Foresthold - 102 Early Spring by timmeh

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Beginning of the second year at Foresthold, my first attempt at an above-ground fortress. The main living area, farms, workshops, etc. are actually underground, but the ground level will serve as a massive barracks, as well as allow safe farming of above-ground plants, and a safe, endless water supply.

Point of Interest: 1. Entrance

The only entrance into my fortress is a five-tile wide bride over a small moat. I haven't gotten around to rigging a lever to it yet though.

At the moment, two war dogs guard the entrance, mostly to prevent thieves from sneaking in, but they will be replaced by a couple squads of crossbow-dwarves once I have a large enough army. - timmeh

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Submitted by: juice - 2009-03-19 to 102 Early Spring

Lookin good so far. What's with the logs in the river?

Submitted by: Jurph - 2009-03-20 to 102 Early Spring

I really like the spiral staircase design!

I suspect that the logs in the river fell in during moat construction: trees prevent channelling, so the trees were ordered to be chopped... then channels were designated before the logs got hauled off. I wish dwarves would move logs/stones away from the dig site like they do when placing workshops!

Anyway timmeh, it's a good solid aboveground fort. If I were on this map I'd be very worried about trees growing to block my wagon access. Are you planning to build a road? Will it be lined with watch-towers, or will the edges be sprinkled with traps?

Submitted by: timmeh - 2009-03-24 to 103 Early Spring

@juice - Thanks!

The logs are, like Jurph suggested, from loose logs being on the tiles when they were mined.

@ Jurph - Thank you! I'm considering using a smaller version for the towers.

I've started a road (thanks for the reminder!). I plan to get some watchtowers along the road, probably connected to the fortress by underground tunnels, and with no other way in/out, to prevent unwanted access through the tunnels.

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Thanks again, to both of you!

Submitted by: Maggarg - 2009-04-04 to 105 Early Spring

I like your eight towers along the road, perfect to impress those barbarian humans and elves.
I don't particularly like the smoothed floor tiles for this tileset though, they look too raised, if you know what I mean.

Submitted by: Phazer - 2009-05-07 to 110 Early Spring

Damn i like those curved walls, Really nice work youve done to youre fort.

and you got to love whats left of those youve thrown down from youre death tower.

Submitted by: timmeh - 2009-05-08 to 110 Early Spring

Thanks!

I've got the tileset on the wiki, if you want it.

[Message edited on 2009/05/08 at 10:14 by timmeh]

Submitted by: Markavian` - 2009-05-09 to 110 Early Spring

Its so... flat, at least on the surface! Very cool space you've sealed off though, and everything is building down towards an epic fort.

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Δ 16. 4. Upper-level
From here you can see the current tops of the towers, only 1 z-level above the ground ATM, as well as the wooden floor scaffolding that is being built around the inside edges of the walls, to allow the construction of the walls, before the scaffolding is removed.

Once this level is done, the next will have stone edges, possibly a backing, to prevent dwarves from dodging backwards into open space, and the outer walls will be replaced with fortifications. - timmeh
¶ 15. 1. Entrance
The only entrance into my fortress is a five-tile wide bride over a small moat. I haven't gotten around to rigging a lever to it yet though.

At the moment, two war dogs guard the entrance, mostly to prevent thieves from sneaking in, but they will be replaced by a couple squads of crossbow-dwarves once I have a large enough army. - timmeh
Δ 15. 2. Towers
None of the towers are complete yet, and they probably won't be at the end of this year either, as I hope for them to reach 6-7 z-levels up before stopping.

When they are completed, there will be four identical towers, one in each corner, as well as a gate-house shaped like an upside-down "U" over the entrance. All the towers, and the entire wall, will be made with sandstone, with the exception of the stairways, which are made with Jet. - timmeh
Δ 15. 3. The Keep
A small, two-story wooden building near the center of the fortress serves as a barracks, as well as the entrance into the underground portion of the fortress.
The second floor has beds, a weapon rack, and an ammo stockpile. The southern wall is a row of fortifications, to allow marks-dwarves to fire upon intruders.

Just to the south of the keep is the trade depot, which will probably be replaced by one built from Jet as soon as the human traders leave.

Just behind the keep are a set of cages used to house young animals, as well as those without breeding partners, to keep path-finding time to a minimum, while allowing me to keep and raise the animals.

The stairs on the side are serving as temporary scaffolding, until the roof is completed, so the rest of the beds can be installed. - timmeh
Δ 13. 5. Spiral Staircase
A 3-wide spiral staircase leads down into the underground portion of the fortress. This particular section also allows access to the temporary food storage area.

The section just below this one also serves to hold the underground farms. Only one of the plots is active at the moment, but more will be planted as new dwarves arrive, hopefully with a planter. - timmeh
Δ 10. 6. The Bottom Floor
I had originally planned to use a more complex design, but ended up deciding to stick with a modular, square based design for the underground portion of the fortress.
Each square is exactly the same size, with the exception of the stair-access rooms, which are made a bit smaller, to allow the walls to be engraved as a part of just that room.
So far, four of the designs are in use. The bedroom design, on the right and upper-right, allows 8 rooms, with a bed, and later a chest. The bedrooms are smoothed to increase value (and happiness).
The workshop design use to be a little more enclosed, but I messed up my sketches, and got the measurements wrong, so they ended up a little more open than I had planned. You can see this plan best in the bottom-middle room. The walls are smoothed to look like pillars, and may be replaced with actual pillars, if I find a material I think would fit.
The dinning room is on the middle-left, and will eventual sit 15 at a time. All the tables and chairs are Jet, unlike most of the other furnishings in the fortress, which use wood. (To save stone for the wall). The storage space in the bottom-right is about as simple as it gets, and is simply a hollow room with a pillar in the middle, in case cave-ins come back :P - timmeh

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Fortress Name: Foresthold
Map Year: 102 Early Spring
Author: timmeh
Submitted by: timmeh
Date Added: 19/03/2009