Wadedcastles v2 - 207 Early Spring by FunkyWaltDogg

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This last year I got my first two goblin sieges, which as expected were routed by my weapon traps without any need for intervention by my military.

I made a small amount of progress on the primary dining/housing structure, and significantly more on the nobles' tower (every current noble but the hammerer now has rooms).

Point of Interest: Noble quarters

My countess resides here at ground level. Her rooms were finished some time ago, but I decided to go back and put in obsidian block floors so she doesn't have to put up with dirt and grass. Plus it adds a lot of value to the rooms, which will make it much easier to get them up to snuff when she becomes a duchess.
The tax collector lives two levels down, the dungeon master is one level down and the count consort is one level up. The hammerer doesn't have rooms yet; once I've completed another level I'm going to move the dungeon master up and stick the hammerer underground. - FunkyWaltDogg

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I made a small amount of progress on the primary dining/housing structure, and significantly more on the nobles' tower (every current noble but the hammerer now has rooms).</map-description>
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    <poi-description>My countess resides here at ground level.  Her rooms were finished some time ago, but I decided to go back and put in obsidian block floors so she doesn't have to put up with dirt and grass.  Plus it adds a lot of value to the rooms, which will make it much easier to get them up to snuff when she becomes a duchess.
The tax collector lives two levels down, the dungeon master is one level down and the count consort is one level up.  The hammerer doesn't have rooms yet; once I've completed another level I'm going to move the dungeon master up and stick the hammerer underground. </poi-description>
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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.

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Points of Interest

Δ 16. Future dining hall
I didn't make as much progress as I would have liked on the dining hall, because I was devoting most of my efforts to the nobles' tower.
Each of the wells is built on a rose gold block and includes a golden chain and a silver bucked, except for the centered well which has an artifact pine bucket.
The stockpile at ground level is for prepared meals, but it isn't being used yet. Once the dining hall is complete, or perhaps if I run out of room in the main food storage, I'll set it to actively pull meals. - FunkyWaltDogg
15. Housing tower under construction

( 206 Early Spring to 208 Late Winter )
I've begun building the tower most of my dwarves will be living in. Current bedrooms are underground. The dining room will go on the next level up, which is also where the wells will be. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. Magma works

( 207 Early Spring to 208 Late Winter )
I've got four glass furnaces making green glass blocks, a kiln, three smelters and three forges. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. More landscaping
I had several immigrant miners in sore need of training, so I decided to go ahead and finish leveling the area within the moat. I dug out the ponds rather than channeling over them for speed; I might come back later and fill them with wooden walls or something. - FunkyWaltDogg
¶ 15. Noble quarters
My countess resides here at ground level. Her rooms were finished some time ago, but I decided to go back and put in obsidian block floors so she doesn't have to put up with dirt and grass. Plus it adds a lot of value to the rooms, which will make it much easier to get them up to snuff when she becomes a duchess.
The tax collector lives two levels down, the dungeon master is one level down and the count consort is one level up. The hammerer doesn't have rooms yet; once I've completed another level I'm going to move the dungeon master up and stick the hammerer underground. - FunkyWaltDogg
15. Sand collection

( 206 Early Spring to 208 Late Winter )
These seven regular glass furnaces generate Collect Sand tasks. Right now the designated collection area is at the sand layer of the quarry stairs, but spots of sand are beginning to appear on the surface so I'll probably use those eventually. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. Weapon trap alley

( 207 Early Spring to 208 Late Winter )
The weapon traps repelled my first two goblin sieges without any trouble at all. The guard dogs proved to be worse than useless against a siege (being primarily intended to catch kobolds), so I moved them inside in the interests of not having to replace them so often. - FunkyWaltDogg
14. Magma reservoir

( 206 Early Spring to onwards )
Magma is stored here for easy access, both by the forges and for future projects. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. Moat drainage

( 207 Early Spring to 208 Late Winter )
I've installed drains on three sides of the moat, but I still haven't hooked up any of the floodgates yet. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. New barracks
I've got less than half the number of bedrooms I need, so I've built another barracks to tide my newcomers over until more rooms are ready in the tower. The beds are all good quality, and most dwarves seem to be doing okay. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. Noble tombs

( 207 Early Spring to onwards )
The countess and count consort have tombs here. The dungeon master has one next to the obsidian farm. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. Obsidian farm
I lost a miner each of the first two times I reset the farm in identical circumstances; channeling out the centered tile. Both miners stood to the west side (next to the clothing item, where the wall is now), then walked down one level diagonally southeast towards the exit and were incinerated by magma. In my defense, the first miner managed to crawl back up to the spot where she'd channeled from, and I assumed her baby (which also died) had gotten loose and she'd died trying to rescue it. Once the second miner died from being too lazy to walk one tile out of the way of the lava, I figured it out.
To correct the problem I built a wall on the offending tile, and I've designated a high-traffic pathway on this level as well as a restricted area on the next level down on the tiles closest to the magma channel. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. Power plant

( 207 Early Spring to 209 Late Winter )
The power generated here is intended to be used for a mist generator above the dining hall. It probably won't be used for a while, but I wanted to go ahead and build it before I forgot about it and built or dug something in the way. - FunkyWaltDogg
14. Moat access

( 205 Early Spring to onwards )
This room and two others like it (so far) provide access to the moat that can be locked down via floodgate. - FunkyWaltDogg

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Fortress Name: Wadedcastles v2
Map Year: 207 Early Spring
Author: FunkyWaltDogg
Submitted by: FunkyWaltDogg
Date Added: 25/04/2009