Praisegems - 1104 Early Winter by cephalo

Map Description:

Island fortress floating in magma.

Point of Interest: Overview

Praisegems fortress is rock suspended in a basin of magma. (Download the save here.)
It serves as the mountainhome of The Violent Ceiling, a dwarven civilization. 343 dwarves call this place home.

A BBCode picture - cephalo

There are 14 comments for this map series, last post 2012-02-09

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Submitted by: magic dwarf - 2011-07-13 to 1104 Early Winter

where did you find soo much purple? is it rose gold? bismuth? or did you mod in your own custom purple resourse?

Submitted by: cephalo - 2011-07-13 to 1104 Early Winter

It's imported rutile and pitchblend accumulated over 50 years or so. The statues are rose gold.

Submitted by: _nil_ - 2011-07-15 to 1104 Early Winter

really nicely done, and awesome story. would love to see some visualizer images.

Submitted by: Jelle - 2011-07-17 to 1104 Early Winter

I'm in awe, such an amazing structure.
How many dorfyears did it take to make?

Submitted by: cephalo - 2011-07-17 to 1104 Early Winter

It started in the year 1050, and the current year is 1104.

Submitted by: FRAndreev - 2011-07-24 to 1104 Early Winter

Loving the hydraulics!

Submitted by: Savolainen5 - 2011-07-26 to 1104 Early Winter

Did you find this embark and then over 54 years mold it to how you wanted it, or did you use a program of some sort? I'm in awe either way!

Submitted by: cephalo - 2011-07-27 to 1104 Early Winter

This was all made with dwarven labor, but I did cheat a bit with DFHacks dfautodump to get rid of stone and several truckloads of goblin refuse. I'm not sure I would have gotten this far without DFHack, I'm sure my framerate would have ground to a halt.

Submitted by: KaelemGaen - 2011-07-31 to 1104 Early Winter

Wait, I see an underground river, I thought those no longer existed in 31.25....

Oh wait nevermind man-made underground river

Submitted by: cephalo - 2011-08-01 to 1104 Early Winter

Man-m... Bah!

Submitted by: Bluewins - 2011-08-06 to 1104 Early Winter

Wow, your housing area is absolutely stunning I'm so going to use it as inspiration for my next fort

Submitted by: RAndy - 2011-08-31 to 1104 Early Winter

So forgive me because I'm still a newb. (1 month so far).

But how do the water wheels and screw pumps work.. I guess they drive the shafts that pumped the lava up from the depths right?

Submitted by: cephalo - 2011-08-31 to 1104 Early Winter

Those are typical dwarven reactors strung together to pump the magma from the magma sea. They are just sitting at this time, as all those pumps tend to slow the framerate and the magma basin is now full.

Submitted by: Markavian - 2012-02-09 to 1104 Early Winter

I like, very cool. It feels like a proper Dwarfven Homestead ... dare I say, Fortress.

Walking across the plains down the valley towards the smokey vent of the volcano, standing in the midst of the heat cloud a great pillared chamber looms its on-lookers.

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