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The History of Bellsloved, at Rithaval


Besides the stuff shown, I embarked with an axe and partial set of bronze armor. The armor ended up being really use later, but not for fighting...





3st Granite 101, in the Early Spring.


Not pictured: wondrous natural beauty and verdant forests

(From the journals of Shorast Tulonasteb)

This is the third day we have been stranded in this frozen wasteland. All four wagon wheels sunk a foot deep into mud while we were sleeping, which then froze stronger than tempered steel. The rusty pick someone tossed in the back of the wagon for Armok knows what reason shattered before digging and inch into it. We lost our leader to carp just a fortnight ago, and my companions have defaulted to me, the eldest of the remaining, as leader. I secretly fear the Mountainhomes will never see or hear from us again, save for maybe our frozen corpses.

I've seen to it that Olin or Kadol will find game if there is any to be found in these wastes. The rest of us might as well twiddle our thumbs in the meantime...


6th Granite

Kadol beheaded a muskox, and Olin shot one down with his crossbow. I ordered that the wagon be dismantled so that we may butcher the animal. Perhaps we will not starve to death after all, although we still lack any form of shelter.


Mid-Summer



Time is impossible to keep track of in the tundra. There is no wood to speak of beyond that which came with the wagon, and we cannot access any stone. We are sustaining ourselves on what the hunter can bring in.

The other day, Olin the hunter slew four ice wolves by himself. Our axedwarf somehow managed to avoid fighting altogether, though he possesses superior armor and weapons. Such a coward.


8th Malachite

I have ascertained the date from a few stray dwarves who joined our camp. None of them brought a pick, the useless idiots.


Early Autumn

One of our new migrants was wounded on the mountainside and will probably thirst to death because no one will bring him anything to drink, being that we have only booze available.


Late Autumn



I regret sharing our drink with the migrants. We are out of booze and everyone is thirsting to death. If there is no help from the outside world within the month we will all die.


13th Timber

Thank Armok! A dwarven caravan has arrived, though I know not how they managed to determine our location.



We don't have much to trade with them though. Someone pulled the migrant's corpse off of the mountain. He has a giant spider silk robe which will purchase us plenty of goods.

15th Timber

I have offered all we have to the traders, yet we will have not enough to afford a pick. I have purchased some drink so that we will not die in the meantime.

16th Timber

There is a volcano to the northwest. I have purchased a forge with the little supplies we had left to trade. The accursed merchants brought nothing in the way of metal bars which could be used to make a pick, so we will be forced to buy some cheap object and melt it down in the fires of the mountain.

27th Timber

We have purchased all the wood available from the merchants, and have started building a staircase down into the volcano. Winter is upon us, and we will all freeze to death unless we can dig into the earth to create a shelter.


If the volcano had cliffs a few more z-levels higher I wouldn't have had enough blocks to make a staircase down.

17th Moonstone

It turns out that we have only one block of magma safe material. I mistakenly ordered that the forge be constructed first, so we were forced to tear it down and build a smelter in its stead.

21st Moonstone

The militia captain will have to surrender his breastplate for the cause.

7th Opal

The first pick has been created! Strike the earth!



14th Opal

The earth beneath our camp can be farmed. Our luck seems to be turning around! Now that we have a pick, we were able to salvage the wood we used to build the staircase in the volcano. Perhaps we will make some beds next.

2nd Granite

One of the stray dogs who hangs around our camp started attacking everything around it! I've ordered it slaughtered.




Is it possible for animals to throw tantrums? Everyone was stuck in the snow for months, so it certainly seems like it could be possible. A month or two later, one of my turkeys went crazy in a similar manner and started attacking everything around it.

3rd Granite

Our miner dug through all the way to an expansive underground cavern. I have heard of the dangers of these places, but with it looks as though we may sustain ourselves there, and perhaps even cut some wood.



(sidenote: it appears as though the dwarves are being prevented from going insane simply through their own inactivity. They have been stuck outside for almost a year, nearly thirsted to death, regularly get caught in snow storms, and have no chairs or beds to sleep in. However, all but one of them are ecstatic. By look at their social stats, I can only assume that they are maintaining their happiness just by talking to each other. The only exception is the thresher, who has been continuously making bone bolts since he arrived in the first migration wave.)

20th Granite

The weaponsmith Sigun and the woodcrafter(I must assign her some other job -- we have no wood) Zefon were married today. I performed the ceremony myself, as we lack any sort of other official presence.

14th Slate

The caverns underground contain a giant freshwater lake. We are all thirsty again, but if we build a well over this it should sustain us until barrels can be made to brew in. Until the well is completed, we can drink directly from the lake. It seems as though the cavern lacks any sort of hostile creatures, for the moment.

13th Felsite

It has been more than a year since we embarked, and the situation has drasically improved since the dwarven caravan arrived. I'm no longer worried about all of us dying, and we can now focus on more than just huddling together for warmth.


No chairs or tables yet T_T My only industry for 75% of the first year was based off of hunting.


The beginnings of a fortification


Based on the amount of imported wealth, there's a lot of HFS. I haven't been able to brew anything -- no barrels yet (no trees at all). I have my metalsmith making copper barrels though.

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