Wadedcastles v2 - 209 Early Spring by FunkyWaltDogg

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It took me three nights to play through 208; I am averaging 18 FPS or so thanks to my 195 or so dwarves and other assorted stuff that piles up in a fort eight years old. Fortunately I'm getting a new computer this weekend, so things should pick up soon.

In the past year I've completed housing for the last of my current nobles, finished the wall ringing the outside of the moat, installed and activated the mist generator over the dining hall and begun work on long-overdue dwarf bedrooms. I don't think I can really afford to build more than one additional layer of bedrooms right now, though; I am only a few hundred dimdums' worth of roads from triggering the arrival of the king, and bridges seem to count towards that value, so I need to get ready for him because I am going to be building a LOT of bridges.

Point of Interest: Grand dining hall

( 209 Early Spring → onwards )

Featuring forty-four clear glass tables with thrones, four sublime rose gold wells, and a mist generator, this room ensures that every single dwarf is ecstatic all the time. - FunkyWaltDogg

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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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Δ 19. New bedrooms
For the first time in several years I'm adding new bedrooms. It may be hard to tell due to the sky texture, but the outer rooms have or will have clear glass windows. The next floor up is going to have shops, I think. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 18. Mist generator
Consisting of four independent loops and powered by an underground perpetual motion plant, this device is an unqualified success. It's not hard to keep dwarves satisfied when they're constantly "comforted by a lovely waterfall". - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 17. Nobles' tower

( 209 Early Spring to onwards )
The hammerer finally has her rooms. The bedroom on top belongs to the philosopher, who doesn't really need one, but it was going to waste anyway since the hammerer doesn't require an office. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 17. Quarry access

( 209 Early Spring to onwards )
Access to the quarry is now exclusively through this stair column by way of the bridge. The stairs are walled in to prevent water from flooding the mines once I've set up the lake on the surface. That day is still far off, however. - FunkyWaltDogg
¶ 16. Grand dining hall

( 209 Early Spring to onwards )
Featuring forty-four clear glass tables with thrones, four sublime rose gold wells, and a mist generator, this room ensures that every single dwarf is ecstatic all the time. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. Forges and furnaces

( 209 Early Spring to onwards )
I reached the point where my masons were using glass blocks faster than I could make them, so I switched a few of the newest masons to glassmakers and built more furnaces. There are three smelters, seven glass furnaces and a kiln. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. More weapon traps

( 209 Early Spring to onwards )
The second corridor is trapped so that I can divert entering traffic over the wall rather than through it if necessary. I am not sure whether I will need to do that before the perimeter moat-dunking system is online, but if so I'll be ready. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. New workshops
I'm thinking of using dyed rope restraints as a "carpet" like I've seen in other forts, so I've begun training a weaver and a dyer. I already had a legendary clothier, but I've got him working full-time as well so that I can clear out some of my cloth.
In case you're wondering about all the stockpiles, I've got green glass blocks in the large pile west of the kennel, dye north of the kennel, leather and cloth north of their respective shops, weapons and armor just to the east of that, gems north of the jeweler, bars by the forges, finished goods on either side of the trade depot, and bolts east of that. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. Outer wall completed
I installed the northern and eastern sections of the outer wall after the goblins sieged in early Winter of 208. Once I've finished the apartment building and the nobles' tower, the inner wall will be the next priority. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. Sand collection

( 209 Early Spring to onwards )
These regular glass furnaces generate Collect Sand tasks. I experimented with using the sand tiles appearing on the surface for sand gathering, but it turns out that they vanish as easily as they appear, so I've switched back to my underground sand source. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. Unbelieveable rainfall
Normally I don't like the numeric flow display, but I was using it while I got the mist generator running and I decided to keep it on for this year's map so you can see just how epic the rainfall in this area is. Despite the fact that I'm draining it into the aquifer continually, the moat reaches 5/7 depth at the northeast end based entirely on the water-collecting action of these muddy pools. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. Unnecessary complication
To drain this part of the moat, I decided to do things the dwarven way and pump water over the side and into a channel to the aquifer rather than simply digging a channel directly to the moat as I did to the south. I haven't turned it on yet, as you can see. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. Current bedrooms
I've only got enough beds for sixty or so dwarves, not counting nobles. My population is nearly at the 200 cap but the dwarves don't seem to mind for the most part. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. Graves

( 209 Early Spring to onwards )
The top two dozen graves are all full. Surprisingly, I've actually lost more miners than I have hunters. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. Moat drainage

( 209 Early Spring to onwards )
All four sides of the moat now have drains installed, but none of them are hooked to levers yet. - 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
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
14. Obsidian farm... of DEATH!

( 208 Early Spring to onwards )
If you've read the PoI in 207 you'll know that I lost two miners due to what I thought at the time was their desire to take a shortcut in front of the magma flow after channeling out the centered tile. Judging from that phrasing, it's probably not hard to guess that I lost another miner, but I did finally solve the problem; it turns out that the miners, after digging the channel, immediately took a task to carry the obsidian stone they'd just created and carry it to the stockpile, then stepped down and got incinerated.
The simple, blindingly obvious solution was to cut down the ramps in the dig zone so that the miner is forced to take the long way around. This gives him enough time to realize that he can't successfully retrieve the stone without forcing him to experimentally verifty that fact. - FunkyWaltDogg
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: 209 Early Spring
Author: FunkyWaltDogg
Submitted by: FunkyWaltDogg
Date Added: 30/04/2009