Bustsculpted - 318 Early Spring by hactar1

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Points of Interest

• Δ 153. 02 - Dome (front view)
  This gives a good sense of the magnitude of the dome's height. - hactar1
• Δ 30. 19 - Philosopher's house
  The philosopher (a cheerful man, who worhips Acob the god of fish, water, festivals, dance, and song) lives and dines in a cabin dug into the mountainside, overlooking the fortress through two clear glass windows.
  
  I built his house over the mining shaft that I created to get iron safely back to the main fortress. Eventually, I discovered via exploratory shafts that it is also located directly above the eerie glowing pits! - hactar1
• Δ 26. 18 - New Barracks
  The new barracks were built over the ramp from the entrance area to the temple plaza, because the old barracks, on the other side of the entrance area, were getting overcrowded. The massive armory took up some of the space over there. - hactar1
• Δ 25. 05 - The Castle
  The castle is constructed above-ground from felsite, with smooth alunite block floors and green glass doors. The entire royal family (Queen, King Consort, and the 8 children they've had since moving in) live and work on the first two floors, along with some of the fortress guard. The Royal Advisor lives and works on the second and third floors.
  
  The throne room has a glistening silver floor, with a golden throne and several valuable statues. Here you can see the Queen and King consort, with four of their kids, entertaining an elven diplomat, who has the audacity to sit in the Queen's throne. Maybe I'll chop down 101 trees in retaliation.
  
  South of the Queen's dining room is her own private commode, a golden hatch cover, the water beneath which is continually flowing out into the stream with the moat water.
  
  Attached is the top of the main staircase and the two lookout towers, which house various nobles' offices, and make up the highest point of the fortress. - hactar1
• Δ 25. 13 - The temple and plaza
  The temple was constructed to celebrate the hard-won victory over the demons, and contains masterwork obsidian statues representing all seven dwarven gods worshipped by residents of Bustsculpted. The altar area is 2 stories hollow, with an obsidian altar one level above the crowd. The nobility have assigned chairs on the balcony, one level up.
  
  The building is constructed out of obsidian blocks, mined by flooding a magma pool. The floors are alunite, the doors are green glass, and there are colored gem windows. The roof is green glass, and the philosopher (who owns the altar) orders goblin prisoners to be slaughtered by dragons on the roof as offerings to the gods, not to mention a grand display for the attending masses below.
  
  The grand plaza, graced by an artifact bone statue, is a favorite location for dwarves to meet, and briefly enjoy the outdoors. It is constructed of cobaltite, cinnabar, alunite, and microcline, with pure gold borders. - hactar1
• Δ 24. 04 - Food production
  The kitchens, farms, and breweries are dug into the black sand of the upper soil layers, for convenient, irrigation-free farming. Dining rooms are one level down, surface farms are one level up, and a well is just to the south. Just to the right of the well is a public toilet (hatch cover) that can be flushed out into the artificial stream with the moat overflow.
  
  I went for about 3 years without farming, once, but 250 dwarves require a constant supply of food and drink. - hactar1
• ¶ 23. 01 - Trade depot and the Grand Dome
  The last major architectural feature to be added to Bustsculpted was the Grand Dome, a 6-interior-story hollow dome that encloses the rose gold trade depot and 16 masterpiece stone statues. It is constructed entirely of felsite blocks with a roof of green glass. Atop the dome is an exceptional Adamantine statue representing a skull totem, the symbol of Obok Astel. - hactar1
• Δ 22. 03 - Main Gate
  Green glass ramps and microcline drawbridges bring visitors up to the entrance level of the fortress, past four exceptional golden statues and two tame dragon guardians on the first level (one of the dragons is currently on top of the temple, getting ready to devour some goblin prisoners.)
  
  A fortified catwalk above between the imposing felsite towers can rain death on any invaders lucky enough to get this far. - hactar1
• Δ 22. 06 - Industrial Center
  Once bustling with activity, but now mostly unused, is the light industrial complex, where crafts, clothing, and furniture is made. - hactar1
• Δ 21. 07 - Catacombs
  Every dwarf who dies at Bustsculpted, citizen and invader alike, is interred in the catacombs. All dwarves are re-united in death. - hactar1
• Δ 21. 12 - Entrance road and valley bridge
  The green glass road leading up to the fortress is dominated by a fortified microcline bridge, which spans the natural valley and the artificial brook through it. Traders must cross it, and invaders must chose between getting killed here or in the mountain pass to the west. The bridge fortifications are accessible underground, without having to exit the fort during a siege.
  
  The road is flanked by microcline pillars, to channel the traders' wagons, and copper road segments. - hactar1
• Δ 21. 14 - Drowning pool
  Here, prisoners can be disposed of by drowning, their bodies subsequently flushed into the chambers below. The adjacent room can house animals to unleash on the prisoners. I once unleashed four cave crocodiles on 12 goblins who were struggling to stay afloat... the crocs won. The goblins won then next encounter, against nearly 20 rhesus macaques and young. As for the zombie dragon... well you can guess how that turned out. - hactar1
• Δ 20. 08 - Honeycomb and the zoo
  To the left is a the honeycomb, a popular place to hold parties and hang out while not working, which is most of the time for most dwarves in this luxurious fortress. Some of the statues were recently toppled by inexplicably rampaging tame cave crocodiles.
  
  To the right is what is left of the zoo after I decided to pit my tame animals against too many goblin prisoners. - hactar1
• Δ 19. 09 - Shopping Center
  Annoyingly, dwarves refuse to wear new clothes unless they can buy them in stores. And only about half of stores created are clothing stores. So here's the dwarven mall, where they can also buy trinkets and goblinwear they have no use for. - hactar1
• Δ 19. 11 - Waterworks
  The waterworks of Bustsculpted are a byzantine, over-engineered warren of mechanics, access tunnels, tubes, hatches, and pressure plates. They were built over several years with ever-increasing requirements and continuous design refinements, much like most software.
  
  Water from the underground river is used to pump itself (take that, thermodynamics!) up to the entry level of the fortress, where most of it is pumped via windmill into the moat, and some is used to keep the well fresh.
  
  The well is kept at a 5/7 water level, with the excess draining down through a series of pipes and eventually into the outside stream. Yes, I did add a settling tank to the design... I mentioned over-engineered, didn't I?
  
  The moat water flushes two toilets previously mentioned, and supplies an artificial stream flowing across the valley in front of the fortress, which also feeds the outside stream. - hactar1
• Δ 17. 10 - Living Quarters
  The sleeping quarters are 5 levels below the industrial buildings, to avoid noise complaints. Higher-rent rooms are near the center, with cheaper rooms tending to be toward the outside. - hactar1
• Δ 15. 15 - Heavy Industry
  I built my heavy magma industries all the way out here at the surface-visible magma pipe, not knowing that a magma pool lay right beneath my nose. Little bother, this worked out well. All metal and glass-working is done here.
  
  Several levels above is a secondary sleeping/dining area, for industrial workers who want to live near their work. - hactar1
• Δ 15. 17 - Hidden Fun Stuff
  I was fortunately able to correctly deduce the location of the glowing pits by following the adamantine veins, and therefore tackle the demons with a great deal of pre-planning, not to mention adamantine equipment.
  
  Firstly, traitorous dwarves were sealed up in the engraved chamber, to be the first victims of the demons when they were released. I took great pains to devise a way to release them safely, by dropping a cave-in block through the floor of a water-filled chamber from several levels above.
  
  The plan was to force the demons to navigate the twisty maze of water-filled channels, while being fired upon by my champion marksdwarves wielding adamantine bolts. Of course, fire spirits can fly, so that plan didn't work. The marksdwarves made a good showing, but they were pushed back.
  
  My champion fighters, all decked out in exceptional or masterwork adamantine everything, had to fight them hand-to-hand, with several casualties due to fire. I had designed an exit to the battleground through water pouring in from above, which extinguished some but not all burning dwarves who were fleeing.
  
  Eventually, the fire spirits were defeated, but I had to journey into the pits (after flooding them to extinguish the fires) to track down and defeat the boss demon, who was kind of a pushover compared to the fire spirits. - hactar1
• Δ 14. 16 - Prison
  The prison is located in a remote part of the fortress, near the swelter of the magma pipe and the constant hammering of the forges. Prison cells immediately adjacent to the magma are used to contain any traitorous dwarves who join the goblins in one of their many seiges. - hactar1

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• Fortress Name: Bustsculpted
• Map Year: 318 Early Spring
• Author: hactar1
• Submitted by: hactar1
• Date Added: 29/01/2009