Torchgear - 116 Early Summer by Depthseeker

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Points of Interest

• Δ 22. Craftsworks

  ( 113 to 114 )
  I'd originally thought to put the craftsworks where the Leatherworks is but then wondered about the potential trouble of having both major stone-using workspaces directly in line with each other. I'd also run out of loose obsidian, so I needed to dig out a new floor anyway.
  Yes, I ran out of work stone.
  It's somewhat moot now, though, as to make up for the lack of hundreds of stonecrafts to trade with I cultivated a silk industry as well as a healthy stock of bronze and silver instruments that the elves in particular have been quite happy with. - Depthseeker

• Δ 21. Carpentry and Jeweler
  Probably the quietest workspace in the entire fortress, now that I think about it, save for the occasional order for 20-30 wood bins. - Depthseeker
• Δ 21. Housing Block

  ( 105 to 109 )
  This was the first housing block carved out, the upper-northeast. The very first smoothing in the fortress was the housings in this block (the hallways came later), and it was also my first dabbling with the use of diagonal hallway structure. I rather like how that's turned out as well. Between the four blocks on this floor and just below it, there are 71 rooms (the lower southeast is as yet unfurnished, mostly because I just dug it out last year but also to keep my idle dwarves from running around checking unclaimed coffers). - Depthseeker

• Δ 21. Masonary
  Possibly the most busy workspace in the fortress, up against the metalworks. I have a bit of a thing for actually giving my dwarves furnished rooms, and have particularly done so for the military quarter this time around. As with all workspaces, material supply is vertically adjacent. I rather like how much more efficient that's turned out to be. - Depthseeker
• Δ 21. The Great Hall

  ( 103 to 108 )
  Excavation first completed in 103, full smoothing and addition of the centerpiece in 108. The level above will eventually have the central floor removed to allow viewing of the centerpiece, possibly with full fortifications around the gap for probably the last possible "oh sh--" defense point if anyone were to survive an invasion breaching the Hall.
  Oh, and the centerpiece itself is the kanji (Chinese/Japanese character) for fire, in 77 blocks of polished bauxite over obsidian. - Depthseeker

• Δ 20. Depthseeker's Quarters
  Provided they end up suitably dwarfenly, I eventually title the trader / leader type of my initial 7 a Depthseeker. Kubuk Nishastod is currently Legendary in Appraising, Record Keeping, Organizing, Mining, Engraving, and Great in Stonecrafting. Pulls her weight, y'know.
  These quarters weigh in as Decent Quarters, Decent Dining Room, and Opulent Throne Room. This level of quality is more or less even across all three noble rooms on this floor (the two off the Hall above are currently unused and locked, just prepared in advance). - Depthseeker
• Δ 20. Kitchens and Dining Hall

  ( 104 to 108 )
  Excavated just after the Great Hall, as piling the fast-growing food stocks there was starting to get unreasonable. The Dining Hall hasn't changed since it was furnished in 104, but the kitchens have expanded twice, particularly on the lower level which was in the beginning just a basement with a butchery and a tanning shop (these have since moved to the dedicated leatherworks).
  Current prepared meal and drink stocks: 1252 and 2802 - Depthseeker

• Δ 18. Chasm Ceiling
  Excavation of the barracks a few levels down provided the granite to floor over the chasm, something I decided was likely a good idea after my budding clothing industry nearly led to my weavers going postal due to constant sun nausea. The gap in the middle is more or less central through the entire drop, and may serve as a lovely express vacation terminal for nobles in the future. - Depthseeker
• Δ 16. Leatherworks
  Originally intended as the craftsworks but re-tasked due to its position directly beneath the masonary (give or take three levels). Premium manafacture of all the kitten-leather quivers my marksdwarves will ever want (and really not much else). - Depthseeker
• Δ 16. Military Housing

  ( 108 to 110 )
  Rather than grinding out the military life in a communal barracks, my dwarves get top-end digs in exchange for their vows to eventually die in horrible and spectacular ways. These quarters result in "has slept in a fantastic bedroom" anti-tantrum thoughts for the champion swordsdwarves (and their exceptional obsidian blades).
  The elite wrestlers (in blue) are actually now champion marksdwarves that I had left training unarmed too long. - Depthseeker

• Δ 16. Silkworks

  ( 109 to 112 )
  Ah, the silkworks.
  My very first foray into the lovely world of chasm clothing, this room originally held two clothiers and two looms. I soon realized this was insufficient.
  After turning out rope reed and pig tail robes to give my budding clothiers some practice (and give my entirely naked fortress some civility), silk harvesting and production began. Soon after this I added dying to the mix (the one thing I still import is dyes), and I now employ five full-time clothesdwarves (three of which are now legendary weavers).
  The room directly below vies for the most impressive in the fortress. Torchgear currently is in possession of 787 silk cloth, as well as 769 silk mittens with several dozen having already financed previous trade.
  I'm tempted to build a large vault in the depths of the mountain, and fill it with 9,001 mittens. - Depthseeker

• Δ 16. The Military Ward

  ( 107 to 111 )
  The most extensively purpose-built floor of the fortress (until the mausoleums, anyway). Before Torchgear I typically made a single large barracks room with adjacent armory and archery range and had all my soldier sleep, live, and breath their professions, but given I had an entire level to work with it occurred to me I could fill the space with dedicated (and higher-end) military housing.
  To the west are fortifications overlooking the wall and entrance, while in the central chamber the fortifications directly overlook the trade depot. To the north and south here are the barracks and armory/archery range respectively. - Depthseeker

• ¶ 15. Main Entrance

  ( 101 to 112 )
  The long hallway and 21x21 room were, until the Great Hall was excavated in 103, the entire fortress. Stockpiles, kitchen and still, mason, carpenter, crafts shop, 6 beds and an 8-table dining area were squeezed in relatively comfortably. Granted at that time the Trade Depot was still outside.
  Following the migration to the upper spire, the hallway was widened, the depot moved in, and this area served as stockpile space for odds and ends such as leather and a few hundred bone crossbow bolts until their proper homes were arranged. It now serves solely as trade hall and overflow wood storage, with the approach flanked on either side with the bones of all the local livestock I've butchered in the past few years.
  Possibly due to the fortifications and legendary marksdwaves directly above, the elves have never complained. - Depthseeker

• Δ 15. The Wall

  ( 108 Early Summer to 111 )
  The moat was dug in entire over the course of about an in-game month in 108, helped by the fact that the two bends in it used to be large surface water pools. The two in the lower left corner were also tapped to keep the pool from running entirely dry, and over a few years rainfall has refilled the entire moat to 7/7. The bridge was also built around summer of 108. The trade road was actually completely finished in 102, with my mason chewing through granite stock in blocks before we moved upstairs.
  The wall, on the other hand, waited a few years before going up. I just...never really got around to it. Once I did, however, three masons chewing out granite blocks for a few minutes and a local stockpile led to the entire thing being done inside one season. - Depthseeker

• Δ 13. Cave River Aqueduct

  ( 110 to 111 )
  It took twenty minutes of dropping shafts through every level of the mountain in this grid before I finally found the damn river. It's a cave river head, with a waterfall from nowhere, and the thing extends all of 13 spaces from the eastern edge of my map space.
  Once I did find it, and started planning my tree farm, I ran into another minor annoyance: the aqueduct had a vein of cassiterite running right through it (the darker walls are obsidian block fill over the vein). I'd originally planned the duct to be 3-wide, not 5, but it worked out in the end.
  As you can see here, it's also now become the densest cave spider web spawn in my entire fortress; I've cleaned it out from this kind of fill twice in the past four years already (not that this is a bad thing). - Depthseeker

• Δ 13. The South Mine
  The smaller of what will eventually be two mine systems, and the one closer to the fortress proper and easier to work with. This one is Siltstone and Schist, while the larger plain to the west has a good number of Dolomite layers for local flux (and hopefully a Magnetite pocket or twelve).
  Excavating four floors of this corner of the map yielded three silver veins, one limonite, one sphalerite, one cassiterite, and one galena as well as a half dozen pockets of gems (there are probably more inside the blocks, but those can wait). - Depthseeker
• Δ 12. The Mausoleum Level

  ( 105 to 112 )
  I have a non-confrontational habit of playing DF with invaders turned off, so this entire floor is not only actually empty, but was only even necessitated by my Dungeon Master demanding a tomb.
  But since it's inevitable that piles of dwarves are going to die horrible flaming deaths, I set up the entire floor.
  The fancy tomb in the center is set aside for my Depthseeker, and has an aluminum sarcophagus (since platinum wasn't yet in supply). Somewhat to my annoyance, it's as yet only rated a "Grand Mausoleum", but a change for better furniture and proper engravings should fix that.
  The common tombs total 32 at the moment, with eight boxes, statue guardians, and a little praying well to each.
  Except they're actually querns. (In an early year, my mayor mandated four querns.) - Depthseeker

• Δ 11. The Tree Farm

  ( 111 to 112 )
  In a sort of spur-of-the-moment move, I decided to put my underground river to use and build a tree farm essentially for the hell of it; I certainly didn't have a wood shortage. The aqueduct is two levels higher and falls through the mausoleums to enter on the upper right side of the room, with the upper left holding the spillway for excess. The lever (flame brazier) on the center-right doorway controls the aqueduct, and the one on the north the spillway.
  It's a good thing I had to foresight to put in said spillway, too, as when I flooded the room I ended up using about three times as much water as was needed. The crop of tower caps visible here has been growing for about four years completely undisturbed (the doors are all locked).
  Contrarily, two years ago I cut a swath through the surface forest. I expected the elves to complain, but I guess they were too busy playing the silver flutes and bronze trumpets I'd traded to them. - Depthseeker

• Δ 10. The Forge Level

  ( 106 to 116 )
  The heart of any true dwarven fortress is the arid, sweltering magma forge (well, and the meandering mines that supply it). The metalworks proper went operational in 106 tapping the nearby pipe, and originally had just two furnaces and one forge. Around 109-110, this was expanded to four furnaces and three forges as seen now. In 115, with the opening of the south mine, raw ore storage space was found to be lacking and was thus expanded (along with processed bar storage along the little strip stockpiles in hallway centers).
  Full smoothing of the level was completed in 116 as the last level of the fortress to be beautified, and a triad of platinum statues were created to look over the works (one is directly at the PoI, the other two are in the forge proper).
  I noticed too late that I'd forgotten to smooth the outer walls of the forge chamber, and someday might bother to make some cheap granite flooring to get that done. - Depthseeker

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• Fortress Name: Torchgear
• Map Year: 116 Early Summer
• Author: Depthseeker
• Submitted by: Depthseeker
• Date Added: 06/04/2009