Desert-City of Glades - 1397 Early Spring by Fleeting Frames

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Finally finished updating TWBT+dragonmaster's set to the point where there's little changes I can think to do at this point. Well, I'll figure out some later.

Also visible is the fortress after a year - much progress has been done, though much remains.

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Submitted by: Salmeuk - 2019-10-10 to 1396 Early Spring

How very interesting! I remember attempting this sort of thing back when I used TWBT, for I found multilevel display to be VERY pleasing to view. . however I ran into some issue I can't remember and quickly gave up.

Your forts are always so precisely created - it's unlike any other style of building I've seen. Well done!

Submitted by: Fleeting Frames - 2019-10-29 to 1396 Early Spring

Thanks! Though I may have overcomplicated the precision, here. I've been somewhat inspired by forts like Smallabbey or keupo's Slingcontrols or Dancingglove.

(Though to creator's eye, it still looks chaotic in large parts to me - other things like the bedrooms and corpses languishing in the sun as I focus on a particular shade of red.)

mapshot was broken for a while, so the only way to do this previously was to manually screenshot and stitch together. Not easy, that. Also, in default twbt distribution, you need to rename mapshot output files to order them for map compressor like twbt would do it, and then ignore its warning on unique tiles.

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24. Tropical shrubland glade

( 1396 Early Spring to onwards )
Progressing a piece, mostly stalling behind exact material selection. With schist floodgates and green glass windows, every soil pillar for supporting the hanging gardens should have subtle effects of light.

Both are even available on embark; so the hanging garden support soil pillars should be done soon. Then, some obsidian-casting might complete it 'till trees come in. 'course, some already grow on pump placement floors.

...of course assuming I don't try to go deeper.

Caving in right isolated last layer aquifer tiles four z-levels to z93 would have been easier with previous layer, or when I didn't have tombs on z 94, but doing so should not only give tree trunks full headrooms, but their additional branches as well, while increasing the hanging garden's soil area by about half.

Plus, it'd be quite difficult. Climbing a mountain for a drop of alcohol - pretty dwarfy. - Fleeting Frames
20. Live animal training hole

( 1396 Early Spring to onwards )
Through the hatch, to-be-trained military is stationed, waiting behind a locked door.

Through the bridge, to-be-bruised livestock is pitted (currently, wild horses who gave birth to third one).

The three locking layers are to prevent wildlife from piling against the door and then hatch; and once I need to get out military I can just station in the cage stockpile, and wildlife will not follow due fear and lack of path to map edge. Probably should QSP the cages next to bridge, though. - Fleeting Frames
19. TWBT trick - bloody gabbro walls are both gabbro and bloody

( 1396 Early Spring to onwards )
The thing about blood in the walls is that it uses same tile as mining designations by vanilla default. So, even if you use a material override, it's no good.

Unless you edit twbt to not override tile 219 when it is hidden.

As you can see on the right, however, I've only overriden gabbro wall material. Shale and all others still need writing. - Fleeting Frames
18. Improvement on fort-wide swim(+little climb) training room.

( 1396 Early Spring to onwards )
Similar to previous fort-wide military alert training rooms, with but three improvements here.

One is that the lever is gone - replaced by bridges able to be admired and meant to be deconstruct-toggled to add, hold or remove water (I shall see if they needed to be z-level higher - a subtler error here is that I placed insufficient pond zones, and only 1 tile was filled with 7/7 water.)

Second is that the room is two tiles wide now, as research showed two dwarves need to be orthogonally adjacent to speak to each other. (The second tile is turkey cage, for there's four people in this fort who like turkeys. Additional animals may follow.)

Third is that, based on observing during aquifer channeling climbers liking to climb as high as possible, iterated rough, block and smoothed falls. This way they should, instead of hanging onto the wall as before, fall down the moment they reach the top, and climb/swim again.

Future potential improvements might be replacing 8 walls with admirable buildings, and maybe adding a mister.

If only there weren't so many corpses to bury! - Fleeting Frames
9. RIP Rimtar Titthaltosid - an example of military grave

( 1396 Early Spring to onwards )
- Fleeting Frames

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Fortress Name: Desert-City of Glades
Map Year: 1397 Early Spring
Author: Fleeting Frames
Submitted by: Fleeting Frames
Date Added: 19/12/2020