Another year gone by, and my dwarfs are finally starting to pick up the pace again.
I also discovered why the goblins haven't shown up yet (not a bad thing considering how utterly indefensible the place is at the moment). Apparently I'd turned them off the last time I touched DF (a few months ago), which I'd forgotten you could do. They are on now, but haven't shown up yet, and I'm thinking I might have to start killing the elves if I want an invasion.
( 272 Early Spring → 300 )
After something like 8 years of trading for it, I finally have enough gold to start on the chandelier. I have no particular design laid out for it (much like almost all the fort), but my adept (smiths/woodworkers) needed something to break up the monotony of making wood blocks and installing floors, so I figured what the heck.
The current design will menace with spikes of firey gold, though I'm thinking I might have to do something much, much less elaborate than what I want due to space and height concerns. I can always make one out of platnum later, anyway....
Lack of magma (thus far - it should be here someplace) means I will have to use gem windows for my "fire". I think it will probably look better with the flashing yellow-orange-red gems anyway.
By 274 I've used about 70 blocks of gold, which was all I'd picked up over the years. Width issues made me abandon my original design, so I've settled with eventually turning this less impressive one into my own version of a doomsday machine. This should be slightly more evident by 280 at the latest.
The gems kill my FPS slightly. I would not suggest this type of design to others, though it looks kind of neat (moreso in the original plan) when seen in motion. - 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.
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