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I have a huntsman, lunchlady, minedwarf, woodworker, stoneworker, serf, and bookkeeper. My minedwarf has 5 points left. I can't buy more mining with them. Perhaps I should make him mine in heavy armor. =D

Oh, for starting build? Better off with fisher/fishcleaner than hunter. Since you kill all the available animals immediately and need a ready butcher to turn them into cookable meat before it rots.

I usually give my 5 miner guy some wrestling skills.

Hey, man, I didn't cause the magma/demons/elephants/unicorns/insanity/possession/goblin invasion.

You're just projecting.

Sounds like you're doing just fine to me.

Well, let me tell you what I've done since starting.

I checked out the area and found a canyon-like low area facing the river that I'm using as my entrance. The minedwarf dug a 10-ish square long tunnel 2 spaces wide into this and then dug out a large antechamber which my mason is now smoothing to kill time. From there I put a 2-wide down staircase across from the entrance hallway and made a 2-wide hallway one level lower.

Off of this I built a 5x5 room (which will be a kitchen) connected to a 5x5 room (which will be a storage room) and a side tunnel going around behind both that connects to the storage room for when I decide to deny entry to the kitchen for anyone who isn't the chef. I'm doing the same thing across the hallway, building several 5x5 craft rooms which will have 5x5 storage rooms behind them, connected to a single hallway that runs to each storage room for haulers to dump things while the crafting area can be limited to the guy I want doing his work. (note: locking him in is something I saw Stoove doing earlier, don't know how to do it yet)

Beyond that I plan to carve out some bedrooms.

I tunneled into the side of a hill. Left a spot open for a trade depot near the surface so caravans could get there easy and I don't have to deal with assholes marching through my fort.

Put some farmland out to the left so it's just down the hall from storage, since it was mostly soil.

The small starter storage room to start with, and a staircase down into the warehouse. The workshops across the hall from that with the basics to keep my starting 7 busy while being right next to materials.

Expanded to the left with the secondary workshop with more space for more production and more advanced crap.



Further down is the butcher's workshop. Leatherworker and tanner shops, and a kennel. I plan to tie cattle to the wall to be nearby and prevent them from being adopted as pets.

Metalworks off to the left. Big open area for smelted bars to be stacked.

Lots of stairs down to the warehouse so none of the shops are far from materials.



Dormitories. Barracks off to the left.



More dorms. The grand dining hall.

My room is the big one with statues and an attached office. Because I'm awesome.

Fen is racist against asians.