothing.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Make sure to bring an anvil or two and set up your forges early. With the copious amount of ore now found in maps, I'd suggest making bins and barrels out of metal primarily to conserve wood.

That's a good point, since there seems to be a glitch where everything can be made from 1 bar.

[Zafmg]

Love forcing my dwarves to lug around uncomfortably heavy metal barrels. Quick question on that point: does the weight of a hauled item affect move speed currently?

[Hamster Man]

Unfortunately my recommendation is to not embark on a frozen tundra, for one simple reason-

No access to shells.

I've come to believe that you cannot fish in frozen areas, even if you open the caverns and it says "there's fish" there (I can see the little bastards too), it'll still say "There are no fish in the caverns". Without access to fish/turtles from a pond, you're going to end up missing out on a fair number of artifacts, plus the possible tantrum spiral.

Of course, if you want to have !!FUN!!, disregard this post ^^

[sneakey pete]

Love forcing my dwarves to lug around uncomfortably heavy metal barrels. Quick question on that point: does the weight of a hauled item affect move speed currently?

Yep. get them to haul a gold bin full of gold bars and you'll see.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Yep. get them to haul a gold bin full of gold bars and you'll see.

Or a whale corpse!

[FreakyCheeseMan]

Balls.

A *real* dwarf would embark on a glacier or nothing.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Make sure to bring an anvil or two and set up your forges early. With the copious amount of ore now found in maps, I'd suggest making bins and barrels out of metal primarily to conserve wood.

That's a good point, since there seems to be a glitch where everything can be made from 1 bar.

AFAIK, it's intended.

[BigD145]

No access to shells.

Traders do carry turtles.

[Urist Imiknorris]

No access to shells.

Traders do carry turtles.

Prepared fishies don't yield shells.

The cave lobsters in the caverns, though...