Beachbells Fortress of Dawning - 19622 Early Spring by armrha

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Points of Interest

• Δ 19. Reservoir Covering
  The reservoir is covered, and the section above the room is glass, even though light travels through all the tiles. I just wanted it to be glass. It took... forever to make all that glass. Multiple reclaims. The moss over there is a testament to the # of reclaims this went through. - armrha
• Δ 19. Windmill Farm
  Windmill Farm! - armrha
• Δ 18. Above-ground Reservoir
  Above-ground reservoir and where the waterfall flowing through the center of the fortress comes from. - armrha
• Δ 18. Reservoir Pumps: Ceiling
  Pumps. - armrha
• Δ 17. Glass Statue Room
  This room is an all glass floor, with a glass ceiling, and a glass covering over that ceiling. There's a reservoir above, so you can imagine the sunlight streams through the glass onto the statues and into the dining hall above through it all. I thought muting the sunlight a little would probably help some of the dwarves cope. - armrha
• ¶ 16. Beachbells
  The view from afar. The roads were fun, and I dug through the mountain all the way up to prevent out of map access to the top. The roads keep all the civs that trade coming pretty readily. The doublemoat is visible from here. I think the overall aesthetic of the fortress is good, but I've seen much prettier ones for sure... - armrha
• Δ 16. Doublemoat & Entrance
  I wanted a doublemoat, with water and lava, so I made one. Doublemoats are effective, I suppose. The bridge is platinum: I thought it looked better than adamantine. The entrance is walled off heavily, and then some dogs are standing around waiting on people. Two sets of steel floodgates can shut in the advent of a siege that we can't fight off. Towers with fortifications are on either side. - armrha
• Δ 16. Great Hall & Waterfall
  Yeah, this is the typical bunch of tables and shares to keep the dwarves happy. Also have a 4 tile waterfall going through the center that keeps the area misty and happiness-generating. Highlights: The stairs going down on the northernmost part of the area are the only entrance into the catacombs, so all funerals have to start in the Great Hall. - armrha
• Δ 16. Noble's Quarter
  Yeah, nobles live up here. Nice places really. The duke's area is kind of weird... dunno, just wanted it to be different, so was going for a kind of 'walk-in closet' sort of deal. The queen consort's room isn't finished because she never came. Also the queen died. She was mad everyone else has such nice rooms. More noble rooms are to the left of the grand dining hall. - armrha
• Δ 15. Housing Quarter
  I got the design from the wiki, but goodness did this take a long time to dig, smooth, and engrave. The misc debris strewn around are stuck items from the multiple reclaims, unfortunately. I can channel to get rid of them but then I get holes everywhere. On the bottom left is another little bit of cheating: I re-hid the tile squares after building into them to get rid of the visible sand walls over there. Wanted it to look uniform. I think overall it looks good, but I had a huge mistake of making the rooms far too nice. The duke and queen constantly threw fits. The well at the end of the hall into the North block has a legendary bucket made of gems. The well to the south has a legendary chain. The waterfall runs through the center, most of the time misting anyone who runs through. Everything is engraved, but it's mostly stupid engravings. - armrha
• Δ 14. Jail
  The jail. It's as nice as I could get it: High quality furniture, high quality chains, engravings, a seat, table, bed, alcohol and food stockpiles, and each prisoner has their own WELL. It's no wonder dwarves sneak down here for their lunch hour all the time. The cells on the north are the 'maximum security' cells. The executioner and captain of the guard have offices right by the entrance, and there's a double turn heading into the jail proper, which does nothing but I imagine it as a good security measure. - armrha
• Δ 14. Tower-cap Farm, Pumping Station and River Tap
  Here you can see the end room of my tower cap farm. It's got a nice full crop at the moment. Also pictured is one leg of my 6-tile river flow to fill the reservoir under the fortress rapidly. Worth checking out if you have time. The reason for the massive diversion there is that the first design didn't work: I thought the river had enough pressure to overcome some downward stair tiles in the way but it didn't, they drain as fast as a gap. Also the water line for filling the farm and the water line for the obsidian factory is visible. - armrha
• Δ 14. Waterfall & Reservoir Access
  Here is where the waterfall accessibility ends and the reservoir access conduit begins. Still, it's a high traffic corridor so you get a lot of dwarves moving through. The grate is a wooden artifact, right above my garbage disposal chute below. The hatch cover is also an artifact. - armrha
• Δ 12. Stockpiles, Lever Room, Garbage Chute
  Garbage chute is visible here, leading down to the old demon pits. I'm sure the demons are about tired of getting stuff dropped on their heads... The huge bank of stockpiles is on these four floors, keeping the workshops away from the apartment complex. The lever room is visible here too, for some reason centrally located. All the levers have notes, but they do the following. Open the waterfall, Turn on ceiling reservoir pumps, open obsidian factory magma or water gates, close obsidian factory magma or water gates, open old floodgate to drain magma into the workshop floor (no longer useful as I drained too much magma), seal hatches to magma-using workshop rooms, turn on tower cap farm water pumping, open tower cap farm hatches, drain reservoir. - armrha
• Δ 10. Workshop Floor & Obsidian Factory Top
  All the workshops and shops are here. Magma industry on the far right. Others elsewhere. I found the magma room design to be really great, giving just enough room to stuff six workshops on magma and still allowing everyone to get around. I never have had anybody fall into the magma. The obsidian factory works pretty well... Allow magma to fill the floor just a little, then very briefly open the water spout. Water gushes onto the magma, obsidian forms, some water is left over on the above z-level but it's easy to drain. I'm thinking of better methods for the future, but for now this works pretty well. I have only fired it off like 4 times and already I am almost out of magma for it. The millstones on the top right tap into the windmill farm. Two of them are artifacts. Go fig. - armrha
• Δ 9. Catacombs Entrance
  An interesting design feature, the sentrances goes right through the reservoir. I liked that. - armrha
• Δ 9. Obsidian Factory - Floor & Reservoir
  Here's the floor of the obsidian factory. I upgraded the magma flow when I realized how slow magma moved and that I wanted magma faster. The grates right near the entrance are so I can drain magma that is left over that isn't turned into obsidian. It's an inefficient design, I didn't realize the problem until after I had spent adamantine on the mechanisms and didn't want to go back. In the future I would just move all floodgates directly up to the magma room, and reservoir the water so that only the right amount of water flows in, under high pressure. (A tall column, maybe?). I think that would give a maximally efficient design with little left over water, but some study is needed to determine when water sticks around and when it is gone.
  
  The reservoir had an interesting history. It started out much smaller, but tower caps grew on the path from the waterfall to the rest of the reservoir, breaking the loop. I caught it in time, but vowed that it'd never happen again. I could have just floored or staired the tiles, but I decided to just build it an extra z level tall to make sure it'd never be a problem. It holds an enormous amount of water. On the left, the little patch of sand was generated in reservoir 1.0 from a grown tower cap. As it was way closer to industry than previous sand sources, I walled it off and use it for glass. That's one of the reasons I was able to make so much glass for the ceiling... - armrha
• Δ 9. Waterfall Pump Array -- Floor
  Here's where an array of four pumps carries water up to the ceiling. Something amazing I noticed, when you have the entire reservoir full so it's a huge floor full of 7/7 water tiles and a z level above it full of 7/7 or near 7/7 water tiles, the pumps intake valves are fully underwater and water from above rushes in to fill the missing water instantly. This makes the pumps operate in... some kind of crazy super mode, each tick pushing 7/7 water up each tile until the entire water above it drains away. You can literally watch the surface layer tick away, and the ceiling reservoir filled in under a minute. It was very cool. - armrha
• Δ 8. Reservoir Floor
  The huge reservoir. It's... really enormous, at least two thirds of the map long. One weird thing, when filling it you tend to get steam 20 tiles up from the mist from the waterfall. Still haven't figured that out. But anyway, this keeps the fortress watered and the waterfall pumping. Waterfall pumps intake from the group of trees on the right. There's a good story about that I'll tell in the Waterfall Pumps entry. - armrha
• Δ 7. Catacombs
  The crypts here are a pretty standard design, but I like them a lot. Lesser nobles go into the golden sarchophagi on the left and right and the higher nobles, like Kings, Dukes, and Dungeon Masters go to the top. Originally soldiers only were going to go in the silver, larger rooms but I got aggravated of micromanaging it and just ended up assigning them all randomly. Still in expansion, no coffins have been added to the other new wing. - armrha
• Δ Moat Pump & Demon Pit
  Here is a lesson for the future in magma pumping. You don't want to make the conduits too wide or they'll use too much magma just filling up. But if you have too few you won't fill what you're aiming before the magma dries up. Having an inlet of 3 is enough to fill the big moat above, once I waited for 5/6 magma to reach the area around the pump. The end of the demon-waste-disposal-system is visible here too. - armrha

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• Fortress Name: Beachbells Fortress of Dawning
• Map Year: 19622 Early Spring
• Author: armrha
• Submitted by: armrha
• Date Added: 27/11/2008