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v0.34:Sample Starting Builds
This is a collection of starting buils (or embark setups) which individual players find useful and generally worth trying.
Nagidal's Allrounder
Recommended for newbies who want to play a defensive embark on sites with mild conditions (warm or temperate climate, easy access to drinking water, trees and stone).
Dwarves
According to the dwarves' attributes you assign:
- 2 Proficient Miners (high endurance, high willpower, good kinesthetic sense)
- 1 Proficient Mason (good creativity, good endurance)
- 1 Proficient Mechanic (good analytical ability)
- 1 Proficient Grower (good patience)
- 1 Proficient Wood cutter
- 1 Proficient Carpenter
Make one of five non-miners at least an adequate appraiser (the one with good memory or intuition)
Items
Keep all the standard stuff, sell some splints, crutches and quivers to buy a couple of cats and a dog or two. (The cats will eat the vermin trying to eat your food supplies.) You can also sell one of the battle axes or the anvil to buy even more stock or some more drinks and food if you wish.
Some dwarven civilizations start with a steel anvil rather than an iron one which will reduce the amount of points you can use for the dwarves' skills and items. In this case, sell the anvil and rely on merchants bringing you one.
First year roadmap
We deliberately don't take any cook or brewer. you can pick both from one of the first migration waves. Also, we don't have any military to start with. The idea is that our mechanic and carpenter will build us many wooden cage traps which will easily deal with the first ambushes, maybe even the first siege. Any useless migrants of the later waves will become our military.
This should be your aims for the first years (ordered by importance): farming, traps, trade, healthcare
Farming
Start farming as soon as possible. Try to harvest the spring crop of your first year. Build a mechanic's workshop soon and let him churn out about 2–3 dozens of mechanisms. Your carpenter should produce roughly as much wooden cages before autumn.
Traps
When you build traps, build them in a one tile wide meandring corridor—preferably outdoors. There should be no way around this corridor for enemies. Use raising bridges to direct the flow of all enemies heading for your fort's entrance through this trap corridor. Lower the bridges to allow your dwarves fast access to the fort's entrance bypassing the trap corridor. You should have at least ten traps up and ready by autumn.
Trade
Make one of your first immigrants a stone crafter and let him make stone crafts 24/7. You will need them as trade goods.
Healthcare
Before you start thinking of having some military, build a well and a hospital.