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Embark wagon

Chaotic mess, as I've put things on top of each other, what's with nearly all the goods being in the wagon.

Submitted by: Fleeting Frames - 2018-07-29

The Quarry

The best source of obsidian I have for now.

Submitted by: Mcshay - 2018-05-24

Floor 1: Storage and Workshops

In the future I intend to move some of the stockpiles and workshops to other floors. This floor will eventually contain part of my barracks.

Submitted by: Mcshay - 2018-05-24

7. Lower fort (diggy diggy circle)

This is the top of the lower fort, it goes down 6 more levels. I've only done the central dome and SW dome so far. Each dome will have a unique layout and be a district of some sort. Likely: workshops, entertainment, grand library, and forge halls.

The idea I wanted to try here is a more 3D layout with domes, arches, balconies, and what not. I got tired of the standard 2D layouts across z levels (like the floors up above this one) and wanted to do something more challenging. I start on this level and channel down, smooth, engrave one floor at a time. The layers are mostly granite, which gets converted to blocks - which is where the upper fort came from!

This is my first stab at one and the architectural style can clearly best be described as "digcircle". Next fort I'll get more creative than that!

Submitted by: Werdna - 2018-03-13

5. Welcome center

Invaders are invited to find a comfortable sandy spot, and chill out in our visitor center. Currently our hospice is at only 2/3 capacity, so plenty of vacancies for more visitors. The walls are ice. Some of our visitors are a bit ripe, so the central staircase is protected by diagonals.

T is tigermen and the occasional troll, W is warwolves, n are nakashim, & are frogmen I think, E are War Elephants and the odd Ettin, and the usual goblins and kobolds. Stranglers are visible in the moat to the south, these idiots had the poor timing to invade in spring across the moat ice and drowned. Pity really, because the dwarves think stranglers are delicious - they're invited to our kitchens rather than the visitor center. I walled off the moat since then.

Submitted by: Werdna - 2018-03-13

3. Barracks and temporary graveyards

Military dwarves rest to the north in obsidian coffins, civilians to the south in marble. In the corners, on this level and the one above, are the barracks for the soldiers.

To the southwest is the bottom of a dodge-maze. Marksdwarves cover the zig-zag above it and any invader that dodges will tend to fall down here, stringing the invaders out further and preventing them from hitting my dwarves en masse.

Submitted by: Werdna - 2018-03-13

2. Topside

The center stairwell is surrounded on each side by the training halls of the fort's 7 squads of (ideally) 7. The northernmost squad is a foreign legion of Tigermen (their sister foreign legion of Nakashim walked into an army of goblins and perished).

To the southwest is a kill-zone with one tile bridges that form a maze for marksdwarves above. They can be lowered to make clean-up efforts easier. To the southeast is the above-ground farms that supply endless berries for booze-making. To the northeast are the old marksdwarf training grounds, but they have been abandoned due to irritation with dwarves climbing out of fortifications, and the crossbowmen have all been retrained as melee. The northwest quadrant was a pasture for the animals, but that has been shifted downstairs to the agricultural level.

The embark wagon is visible on the road at the top of the SE quadrant, my unused starter bauxite stones still visible.

Submitted by: Werdna - 2018-03-13