Craftblueness - 1057 Early Spring by Fedor

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The outpost Rigothenor "Craftblueness", 2 years old today.
Game version: v0.27.169.33a
Date uploaded: 11/12/2007

The past year's had its ups and downs. We lost one of our legendary miner/axedwarves to a really lucky hit from a kobold thief early in the spring. Shortly thereafter, 19 immigrants arrived and got busy with everything from a huge haulage backlog to the establishment of new industries such as clothing, glassmaking, and leatherworking.

Got three strange moods so far, all of which were successful. Unhappily, two were possessions - and for really cheap artifacts to boot. The third got us a legendary leatherworker. Turning out quality protection is what he loves to do - the rest of his time he's a farmer/brewer.

List of dwarves:
1 leader/trader/carpenter. Spends a lot of his time building roads.
1 legendary clerk/backup trader. Ditto.
1 Axedwarf (legendary miner cross-trained in axes and armor)
3 good miners (replacements for above)
2 legendary engravers - they'll become recruits as soon as more immigrants arrive and be replaced with new engravers.
2 legendary woodchoppers - same story here. We need to do a lot of woodchopping and, because it's not a trade skill, we can have lots of crosstrained woodchoppers.
1 legendary+ mason - he's been cranking out hundreds of chalk blocks.
1 armorsmith spending most of his time as a farmer/herbalist
1 metalcrafter spending most of his time farming and brewing
1 weaponsmith/bowyer (also does some wood burning)
1 smelter (also does some wood burning)
1 dedicated wood burner
1 legendary leatherworker with farmer/brewer day job
1 weaver
1 tailor
1 mechanic/farmer/cook - if he gets a fey mood, we're going nuts on the traps. Until then, he's a foodie.
1 glassblower/farmer
1 fletcher (who hauls 95% of the time - this will change once we start training up marksdwarves)
2 haulers trained as novice metal crafters - I want to decorate and make chains!
1 peasant hauler (became dabbling glassblower to service a strange mood)
1 baby

Most dwarves help with haulage at least some of the time; some spend most of their days doing this. Only farmers harvest (for skill increases).

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Submitted by: Markavian - 2007-11-12 to 1056 Early Spring

Dude! Its so neat and tidy. The octagonal pattern is trendy and you've dug a massive star in the sand; good work so far. Why stop at 3x3x3 ? ... keep digging down! Later, you could hollow out the walkways between bastions and have bridges between the 'towers' that are formed in the gaps. How about that?

Submitted by: Fedor - 2007-11-12 to 1056 Early Spring

As a matter of fact, I /do/ plan a great tower. Just not in the 3x3x3 area...

Submitted by: thatguyyaknow - 2007-11-12 to 1057 Early Spring

Love the fort design and ill be keeping my eye on it the 3x3x3 is a great idea

p.s.All 3 kinds of coloured rock? i count 4, Olivine (green) Orthoclase (yellow) Microline (blue) Petrified wood (red)

Submitted by: Fedor - 2007-11-12 to 1057 Early Spring

I've located Orthoclase and Microcline. I also expect to find Olivine. The red stuff isn't petrified wood - it's blood that breeds.

I look forward to making stuff out of the Hematite and Limonite ores this fortress can easily spare...

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Points of Interest

15. Location

( 1056 Early Spring to 9999 )
Craftblueness is in a forested plain a couple of tiles south of a mountain range, with access to 14 rock layers and a 5x5 map. We're right on the border between two rock formations and have most of the interesting goodies except for magma and metamorphic rock.

Water: Water is one of our two limiting resources. We just *barely* managed to get enough water to rest the wounded before the lakes dried up (see "cistern" for more details).
Trees: Energy is our second limiting resource. The surrounding plain is a woodland region, which means fewer trees than we'd like but acceptable wagon access. We also expect to find a bit of coal (but nothing marvelous); tower-cap growing isn't a possibility.
Chalk: The chalk runs deep in this region, which means iron, flux, valuable building material, and some coal.
Granite, Gabbro: Underneath the chalk is both granite and gabbro, which will (hopefully) get us tin, nickel, bismuth, silver, and all three kinds of colored rock.
Rhyolite: The second rock formation in the area is a igneous extrusive band that has already yielded some native aluminum and should also have abundant copper. Taken all in all, we've a good chance of finding at least some of everything except zinc.
Sand: Got sand, check. - Fedor
Δ 15. Greenery
A little outdoor farm that will grow dyestuffs this year. One of the coolest things about the new version is the added colors. :D

The windmill has just been connected to a millstone; see point of interest "clothesmaking". - Fedor
Δ 15. Trade routes
The human caravan almost didn't make it to the depot in time this last year and so we're going to solve that little problem the vigorous way. Roads, moats, and walls stretching from one end of the map to the other will ensure that the traders don't wander in the trees. We're about 25-30% done overall (more to the west because that's where the wagons appeared).

Notice the little house above and to the left of the depot; it's where we hold meetings with trade representatives. They get trapped if we hold the meeting anywhere but on the surface, and our leader insists upon running downstairs to talk, so we've taken to conscripting him, marching him to the little house, and locking him and the diplomat inside until they're done.
- Fedor
Δ 14. Bloodly mess
Blood stains are out of control in this version. Several kobold thieves died earlier this year and their blood's been making like bunnies ever since then. Ordering dwarves to clean doesn't work - they do a good job downstairs but never do any work on this level. Paving the floor didn't do any good. I sadly expect the entire area to be russet red in a few years... - Fedor
Δ 13. Vittles
We see the food arrangements of Craftblueness in rough outline here: farms above the food processing workshops, and they to the left of the dining room. Prepared food is piled up on the path most dwarves take to the tables.

The food stockpiles are still disorganized due to lack of strong backs to haul out stone.

Our sleeping arrangements (center room) are still rather pitiful. Give it time, give it time. - Fedor
Δ Clothesmaking
If you don't have magma, you do what you can without it. This clothesmaking setup is an improved version of the layout pioneered in a previous fortress: Growing, milling, spining, dying, weaving, and clothesmaking are all together in a single room. We need to clear out the stone in order to properly begin work, but that requires labor we can't spare yet (road-building's been chewing up the dwarf-hours).

In the center room on this level is the central liquor stockpile. We're a bit embarrased for space to put sparring areas, but we'll figure something out. - Fedor

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Fortress Name: Craftblueness
Map Year: 1057 Early Spring
Author: Fedor
Submitted by: Fedor
Date Added: 12/11/2007