Rockraptor - 1066 Mid Spring by Lacero

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So this is where it ended up. I've decided I like the silo style design, individual towers that can be sealed off from one another, and I'm going to hopefully find a way to make it better in my next fortress. This one is ready to receive the king but I'm done with it. It's too slow with all the dwarves around, I'll have to use less land next time.

I'm most unhappy with the accomodation in this fort, it's a complete waste of space.

There was a crash that I can't reproduce, I'll go into it in the points of interest.

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Submitted by: Markavian - 2007-11-10 to 1062 Early Winter

Very cool spire, I have to see that in a profile slice at some point. I like the circular nature of your rooms, and the different directions that your fort has gone in.

Submitted by: Lightning4 - 2007-11-11 to 1062 Early Winter

Impressive! I quite like how you fully utilize the z-axis in pretty much every room of this fortress.

Kind of reminds me of a bubble-like design.

Submitted by: Lacero - 2007-12-18 to 1062 Early Winter

Thanks for the comments. Since schm0 got me started on circles I can't stop :)

Having the new side view really shows how flat fortresses are, I think I'm going to need a lot of z levels for my next one. It'll look much better from the side if most of the rooms are more than one z-level high.

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Points of Interest

Δ 225. Fortress, front view
We're centred on the trade depot here. To the left is the defence tower, and you can see the well room and emergency water source at the bottom.

To the right is the main shaft, with the farm on top, kitchens, dining hall, and then housing below.

You can see the shadow of my mining on the very bottom level. Theres some nice silver down there. - Lacero
Δ 186. Entrance, side view
The godlen road comes in and downa a series of ramps to the trade depot island. The trade depot is in the centre of this picture.

I like the new side views markavian :) - Lacero
Δ 16. Surface Towers
The defence tower from before now has a moat. I don't like filling thing in with water without a way of draining them, and there's no chasm on this map, so I was going to use lots of windmills to pump water off the edge of the map. That's what the four pillars in the centre are, the beginning of the windmill tower.

The tower to the north is around the entrance, it's partly to force people to enter along the road and partly because it looks nice. - Lacero
Δ 10. Defences
Cage and weapon traps on the ramp into the trade island take care of most invasions, I have two hydras and a titan in cages to the left. But for the goblins you need something extra, their bodies clog all the weapon traps too quickly.

The levers in the centre of the defence tower here map to the four bridges onto the trade island and to the four bridges connecting the defence tower to the island. When attacked two golden bridges are raised so the only route out of the trade island is into the defence tower, and the leftmost bridge connecting them is raised blocking entry into the tower and forcing the goblins through the labyrinth.

The leftmost bridge has ground underneath so there is still a walkable route into the fortress, but the others retract to drop goblins into the pit below. This should be filled with water from an aquifier, but I needed to finsih the pump to drain it before turning it on and that hans't happened.

This is sadly untested as when the goblins attacked the game crashed as I pulled the second lever. It could be a coincidence, or I could've completely broken the pathfinding. You decide! :) - Lacero
Δ 7. Housing
This is the sucky housing design. Lots of space wasted and it's so big someone is always within 14 squares of my mining operations. I'll have to think of something better next time. - Lacero
Δ 2. Burial Grounds
The catacombs are still not very full, most of these are from people tragically injured during sparring. The real soldiers are wearing masterpiece iron plate from a lucky armourer mood, but the fortress guard and royal guard seem to kill each other quite a lot. Still, plenty more immigrants looking for a job.

The engraved tomb is for the Duke, with some gold statues from an even luckier metalsmith mood. The area to the right would've been for the king. - Lacero

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Fortress Name: Rockraptor
Map Year: 1066 Mid Spring
Author: Lacero
Submitted by: Lacero
Date Added: 18/12/2007