Rootportals - 267 Early Winter by Priz

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Rootportals is my second attempt at a "mega project", after my last one was killed by a modding disaster (oops). The fort focuses on horizontal expansion and leaving as much of the natural terrain intact as possible.

Point of Interest: Walkways and Roundtowers

( 267 Early Winter → 300 )

The fort's surface levels will only be reachable via raised walkways.

You might have noticed all my towers have the same dimensions. This is because I play fullscreen with my tiles streached, and laying out circles this way is just a bitch to do. I'll eventually change it up a bit when I have some time and graph paper. - Priz

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Submitted by: ayrb - 2011-12-04 to 271 Mid Spring

Geat job so far. I hope to build something like this soon.

Submitted by: Priz - 2011-12-04 to 272 Early Spring

Thanks! This is my third fort thus far, so I feel pretty safe in saying that if I can do it, literally anyone can.

Submitted by: ayrb - 2011-12-10 to 276 Early Spring

Mhm. What kind of embark location did you look for?

Submitted by: Priz - 2011-12-10 to 276 Early Spring

I'm playing 40d, and don't use any of the handy tools for it beyond the wiki, so I mostly guess at where a good spot is, and the more biomes the better. I always try to have a few features - this embark was supposed to have an underground river, some magma, etc. etc., but I apparently didn't pay enough attention and ended up with a chasm and no metal deposits :s. At least I have lots of multi-colored stone. If I could do it again, I'd probably go for limestone at the risk of losing such a nice valley to work with and having no interesting features.

[Message edited on 2011/12/10 at 09:50 by Priz]

[Message edited on 2011/12/10 at 09:57 by Priz]

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Points of Interest

Δ 17. Administrator's Personal Rooms

( 267 Early Winter to 300 )
This is the mayor's bedroom and dining-room. It's got some fancy tigereye windows, and is gradually getting iron furnishings as my mayor makes demands and mandates. His offices are one floor up, and even in 271, are admittedly pretty bare. - Priz
Δ 17. Dining Hall

( 267 Early Winter to 300 )
This is the future site of my dining hall. It will go up a ton of levels, and eventually have a giant gold chandelier. My dwarves are pretty content with the subterrainian hall for now, and I haven't quite decided how or where to top this tower, so this isn't really a huge priority at the moment.

To the right of it is my temporary animal pens/windmills, which will probably be removed and replaced with a much larger structure in a few years. - Priz
Δ 17. Walkways and Roundtowers

( 267 Early Winter to 300 )
The fort's surface levels will only be reachable via raised walkways.

You might have noticed all my towers have the same dimensions. This is because I play fullscreen with my tiles streached, and laying out circles this way is just a bitch to do. I'll eventually change it up a bit when I have some time and graph paper. - Priz
Δ 16. Castle-like Structure
I quite honestly don't know what I'll be using this for yet. It was originally going to be a massive swimming pool, but I realized it takes up most of the level ground in the south portion of the map, and decided to find a better use for it. - Priz
¶ 16. Overview
A bird's eye view of the fort in it's 4th or 5th year. This is the "main" surface level, where most of my constructions will end up being built. - Priz
Δ 16. The Library

( 267 Early Winter to 300 )
The Library, furnished with silver furniture and exceptional wood shelving. The dwarves aren't big readers, and typically use this room for eating, despite strict rules to the contrary. - Priz
Δ 15. Catacombs

( 267 Early Winter to 300 )
I like my catacombs to be maze-like and unorganized. Every skilled dwarf will eventually get their own tomb, with the small alcove coffins going to the peasantry.

The large tombs to the east are the Captain of the Guard's and the mayor's, respectively.

The north tombs in progress (starting 271) will be for my freemasons (legendary miner/mason/engravers - I think diversifing is a good thing). - Priz
Δ 15. The Old Fort

( 267 Early Winter to 300 )
This is where my whole population is housed at the moment. Barracks are to the south east, meetinghall to the north. The larger rooms on the side there are the clerk/managers' rooms, though he also happens to be the mayor right now, so they are currently unused. - Priz
Δ 15. Trade Depot

( 267 Early Winter to 300 )
Where my trading happens for now. If you scroll around a little, you can see how completely unorganized all my industry is. :P

Main imports are metals (few of which are found on the map), and gems for the windows. Exports are more cloth than I know what to do with, and tons of animal fat. - Priz
Δ 14. The Well

( 267 Early Winter to 300 )
This is my well. It's filled and in full use by 271 (earlier, actually, if I bother to upload the maps from 268 and such). ALOT of dwarves got killed due to water issues when I first started playing a few months ago - does it show?

Anyway, this will probably be obsoleted by an aqueduct project I'm thinking of, but all the engravings are masterwork or exceptional, so it still adds nicely to my fort value. - Priz

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Fortress Name: Rootportals
Map Year: 267 Early Winter
Author: Priz
Submitted by: Priz
Date Added: 04/12/2011