CountingWizard posted:

I still have my developer's Dwarf Fortress crayon drawing framed in my office. I always come back to this game, but man I wish I had like a week off to just dig into the game again.

My usual strategy is to expedition like 3 or 4 times to a location and dig out and construct as much as I can before winter, then let them die out and resettle it the following year. By the fourth time I usually have enough storage and workshop space to let my dwarves work so that we have food and alcohol for the winter, and so I can trade for everything I'm short on by the time the caravans come.