Don't worry I've changed your name to that. Now without further ado Let Suika Fortress BEGIN!!!!
“I shink I made up my mind now on the goods I’m going to let them take.”
“Are your sure you made up your mind Suika, once you settled on the decision you can’t turn back on it. All the groups will then take off to different area and begin on their trip for survival.”
“Yesh, I’m sherten….*hic*”
“Very well then, as of this point onward you will only be able to give advice to your copies. Your are not to allow to help protect them in anyway they must fend for themselves.”
“Yesh I know…”
“Then let’s begin shall we? I will keep an eye on you as things progress cause I really want to see how this turns out. Until next time…”
Yukari giggles as she disappears into the gap and vanishes..
Suika then turn to her copies as she stands confident and points outward to the distant horizen.
“You herd Yukari, we musch prove to her that we can survive! Go forth my little copies. Head to your destinations and STRIKE THE EARTH!!! For we will prove that onis can shurvive!”
And with that the Suika’s took off in their cart as their yukkuris pulled them off to their new areas….
At last the Suika’s embark on their joinery to the foothills of the Youkai Mountain! May the fortress Beer Axe, the Fortress of Drinking last long and prosperous!
1st day of the first month of spring
The lily white has come and gone. And it was just then the Suikas had finally arrived at their destination! Stepping out of their wagon that were pulled by yukkuri, the minisuika began their adventure…. In the foothills located near the Youkai mountain... Right from the get go, Jan-san began chopping wood while Altrevir went off to look for an area to dig.
Meanwhile the Suikas began to explore the area, they discovered that as of right now their region was rather quite….very quiet in fact. No signs of wild game were located in their area for the time being so it’s likely they will not be hunting for food….
Also there was a lava pit nearby our area if we can harness it's power, it could prove to be very useful....
It wasn’t long till the Suika spotted a nice area where she set forth to dig a tunnel.
Tutorial: Designation: In the menu option, you use designation to tell a dwarf to perform certain laboring tasks. These can range from chopping wood, digging, building stairs and so forth…
Press D to open the designation menu
From there you’ll have a list of tasks a Suika can perform. You must either use the + or – keys to navigate to the appropriate spot of press the letter that coordinates with the command in this case “d” for dig.
Once you select that command you must select the area you want to dig in. Once you find that area, press enter. Then you have a set point where the digging can start, from there you can control with width and length of how big the tunnel can be.. Once you decided it’s size hit enter again and you’ll have selected the digging area. Your Suika will soon begin to dig if she knows how to dig.
10th Day of the First Month of Spring
A problem occurred during Altrevir’s work. As she kept running into a series of damp rock as she kept digging out the tunnels that were going to be the new home for the Suikas. When she went above she realized the ponds that were near by would be a hazard waiting to happen so without further ado she left the tunnel….
And began to channel out the pond so that the water would drain down a hill. This at least solved the problem of an early cave in and possible water leakage.
16th Day of the First Month of Spring
Jan-san got tired of waiting and began to set up a temporary shop for her Carpentry. This would allow her to take the time to begin building beds for the other Suika while Altrevir continued working on the underground rooms…
How thoughtful of her…
Tutorials: Site buildings: With materials you can build buildings such as workshops, supports and other things like it… First you must press b to open the building menu, then from there select the thing you wish to build by going through the menu using the + and – keys. In this case we will do a work shop a shortcut key for that is “w”.
Remember shortcut keys are always right of the name of anything you designate or build on most occasions.
In the workshop menu go through the list of in this case select Carpenter’s workshop “c”.
Now you must decide where to put it and then where and water material you will use. Since we lack stones at the moment we will use wood.
Once that’s done, the Suika with the job skill in that field will build the workshop and then can begin to work on whatever she can make based on what the workshop is meant for.
Just remember, you must have the supplies needed for the Suika to perform the task or she will stop.
Assigning tasks in the workshop:Very similar to the building except you press “q” to set building tasks and pref. Select th shop you highlight and enter. Then from there go through the menu and select the tasks you want to perform and then press enter. Or use the shortcut key. The Suika will then start working when she gets the chance and start building based on the orders that are given.
9th Day of the Second Month of Spring
Looks like Altrevir’s digging lead to the discovery of Pyrite. It’s cool that we have discovered some gems just a short ways under the ground base where the Suikas were planning to build their bedrooms. But looks like the plans for this place be build may be changed up a little bit since we found this little treasure here. Altrevir say we need to mine it later when we she feels comfortable digging up the gems. Hopefully by then a gem cutter will come here. We could make a profit of these things.
14th Day of the Second Month of Spring
Jan-san informed us that the beds were ready. Since out rooms were still under repair we decided to carry our bed to what will soon be out workshops until the rooms our finished…. Ah it’s so good to sleep on something other than the floor for once…
16th Day of the Second Month of Spring
Everyone was concerned about my habits of barely doing anything. Since there was little to work with for now until we grow some Plump Helmets. The suikas suggested that I go look around the stream, as there was apparently a lot of fish starting to appear in the area. I went to look and to my view there were plenty of good tasty fish. I suppose after a few drinks I can run up and attempt to catch some of them. There seem to be salmon, shad and Perch all swimming upstream. I suppose this was a good time as any since the mating season has begun for the salmon, so here’s hoping I’ll bring home some good fish for the other Suikas to eat….
PS. We may need to get a make a fishing dock around our fortress too since the majority of the fish appear to be swimming up small canyon…. Where we are digging at. The water appears to be at level in that area…
Tutorial: Assigning Labor tasks to your Suikas: Other than the professions your suika is good at you can tell the Suikas to perform other tasks.
First press “v” to view unit and then move until you have a suika you can select in range. From there you’ll have number of options:
“g” General allow you to see what kind of skills your Suika has to offer.
“i” Inventory allow you to see what kind of equipment your Suika is wearing and using.
“p” Preferences allow you to select the type of labor work, weapons if they choose to work in the military, or work dogs they can be assigned with. (This will be what we will look into.
“w” Wounds explains the condition your Suika or other creatures are in. More on this at a later time.
From Preferences you select “l” for Labor and then there go up and down using the + and – keys respectively. Press enter on the skill you want to train and use. In my case fishing. Now your Suika can start working on a new task.
Do note, that if the Suika has no skill on that category, it’ll take her longer than one who is skilled at working in that category. But at the same time, if they work at it, they will eventually become as good as a professional worker.
20th Day of the Second Month of Spring.
The Still has been build. Now Serp can start working on drinks for us once we begin harvesting some food (Hooray!) Now we need Jan-san to make some barrels and assign a port that will be specifically for our drinks.
Also someone needs to keep an eye on the Chenkkuri’s and their “trophies” they’re bringing in… It’s stinking up our bedrooms. It’s fortunate most of the stink is gone by the time we go to sleep.
22nd Day of the Second Month of Spring
It appears the lava pit near the river is the home of some fire imps. They do not seem very friendly though. We’re unsure it they spotted the wagon or not, but as Suikas we must take caution with these things. So as for now, Ramis has been temporarily assigned on guard duty till all the supplies have been placed in the home and the wagon and Carpenter shop that are outside have been broken down. Last thing we need right now are these little suckers ruining our life as we just got here over a month ago….
Tutorial: Assigning Suikas into the military: Sooner or later a Suika is going to be needed to fight against enemies so it’s always best to have someone who can fight to handle the situation, otherwise they’ll run till cornered…
You must press “m for military from there you’ll see a list of Suikas from there you must select from the list who you want to join in the military.
You can simply press a on the Suika you want to assign to fight. And then she will become a recruit in the military.
You can press an again to make her return to a regular non-military suika.
Also you can assign squads by selecting the enter button to promote, this will allow you to make that suika the leader of the squad and then from there select other suikas you want to be in that squad and press enter they will appear under the squad leader.
Once you’re done assigning a squad press space and then when you press “a” on the lead of the squad groups all the suikas in that squad will be recruited.
Do remember once you recruit them they will stop all labor work and perform patrol duty.
Assigning squad patrol duties:Upon recruiting a suika into the military you can assign the Suika some tasks. Just press x for the squad menu and make sure you put your course near your squad. You can set up patrol point where you press enter in the areas you want her to patrol. Make a stationary post where they will stay on one spot and guard the area…. You can even cancel patrols or stationary areas too.
I don’t think I’ll need to go into detail here about shortcut keys you’ll see for yourself.
26th Day of the Second Month of Spring
Rika’s mining work has paid off as she now decided to work as a miner! Now we got double the work force for now! At least till some animals start appearing here…. if there are any….
3rd day on the Last month of Spring
The Fire imps for some reason went back into their lava pit. Who know what they wanted to up here, but I don’t want to find out. Jan-san going out to get some wood to make some chairs and Ramis has been called off of guard duty for now. As soon as our mining Suikas, Altrevir and Rika finish building the rooms for us, they’re next project is to start building areas for the workshops. So some of us can get some work started in the safety of our underground home.
4th Day of the Last Month of Spring.
Finally found a good fishing spot down in the south. Seems pretty easy to catch one there. So I’m going to continue fishing there for a while…. If I get enough fish I’ll start cooking them.
5th Day of the Last Month of Spring
Rika and Altrevir discovered Realgar on one of the rooms they were mining out for us…. appears we will have to do some more remodeling eventually…
10th Day of the Last Month of Spring
We finally managed to move out beds our beds moved into are new spots now we can sleep by ourselves in our own little rooms now…
12th Day of the Last Month of Spring
We finally got the Mason’s workshop built. Now Ramis can start working on some tables and doors for us. We’re going to probably look further into doing other things, but I think doors and preparing a dining room take priority. Other than that Rika and Altrevir are currently making plans to expand the storage rooms before starting on the workshops…
Final Spring Report
As of right now, we pretty much have all the supplies inside the fort. The only thing we need to worry about is getting a room to cage our little yukkuri we took with us and then afterward, moving Jan-san’s shop into the fort. Once that’s done we can start working on other project.
Food supply is doing well thankfully as Serp got the garden going early on so food should be a problem. Plus with me fishing and getting good catches through the season I’m certain we will be well stock on food as the seasons continue. And during brakes Serp will brew some drinks for us. Ah it’s so good to get things moving at least…
Things on the to do list:
Get the workshops going for everyone so we can start producing goods for the up coming trading seasons….
Design a dock for fish in the canyon. Seem a lot of fish like to swim around where the rivers intersect.
Get a Trade Depot running
Start setting up traps incase the pesky imps or other creatures start attempting to sneak into our fortress…
Learn how to dissect fish so I can cook some meals.
Here's how things look on the first floor.
And the Second floor...
We only begun and I shall continue this later on... also looking at how long it take to actually sit down and plan things out. I'm debating if I should give a week long period instead of 5 days. I'll figure that out later. For now. This is where we stand. If you all like to give feedback on the current progress please do. The year is still young, for I only covered Spring so far!