Dwarf Fortress succession game - Rigothtizot

10th Malachite


More artifacts.

I see a lot of broken goblin bones in the future with all this silver around.

It would probably be worth digging down to the magma sea for magma forges before starting on any serious metalwork project.

19th Galena year 551




The bedrooms are complete apart from their doors. More will be dug soon to accommodate the influx of migrants.

The furniture for the dining room is nearing completion and significantly faster than expected. Sculpting tables and chairs becomes a lot easier with practise. The food is being moved into the nearby stockpile and it will soon be time to replace the old dining room. The doors of the dining room are not marble, they are the work of our forges and abundance of silver. Over the coming months I aim to smooth and engrave the entire room. Another, less skilled, mason will have to construct the doors for the bedrooms.

Directly below the dining room is the panic/lever room. It is accessible through a U-bend to offer more protection from various forms of Fun. The bridge at the entrance has been linked to a lever and labelled.

The structure to the left of the dining room is my next major project; a large spiral of minecarts to facilitate high speed transport of ore between the surface layers and the magma ocean. Some people are worrying about our finite supply of wood and coal for our forges and think we should use magma for large scale melting. I say that we have plenty of wood and coal but that using magma by far the most dwarfy choice.

Transporting ore 100+ levels with hoards of migrants sounds like a reasonable solution to the transport problem. Dwarven engineering is rarely about reasonable. So I have planned a minecart system (which will have other applications) to reach all the way down to the magma sea. The fact that I we only know of the layout of one cavern will not hinder progress!

27th Limestone
I noticed a buildup of random animals within the new dining room. I went to make a pasture for them only to discover that TheSponge had already designated the pasture. The pasture only contained one animal because the others were killed by the werebadger.

A migrant wave of 10 dwarves has arrived with no useful skills. I guess I could forge another 10 iron picks.

3rd Timber 551



The workshop and kitchen area is now complete and work has begun on moving some stockpiles. The masons have been set to work creating enough doors for the bedrooms. Smoothing the dining room is a larger task than I thought and I may have to enlist the help of extra workers.

The spiral passage has been mined down to the second cavern and is awaiting the discovery of the third cavern. Tracks are being carved in preparation of the stockpile move.

The Mayor has become self important enough to start mandates and demanding rooms. I will have to make a nobles quarter to keep him happy.

1st Opal year 551

The dining room is now fully smoothed and ready for engraving. Every dwarf has a room and every room has a door. A child has withdrawn from society and is now running around a craftdwarfs workshop.

9th Opal

The child has completed their great work with little drama. It is a turkey bone table studded with lead (for health) and encircled with turkey bone, tourmalines, opals and highwood. I shall put it in the dinning room in addition to the highwood chair (which I forgot to place).

The spiral rampway has been dug down to the 3rd cavern layer. I have ordered the construction of nobel bedrooms and a hospital with adjoining well.

Not much room for the expansion of the great hall, but lots of progress being made in a year. I'm not sure what is more dory though, enormous minecart tracks to bring the ore down or giant magma pump stacks to bring the magma up.

1st Granite year 552

So, the year is over. It has been a rather uneventful year of consolidation. Military was almost entirely neglected but this was ok because the only outside threats were a few thieves and a werebadger. We have a bridge to hole up in, a dozen miners and a lot of ore that could be turned into something. In the end the resource rich layers did not see much action so I am sure there is a lot more metal waiting to be mined.

Most of the year was spent on finding the caverns and constructing a nice place to live. Very little metalworking took place, I mostly made silver doors and iron pickaxes. The engraved slabs for the three dead miners are queued but not constructed or built. They will need to be placed. Booze is also a bit low at the moment.

The spiral minecart run is entirely dug out and tracks are designated and almost carved. I did not actually test the tracks so hopefully they work. The extra space can be used for more tracks. I would make a miniature fortress just above the magma sea which imports food to sustain a burrow of elite metalworkers. But that is just me. The wiki claims that minecarts can be used to transport magma and that sounds like the most Fun option at the moment.

The top levels are now unorganized and mostly deserted. Someone interested in military could sort all that out. The farms could be moved further underground.

In short I present a solid base to do something crazy with. Unless of course those three deaths trigger a tantrum spiral early in the third year, who even knows how the new emotions system works.

Here you go Anarchid:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx_6VtyO1hObRWFmOGVwbW1MQ00/view?usp=sharing

I am not sure where they went. It is likely that they were not produced due to job cancellation because at that point we did not have many silver bars. Or perhaps I cancelled them.