Flamespear - 1063 Late Spring by SL

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• 17. Entrance

  ( 1057 Early Winter to onwards )
  This is our entrance. - SL

• 17. Outside

  ( 1057 Early Winter to onwards )
  This should give you some idea of how plentiful trees are here. - SL

• 17. Swimming Training Room v2

  ( 1061 Late Autumn to onwards )
  You can see the first version of the swimming training room in the 1057 map. What led to the changes for this one was one notable problem with the v1 room:
  
  Every time a dwarf left the room, the ceiling hatches detected a loss of water, and added more. They couldn't close fast enough once they had added more water, so this resulted in much of the water going up to 7/7, which was rather dangerous. The 7/7 water also confused anyone who was trying to get out. It was deemed too dangerous, and was shut down pending safety improvements. Those led to the new version of the room, which no longer has that problem.
  
  The differences in this version are:
  
  The pressure plates in the swimming training room are 0-2 instead of 0-3 now. This was mainly to deal with the fact that the OFF signal from said pressure plates takes longer to close the hatches in the ceiling now since it goes through the AND gate (it takes about twice as long or a bit more due to having to wait for a door in the AND gate to close).
  
  The northern dark grey lever was removed and replaced with a yellow lever which connects to the hatches on the AND gates (just to the left of each pump).
  
  Each pressure plate in the swimming training room is connected to an AND gate's second input, which is a door (open currently) just to the right of each pump. Each AND gate's output (the pressure plate in the AND gate) is connected to a hatch in the ceiling, above the room's pressure plates.
  
  There is a dark grey lever north of the center of the swimming training room. It was used to initialize the system by opening the hatches in the ceiling once (the pressure plates in the room were in the ON state, but had not sent an ON signal because they started in that state. So they had to be flipped to OFF by flooding the room, then back to ON when it was drained.).
  
  The brown (siltstone) lever at the bottom is fully hooked up now.
  
  The 1057 swimming training room PoI, and the swimming training room v2 movie, both have information on how this works.
  
  The chief difference from the v1 room to the v2 room is that the yellow lever and AND gates allow us to lock the ceiling hatches so that they will not open, which we use when we're letting dwarves leave the room. Once they're all gone, we drain the room. When dwarves have re-entered it later for training, we lock the door and flip the yellow lever, refilling it.
  
  The room fills up to 5-6 water (mostly 6) now. 7/7 water would cause a drowning hazard - 6 and below is safe, and 5 and up train swimming. I'm not sure if 4 trains swimming too, but perhaps.
  
  Note: The smaller contraption in the upper-right corner of the room containing the AND gates is a v2 repeater for the Hand of Armok's new sections. It is fully constructed, but the Hand's new hatches have not been hooked up to it yet. We want to run a few tests on it first. - SL

• ¶ 16. Default start point for this map
  Hi there. Don't panic, the goblins are in cages. - SL
• 16. Hand of Armok

  ( 1061 Late Autumn to onwards )
  The solid 6x8 block of grey, brown, and green hatches on the left is the first, prototype, section of the Hand of Armok. In the last goblin invasion, it killed 44 goblins (and no dwarves and pets). However, it had some flaws which have been corrected for the design of the three new sections.
  
  Chief among them is that there was a safe walkable path in all but the first column - you can't see it here, since we built hatches over it, but a few of the goblins were using it to get across (they got nabbed by cage traps, though). Additionally, in the new sections, all the tiles which lack hatches are solid support tiles, and we have the minimum amount necessary, spaced apart in an optimal fashion, to ensure that there is no safe path across the new sections.
  
  The sections with the alternating grey/black and white hatches, with the black and/or vomit tiles interspersed among them, are the new sections. Each is a 6x8 area with an additional two 1x6 areas between the three new sections. - SL

• 15. Brook Tap

  ( 1057 Mid Spring to onwards )
  This is where we tap into the brook to get water for various projects. - SL

• 2. Dining Room

  ( 1057 Late Autumn to onwards )
  We have a bit of an animal problem, as you can see. - SL

• 2. Treasure Room

  ( 1061 Late Autumn to onwards )
  This room is our treasure room - everything in it except the bins are masterworks or artifacts. (And the bins contain masterworks)
  
  There are four steel vertical bars south of the doors, controlled by the bauxite lever in the small 1x1 room near the entrance. It isn't obvious from the image, but the walls of that room are steel, the door to the 1x1 room is also steel. - SL

• 1. Magma Workshops and Furnaces

  ( 1057 Early Winter to onwards )
  Here are our magma workshops and furnaces. This is actually the second level from the bottom of the map. The lowest level has magma in it below the workshops/furnaces (It's sealed off from the volcano by an obsidian plug). - SL

Related Maps:

Flamespear

• 1063 Late Spring [R]
• 1063 Late Spring
• 1061 Late Autumn
• 1057 Early Winter

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Related Movies:

• Bugged artifact miner
• Goblin Execution by Dropping Down a Deep Pit
• Hand of Armok v1, Test Run
• Stupid falling hatches [33f]
• Swimming Training Room v2

Map details:

• Fortress Name: Flamespear
• Map Year: 1063 Late Spring
• Author: SL
• Submitted by: SL
• Date Added: 21/08/2008