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Unibot the Righteous!

Bayar the Gatekeeper!

[plisskin]

Tough to make out the different Z-levels, but we have at best 1 Z-level over the currently constructed fort.

[Ahra]

if you get an migrant one can i have an hunter named Ahra?

[EmperorJon]

While we're arguing about the aquifer, I suggest we try to secure as much of the surface as possible from gobbo attacks. And for livestock pasturing. We can wait it out for the first 'van if we have to, to get some stone. Plus having the outside of the map safe is always a very high bonus. Stupid ambushes...

[plisskin]

While we're arguing about the aquifer, I suggest we try to secure as much of the surface as possible from gobbo attacks.

I agree, but I'm just the GM. We don't need to come to a consensus on anything in this fort, your dorfs can just act. Valrandir is cooking up plans to breach the aquifer, so in the meantime everyone else give me your dwarf's orders. Make 'em clear and we'll make summer happen.

I have EmperorJon still slated for the completion of the palisade. Everyone else needs to tell me what they want to do.

[EmperorJon]

Make that a fkin big palisade then. XD

[plisskin]

Make that a fkin big palisade then. XD

You want me to clear-cut the forest and build a GIANT one, or wait until we have stone?

[Valrandir]

Ambushes usually don't come in the first year, by then the aquifer thing will be solved.

[EmperorJon]

@Val, yes, so we need to be out there building while we can.

@Pliss, yes. Do it. Unless you've wasted loads of time? You been waiting for aquifer ideas? Anyway, yeah, big wood palisade. I'll happily train as a woodcutter if needed.

[plisskin]

@Val, yes, so we need to be out there building while we can.

@Pliss, yes. Do it. Unless you've wasted loads of time? You been waiting for aquifer ideas? Anyway, yeah, big wood palisade. I'll happily train as a woodcutter if needed.

No time wasted! Everyone's actions in game are their own. Cut that wood, heft those logs. I'm not going to play through and post the next season until at least half of the people involved have told me what they want to do since we only have seven at the moment.

Everyone's orders can, and in fact should if it's important how you're using your time, include what labours you want turned on/off.

[EmperorJon]

Ok, I'll woodcut and carpent for a bit then. Feel free to add anything else necessary. And notify me if we get hold of metals.

[Bdthemag]

I'll help with any projects that include mining.

[RevolutionaryDorf]

I'd like to join.

Rev, the male Farmer:
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Rev was a simple dwarf, descended from generation upon generation of fiercely passionate farmers. His great-grandfather even co-authored an immensely popular pamphlet titled "Purple Shrooms: the Bounty of the Caves and Your Appetite", which detailed tricks and techniques for growing historically dwarven crops. Rev's family was a very traditionalist one-- they were still living on and tending their ancient farmland in the caverns deep below the mountain-homes when he was born. Tragically, his parents were killed after a giant toad intrusion a few months after his 20th birthday. He never felt quite at home since.

Inspired by family history and love for crops, he set out to The Hill of Deceivers to fulfill his dream of writing a sequel to his grandfather's book, focused on expanding the dwarven farming market to above-ground tropical plants. He became the first of his ancestry to leave the fortress and step into the sun without vomiting.
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ACTIVATED LABORS: Plant Gathering and Farming (Fields)

[Valrandir]

For the summer, the doctor will be presenting these blueprints and doing all he can to have them executed.

Step 01 a
First we are going to expand our embark level corridor until we find ourselves where we MUST be.
us -> Up Stairs designation

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Step 01 b
Then we will simply move up one level, dig some up/down stairs and designate document where we will need to channel.
xs -> Up/Down Stairs designation
Red Block -> Channel designation

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Step 01 c
Once more moving up one level, we should now be outside. Let's conclude our stairs with a triple downstairs designation, and channel these red squares from my blueprints
ds -> Down Stairs designation
blue us -> Up Stairs construction
blue W -> Wall Construction (use wood)
Red Block -> Channel designation

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Step 01 d
We will also need to construct some supporting architecture yet another level up.
blue ds -> Down Stairs construction
blue f -> floor construction
blue W -> Wall Construction
Edit: Walls should not be built again, they are the top of the walls from the level below.

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Step 02
Now that the first phase is done, and only now, we need to dig right over the aquifer at embark level.
(Note to self: "I hope that our miners will be smart enought _NOT_ to trap themselves in the middle, hah!")
Red Square -> channel

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Action!

With this the setup is done.
We now need a brave dwarf to deconstruct the supporting architecture for the outmost ring.
The down stair should be removed first, followed by the up stair and finally the wall, which will trigger the cave-in.
There should be enought distance to prevent the test subject to be dragged along with the cave-in.
Actually it should be pretty safe, according to what I've read while sneaking in the restricted library in the mountain home.

After the first ring is down, channel the middle part of it, then on the level down, channel a single track to match the second ring, and repeact the process.

This plan is good enough for 3 layers of aquifer.

Let it be done!

Doc Valrandir

[Valrandir]

OOC
Above are my blueprints for the aquifer.
I am short on time and the post is not as nice as I would have liked, but the key content is there.
Hopefully we are not yet too far in summer.

[plisskin]

OOC
Above are my blueprints for the aquifer.
I am short on time and the post is not as nice as I would have liked, but the key content is there.
Hopefully we are not yet too far in summer.

I'm not playing in between posts: I'm only playing after I've gotten everyone's orders. Seasons go fast so it works, although later in the fort I'll have to take a more real-time approach. We're still sitting at day 1 of summer.

Fantastic plan, Val. I'll make it so while EmperorJon works on perimeter defence. I'll wait a little bit for other people to give me their orders since last time JoshuaXI and Mipe9 didn't give me any. I'll have the next update done tomorrow, GMT+1.