Our beginnings

[Raephire]

Lately I have been seeing people opening their hearts to the community and explaining their beginnings in Haven and Hearth. This is great but I feel that we should keep it to one thread.

Should anyone choose to share their stories please post them here so that we can keep new threads to a minimum, feel free to post in a new thread if you really want to, It would just make sense to keep it in one place.

When I began Haven and Hearth, I was brought here by someone I know as Mif Maf.I have not been able to locate the person here in H&H. Anyway. As I started I experimented with hotkeys, but there were no hotkeys in existance when I started. I checked the different buttons on the HUD and checked out the basic game mechanics. I wandered around the RoB and began wandering.

I knew that this game was what I have been seeking for many years by just examining the different craft and build construction menus. I ran south and east, West then south around the forests and areas. I settled down Northwest of Shadyacres without actually knowing Shadyacres had existed. I built my first villa and kept it to a semblance of order. While I had given up on that character, and eventually went to Tubai, My beginnings were pretty simple, But I had no help, met nobody until after analysing the forums. I had no trouble at all.

[JTG]

I joined with 4 people, we thought the game was dumb until we stole from camp noctis.

Wanting more wealth we all robbed shady acres.

After that nothing remarkable happened, other than dying two times for cutting trees for lp and wood.

That made me not even care about playing the game, so I just griefed and stole things and hoarded them which was far funner than grinding lp.

[theTrav]

After that nothing remarkable happened

Don't forget your silk endeavors, you were getting right into that.
Got first silk and wanted to make a merchant's robe if I remember correctly, probably ahead of all of us in the silk industry due to putting in the effort while cloth was still cheaper to make (they bumped it up by an order of magnitude I think)

Also introducing a LOT of people to the game, that was quite remarkable.

[Ferinex]

until we stole from camp noctis.

I don't remember CN ever being stole from. Or ever having anything worthy of being stolen, for that matter.

[JTG]

For stealing random objects, and making swasticas in peoples pavement. They repay me by murdering me every time, and killing everyone associated with me, and robbing me and them.

Its all unremarkable.

Laketown came in and murdered everyone on the princess plantation in the past, and hes trying to finish off this current reincarnation of my efforts to make a new village.
they paid rift to murder me this time too. Which is lol

You may not share the beliefs. But in the end you still represent the Anti-JTG Fund, with people obsessing over watching my every move and effort willing to pay whatever it takes ingame in terms of hours of materials or goods. If I wasn't untrackable on the internet, I'm sure my personal information would be all over this forum.

At least bottleneck was never suppressed due to the fact someones unwilling to face the fact, they are behind and dead.

Said people don't care about features, they never try to establish anything new, they don't even enjoy the new things like silk and cheese and wine. They just want E-cred for killing me and trying to retain their fame by stagnation, which was failing before and was finished by me.

They are the most vocal majority, the kind that never shut up about anything that happens to them. Which is why a billion security features happened instead of new interesting features like sericulture. Because they are the only ones who speak.

They obsess over me and revenge, which frankly will never happen, and will never stop causing destructive backwashes over the game until they are ended, or integrated.

[KoE]

To get this back on topic...

I saw the H&H topic on the Dwarf Fortress forums, read, and thought 'Hey, that sounds kinda cool.' I joined in and tinkered around, using nothing but the How-To guide and sheer stubborn determination. (Well, there might have been a little of Dennis' unofficial manual, too.) Like tp1212, I mistook the completely-deader-than-crap Bay 12 settlement near the ring for being somewhere. I put down a runestone and some drying racks, pondered the problem of a cabin, and having seen nobody on, asked in the topic 'wur id settlemunt?'

After being reminded that Bottleneck was the actual place, I started hiking what I thought was south. I had yet to realize that the game was isometric...ish, whatever you call it, and thought straight down was south. The foxes were unkind, and I was sure I was about to be eaten alive in the wild due to having quite a bit of aggro and a fox that wouldn't quit KOing me.

I finally got to Bottleneck and settled a bit south of it, along the road to Puck's place. I took some leather from what was clearly marked as the village stockpile, assuming we were completely communistic and direly wanting delicious backpack. And a quiver, though I had yet to figure out that whole 'bow' thing. Adam absolutely flipped the fuck out some time later when he discovered this missing leather (which I had thoughtfully set new hides to tanning to replace), ranting about thieves and generally scaring me enough to keep my mouth shut. I felt bad enough about it that my daily routine involved tanning leather until the stockpile overflowed with the crap. From there to here, it was mostly smooth sailing, though.

[theTrav]

Adam absolutely flipped the fuck out

Heh, that doesn't sound like something Adam would do at all

I wish I had an interesting story to add to these ones, I started, headed west for a fair way so as not to get my crap in anyones way while I learnt the game, built a cabin, a kiln and a stove, played around with farming a bit. Picked skills in possibly the worst possible order.

Got bored and lonely and decided to join some other players.

At that point Bottleneck hadn't publicly announced their settlement yet, so I saw sami's post and went over to the lake to join the people there. It's worked out pretty well so far, I wish there were more online players in Laketown though

[Errol]

Read B12 thread, got interested, downloaded game and stuff. Settled a bit north of the RoB, played around a bit with pottery but was generally clueless. Asked for help in the B12 forum. Picked Bottleneck site with someone else, forgot about the game a bit, then tried to get down to Bottleneck, which was somewhat difficult but in the end successful. Built a small home in the south of Bottleneck, took over communal baking for a bit, got bored, relocated home to Mordor, built an estate there, got bored, trekked around with a cart, got bored, built a farm south of Laketown, quit for a while, disliked the site thanks to lacking natural ressources, moved to the island. The end.

The estate in Mordor (or former mordor now) got taken over by someone else iirc.

[niltrias]

When I first logged on, the first thing i saw was a guy wearing armor and carrying two swords. I didn`t know how to get names, so I dont know who he was. I just remember that he said something like "wow, 4 players on at once! never seen that before!"
Then I decided to live in the big forest just south of RoB (there actually were trees and stuff. Like, lots of trees.) but immediately after building my house I found out about the B12 settlement and decided to join it. At some point I and two others got attacked by a fox. We pinned it behind a tree, then decided to attack it, because hey, there were three of us, it was just a fox, and we had l33t combat skills. (I think I had a 3 in melee combat). Bloodshed and panic ensued.
Errol suggested moving farther away, and I suggested a spot on the map that i thought looked like a bottleneck, to make it easy to wall out foxes. Some peeps on the forum agreed, so I made the treck down there about 5 times, because everytime I got there the server would crash and reset my Hfire.
Stayed in BN till SF cut down all our trees, then went wandering about the wilderness. I always come back to Bottleneck, eventually.
And BTW Errol, someone else was living in your old Mordor estate, so I never moved in. Think its about level 2 nowadays tho.

[Errol]

TBH I miss these old moments of "OH MY GOD IT'S A FOX GET IN THE CAR"... it was more Fun back in the day. Now it's... safe.

Next map, we shall move faaaaaaaaaar into the wilderness...