Taxedearthen - 1064 Late Spring by AWDBall

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Well a long time ago someone suggested an ocean side building contest and I had to build as complete a fort as I could under water, out of green glass.

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Submitted by: Markavian - 2008-04-07 to 1064 Late Spring

Wuuhh, this looks like quite an engineering acheivement... you've built your whole fortress under the surface of the ocean, and then flooded around it?

Submitted by: AWDBall - 2008-04-07 to 1064 Late Spring

Yup, that's exactly what I was shooting for. Though of course, having finished the bulk of it now I have designs on how I would do it better. I could have in fort farming working with a bit of planning. and by being just a tiny bit sleazy and moving the coast line in a bit I could include some of the sand and outdoor farming too.

It was my response to the oceanic building challenge.

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=17170

[Message edited on 2008/06/26 at 03:52 by AWDBall]

Submitted by: Markavian - 2008-08-19 to 1064 Late Spring

This is creepy and crazy, but utterly impressive.

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Δ 19. Wagon funneling entrance
By virtue of the entrance being connected to all the edges of the map by ramps, if wagons come they'll actuall just spawn righ on the end of the causeway. - AWDBall
Δ 18. Original fort entrance
This is where the dwarves first set up shop before they moved into the great green glass under water fort. - AWDBall
Δ 17. Desalinization plant 1
It tooka few itterations to get this working but simplest is best. The floor is lined with rock too and the water is magically potable after being pumped into here.

Overflows in the cistern just west and a bit south of here caused the water there to touch virgin soil and become unpotable. - AWDBall
Δ 16. Top of the sump pump
When we want to show off the castle we raise the walls in the ocean and then turn on the sump pump to drain the area around it. - AWDBall
Δ 15. Indoor, under the sea, fishing hole

( 1064 Late Spring to 1099 Late Winter )
Even though it's filled from the aquifer it spontaneously generates TONNES of ocean going fish. Now if ONLY the farm next to actually worked. Being in the ocean biome it can't work. - AWDBall
Δ 15. Magma in a glass pipe, test section.
Tets section of glass floor, walls and door to see how magma affects it. I propbably should melt through but for now it doesn't so the dwarves get running magma inthe fort. woohoo. - AWDBall
17. Playing with lava

( 1056 Early Summer to onwards )
Too bad the magma evaporates or this would be truly wicked. - AWDBall
Δ 14. Hot and cold running liquids
Piped in magma and the aquifer, just so I could fish and run my magma furnaces indoors, under the ocean.

Too bad the under ocean farm doesn't quite work. If I had that and sand down here I'd never leave. - AWDBall
Δ 13. The main hall

( 1064 Late Spring to onwards )
Second floor of the fortress, 3 levels under water, and with windows into the ocean. - AWDBall

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Fortress Name: Taxedearthen
Map Year: 1064 Late Spring
Author: AWDBall
Submitted by: AWDBall
Date Added: 05/04/2008