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[Toaster]

The humans living in the world of Mitala were in danger.  The wide plains they called home were best suited for farmland, with little mineral wealth.  Their better-equipped neighbors were encroaching on their territory from all sides.  The northern Orcs in particular were intent on enslaving all of humanity.  Only an act of desperation could save them now.

The greatest sages came together to open a portal to another dimension, one they could send through colonists in hopes of finding mineral wealth to hold back the forces opposing them, or some other weapon to secure themselves once and for all.  After several failed attempts, a world was found that was suitable for a colony.  One hundred colonists were sent through the portal to find what they could to save the doomed ones back home.

You are their leader.  Do you have what it takes to lead the colony to glory and save humanity?


The king has entrusted you with guiding this colony.  What you have to work with is below:

Spoiler: Starting Outpost (click to show/hide)

Portal to Home
HQ tent- Houses Portal
Wall (Glorified fence)
Barracks- room for 30 soldiers
Basic Housing- room for 100 civilians
Farms- size 20
Small Silo  (Holds up to 1000 food)


400 food
A little wood
Hardly any stone
No ore


75 laborers
5 scouts
10 builders
10 guards

Here is a map of the area:

Spoiler: Starting Map (click to show/hide)

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@ Colony
. Plains
T Forest

Some suggested structures to build are listed below; you may follow those or decide on your own what needs to be built.  The colonists will also need to be given their tasks for the month.  The homeland will send you more colonists if you keep them well supplied.  Expect tasks to come from home as well.

What are your orders?

[Toaster]

This is another suggestion adventure, following a colony of humans.  This post is a collection of relevant information.  This is just starter information- more will be unlocked later, both by design and player suggestion.

Each turn is a month.  Three months to a season, just like DF.  Game starts in first month of spring.

For building construction, one unit of time is one builder-month, the amount of work a builder does in a month.  So if you have a building that takes 10 units of time to build, 5 builders could build it in 2 months.

Spoiler: Resources (click to show/hide)

Food:  People need this to eat.  Without it, expect death.  One unit of food feeds one person for a month.  Can be farmed or hunted.  Farming can’t be done in winter.  Hunting is year-round, but less reliable.
Wood:  Builds basic structures and equipment.  Chop trees for this.
Stone:  Builds advanced structures.  Dug from quarries.  Can be sent back home.
Ore:  Builds advanced equipment- needed for most soldiers.  Dug from mines. Can be sent back home.

Yields:
One farm requires two laborers and yields 4 units of food.
Each laborer yields 1 wood, 0.5 stone, or 0.5 ore when working the respective resource.  Without a quarry (stone) or mine (ore), yields are halved.

Spoiler: Colonists (click to show/hide)

Laborer:  Your basic commoner.  Can do any job requiring unskilled labor.  Can be trained into any other job.
Miner:  25% bonus to mining stone and ore.
Farmer:  25% bonus to farming.
Lumberjack:  25% bonus to woodcutting.
Builder:  Able to build base structures.
Hunter:  25% bonus to hunting.
Fisherman:  25% bonus to fishing.

Guard:  Can guard either the base or resource gatherers.  Upgradable.
Scout:  Can be sent to explore specific areas or to scout on their own.  Unguided scouting can find new features or warn in advance of attacks.

Cost to train:

Colonist Type	Cost to train	Time	Requires
Farmer	0	1 Month	Windmill 1
Lumberjack	0	1 Month	Sawmill 1
Miner	0	1 Month	Miner's Guild 1
Hunter	0	1 Month	Hunter's Lodge 1
Fisherman	0	1 Month	Fishing Dock 1
Builder	2 Wood	1 Month	HQ 2
Scout	2 Food 3 Wood	1 Month	HQ 2

Spoiler: Structures (click to show/hide)

The Portal:  Your sole connection to home.  If this is destroyed, you’re on your own, and your homeland will probably be overrun and your people killed or enslaved.

Irreplaceable.

HQ Tent:  The headquarters of the operation.  Can be upgraded to increase the level of the colony, allowing more upgrades. 

Level	Materials	Time
1	100 Wood, 10 Stone	30
2	150 Wood, 10 Stone	50
3	100 Wood, 150 Stone, 20 Ore	75

Wall:  Currently just a glorified fence.  Provides no bonuses- just defines your territory and allows coordination of defense.  This should be upgraded if you expect any real opposition. 

Level	Materials	Time
1	100 Wood	20
2	120 Wood	25

Housing:  Basic housing for your colonists.  All non-military personnel will live here.  It can be upgraded or expanded.  Expansion requires 10 wood per 10 units of housing, and the first upgrade will require 10 wood and 2 stone per 10 units- both take 5 time.

Barracks:  Soldiers sleep here.  It can be upgraded or expanded.  Expansion requires 10 wood per 10 units of housing, and the first upgrade will require 10 wood, 2 stone, and 1 ore per 10 units- both take 5 time.

Farm:  One needs two workers, with monthly production of four food.  Unusable in winter.  Requires 8 wood and 3 time per farm.

Silo:  Stores food and keeps it safe.

Level	Materials	Time
1	150 Wood	15
2	100 Wood	10

Blacksmith:  Allows access to higher-quality troops.  Troop upgrade will require ore dependent on type. 

Level	Materials	Time
1	100 Wood, 20 Stone, 10 Ore	20

Sawmill:  Allows training of lumberjacks.  Higher ranks increase the success rate of wood gathering.

Level	Materials	Time
1	75 Wood	10
2	160 Wood, 25 Stone	20

Miner's Guild:  Allows training of miners.  Higher ranks increase the success rate of stone and ore gathering.

Level	Materials	Time
1	60 Wood, 10 Stone	10
2	100 Wood, 50 Stone	20

Windmill:  Allows training of farmers.  Upgrades improved the gain of farming.

Level	Materials	Time
1	75 Wood	10
2	160 Wood, 25 Stone	20
3	100 Wood, 75 Stone, 30 Ore	30

Ore Mine:  Set up one of these to facilitate extraction of ore from a deposit.  Expanding it allows access to deeper veins. 

Level	Materials	Time
1	50 Wood	10
2	80 Wood, 40 Stone	20

Hunter's Lodge:  Allows training of hunters.  Higher ranks increase the success rate of hunting.

Level	Materials	Time
1	60 Wood	10
2	160 Wood, 25 Stone	20

Quarry:  Building a quarry makes stone gathering easier than simple collection from a site.  Expanding it allows stone to be dug out from deeper down.   

Level	Materials	Time
1	50 Wood	10
2	100 Wood, 25 Stone	15

Watchpost:  Can provide advance warning of danger. 

Level	Materials	Time
1	50 Wood	6

Watch Tower:  Like a watchpost, but more permanent.  Can be upgraded into a defensive tower.

Level	Materials	Time
1	50 Wood, 20 Stone	10

Road:  Allows faster travel from one area to another.  Must be built between established sites.  Cost is per hex traveled.

Level	Materials	Time
1	5 wood/hex	5/hex
2	15 wood/hex	10/hex

Fishing Dock:  Allows fishing from deeper water for fifteen people, and training of fishermen.  Upgrades allow construction of ships.

Level	Materials	Time
1	60 Wood	10
2	200 Wood, 40 Stone	20

For all costs, Level 1 is the initial structure, while higher levels are upgrades.

Spoiler: Other Constructables (click to show/hide)

Fishing Canoe:  Three man fishing boat.  Better than fishing from the shore.  If it tips, I hope you can swim!
Costs 10 Wood and takes 4 time to construct.

[Strife26]

What're the construction costs for the buildings?

[Terenos]

To begin, I push for the following.
All 5 scouts, scout, 5 unguided.
Assuming we have the tools for it, 30 laborers should begin a lumber operation. Lumber is our only available resource, we should push it early in order to have the supplies to advance.
45 of our laborers should start hunting
Our builders should build as many farms as we're able to at this stage.

[Weirdsound]

5 Scouts - Explore and hunt in the forests to the east
50 Laborers - Chop wood
10 Guards - Protect woodcutters
25 Laborers + 10 Builders - Set up farms in the nearby plains

[Knave]

Also, do we see any mountains on the horizon? They may be a good source of ore in the future.

[Terenos]

I say we worry about setting ourselves up with food and what resources we can easily locate. We can then send larger scouting parties out/push farther with a given party. Ore likely isn't close, but not terribly far away.

[Toaster]

What're the construction costs for the buildings?

They're abstracted away, but anything you need a lot of (housing, farms, not so much barracks) is cheap, anything major (HQ, the wall) is expensive, and everything else is midrange.   As of now, only the HQ would need stone to upgrade.  If you want me to be more specific, just ask.   Also, you're not limited to building what is listed- suggest something and I'll see what we can do.



Don't forget you have enough farms to employ 40 people right now.

[Knave]

I say we put 40 people into farming right now.

Having wood for new buildings is good, but we already have enough living space and we won't be able to grow anything in the winter.

I imagine the silo will keep (most) of the food from going bad.

edit: We're going to need to build more farms soon unless we want to run out of food.

[Terenos]

How about watchtowers? Would those be easy to set up/recycle-able later and give us a bonus to not getting our asses kicked early?

Thats true Knave, Course, we have 75 laborers. 35 into lumber now and we could start into projects like a Windmill (which I believe should take high priority to give us farmers) before too long.
Shall we say:

40 laborers to farm
35 laborers to chop wood
Guards covering the woodcutters
Scouts of course scouting
Expand the housing slightly with our builders (prepare for more colonists just in case of a spring migrant wave.)
? As a more updated decision?

[Knave]

How about watchtowers? Would those be easy to set up/recycle-able later and give us a bonus to not getting our asses kicked early?

Thats true Knave, Course, we have 75 laborers. 35 into lumber now and we could start into projects like a Windmill (which I believe should take high priority to give us farmers) before too long.
Shall we say:

40 laborers to farm
35 laborers to chop wood
Guards covering the woodcutters
Scouts of course scouting
Expand the housing slightly with our builders (prepare for more colonists just in case of a spring migrant wave.)
? As a more updated decision?

Sounds pretty good to me!

[Toaster]

Cheap watchtowers would just be wood.  Ones with some stone would be a decent upgrade.  Watchtowers could be built anywhere- resource gathering operations, at home, chokepoints, wherever.  I'll put them on the big list.  Your colony knows of no threats here, though... yet.

You'll need to scout to find mountains or other sources of ore.


Outpost log for early spring, year 1

The outpost is getting its feet off the ground fairly well.  We focused early on towards gathering food and wood.  A pack of wolves attacked our laborers almost as soon as they stepped foot in the woods, but the guards drove them off.  The woodcutters were only slightly delayed by that occurrence, and were able to gather wood.

The builders took to expanding the housing.  In total, enough space was added for 40 more colonists- we should have plenty of room for the future.  This did exhaust our wood supply, however- not enough came in from the harvesters to build up a stockpile.

The scouts more than earned their keep!  Not only did they map some of the surrounding terrain, but they also brought back reports of a river and a site suitable for a stone quarry!

A message came from the homeland.  An inspector is coming in three months to check on our progress.  If he sees solid progress, he will instruct the king to send us more colonists.  Great finds will bring greater rewards.

No other interesting events occurred.

Spoiler: Outpost Status (click to show/hide)

Portal to Home
HQ tent- Houses Portal
Wall (Glorified fence)
Barracks- 25/30 soldiers
Basic Housing- 75/140 civilians
Farms- size 20
Small Silo-  Max 1000 food


380 food
No wood
Hardly any stone
No ore


75 Laborers
5 Scouts
10 Builders
10 Guards

Spoiler: Area Map (click to show/hide)

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@ Colony
. Plains
~ River
o Stone, suitable for quarrying
T Forest

[Weirdsound]

All laborers to gather wood
All builders to set up a quarry with gathered wood
Guards split between laborers and builders
Scouts follow the river

[Terenos]

Well well well. From the looks of it our 40 laborers brought in 80 food. This sort of food flow will keep us floating for a few months while we get some more farms/wood for a windmill.
I suggest we not split our labor to the south, to get stone -yet-. We got attacked right into the forest, so we might have some issues. We will likely need watchtowers to watch over the plains and safeguard our quarry. Lets move cautiously, No sense being risky.

My suggestion!
40 Laborers to Farming.
35 Laborers to Woodcutting.
5 Scouts scouting, No direction.
10 Guards cover the Woodcutters.
Builders use our stone to upgrade our HQ, If theres enough. If not, they should just remain idle.
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My thoughts on our goals:
Our primary goal should be getting a windmill to train some farmers. Farmers will be a more stable supply of food likely pushing it to 3 food units per farmer, or even further. After that we should begin a defensive expansion towards the quarry location. We'll see how good hunting is come winter. But its likely highly variable. -AND- may cost us people.

[Taricus]

35 Labourers to gather wood
All builders to set up a quarry with gathered wood
Guards split between laborers and builders
Scouts do what they do best.
Remaining labourers are to farm.