Strongsalves - 109 Mid Summer by Sinergistic

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• Δ 18. Hobgoblins on horse back
  Each one of these horses carries a goblin. Each one of them would consume two cage traps. One for the horse, one for the goblin.
  
  It's really annoying ending up with 20-30 horses after a siege, and having to dispose of them. - Sinergistic
• 18. The Entrance

  ( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
  This is the only entrance to the fort, and is rather slapdash one, though it gets the job done.
  
  The state it's in now is the default state. The bridges on ground level are down, allowing traders and goblins alike access to the fortress. Ambushes are generally spotted the moment they enter the walls.
  
  Step one involves waiting for as many attackers to enter the noose as possible. Once I've gotten as many goblins behind the two bridges on ground level as possible, I raise, sealing the goblins inside. This prevents them from running away.
  
  Step two involves waiting for the goblins to throw themselves on the traps, after enough get trapped, the rest get scared and just mill about without jumping on the traps like nice goblins. Once this occurs, I move to...
  
  Step three, where I lower the small bridge one z-level up. This provides a route of escape for the goblins, who then run straight through the rest of the traps in an attempt to leave the map.
  
  Step four, I revert to the default state, while allowing my dwarfs outside to clean and reload the traps with fresh cages. - Sinergistic

• Δ 16. The Graveyard

  ( 109 Mid Summer to onwards )
  For a fortress with no military, we sure do get a lot of corpses. Dead traders, dead goblins the traders killed, dead horses, wardog victims, with a little leftovers from food bought from traders mixed in.
  
  I wasn't expecting this to fill up for a while, and had to rush to complete the sister refuse pile (seen to left) in the middle of a siege.
  
  Installing the doors took almost two months since my masons where busy hauling cages and leftovers from a dead trader. - Sinergistic

• 15. First River Strainer

  ( 105 Mid Autumn to onwards )
  Cage traps + aggressive animals = caged animals. I love it. My dwarfs go to pick up the first victim/future gladiator and what happens? More jump up to attack my dwarfs and get caught. Dwarfs go back to get cages, and the process repeats. Still quite a few in the river, however. - Sinergistic

• Δ 15. The Gem Stockpile

  ( 109 Mid Summer to onwards )
  When I'm not requesting wood and pearlash from traders, I'm requesting gems. Lots of gems. Anything I can get my hands on.
  
  The most recent addition to my gem stockpile was from a dead wagon, who was killed while trying to make it to my trade depot through a goblin ambush. Kind of annoying, but the gems where free, so I'm happy.
  
  - Sinergistic

• 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. All that remains of annoying river dwellers
  This is all that remains of the last of my annoying river dwellers. When I drained the river, I was confronted by the annoying reality that my river strainers would no longer work because the creatures couldn't get out of the river bed.
  
  This ramp was dug as part of an attempt to draw them onto my cage traps, which ended up failing.
  
  I was content to just leave things be at this point, but then tragedy struck. Asmel Larreg, one of my founding dwarfs and the first legendary weaver, was struck down by these hideous reptilian creatures while trying to gather spider silk in the river bed.
  
  In response to this disaster (Asmel Larreg did more than just weave. He was also one of my best bag makers and a pretty good mechanic to boot, along with having competent in a few other useful skills) I quickly walled all access to the portion of the river bed that contained the lizard and snake-men.
  
  But that wasn't enough. I wanted revenge. I wanted them dead, not caged. Only one problem: I had no military, not a single one.
  
  So a crazy plan was hatched. I took all of my dogs out of their cages (almost forty of them all told) and I trained them all as war dogs. All of them. I then build several cages in the river bed, behind my hastily constructed barricades, and stuffed them all in. The training and caging took almost an entire year from start to finish.
  
  Once they where caged, I hooked the cages up to a lever and then blocked off all ways out of the river bed except for the ramp pictured above (which was blocked with a forbidden door).
  
  I then pulled the lever and ~40 war dogs started milling about in the river bed. I got all of my dwarfs safely behind locked doors (lest they rush into the river bed to recover corpses and get themselves killed) and then un-forbid the ramp door. ~40 war dogs proceeded to stream towards the offending reptilian menace.
  
  It was over extremely quickly, and I only lost several war dogs. This end of the river was COVERED in blood and body parts. My dwarfs spent most of a season removing corpses and body parts from the river bed. - Sinergistic
• Δ 14. Noble Housing

  ( 109 Mid Summer to onwards )
  This is where the future nobles will live.
  
  The top level, pictured here, is planned to be the kings quarters. A clear glass ceiling and walls, with a connecting walkway to the other side, will make up his quarters. Once completed, the river will be undammed to allow water to flow over the whole contraption. The preserved rock floor will allow for engravings
  
  Lower levels will serve the lesser nobles, and will consist of rock ceilings with clear glass walls and windows looking out into the river.
  
  I'm not really sure with what I want to do with the area above the river here, maybe a 'park' of some kind. - Sinergistic

• Δ 14. SPIDERWEBS! Thousands of them!
  My weavers have been grieving since Asmel was killed (See this POI for more) and haven't been collecting webs, let alone weaving.
  
  (I deactivated them to prevent them from running into the river bed before I walled it off, and now they are too busy doing other jobs to get back to work)
  - Sinergistic
• 15. The Second River Strainer

  ( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
  I think I built it a little to far from where the creatures where, but I had plans for the area closer to the edge that I didn't want to risk spoiling, so I built it farther back. Said plans have since been scrapped, so I think I might build another strainer (or just extend this one) to try and catch the 'fish' closer to the edge. Currently, I'm just playing the waiting game and seeing if I can get anymore without having to change anything.
  
  I've caught at least 6 'fish' with this one so far (That I know of), so it wasn't a total failure. - Sinergistic

• 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

• 13. Goblin Goods

  ( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
  This level is one of the stockpile levels. The stockpile on the right is an obvious furniture stockpile, but the ones are the left and bottom are a little less obvious.
  
  The upper left stockpile is a armor stockpile and contains pretty much ALL of the goblin armor I've confiscated.
  
  The lower left is an weapon stockpile and contains a few screw pumps + all the goblin weapons I've confiscated.
  
  The bottom stockpile is a finished goods stockpile, and since I don't do any craftsdwarf work, it's full of all the goblin cloths I've confiscated. Narrow this and Narrow that and Narrow such and such.
  
  There are plans to build an incinerator to destroy this contraband, but the architect is having a hard time deciding where to put it, and is beginning to question whether we should build one at all. - Sinergistic

• 10. The Tombs

  ( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
  This is the highest level of my tombs, currently empty as of 107. I'm think I will rip out the walls that go from the center to the sides and redo them with all constructed walls. It looks somewhat crap right now, I kinda wish I hadn't engraved the walls :(
  
  - Sinergistic

• 9. Dungeon Processing

  ( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
  This stockpile is where all of the goblins that are captured above ground end up. This stockpile takes from a stockpile closer to the entrance, and is set to accept only goblins.
  
  Once they end up on this stockpile, I strip them of their gear, and then move them to their cells. - Sinergistic

• 9. The connection

  ( 107 to onwards )
  This is the connection, and the only planned connection, between the old (current) fort and the new (expansion) fort. In the future, I plan on redoing the floors in a brighter color to provide contrast with the darker walls.
  
  In the lower right you can see the bottom of my tombs. - Sinergistic

• 9. The first death

  ( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
  This coffin has the first (and so far only) dwarf death. During a seige (+ an ambush) one of the miners somehow got trapped outside, and instead of seeking cover inside the fort, ran straight for the invading goblin army (who where flinging themselves on my cage traps).
  
  He managed to get through 10-20 goblins unscathed, and kept going. I was hoping he would keep going past the bridges, so that I could raise them and save him, but no dice. He just reaches the bridges, and decides to turn around and head back. He reaches the rear end of the goblin army, turns a corner and bumps right into a goblin spearman who promptly skewers him on the spot.
  
  I was worried about a tantrum spiral (since my fort as had a couple long periods of nothing going on, so lots of friends all around) but I never noticed any signs of unhappiness and stopped worrying about it after a couple months. Since then I've installed doors to the outside that I lock when an ambush shows up. - Sinergistic

• 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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Map details:

• Fortress Name: Strongsalves
• Map Year: 109 Mid Summer
• Author: Sinergistic
• Submitted by: Sinergistic
• Date Added: 15/01/2009