Strongsalves - 105 Early Spring by Sinergistic

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There is only so much 5 FPS construction one can stand, so I decided to start a new fort in a more FPS friendly location, and decided to theme it.

This fort, when it is completed, will be a goblin prison POW camp.

I'm playing with the goblin family mod, which adds a bunch of different goblin races, so the g's in cages are goblins, they just don't have graphics.

I also modded in glass Beds, Bins and Barrels.

The fort started in 97 to whom it may interest.

Point of Interest: How each layer should look

This is how each layer of the fort will look when I'm done. I've already made several mistakes on a couple of the layers, so I'm going to have to revise my plans a little to accommodate fixing them. (I didn't line up one of the wings, and not each wing is spaced the same number of tiles from the center. The left and right wings are closer than the top and bottom. Arrrrg. Don't mass designate at 3am.) - Sinergistic

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Submitted by: magic dwarf - 2009-01-10 to 105 Early Spring

nice grand stair case! That must have been alot of channeling.

Submitted by: Sinergistic - 2009-01-10 to 105 Early Spring

Not really, no, I just channeled around the edges, and then collapsed it ^_^ (after locking my dwarfs up in their bedrooms and the food room)

It took several tries to get it to collapse, I kept pulling the level attached to the supports I had installed, and nothing would happen. I finally got it on the 4th attempt though, after completely channeling around the top level, and then collapsing that down on to the layers below.

Submitted by: magic dwarf - 2009-01-11 to 105 Early Spring

all of my *manual collapses* have ended in epic fail so far, I've lost many good miners trying to collapse things and I also managed to bust a hole in my ceiling causing magma to pour in!

Submitted by: Markavian - 2009-01-13 to 107 Early Summer

Like woah

Submitted by: Sinergistic - 2009-01-13 to 107 Early Summer

"Like woah" - Markavian

So, uh, what bit of it was 'woah'? :P

Edit: I would also like you thank you for your amazing website. I've seen so many cool and inspiring forts since I started browsing it about 8-9 months ago. (didn't register until recently) It is a very awesome service, and a huge boon to the DF community.

[Message edited on 2009/01/13 at 11:22 by Sinergistic]

Submitted by: sneakeypete - 2009-01-14 to 107 Early Summer

What are all the B's in your cages?

Submitted by: Sinergistic - 2009-01-14 to 107 Early Summer

'Bugbears' part of the Goblin Family mod found here.

I tinkered with it a little to adapt it to the kind of fort I wanted (got rid of TRAPAVOID for one, because that just wouldn't work now, would it?). I also removed the [CANSPEAK] tag as well, which leads to all of them wanting me dead. Lots of sieges, lots of ambushes, lots of good times in the future with I begin work on the arenas.

I updated 'The Dungeon' point of interest with a little more info on what's in the cages.

[Message edited on 2009/01/15 at 12:04 by Sinergistic]

Submitted by: SiliconJesus - 2009-01-16 to 107 Early Summer

I've seen this tileset being used a lot lately, which one is it?

Submitted by: Sinergistic - 2009-01-16 to 107 Early Summer

I'm using a hand drawn copy of Dortens and whatever came with the mayday v16 set.

I'm still playing around with it and tweaking it to how I want it.

Submitted by: Markavian - 2009-01-17 to 107 Early Summer

Singergistic, you've hollowed out a huge cylinder with a walk way around the edge of each level. It looks fantasticly grand. And then there's the spiral dungeon on the ground floor. Its just epic proportions. A far cry from the single tunnel hovels that most people begin building.

And thanks for the kind words : )

Submitted by: Jebraltix - 2009-01-24 to 107 Early Summer

I haven't had too many problems with manual channeling. My worst problem probably is dealing with the unhappy thoughts of being knocked off your feet.

Submitted by: Markavian - 2009-01-29 to 105 Early Spring

I would just like to point out the historic 10,000th point of interest attributable to this map. Cheers everyone, I love what you've done for this site :)

Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2009-05-20 to 111 Mid Spring

Awesome! I love the look of the glass-furnished bedrooms with this tileset. The central shaft of chaotic stairway hell is also amazing, and the spirally area way down below.

Submitted by: Retro - 2009-11-19 to 111 Mid Spring

Very grand-looking fort. Has a nice, smooth feel to it - very much like the basis around the central pit / giant empty space.

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Points of Interest

Δ 15. The Bridges
The bridges as they are now are a hold over until I can implement them the way I want. Ideally, all wings would only be accessible by bridges, and there wouldn't be a set of stairs in the middle of the fort. And in a perfect world, it would be laid out in a rather crazy fashion, so a dwarf trying to move up one zlevel would have to go up several and then come back down. Basically, efficiency will not be a key point. - Sinergistic
Δ 15. The Magma Industry

( 105 Early Spring to onwards )
This is where all the glass working, smithing and furnaces are. The bags you see are mostly silk with a few leather ones I embarked with.

The empty bit in the center is a sand collection spot. In theory, it should cut down on the amount of traveling dwarfs need to do to fill the bags with sand, but they have a mind of their own and INSIST on getting bags from a stockpile much farther away. Most of the time anyway, once they get started, it works ok. - Sinergistic
Δ 14. How each layer should look
This is how each layer of the fort will look when I'm done. I've already made several mistakes on a couple of the layers, so I'm going to have to revise my plans a little to accommodate fixing them. (I didn't line up one of the wings, and not each wing is spaced the same number of tiles from the center. The left and right wings are closer than the top and bottom. Arrrrg. Don't mass designate at 3am.) - Sinergistic
Δ 13. Bedrooms

( 105 to onwards )
The beginning of the bedroom section, which will hold about 140 or so at current count, I'm most likely going to have to expand this once I raise the pop cap. - Sinergistic
Δ 13. Silk is weightless
This piece of silk has been suspended here since I collapsed the center area. There are several others about as well, I'll get around to building a floor out to it eventually. - Sinergistic
Δ 8. Dungeon Entrance
This is the entrance to the dungeons, such as they are. Plans:
* Add several war dogs nearby
* Add fortifications
* Make the floor red + add some inert spike traps maybe. - Sinergistic
Δ 7. Fire imps
I plan on trying to capture these guys and dumping them in their own sealed off room, and then dumping goblins in with them and watching the fireworks. I might mess with the raws a little to make them more interesting, since IIRC fire imps are like size 3, which isn't much 'fun'. (I would mod them BEFORE I tried to capture them, fyi, not that cage traps will fail) - Sinergistic
Δ 7. The Dungeons

( 105 Early Spring to onwards )
The beginning of the dungeons, each of those cages has a goblin in it.

Future plans: Add some magma features dotted around the area, maybe seal off different 'sections' with magma moats and bridges, like the entrance. I also plan on having military patrols through here, once I get enough dwarfs together.

Edit: It's in the comments, but I may as well mention it here as well. I am using the Goblin Family mod (found here) to add a bunch of different goblin types to the game.

'B' = Bugbear
'g' = Goblin Morlock
'w' = Woodwose
'H' = Hobgoblin

And that is all I've encountered so far. - Sinergistic

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Fortress Name: Strongsalves
Map Year: 105 Early Spring
Author: Sinergistic
Submitted by: Sinergistic
Date Added: 10/01/2009