Wadedcastles v2 - 203 Early Spring by FunkyWaltDogg

Map Description:

When searching for a site I was careful to select an area with high rainfall to ensure I'd have plenty of trees. This area seems to have nearly the maximum possible amount of precipitation; rain is nearly continuous, with only the occasional pause for a minute or so.

As a result, my moat is filling up without any action on my part, due to the fact that it runs through a few ponds. It's not a huge problem, as the design I have in mind will eventually include bridges that cover the moat so I'll have control over the water level at that point.

Point of Interest: Aquifer penetration

I pierced two layers of aquifer here using the cave-in method. Unfortunately, it took me all spring and summer, with very little time for anything else, so I had no trade goods to make purchases from the first caravan. - FunkyWaltDogg

Flash Viewer (Ω)
HTML5 Viewer (α)

There are 5 comments for this map series, last post 2010-07-21

Add a Comment

Comments

Submitted by: Lord_Shadow - 2009-04-24 to 205 Early Spring

good luck starting to look like awesomeness

Submitted by: FunkyWaltDogg - 2009-04-25 to 207 Early Spring

Thanks! I am finally starting to make some real progress on the core projects.

Submitted by: ToonyMan - 2009-04-30 to 209 Early Spring

Your fort is so big and open!

Submitted by: FunkyWaltDogg - 2009-04-30 to 209 Early Spring

I didn't see the point in digging out a lot of area underground to pack stockpiles and workshops into since I'm ultimately going to be constructing buildings on the surface to house all that stuff. So for now, everything pretty much just gets plopped down wherever I've got a space.

Submitted by: Pisano - 2010-07-21 to 209 Early Spring

Really nice layout and a great seed to have magma so close to the surface. I can't figure out how you get the water up the main building with the housing though. I don't see a pumpstack but I do see pumps at the top.

DF Map Archive:

Points of Interest

Δ 15. Ground-level aquifer

( 203 Early Spring to 206 Late Winter )
I don't know how it happened, but the aquifer reaches the very top soil layer at this point. I wasn't yet ready to deal with breaching it so I built a wall to secure this part of the perimeter. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. Moat crossing
I'm going to build a bridge here, and load down this corridor with weapon traps. The design I have in mind involves forcing sieges to march above the moat on retractable bridges so that I can drown them at my leisure, but having learned from my first attempt at this design, I decided I had better build a secure crossing to use in the meantime. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. Not quite done yet
You can see that I haven't quite finished securing the perimeter, even aside from the ramp issues further to the south. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. Stubborn ramps
I dug the moat using the up-ramp method, which worked fine; however, the water is too deep to dig out the ramps. This could be a real security issue since the water is just at the level where ADD-stricken dwarves who cancel jobs at the drop of a hat won't press on through it; caravans, wildlife, and (presumably) invaders can just zip right through. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. The bare essentials
I've only put a limited amount of stuff underground, to fight cave adaptation and to restrict the digging in the soil layers before I've decided where buildings will go. I built a loom because I found some rope reed plants while foraging and I desperately needed more bags. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. Whoops
I nicked the corner of this pond but at first didn't think anything of it, based on my experience with the first attempt at Wadedcastles where ponds drained without fuss. The rainfall in this area is so high that a breached pond becomes a major water source, so I was forced to plug this hole. - FunkyWaltDogg
¶ 13. Aquifer penetration
I pierced two layers of aquifer here using the cave-in method. Unfortunately, it took me all spring and summer, with very little time for anything else, so I had no trade goods to make purchases from the first caravan. - FunkyWaltDogg

Related Maps:

Wadedcastles v2

[+] Add a map to this series.

No related entries found.

Viewer Controls

Move Map:
- Click and Drag
- LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN
- NUMPAD 4, 6, 8, 2
Change layer:
- Page Up / Page Down
Zoom Map:
- Keyboard: - =
- Numbpad: - +
(Onscreen mouse interface coming soon)

SHIFT + Key doubles keyboard scroll rate.

Problems?

Do you only see a blank space?

Get Adobe Flash Player 9 [+]

Don't have Flash?
You can download the compressed map file: 2009-04/funkywaltdogg-Wadedcastles the Gre-region6-203-0.fdf-map but you will need the .NET version of SL's DF Map Compressor to convert to the .PNG image format.

Map details:

Fortress Name: Wadedcastles v2
Map Year: 203 Early Spring
Author: FunkyWaltDogg
Submitted by: FunkyWaltDogg
Date Added: 21/04/2009