Do we have our turns planned yet?
I though we were doing this a few days each but it seems everyone has a week or so what will definitely be useful.
I'd like to be at least in the first 5 or so
ps: I like the journal
Bottom of the second post. You're in the fifth slot, although if BladeMaster42 backs up, then maybe you'll slide up a slot.
I thought the standard for these things was that people had a week of real time to play a year of game time?
I guess I should put that up there, too.
My power went out, so I lost everything past the Autumn seasonal backup save. (And the journal post I had in the buffer.) I have stuff to do tonight, so maybe Wednesday, I should be done, but definitely Thursday. (And I only started on Saturday, since I had to wait a couple days for you guys to respond on what dwarves you picked up.)
I'm actually a bit surprised by how quickly I managed to get things going. I still haven't started working on a military, though, which is probably bad since I've got Patchy there as mostly a dedicated speardwarf (although for now, setting traps is fine.) I've gotten the entire east bank enclosed, with plenty of wooded land and grazing area. I've breached the caverns to get the cave moss and tower caps growing in the soil layers. The soil layer is 4 z-levels deep in places, so I'm digging out extra area to start a tower cap farm and underground grazing area, as well as a stockpile area.
I have designed modular housing units (just designate the stairs to be dug down to them), although they're filled with stones (Mecro legendaried really fast what with all that soil I was digging through), and I don't have any stonecarvers yet, but we've got masons, so I guess I might as well start making extra doors or something. I have a dining hall, but it's undecorated.
I have the magma trench excavated, and the furnace area prepared, but I haven't set up the magma pump yet. When I get that done, I should have free glass, clay, and iron production up and running. Then we can get armor and weapons.
Until then, the area is boxed off, and invaders have to pass through 3 layers of cage traps and 5 layers of stonefall traps to attack us. I'll put a couple bunnies or something out as a kobold detector. I need ropes first, though. I just got a thresher, and we've had a few pig tails come in, so we can start up the basics of the textile industry. Of course, if I get magma forges, I guess there's no reason not to use iron chains.