Bustnut - 115 Late Winter by Noble Digger

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Points of Interest

• Δ The Shoving Tower
  The Shoving Tower was completed sometime around 110. Four copper block pillars rooted in the bedrock extend from a smoothed basement all the way up to level 30 (a 15-level ascent). A copper block stairway spirals up between the four pillars to the top, and copper statues prevent clumsy dwarves from stepping off to their deaths while still allowing for a nice view of the surrounding wilds.
  
  The tower's primary function (nay, perhaps its only function) is to house caged prisoners upon a clear glass platform at its pinnacle while they await their inevitable shoving from the unstable footing of the metal bars jutting from its edge.
  
  The drop is 13 z-levels, and prisoners land on a mesh of black bronze bars and grates that sit betwixt the fortress' primary refuse stockpile. Most condemned beings strike the surface with enough force to propel body parts up over the 2-level-high microcline wall surrounding the fort.
  
  Remarkably, during one of Bustnut's many purges, more than 20 puppies and 15 elves and goblins were shoved from the tower. The dwarves spent half a season collecting all the refuse and equipment, except for the numerous pieces that were thrown so high up into fortifications and statues that they could not be recovered. Many pieces were also propelled down the ramp leading up to the refuse stockpile below and proceeded to miasma in the hallways.
  
  The Shoving Tower will eventually reach the maximum z-level, and will support a number of windmills or other structures if I feel like doing the work to put them in.
  
  - Noble Digger
• Δ Bedroom Hall
  This hall houses 48 3x2 bedrooms. Each has a clear glass window looking on the hallway and a set of green glass furniture, and beds of varying wood types.
  
  To the south are unused diningmeeting rooms, which I intended for use in small parties... But once 15 dwarves crammed into one I stopped using them thusly.
  
  The clear glass hatch cover is a portal that looks at Dumed's Tomb (see Central Shaft POI).
  
  To the north is a wall lined with windows which look out on the desert. This are is a work in progress so I keep most of my war dogs up here to watch for problems...and to be cute.
  
  Read about the Bedroom Hall Underworks POI for info on the pits on this level. - Noble Digger
• Δ Dungeon Access
  This is a small access hub linking the Dungeon and the Paupers' Tombs. While now redundant, this was once the only way into said areas of the fortress.
  
  This will not be connected to the bedroom hall at all, but the bedrooms' hallways will be able to look across the divide at the barred windows once I finish quarrying.
  
  To the south-southeast is a small room with 4 ramps. This room receives the veritcal axle from the windmill power tunnel above. - Noble Digger
• Δ SNES Towers
  At the pinnacles of the four guard towers I followed my girlfriend's suggestion to place statues on the ledges outside metal bars and pretend that they're gargoyles. However, since I'm a geek, I noticed that I had the right materials available to color these circular towers like an SNES logo.
  
  Below on 2F in the sandy areas outside the fortress are similar statue formations which I placed because I needed to waste 16 Diorite Statues.
  
  Dwarves can see and shoot through statues, but cannot walk through them. The same goes for bars. However, this area is not meant for combat or any actual use. - Noble Digger
• Δ Bedroom Hall Underworks
  This small room was originally the only thing built on this z-level. Designed to serve as a sound buffer between the first floor's many workshops and the bedrooms above, this room was expanded for utility reasons.
  
  The mayor's office is to the right, while the room on the left is unowned at present. To the south is Dumed's Tomb (see Central Shaft POI for the story) and the small 3x1 rooms are locked storage pods. The southern one is a pit that can be filled with animals, which are then dropped in the 1F entrance hallway just north of the central shaft when the lever is pulled. The northern one is a water stockpile which can be dumped through hatches to a lower level (see Masonary POI for more info).
  
  The unsmoothed area north of the water will be a third pod which stores magma once I can find a decent means of bringing it here. With grates built over it, I figure the dwarves can put their bedding over the grates to warm it up before they go to sleep. Also great for drying shoes and socks--just don't drop your car keys... - Noble Digger
• Δ Export Terminus
  All non-metallic items of exceptional or lower quality are automatically brought to these stockpiles. Their proximity to the trade depot makes indentification and export an easy matter.
  
  The small stockpile to the south houses cages prisoners and there is a small garbage dump here so I can quickly and easily confiscate their equipment and place it here for export. - Noble Digger
• Δ Guard Towers
  These four towers give marksdwarves excellent vision of the surrounding sands. Clear glass fortifications offer protection from enemy fire.
  
  These four 'pods' are connected to the fortress below via a tunnel beneath the catapult pods. - Noble Digger
• Δ Metal Storage
  Located directly above the metalworks, this area stores metal ore and metal bars. Fire Snakes are a huge problem in Bustnut--The central room with small metal ore stockpiles used to be the metal bar stockpile, but its proximity to the magma pipe led to numerous immolated bins. After I relocated the metal bars to the large northern room they were much safer. - Noble Digger
• Δ The Dungeon
  Coincidentally, the dungeon was completed just a few months before the Dungeon Master arrived. His tomb and office are placed here, decorated with Black Bronze furniture. The dwarves of Bustnut use Black Bronze primarily to decorate implements and structures involved in causing death, so I figured it would suit him.
  
  The cluster of levers in the sealed rooms operate the copper bars in the locked bone prisons. This is to ensure that I don't use up all the bones or shells in the fortress with careless decoration tasks, leaving strange mood dwarves to die in frustration.
  
  The hallway to the south of the dungeon houses metal ores as well as another series of alcoves and levers. Any of these can easily be converted into a prison, though I haven't been doing this as dwarves get scared and interrupted by enemy units even if they are behind bars. Hence, the heavily-fortified metal prisons to the north!
  
  The four dungeon cells to the north have steel doors with iron flooring beneath them, and steel chains attached to the walls. The flooring inside the cell is coal, and the iron bars in the back serve as a drain and a pathway for smoke to escape. While the logistics are going to be difficult since this is a tight area, I intend to later be able to pour magma into these cells once I've given the windmill tower enough power to drive the deep earth magma pumps. - Noble Digger
• Δ The Paupers' Tombs
  As you can see, this enormous tomb is currently doing its job of storing dead things quite nicely. I intend to remove many of the bones and place 3 "common" burial receptacles in each 3x3 alcove, and then lock them off with copper bars as I've done in the Dungeons.
  
  The lower section of the tombs is much more upscale and will likely house the memorable deceased one per alcove. - Noble Digger
• Δ Woodworks
  A simple but effective carpentry shop and wood stockpile. The stockpiles are sized for easy visual counting of wood stores and the workshops are just workshops. :) - Noble Digger
• Δ Alchemy Lab
  While the alchemists' shop does only one thing--turn lye and tallow into soap--I like the idea that it deals with all the fortress' bizarre chemicals. I store all the soap, tallow, golden salve, gnomeblight, venom, and other strange chemicals in the stockpiles above and below here.
  
  The alchemy shop itself is surrounded by walls and fortifications and COULD be sealed off by the drawbridge if I'd remembered to install a lever. Just in case there are any explosions caused by dabbling gunpowder makers someday. - Noble Digger
• Δ Catapult Pods
  Since siege operators are civilian dwarves (and get scared easily), these pods will likely never see combat use as the goblins always ambush me and get murdered by my military patrols or cage traps.
  
  However, I love how they look and they actually can fire in all four directions. I removed a section of wall which prevented the center 2 pods from shooting each other but it will be replaced soon. - Noble Digger
• ¶ Central Shaft
  Since Bustnut's infancy, this room has served as a central hub of travel between the various workshops and the bedroom complex, and it extends downward to the lower gallery and the deeper unfinished regions of the fortress.
  
  99% of the fortress' stone has been dumped on tiles adjecent to the central shaft, and is presently being shoved into a trash compactor.
  
  Originally, this room housed our early masons' and mechanics' workshops. An infamous farmer, Dumed Bomrekuvar, claimed one of the masons' workshops and began a construction. Curious what would happen, I began to forbid and dump his tasked materials while he worked. This resulted in his inability to finish his artifact, but he never succumbed to melancholy and we could not get him to leave the workshop by any means. In response to this, I channeled a square section of the room above, hoping to drop the cieling on the corner of the workshop and shatter it out from under him. This worked marvelously--the workshop was smashed, and the dwarf was sent screaming amid a hail of debris down to the then-bottom of the fortress, the Lower Gallery.
  
  I constructed a glass tomb for Dumed on the level above, and placed his corpse on the platform before forbidding it and retracting a bridge to remove access. The miasma from his rotting sprinkled down through the fortress like smoke from a censer, contaminating every room adjecent to the central shaft. After he finished rotting I permitted him to be buried in a glass sarcophagus.
  
  Dumed's tomb can be seen by any dwarves passing through the central shaft on any level (via the clear glass hatches separating levels) or those walking by the porthole looking down upon the tomb from the bedroom level. An artifact coffer and grate decorate the platform near the tomb.
  
  The black bronze bridge here is a stone crusher, operated by the alunite lever. - Noble Digger This poi has been favourited by 1 person.
• Δ Masterwork Hall
  This room stores the fortress' massive wealth of masterwork skull totems, bone crafts, rock crafts, and non-metal things that we want to keep around. It's nearly full so I may start using skull totems as decorations in various parts of the fortress.
  
  The numerous weird stairways in this area are mainly for aesthetic purposes and unnecessary complexity, which I love. I will eventually use all the rooms attached to the Masterwork Hall though. - Noble Digger
• Δ Mechanics' Hall
  Finished in 114, this hall was built so I could move the mechanics and associated industries out of their temporary home in the eastern sandy cavern.
  
  The smoothed squares in the corners will house kennels and the eastern section will be for siege workshops and storage of siege parts and ammunition. The stairway in the center leads up to the stone stockpiles on the 2nd floor. - Noble Digger
• Δ Northern Entrance Trade Depot
  Security is a big deal in Bustnut. One of the first structures completed was the airlock-like Trade Depot. The other defensive structures outside the Trade Depot were added later.
  
  With its two drawbridges, this entrance allows me to lock down the fortress while still leaving the depot accessible from the outside. Once merchants unload their goods in the depot, the exterior bridge can be raised and the interior bridge lowered, trapping the merchants safely ;) inside the fortress. These bridges are controlled by levers in the small room to the south, which once served as the stockpile master's office. Excessive traffic required me to move his office into one of the smaller rooms off the hallway to the south.
  
  Specialized stockpiles in the room above the depot store low-quality goods which have been automatically sorted between those intended for export and those to be kept for decoration or use.
  
  The kimberlite levers on either side of the depot control the green glass drawbridges to the east and west of the cage trap gauntlet outside. These bridges can be raised in the event of a siege to protect any dogs tied to the bronze chains outside while I decide what to do.
  
  Due to the mechanics of raising drawbridges, if I operate them while merchants are inside it sometimes causes them to leave immediately. I don't lock down the fort often enough to care these days, however.
  
  In the near future the entire rounded area surrounding the depot will be added to the holdings of the twin barracks to its left and right, ensuring that my military keeps a good eye on merchants.
  - Noble Digger
• Δ Northern Refuse Courtyard
  This area, surrounded by high block walls and connected to the fortress via an underground tunnel, was designed to give the dwarves a secure place to dump refuse outside.
  
  On the 2nd level of the courtyard are many decorative microcline bridges and several kimberlite bridges designed to allow access to the ramparts of the area. A clear glass bridge in the southeastern guard tower can be lowered to allow access to the rampart complex.
  
  Four incomplete alunite pillars extend from the exterior east and west corners of the courtyard. When these are high enough for my tastes I plan to put masterwork statues atop them.
  
  The courtyard also blocks line of sight to the northern entrance of the fortress, and the kimberlite pad in its center serves as the... "landing" area for the Shoving Tower, conveniently placing most pieces of the condemned close to a refuse stockpile.
  
  - Noble Digger
• Δ Numnum Factory
  As with many fortresses, the largest portion of Bustnut's export value is prepared meals. This is where the magic happens! 'Nums' Mamotushat and 'Shine' Nishcog can cook and brew thousands of raw food items into roasts and liquor in the time it takes for a caravan to reach the trade depot and unload their goods.
  
  To the southwest with Orthoclase statues is the dining hall. This was built very early on and since it's considered Legendary already, I haven't yet bothered to upgrade it in size or furniture quality.
  
  North of the dining hall is a small meeting room filled with chairs and statues. This room's furnishing is changed weekly. It pretty much gets whatever I feel like putting in there and doesn't remain consistent for long.
  
  To the east are kitchen workshops and querns for producing food. These 8 shops have produced many ☼ worth of iron-purchasing power. The stockpiles on this level only store raw or processable food items such as plants, meat, milk, syrup, etc. To prevent dwarves from placing flour, roasts, and dye bags into barrels (which is a huge waste) I created a separate stockpile below which does not allow any barrels. Liquor in bulk is stored above the kitchen, and 2 levels below is a backup raw food storage pile (which is normally quite laden).
  
  To the east of the kitchen is a sandy cavern which stores seed bags (without barrels!) and which normally contains haphazardly-shaped farm plots. I haven't grown any underground crops in 5 years since we're so far ahead on food though.
  
  - Noble Digger
• Δ Reception Hall
  This POI is also discussed in the Northern Entrance Trade Depot POI. These 8 rooms have served many, many different purposes over the years.
  
  The wedge-shaped rooms are the fortress' barracks. The upper left room has permanent cages in which I can place female animals if they can't keep their legs together. The upper right and lower right rooms are packed to the gills with dead people, since I haven't built a real burial region yet. The lower left room has stored trap components, cages, export materials, and hospice beds.
  
  The next stage (after I re-bury everyone) is to replace many of these walls with support pillars and extend the barracks zone to include all of these rooms.
  
  Most of the furniture is bronze or brass. - Noble Digger
• Δ Segregation Pile
  Separate is not equal--that's the point. This pile stores low-quality boxes, bags, barrels, and bins so they are less likely to get decorated by my clothiers, leatherworkers, etc.
  
  Eventually these will be exported once I'm confident that I have enough exceptional and masterwork replacements. - Noble Digger
• Δ Skinners' Hall
  This room was once much smaller and shared between leather and cloth industries. It was later expanded to add the fresh raw hide locker (the center room) and the leather stockpile (far left, beside the sand torus). To the north of these are unrelated rooms.
  
  After an elven siege there are 20+ dead horses and elves and the fortress jams up pretty heavily. During these times the raw hide stockpile fills up, but the dwarves tend to process it all before it rots so I'm happy. - Noble Digger
• Δ The Armory
  Exceptional and Masterwork armor and weapons are automatically brought to the Armory to keep them out of the export and melting stockpiles. I originally only built the gated section beside the magma pipe, but after losing numerous masterwork leather items to fire snakes I extended the armory to allow safer locations for flammable items.
  
  The small room to the south houses non-equippable artifacts, while equippable ones are mixed in with the other armory goods. - Noble Digger
• Δ The King's Walk
  After discovering gold while digging the lower section of the tombs, I dug this pathway to access the rest of the vein without breaking the natural rock walls, which I want to keep intact for that 'subterranean tomb' feeling.
  
  The western end of this pathway leads down to an unfinished area which will house secret stuff for the fortress' elite, e.g. BDSM rooms and the like. - Noble Digger
• Δ The Patchwork Forge
  While the Patchwork Forge's fires have operated (with occasional interruption) for 14 years, it is considered temporary. It will not likely be closed down or removed for another 10 years.
  
  The stockpile north of the twin magma forges (near 3 glass statues) accepts any low-quality and low-value metal items intended for melting. The southern of the twin rooms west of the central shaft stores metal ammunition for the same purpose, and has a stairway leading to the ore stockpile above. The northern room stores coal, ash, potash, and pearlash, and has a small stockpile at its north side which stores low-value exceptional-quality metal crafts and goods while I decide if I should melt them or not.
  
  Many floor bars allow the light and heat from the magma below to leak up through the floors, and many traps are placed in this area to protect against fire imps.
  
  Present are 3 magma forges, 3 glass furnaces, and 3 smelters (one is currently removed, as I'm hunting for fire imps) plus the token kiln for pearlash.
  
  The genius and the heart of Bustnut's labor begins here. One level below, an intricately-carved and detailed cavern siphons magma directly from the pipe and feeds it to all the fortress' forges and into the iron-plated depths of the fortress below. - Noble Digger
• Δ The Sand Torus
  All of the fortress' dry sand is stored in this 3-level donut-shaped room. This is mainly just to keep that shit out of real furniture stockpiles and close to the forges. - Noble Digger
• Δ The Statuary
  Statues and supports of copper, billon, silver, electrum, and gold line this room, and windows allow visitors to view the scorching sands outside.
  
  To combat cave adaptation, I removed the cielings from this room 5 levels high so sunlight could pour in and remind my dwarves that a little bright light every day beats a seasonal puking episode when it's time to clean up the dead goblins.
  
  The ramps lead up to annex rooms but the room-flow tool doesn't span z-levels, so these are effectively useless rooms that never get used.
  
  Completing the wall ringing the top of the chimney to this room was a pain in the shitter. If possible, I'd like to install many more windows in the walls of this room, such that it resembles a dwarven skyscraper. We'll keep it a secret that only the first floor is accessible :)
  
  After a long season or two with this room disabled and the dwarves working the galleries, this room will be ankle-deep with vomit when I let the dwarves back inside.
  
  An artifact window and a platinum statue highlight this room. - Noble Digger
• Δ Weavers' Hall
  In the infancy of the fortress, this room was a cross-hatch-mined refuse stockpile which allowed my garbage to rot in peace, since miasma doesn't travel diagonally in the xy plane. With the completion of the northern refuse courtyard, I needed a place for my cloth operations more than an indoor refuse stockpile, so I dug it out and gradually reshaped and enlarged it to its current size.
  
  The room to the northeast houses extra cloth and is usually full, but I've been sewing images of puppies splattering all over the place onto all the elven equipment i'll be exporting next season.
  
  The white ramp here leads up to the export stockpile, which is really convenient for my clothiers who used to walk out into the main hall and through the barracks annexes to reach the export stockpiles. The downward stairs in the cloth stockpile leads to the dye bag stockpile.
  
  - Noble Digger
• Δ Bruised Hallway
  Great effort was put forth to create the microcline-diorite checkerboard pattern here. This hallway wraps around the magma feed for the Patchwork Forge above, and connects to the sheriff's office, prison, and arena control room.
  
  The sheriff died of a failed fey mood many years ago, but his beloved bismuth supports still stand and a new sheriff was never chosen. The fortress now desires 5 fortress guards and a guard captain, so I may end up having to redesign the office to support more activity and add a guard barracks.
  
  The prison stores 7 roasts and 7 barrels of liquor on either side of 6 comfortable and well-decorated cloth ropes. The 7th is an artifact turtle shell chain made by the mayor's wife.
  
  The small barred rooms to the north and south store metal chains and cages, but I haven't finished organizing their stockpile settings.
  
  The black bronze hatch cover is a 3-story drop into the arena, a place where it's normally bad to have broken legs. In the past, mechanisms here allowed me to deliver combatants to the arena without injury using a second hatch cover one level below. The arena is in disuse and being redesigned. - Noble Digger
• Δ Eastern Water Temple
  Given the scarcity of water in the desert, I sought to safeguard any water I could obtain from the murky pools which get a trickle of water twice a year. I had lost 3 dwarves to minor injuries because we couldn't provide them water to drink.
  
  Originally the dwarves were taking bucketloads of water from the pools to a 3x1 pond in the bedroom complex, but this was inefficient and there's also the fact that dwarves can't fill a bucket unless the water is consistently 3 out of 7 or deeper, which also means I need to fill the pond inside the fortress to 3 out of 7 across all 3 tiles before the dwarves can get a single bucket of water for health care purposes.
  
  Thus, the water temple was built to siphon the pond water into a cistern accessible from within the fortress. The bottom lever opens the floodgate and the top one retracts metal bars which block off the open water pit. The entire temple is made of clear glass. - Noble Digger This poi has been favourited by 1 person.
• Δ Grand Treasury and Founders' Tombs
  This room houses the seven founders' tombs (they are all still alive) and all of the crafts and other valuables made of precious metals. No bins allowed--I want to see my lovely trinkets instead of a bunch of [X]s. - Noble Digger
• Δ Indoor Outdoor Farming
  If you can't already tell from the general layout and use of the land in this fortress, I'm paranoid of letting my dwarves outside most of the time. These indoor farm plots allow me to grow surface crops without exposing the dwarves to harm.
  
  The levers in the back open the sunrooves. If DF were a perfect game, I'd be able to close these and switch to growing indoor crops, but in reality once a tile is touched by sunlight it's considered light forever--even if you cover it with a bridge.
  
  The northern plots are identical to these southern ones. - Noble Digger
• Δ Magma Pumping Station
  Following an hour of careful planning and engineering, I sited this room (and the many rooms below) for use as a permanent wind-powered magma pumping station. Delivery of wind power to this part of the fortress is a year or two away still, but magma will flow through the tunnel west and eventually service magma fountains and the coal-floored prisons in the dungeon.
  
  All shafts and tunnels for windmill axles are in place and all channels and tunnels are dug out--I'm excited to see this baby running. - Noble Digger
• Δ Masonary and Furniture Stockpile
  This room has seen numerous uses, from a butcherytanning hall to bone storage to emergency water supply. It currently houses the masons' workshops and all the solid furniture. Boxes, bags, bins, and barrels are stored primarily elsewhere.
  
  The wooden chamber to the north end of this room is linked to the pond in the bedroom hall. If the lever beside this pond is pulled, hatches will open and make way for the water in the pond to fall down to this chamber, where it can be bucketed for health care. This helped me save my legendary weaponsmith's life--when the 22 water in the bedroom pond proved insufficient, shunting the water down here created 1 tile of 47 water which stalled us long enough for the completion of the water temples. - Noble Digger
• Δ Northern Water Temple
  I chose the eastern pond for my first water temple over the northern one because its smaller size meant it would be more likely to fill up and spill a useable amount of water into the cistern. Since it was a huge success and quickly filled with enough water to keep my wounded safe for several seasons, I immediately set to work tapping the other pond as well.
  
  This temple differs from the eastern one only in the shape of its cistern and its attached pond. The two empty rooms just outside the temple will eventually store buckets. - Noble Digger
• Δ Patchwork Forge Magma Chamber
  This is presently the only magma inlet to the fortress. The pipe has not been tapped anywhere else (excepting the few forges in the Patchwork Forge that are directly feeding from the pipe, which supply metalwork services when this area is drained of magma).
  
  Floodgates here allow me to block the inflow (south gate), or direct outflow into the Magma Donut (north gate) or the Magma Serpent (east gate). - Noble Digger
• Δ The Rotting Cavern
  Enemies of my fortress (that is to say, dead elves, humans, kobolds, dwarves, and goblins) do not deserve the luxury of decomposing gracefully beneath the sun and other elements. I place their corpses in this cavern to miasma repeatedly before I claim their bones.
  
  This is purely for vindictive reasons and provides me no gameplay advantages that I'm aware of. In the past, this stockpile was above ground and placed east of the eastern entrance to the fort. - Noble Digger
• Δ The Vault
  The Vault stores all the fortress' currency and jewels. The jewelers Kikeberg and Jewinger maintain an iron grasp on the jewelers' workshops. As the fortress' population is capped at 62, the coins are just for show. - Noble Digger
• Δ Magma Donut
  This magma-filled room was originally intended as an evaporation drain for the patchwork forge, with its surface area calculated to allow proper magma removal. Since I decided to go deeper and more complicated with my magma, this is now a magma storage tank.
  
  Magma arrives at the south from above and can be drained west to the left promenade drain far below, north to the lovely magma pipeworks, or east to the magma serpent drain which also leads into the left promenade drain.
  
  The dry central room (and the rooms directly above and below it) once served as sand bag storage, but this resulted in countless fire snake casualties among my bag population.
  
  A steel hatch (squiggly lines to the south of the magma donut) leads down to the dark dungeon and the arena theater. For obvious reasons this hatch is operated by a lever.
  
  The various small rooms outside the magma are access hallways and there are many clear glass walls allowing dwarves to see the magma inside the donut. - Noble Digger
• Δ Magma Serpent
  This sinuous pathway mainly exists for aesthetic reasons, like many other parts of the fortress. It receives magma from the Patchwork Forge and can drain to the west promenade drain via the two steel doors to its north, OR the east promenade drain via the bauxite floodgate and 2 steel hatches at its south.
  
  I intend to link the donut directly to the serpent via the walls to the left of the 3 floor bars next time I drain both areas. - Noble Digger
• Δ Ossuary
  Just a decorative area where I keep excess bones, shells, and skulls. Extra dead people in the upper right, too.
  
  Nearly every room in this fortress has working drainage in the case of magma spills. This area is an excellent example of my wasteful use of steel and iron. I do what I like :D - Noble Digger
• Δ The Execution Shaft
  The Execution Shaft was completed midway through 115. Designed to augment the prisoner processing capabilities of the Shoving Tower, the shaft is a 16-level-deep 1x1 shaft with various mechanized support structures.
  
  Prisoners are condemned to the shaft from a PitPond zone beside a cinnabar bridge 4 levels up. My hope was that some prisoners would be mildly injured when first thrown onto the execution platform, a rose gold hatch designed to allow me to simultaneously execute many prisoners. If the hatch is retracted before the prisoner is condemned, then condemnation doubles as execution and extends the depth of the shaft to 19 or 20 z-levels.
  
  The first test of the shaft simultaneously sent 9 puppies straight to the bottom, breaking all 9 into the maximum number of gibs (head, 4 limbs, tail, corpse).
  
  The north lever on level 16 opens the access floodgate in case I wrongly condemn a prisoner, while the south lever performs the actual execution by retracting the hatch cover.
  
  On level 1, a similar access floodgate allows for cleanout of corpses and other debris. If I decide I don't want to clean it out, I can instead use the south lever on level 1 to lower the black bronze drawbridge and eradicate waste matter.
  
  I plan to have green glass windows on all 4 sides of the shaft within a year. - Noble Digger
• Δ Upper East Gallery
  I dug out a bunch of stone here. Durr hurr!
  
  There is also a gear assembly here which will feed axles to the far left of this area near the dead copper vein, where it will ascend to the windmill power tunnel and continue its journey.
  
  The water temple cisterns are exposed, but inaccessible, from this level.
  
  - Noble Digger
• Δ Arena
  Ever heard of bear-baiting? It was where a bunch of piss-drunk british guys got together and watched war dogs fight a bear to the death!
  
  The bear may disagree but I find this concept awesome as fuck, so I made my own gladiatorial arena for dogs. Mine wasn't very fair as I'd lower the dogs gently into the arena via a retracting platform, and then toss the goblins and elves 2 levels down so they'd land stunned and injured before 6-10 angry war dogs.
  
  Bustnut's war dog corps was founded by the mighty Boltblade, a war dog who fought alongside an ill-fated horse foal and another dog to kill 2 elves and 3 goblins. As the first named war dog, he received special privileges and inspired other war dogs to follow in his footsteps. All told, more than 20 dogs have slain enemy combatants in the arena.
  
  Tragically, Boltblade was crushed by a malfunctioning platform during arena maintenance :((( but his spirit lives on in the fearless war dogs of Bustnut who tirelessly patrol for kobolds and divest sissy elves of their girlish stick-wielding hands.
  
  The upper right corner of the arena is also the left promenade drain feed, so when the magma tanks are being drained there is magma in the depressed area.
  
  Note the theatre attached to the arena, with iron bars to protect spectators! Unfortunately, civilian dwarves are huge pussies when it comes to danger and don't feel adequately protected by iron bars or windows. As such, the only person who has watched a battle is the mayor, 'Pops', who I locked in there before a 6v12 battle (the dogs won with 2 deaths).
  
  'Pops' shit himself the whole time. He was later recorded as saying it was "fuckin' sweet". - Noble Digger
• Δ Lower East Gallery
  This gallery has been adapted into a stone stockpile where I keep a large quantity of each type of "common" stone that I use a ton of, lest I accidentally destroy it all with the stone crusher machines.
  
  The black stone here is obsidian, which I had heretofore forgotten that I possessed since it had been toggled off in the economic stone menu. After some other projects are completed I'll begin replacing all the diorite furniture (300+ pieces) with obsidian. If I get really nuts I'll do that with the 1800+ diorite blocks as well. No, just kidding. - Noble Digger
• Δ Lower Gallery
  Aside from the east galleries, this is technically the topmost gallery in the fortress. But since it marks the end of the main central shaft where it transitions into the deep fortress regions, I call it the Lower Gallery.
  
  To the lower left is the dark dungeon, a room filled with boulders, skull totems, and iron chains. I figure if I end up needing a bigger prison, this one will do the trick, but for now it's decorative.
  
  The six bauxite doors in the upper left are the main drainage system for most of the magma tanks, and its grates drain to the left promenade drain below.
  
  To the immediate right is the drainage system leading into the right promenade drain, which is currently not in heavy demand. Future expansion of my magma systems will change this as I intend to have a magma falls in the kitchen area.
  
  Little else is of interest on this level except the smoothed temple to the far lower left where I discovered gold for the first time. :D - Noble Digger
• Δ Magma Promenade
  This room is the beginning of a massive undertaking. I plan to move the entire fortress (all workshops, living areas, and long-term stockpiles) down here. This promenade is at the bottom of the Central Shaft and the low area will be filled with a lake of magma.
  
  Ramps to the north and south lead down through the magma lake into the fortress proper. These will be wagon-accessible and I fully intend to force merchants to navigate this crazy shit to get to my future trade depot!
  
  Much of the scaffolding in this room will be removed when I'm done, and several more lake-rooms of this style will connect to it from the north, northwest, and southeast. The magma will flow between these rooms via barred tunnels below.
  
  Timeline for completing this area is decades, not years, as many of the upper areas aren't yet done. - Noble Digger
• Δ New Fortress Site
  - Noble Digger

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• 115 Late Winter [R]

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Map details:

• Fortress Name: Bustnut
• Map Year: 115 Late Winter
• Author: Noble Digger
• Submitted by: Noble Digger
• Date Added: 18/10/2008