I don’t bring most items made out of wood, because they cost 10 points or more. Wood logs are 3 points apiece, so you can just bring wood instead, or cut down trees after you embark and make the items for free at a carpenter’s workshop.
For items made out of cloth, always choose cave spider silk or yarn, since giant cave spider silk or plant cloth is much more expensive.
For items that people don’t use that often like glass, that sometimes are required in strange moods, you can request them and buy them from caravans later on, just to have some around.
These moodable items that can be requested in strange moods but you might not have around are:
Shell
Any type of glass
All 3 types of thread
All 3 types of cloth
So you can request them from caravans (the human caravan being fantastic for plant textiles and leather), and in the case of shells you can just fish until you catch pond turtles or other shell-bearing animals, then process the fish, store the shells and forbid them until they are needed.
SHOULD YOU BRING…?
Leather: Don’t
Plant/Yarn/Silk Cloth: Don’t (maybe 1-2 units of each, for strange moods. You can also buy it later from caravans)
Crafts: Don’t
Wood: Bring it if you don’t have wood at your embark location. Bring 20 units if you are too lazy to chop trees, like me
Metal bars: Don’t
Small cut gems: Don’t
Large cut gems: Don’t
Stone blocks: Don’t. Maybe 2-3 to make your first few workshops, if you are lazy like me
Seeds: Yes. Definitely plump helmet. Pigtails if you want to do textiles. The rest depends on your needs.
Anvils: YES. One iron anvil.
Weapons: Depends on if you are bringing a dwarf that will be a soldier on embark. If so, then bring a bronze or iron weapon of your choice.
Training weapons: Don’t
Ammo: Bring it if you are having a hunter or marksdwarves on embark
Trap Components: Don’t
Digging implements: Yes, one, or ideally two copper picks (or the cheapest picks you have access to)
Bodywear, Headwear, Handwear, Footwear, Legwear, Shields: Don’t bring any clothing, but if you are bringing a soldier on embark, then bring one helm, one breastplate, one mail shirt, greaves, gauntlets, low boots, and a shield. All copper
Toys: Don’t
Instruments: Don’t
Drinks: Yes. 20-30 units of each type of drink 1 (so instead of 20 drinks, bring 21. That way you make it so that you get one /”free/” barrel – one barrel is given to you for every 5 units of drink. 20 drinks 4 barrels, 21 drinks 5 barrels)
Cheeses: Don’t
Powders: Don’t
Extracts: Don’t
Meat: Do bring 20-40 pieces of your preferred 2 -point meat
Fish: Up to you, but I personally don’t
Plants: 30-40 units of Plump Helmet
Garden Vegetables: Don’t, unless you want to do an above-ground farm (even then you can still harvest above-ground plants from the wild if your embark has them)
Stone: Don’t. At most bring a few units of bituminous coal if you want to kickstart your metal industry
Cages: Don’t
Leather/Plant/Yarn/Silk Bags: I personally don’t but if you find them useful, bring a few
Plant/Yarn/Silk Thread: Don’t (same for cloth, maybe 1-2 units of each for strange moods, or buy them later from caravans)
Ropes: Maybe 1-2 to make your first well and restrain a watchdog animal to the entrance of your fort
Barrels: Don’t (just make them out of wood later)
Flasks/Waterskins: Bring a 10 point waterskin if you are bringing a soldier dwarf. If not, don’t
Quivers: Only if you have a hunter/marksdwarf on embark. If not, don’t
Backpack: Same as waterskins. Bring a cheap one if you have a soldier
Sand: Don’t
Glass: Don’t (maybe 1-2 units of each if you fear someone will ask for it in a strange mood, otherwise, just buy them later from caravans or make them if you have sand)
Miscellaneous: Maybe 1 unit of coke or charcoal if you are bringing bituminous coal or lignite, so you can start the process of making fuel. If not, then don’t
Buckets: Don’t
Splints: Don’t
Crutches: Don’t
Eggs: Don’t
Tools: Don’t
Clay: Don’t
Sheet: Don’t
Cups/Mugs/Goblets: Don’t (just embark, mine stone and make some stone cups)
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