Citadel - 361 Late Spring by Ambivalence

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Points of Interest

• Δ 17. Green Gardens
  Here you can see the hole in the roof created to allow light into the underground gardens. I'd hoped this would stimulate the growth of trees more interesting than towercaps, but that hasn't happened, and it may even have rendered the area below sterile. I suspect it's 'cause the surface is a strictly mountain biome. Regardless, it's a shame.
  Stretching to left and right you can see the first constructions on an encircling wall. This will eventually be several stories high, and may even be roofed over in places. The fort has a serious Skeletal Giant Eagle problem! - Ambivalence
• Δ 16. Garden Defences
  What's cooler than a vicious set of traps lined with giant clear glass axe blades? Giant crystal glass axe blades, of course! The statue garden hosts several artifact traps in addition, and makes sure that the rooftop entrance is defended by Royal and Fortress guards.
  Fire from kobolds into the garden has been a problem though, and one of the little blighters somehow managed to sneak in and steal the artifact brass spear that one of my champions was using! Possibly by staggering off with a spear through its guts, I guess. - Ambivalence
• Δ 16. Tradesdwarf's Entrance
  The fortifications in the centre of the pit are new additions to the venerable old glass walkway structure below. Originally there were only going to be ballistae pointing towards the entrance corridors, but when a bunch of elven traders accidentally went psycho after being trapped in the hall for too long, extra ballistae were installed to perforate them.
  Subsequent testing of the Depot ballistae against the next elves to visit was a dismal failure - somehow, the elves and donkeys at the Depot were immune to the giant sharpened logs passing through their bodies. :(
  You can see that the entrance road now leaves only the narrowest of areas for incoming wagons to travel along. I'll probably have the whole length of it roofed over once the rest of the encircling wall is done. - Ambivalence
• Δ 16. Upper Plaza
  The upper plaza area remains largely unchanged since its inception after the HFS incident. - Ambivalence
• Δ 15. Grand Plaza
  Not much has changed around here of late - a few minor adjustments to stockpiles, that's all. You can see the large amount of metal ore which has been recovered from the lower levels of the fort piled around - enough to keep the Duchess in rose gold nik-naks for a long, long time! - Ambivalence
• Δ 14. Lower Tomb Plaza
  Again, not much has changed - the most notable difference from previous updates would be the vast number of wooden chests scattered around the rooms. I'm still unsure as to whether this has improved the clutter or not - I *think* that when dwarfs move from one room to another, they pack up all their junk, and put it into chests in the new room; but when they just have a room full of junk, they don't move it. I could be wrong. - Ambivalence
• Δ 13. Fail-Safe Magma Forge and Smelter
  In the event of a sudden event draining the magma pipe, these workshops will run off the large reservoir below. Which was itself created in just such an accident! - Ambivalence
• Δ 13. Failed Swimming Trainer
  This room was based on a design on the Wiki and was intended to train dwarfs to swim. The chamber below has a meeting area, and this level has a series of hatches set to trigger when water reaches a certain level. In practice, the water throughput was difficult to balance, and the FPS drain was horrendous.
  The drain pipe from this room is quite extensive. - Ambivalence
• Δ 11. Ducal Suites
  The Duke has a fondness for large gems, so in addition to the stupendous amount of green glass I like to buy him a treat every now and then from the traders. He's also fond of silver, and now has an extensive collection of silver musical instruments and other trinkets. - Ambivalence
• Δ 10. The Range
  Pretty self-explanatory. It also tends to be first port of call when the Skeletal Giant Eagles come visiting. - Ambivalence
• Δ 10. Upper Livestock Farm
  The four pits around the central shaft can have animals thrown into them. A breeding programme is underway for dogs, foxes, wolves, donkeys, horses and cattle. - Ambivalence
• Δ 9. Kinetic Projectile Creator
  This is the top level of a device to (hopefully) create solid blocks of unsupported obsidian in mid-air. At this level, water and magma flows feed into two small chambers. A hatch leads downwards from each. The hatch on the magma side is controlled by a lever, while the hatch on the water side is controlled by a pressure plate in the magma chamber. When magma is released downwards, it falls onto a nickel-silver bridge below, and then the water falls onto it and the bridge retracts.
  If I had more of a brain I'd've made the bridge retract from a pressure plate on the water side, rather than linked at the same time as the water hatch opens, but it seems to work.
  However... due to an accident (I was dealing with problems on the surface) the water line was left open while the magma in the magma chamber was low enough to keep the hatch open. The result was that the whole area below was filled with water... with catastrophic results. - Ambivalence
• Δ 9. Lower Livestock Farm
  These are the breeding pits. Only one is occupied at present as the remaining livestock are all caged in the zoos upstairs.
  The magma surrounding the pens was intended to allow for emergency annihilation of stock in the event of a population explosion. It would probably work, but I'd forgotten just how slowly magma moves. I should have made them a drowning chamber instead, although that would then require the floors to be block-paved to prevent tree growth. - Ambivalence
• Δ 7. Magma Melting Plan - A Failure
  The idea here was to mine out a huge area of the z-level, remove any useful gems and ores, and then obliterate the remaining stone in one fell swoop by rolling a wave of magma across the whole map.
  In practice, however, the magma is so slow as to render the plan laughable, and moreover, stocks of magma-safe mechanisms are very low. - Ambivalence
• Δ 5. After the Adamant Rush (*spoiler*)
  Once an abode of depraved tentacle demons, now a quarry. The engravings are disgusting, and appear to have an unusual property - they cannot be destroyed by errant vegetation. - Ambivalence
• Δ Nishy's Cavern
  When the miners encountered a rich gold vein intertwined with several other metals and gems, the cavern formed was of such breathtaking beauty that Nishy the philosopher moved in immediately.
  You can also see an area to the left where olivine has been mined to build the outside wall. - Ambivalence
• Δ The Fatal Flood
  When the chamber on the left filled with water after the kinetic projectile creator was accidentally left on, I realised I'd neglected to provide an escape channel on the bottom level (as I'd only envisaged small amounts of water and magma falling and evaporating.) I dug a channel out, and had a miner dig fortifications on the wall... a huge mistake. The water pressure was ridiculous, and the flood reached the extent you can see in about five seconds. A dozen or so dwarfs were trapped, and poor Zuntir and Momuz were drowned.
  The drowning of Momuz was a strange thing - she was in 7/7 water and drowning, but the water level reduced enough so that she was in 6/7 for some of the time, and she wasn't marked as drowning. Then she went back into 7/7 and drowned almost instantly.. guess she didn't have time to draw a breath.
  Her husband and eight children are unhappy. Good job it wasn't the Duchess, though, she's on her sixteenth child... ^^ - Ambivalence

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Map details:

• Fortress Name: Citadel
• Map Year: 361 Late Spring
• Author: Ambivalence
• Submitted by: Ambivalence
• Date Added: 04/11/2008