Weaverwalls - 308 Mid Autumn by Stromko

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I set out with the idea of starting on top of a mountain and ramping down in order to create a huge crater, with a spire in the center of natural stone from where my dwarves could slaughter adversaries with a hail of bolts.

I ended up only ramping down about 8 levels, partly because ramping the ground is very laggy and partly because the logistics can be a little tricky.

Trivia: Since I dug out every one of 35 Z levels, the original export of the image took up 1.4 gigs on disk. SL's converter cut it down to 222 kbs. Wow.

Trivia 2: When first I decided to abandon this fort, I wanted to see it fail in some 'legitimate' fashion, so I removed one section of the tower near the ground so that everything on top would fall one Z-level, remaining mostly intact (But I wanted to see if the dwarves would all take falling / collapse injuries and start a tantrum spiral). after leaving DF sitting for about 10 minutes at a time, this collapse always seemed to just lock it up so I gave up on that idea. :)

Point of Interest: The Top

Originally this level was one of the mountain peaks, and the highest Z level of the mountain. The dwarves dug down from here. The extensions to the NW,NE,SE,SW are artificially constructed walls/floors for marksdwarf towers so they could reach out and touch the gobbos. - Stromko

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¶ 35. The Top
Originally this level was one of the mountain peaks, and the highest Z level of the mountain. The dwarves dug down from here. The extensions to the NW,NE,SE,SW are artificially constructed walls/floors for marksdwarf towers so they could reach out and touch the gobbos. - Stromko
Δ 32. The Lonely Peak
I could've used this peak to the southwest for the tower instead, but I needed a spot that was closer to the center of the map so that it could be surrounded from all sides by that huge dwarf-made crater. - Stromko
Δ 31. The Dining Level
This is really the only level to receive a proper 'aesthetics' makeover. The random microcline and basalt tables were replaced by iron, the corners were removed and replaced with green glass blocks to let in the light, and one wall has been engraved over for each ... uhh... 7 years of the fortress.

Looks like I forgot to do that this year, or sweep out all the old turtle shells from their meals by decorating skull totems with expertly worked turtle shell. - Stromko
Δ 27. Crater Bottom
To the north we have the new entrance to the mining works, a ramped passage going all the way down to SPOILERZ.

The weapon traps south of the depot are a random assortment of invader weapons, and the section of the road in the (dwarf-made) canyon is golden. The rest is basalt, not obsidian, and that road ends as soon as the forest does. - Stromko
Δ 24. Queen's Chambers
The queen's bedroom in the northwest has a few engraved pillars and walls laden with gem veins. The random light-blue furniture is microcline.

I got these rooms up to Royal through a combination of needless masterwork thrones (to sit her suitors perhaps and hold counsel in the throne room), statues, a golden throne or two, and several artifact hatches to nowhere.

The stockpile to the southwest of the golden throne is for skull totems made by a legendary carver. Mostly from violet xelics (mean bug-men c/o Civ Forge mod), chaos dwarves, few gobbos and unlucky human or elven traders. - Stromko
Δ 23. The Retired Jails
Weaverwalls briefly toyed with the concept of crime and punishment, but the position of captain of the guard was dissolved following the death of the first champion Marksdwarf.

She was taken away from active soldiering duty and attached to one of the golden chains here because some random jeweler wasn't making incendiarium thrones for the Duke's Consort, but refused to sleep (on the masterwork bed nearby) because her baby was left on the ground somewhere and she couldn't reach it. After many half-hearted attempts at being freed by sympathetic dwarves to shut up her constant hollaring of job cancellations, she went into melancholy, causing a general malaise in the military and leading to several more deaths of powerful dwarves.

The captain of the guard, formerly a random second-tier miner relegated to hauling, was simply demoted back into hauling. - Stromko
Δ 22. Duchy Level
To the northwest and clockwise to the east is the Duke's chambers, to the southeast and clockwise to the west is the Duke's Consort's chambers.

She is entombed with all her many trinkets, probably crowns, because of her many mandates against the exportation of crowns. Due to the impact on trade this mandate was ignored. Along with the hammerer, she was sentenced to death for the blood of the many criminals created, and hammered, by this pointless mandate.

The Tax Collector was allowed to live, due to the popular 'no rent' policy and the resulting high standard of living quarters. - Stromko
Δ 19. Democracy Level
To the southwest in this tower section is the mayor's modest chambers, and to the south, on the right, is the hammerer's chambers. He's rotting in there right now because he decided to beat the sh** out of several criminals despite there being no captain of the guard.

To the west is the mayor's office, cluttered with his random junk and an assortment of tables and chairs for his counsel. - Stromko
Δ 15. Water / Farm Works
The water is fed directly from the brook, the well uses a golden bucket and an artifact mechanism. It rarely gets used so not too many happy thoughts from that.

The farms grow plump helmets, pig tails, and glow caps (from Civilization Forge). In crude terms, underground sun-berries for booze.

The three Z-levels above are reserved food stocks, breweries, kitchens. - Stromko
Δ 13. Lavaworks
The cramped metal-working level eventually provided many full suits of armor from our legendary armorsmith Goden Lushslings, and great hammers and crossbows from Thob Paddledblowing.

The northeastern forge that breaks from the general design of the tower is for decorating selected suits of armor with gold and copper. Most of these decorations are images of "Packarrows the Mirthful Pillar", a crossbow that also incorporates dog bone and cat leather decorations. It's also decorated with Basalt images of sun berries, and images of diamonds.

It is currently being wielded by a marksdwarf with a paltry four kills.

The golden crossbow known as "The Length of Ankles" is credited with eighteen notable kills. Style's more important than blunt force when it comes to marksdwarves, remember that. - Stromko
Δ Bottom of the Map
I placed the basic graveyard here, one level above are the golden sarcophagi assigned to each one of my champion soldiers.

Trivia: The broad passageway to the south was originally used for all my mining works. It led to a stairway that went *24* z levels up to the chalk fields south of my fortress proper. Once I realized I wasn't going to make the crater any deeper than it is now, this became rather pointless. I was done making steel by then so I didn't need the chalk or its rich magnetite and lignite veins by then. - Stromko

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Fortress Name: Weaverwalls
Map Year: 308 Mid Autumn
Author: Stromko
Submitted by: Stromko
Date Added: 05/04/2009