Foresthold - 110 Early Spring by timmeh

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Lot's happened this year, not the least of which being the construction of the Great Hall, a new room I will be using to house pretty much anyone and everyone in the fortress come dinner time. It's about 40x30 tiles (41x31 cause I forgot about the tile I started on when designating) and three tiles high, with 16 massive pillars holding up the roof. (I know there aren't any cave-ins, and if they worked like they use to It'd still collapse, but this looks cooler).

There's more, but this time I'll probably get to add all the PoI I want, so I'll end the description here.

[EDIT]: Also, new tileset, I'll probably upload it later, if anyone wants it.

Point of Interest: 1. The Ground

The ground level of my fortress. A relatively small area with a big wall around it. The small statue garden has a glass floor, letting the light in on my better, but still just as small, statue garden below. Animals are chained up along the sides, I keep goblin PoWs along the back wall, and the farms near the entrance have been removed.

The farms were actually removed to make room for a waterfall system that, as you can probably tell from the mud near the lower-right, didn't work. Only one death though, before one of the dwarves managed to tear down the axle connecting the water-wheel to the pump, and it was just a new peasant immigrant, so it doesn't really matter.

The wooden building just north of the trade depot is the keep, and serves as the primary entrance into the underground portion of my fortress. The three weapon traps at the entrance are loaded with spiked wooden balls, and so are not particularly deadly. The second floor serves as a barracks, and the roof has some targets for my marks-dwarves. The two towers at the bottom near the bridge allow access to the gatehouse and wall, which has the lever for the drawbridge. - timmeh

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Submitted by: juice - 2009-03-19 to 102 Early Spring

Lookin good so far. What's with the logs in the river?

Submitted by: Jurph - 2009-03-20 to 102 Early Spring

I really like the spiral staircase design!

I suspect that the logs in the river fell in during moat construction: trees prevent channelling, so the trees were ordered to be chopped... then channels were designated before the logs got hauled off. I wish dwarves would move logs/stones away from the dig site like they do when placing workshops!

Anyway timmeh, it's a good solid aboveground fort. If I were on this map I'd be very worried about trees growing to block my wagon access. Are you planning to build a road? Will it be lined with watch-towers, or will the edges be sprinkled with traps?

Submitted by: timmeh - 2009-03-24 to 103 Early Spring

@juice - Thanks!

The logs are, like Jurph suggested, from loose logs being on the tiles when they were mined.

@ Jurph - Thank you! I'm considering using a smaller version for the towers.

I've started a road (thanks for the reminder!). I plan to get some watchtowers along the road, probably connected to the fortress by underground tunnels, and with no other way in/out, to prevent unwanted access through the tunnels.

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Thanks again, to both of you!

Submitted by: Maggarg - 2009-04-04 to 105 Early Spring

I like your eight towers along the road, perfect to impress those barbarian humans and elves.
I don't particularly like the smoothed floor tiles for this tileset though, they look too raised, if you know what I mean.

Submitted by: Phazer - 2009-05-07 to 110 Early Spring

Damn i like those curved walls, Really nice work youve done to youre fort.

and you got to love whats left of those youve thrown down from youre death tower.

Submitted by: timmeh - 2009-05-08 to 110 Early Spring

Thanks!

I've got the tileset on the wiki, if you want it.

[Message edited on 2009/05/08 at 10:14 by timmeh]

Submitted by: Markavian` - 2009-05-09 to 110 Early Spring

Its so... flat, at least on the surface! Very cool space you've sealed off though, and everything is building down towards an epic fort.

DF Map Archive:

Points of Interest

Δ 111. 16. The Fall
A side view of the massive fall my enemies endure before exploding into gore. - timmeh
Δ 16. 2. Overview
From here you can see the low wall that runs all the way around my fortress, to funnel goblins and other threats through the 5-tile wide road, usually directly into my army, if I know they are coming. The towers along the road only have access from just outside the drawbridge, from the tops of the inner walls, and tunnels running from the underground portion of the fortress. Usually, I station my marks-dwarves on top of the towers, as they tend not to see the enemy when they stay inside. - timmeh
¶ 15. 1. The Ground
The ground level of my fortress. A relatively small area with a big wall around it. The small statue garden has a glass floor, letting the light in on my better, but still just as small, statue garden below. Animals are chained up along the sides, I keep goblin PoWs along the back wall, and the farms near the entrance have been removed.

The farms were actually removed to make room for a waterfall system that, as you can probably tell from the mud near the lower-right, didn't work. Only one death though, before one of the dwarves managed to tear down the axle connecting the water-wheel to the pump, and it was just a new peasant immigrant, so it doesn't really matter.

The wooden building just north of the trade depot is the keep, and serves as the primary entrance into the underground portion of my fortress. The three weapon traps at the entrance are loaded with spiked wooden balls, and so are not particularly deadly. The second floor serves as a barracks, and the roof has some targets for my marks-dwarves. The two towers at the bottom near the bridge allow access to the gatehouse and wall, which has the lever for the drawbridge. - timmeh
Δ 15. 3. Mist Generator
Using a design posted on the DF forums, I had my dwarves build a mist generator, more as an experiment than to actually be useful, as my dwarves don't pass by here all that often. That being said, I can station military dwarves in the chambers using underground access to teach them to swim. - timmeh
Δ 15. 4. The Tower
A tower reaching 15 z-levels into the sky, and then another 15 z-levels into the ground, serves as my primary method of execution, for kittens and goblins alike. I could butcher the kittens instead, but that would be efficient, and being the sick twisted human being I am, I like the little "A Stray Kitten has died colliding with an obstacle." messages and the mess they usually result in.

You actually can't see a lot of the bones and such at the bottom, from all the miasma, flies and other such things down there. I think there's a squirrel somewhere down there too, that somehow survived the fall... - timmeh
Δ 14. 5. Random Stuff
This is where I test whatever wierd, convoluted ideas I come up with. At the moment it's just a goblin-powered repeated, and an animal pen, although I'm working on designs for an elf-torture machine, based on forcing them to walk in an endless circle till they die or go insane.

Pity I don't have magma... - timmeh
Δ 12. 6. The Tunnels
A set of tunnels that allow my dwarves to access the outer towers during a siege. There are some cage traps at one end, so some goblin or kobold thief doesn't sneak in. - timmeh
Δ 11. 7. Bones and Statues
The stockpiles here are used to store bones and skulls. My bone-carvers just finished up with the remains of the last goblin siege, and it'll probably overflow again with the next one.

One a less morbid note, the statue garden on the same floor is lit via a sky-light, to allow my dwarves to enjoy themselves, while preventing cave adaptation. Almost everything in the room is either an artifact or a "masterfully designed" object. Most of the engravings are, but not all. - timmeh
Δ 10. 8. The Main Level
Most of my workshops, bedrooms and storage is on this level. I'll be removing most of the dining rooms soon, and three additional wells are being built over the cistern.

The design concept here was modularity, I can take just about any one of these blocks and turn it into another pretty quickly.

The food storage was overflowing, so it was all moved to a large area to the left. There is a second floor of food storage directly below this one, that is pretty much full. - timmeh
Δ 9. 10. The Great Hall
This 41x31 room has a ceiling three levels above, with 16 large, engraved pillars spaced evenly, to pretend to hold up the roof. I didn't get to start production for the chairs and tables until winter, so I haven't really gotten many placed yet.

Once completed, the Great Hall will seat 246, more than my computer can handle anyways :P - timmeh
Δ 9. 9. The Lower Floor
A floor very similar to the one above it, although this one has quite a few special rooms for my nobles. The hammerer stays in the one that shares a wall with the cistern, just in case.

The baroness and her consort stay in the south-west wing, and the king will probably be staying near the hammerer, and will use the large open room in the same wing for his throne room. - timmeh
Δ 8. 11. The Tombs
Not much to say here, the small ones are for pets and invading dwarves, the big ones are for my dwarves. Noble's tombs are engraved and given better furniture, but are otherwise identical. - timmeh
Δ 7. 12. The Prison
Again, pretty bare bones at the moment. Each block has two cells, each cell holds one prisoner, gives them a bed, and keeps them drunk. The block to the right houses the Captain of the Guard. - timmeh
Δ 6. 13. Fun Area 1
The dungeon master stays in the north area, but that's not the fun part. The fun part is the long tunnel that will serve as a goblin torture/execution area. Goblins will be placed (in their cages) in the round-ish room in the top-left corner, the door will be locked and the cages open. Currently the only thing between them and freedom, are the fourteen weapon traps, loaded with their own whips and scourges. I may load some with daggers, but I'd really prefer they last as long as possible, before hitting the thin row of weapon traps I plan to build at the end, loaded with 10 serrated steel disks each, just to make sure. - timmeh
Δ 5. 14. Fun Area 2
You may have noticed the levers on the floor above. They are used to run my little arena here. Goblins are place (in cages) on one side, and the cages are rigged up to the free lever. Then my dwarves (or whatever else I feel like pitting the goblins against) are put in the other side. I pull one lever that raises the bridges, creating a wall that blocks the exit, then the goblins are released, and a final lever is pulled to raise the bars. Chao ensues, if anything hostile survives, I station my army at the exit and lower the bridges. - timmeh
Δ 15. The Depths
After a thirty z-level fall, this is where those I don't particularly like land, often to explode into several pieces. Miasma and bugs obscure the view a bit, but I may see about getting a decent snapshot of the remains later.

I keep the door locked, to prevent mass clean-up... - timmeh

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Fortress Name: Foresthold
Map Year: 110 Early Spring
Author: timmeh
Submitted by: timmeh
Date Added: 07/05/2009