Mysterylances - 217 Mid Autumn by NFossil

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Points of Interest

• Δ 37. Tower - Top plumbing
  Channels used to extend over the side towers in the casting process. Now the magma channel has been torn down and the water channel feeds the tower's waterfall. - NFossil
• Δ 35. Tower - Palace
  The Queen isn't here yet. We planned to get the offering though this year, but the caravan didn't come due to an orc siege. The two palace levels contain some of the best artifact furnitures in the fort. - NFossil
• Δ 33. Tower - Middle plumbing
  Redirects the palace waterfall into the central waterfall that goes through much of the tower. The rest of the space would probably be food/drink storage. On the Eastern wall is the top of the well access tunnel which runs down some 20 levels, having 3 access points serving different parts of the main tower. (I just pretend that dwarves really need water besides booze.) It is really slow to pull the water up here, but at least you don't have to go down 20 levels :) - NFossil
• Δ 31. Tower - Noble quarters
  Duchess/consort, tax collector, hammerer, DM. I will be building some form of execution device so these rooms won't stay occupied for long! (Except for the good DM) I also read on the wiki about the Advisor, so his/her room has also been built. - NFossil
• Δ 29. Tower - Founders' rooms
  Two levels were set aside for the Original Seven, each divided into 4 parts for bedroom and dining room. The last part left is the artifact storage. - NFossil
• Δ 24. Tower - Bedrooms
  Large bedrooms in the main tower are given to soldiers, legendary workers, and large famlies. Small ones in the side towers are free-for-all (I play with economy off). Room values seem pretty good due to obsidian walls/floors and exceptional/masterwork furniture from my legendary carpenters/glassmakers. - NFossil
• Δ 20. Tower - Grand meeting hall
  Contains all the lever controls, just like the old meeting hall. It also opens to the garbage chute. A retracting bridge 3 levels below allows retrieval of mis-dumped stuff, but after that it's a direct fall through the magma pipe to the centre of the world. One flaw in the design - the cap over the magma pipe had to be opened for the chute, causing refilled magma to flow back in and slowing down the process despite magma still refilling at the source. I should have built a retracting bridge over the opening. Well, anyone working there for any longer would probably encounter the deadly magma splash, so I don't really regret not having built the bridge that much. - NFossil
• ¶ 18. Tower - Defense ring

  ( 217 to 218 )
  The lower level is for safe access and ammo storage while marksdwarves shoot from the upper level. Three champion marksdwarves are getting used to the new position, leaving invaders at the old gate as EXP for the less experienced soldiers. They will eventually be ready up here when we tear down the temporary wall surrounding the construction site. Edem, our best marksdwarf, has taken out two giant eagles (one zombie, one skeletal) from the Ring. - NFossil

• Δ 16. Tower - Entrance/trade tower
  A small side tower containing the trade depot on the second level links the main tower and the outside world. It can be closed like an airlock. Catapults fire out from the ground level. - NFossil
• Δ 15. Underground - Entrance
  Fortified entrance to the original fort. Four towers for ammo storage, sealed roof against undead giant eagles, drawbridge, trap corridor, year-old arrows/bones/rubbish, trade depot to the South, etc. - NFossil
• Δ 14. Tower - Grand entrance hall
  4 levels of empty space! Pillars! Spiral stairs! The base level has storage for trade goods. - NFossil
• Δ 14. Underground - Initial area
  This is where the old fort began. The large rooms contained the few initial workshops and beds until more space was dug out. The farm plots and barracks have already been torn down, and the trade goods storage won't stay for long. Kind of sad to look at this. - NFossil
• Δ 14. Underground - Riverside
  A patch of land near a "natural-looking" diversion of the cave river, now empty except for the reservoir. This will be the Tower's only safe linkage to the old fort and has the new sand collection area. Two glass furnaces only for queuing up sand collection jobs have been built, and more to come. - NFossil
• Δ 13. Underground - Old training hall
  Has archery targets on the top, training pumps and kennels below. The tower hasn't got training pumps yet, but it soon will, probably near the shooting range. - NFossil
• Δ 12. Underground - Old tower-cap farm
  I've been making "natural-looking" cave river diversions inspired by a fort I saw on the map archive. Forgot which one though. However, for the Tower itself I decided to use more efficient, mechanical-looking straight channels. - NFossil
• Δ 11. Tower - Power plant
  8 perpetual motion units wouldn't power all the magma and water pumps at once, but now that magma supply to the top is cut off in order to refill the magma tube, it's more than enough for them and two millstones. - NFossil
• Δ 11. Underground - Shooting range
  For both archery and catapults. I put them away from the tower out of noise concerns. I also tried an execution range for the nobles - apparently the catapults wouldn't work at this close range. - NFossil
• Δ 10. Underground - Old bedrooms
  Beds have already been taken away. The central shaft for the waterfall has been built, but due to the tower idea coming up, the pumps and channels were never built. - NFossil
• Δ 10. Underground - Tomb
  Just like the bedrooms, these have side chambers for my favourite dwarves. Go down one level for the Original Seven, and two for the nobles. - NFossil
• Δ 9. Tower - Farms
  Muddied by temporary not draining the waterfall. Only surface plants can be grown due to dug out tiles never returning to "dark underground" even after being encased in obsidian. To the West is our new tower-cap farm, and we could go back to underground plants in there if necessary. To the East is the remnants of the old power plant used for the casting process. - NFossil
• Δ 8. Tower - Water supply & draining
  The cave river was redirected to flow directly through the tower to supply the waterfall and wells. The waterfall drains into a separate tunnel, part of which can be shut off to form a reservoir in case maintenance is required. Underground parts of the water tunnel are paved to prevent tower-cap growth, so once everything's running, maintenance should be unlikely. However, some undead stuff managed to get into the channel despite the fortification at the source. Maybe it's something to do with the "water pushing stuff through obstacles" bug. They never came down the stairs and bother my dwarves though, so I left them alone. - NFossil
• Δ 8. Underground - Forges
  I pumped in the magma for the forges, instead of connecting the channel directly to the magma pipe. Hence they stayed operational after the tube was drained. - NFossil
• Δ 7. Underground - Old obsidian farm
  It stoped functioning and became a mini tower-cap farm since the magma pipe was drained and sealed. Its water delivery system was converted to cast the first level of the tower. Currently walled off in case the refilling goes wrong. - NFossil
• Δ 2. Tower - Forges
  This is the first and lowest level of the tower, and was cast without a mold, directly into the remaining magma, relying on new wall pieces "sticking to" existing ones. I first planned to build a floor, but abandoned the idea after losing a dwarf to magma splash. The NW corner was the partial mold built before turing to casting directly. The casting managed to seal off the source of the magma, allowing the dwarves to work without need to constantly keep the magma level down. Beware that when the bottom is dug out for the magma furnaces, some magma may still splash up in the refilling process. Luckily, no dwarf was nearby when that happened, and as long as you build the soild tile of the furnace directly above the channel, no more magma will come up after the furnace is finished. - NFossil
• Δ 1. Underground - Silk!
  Cave spiders (not GCS, fortunately) are common near the chasm. This area, planned to be the drainage for the waterfall, has been completely webbed. Many dwarves and animals have been bitten and are stunned randomly now and then. This is one major reason that we must move out. We have no need for pig tails or rope reeds, though. - NFossil

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Map details:

• Fortress Name: Mysterylances
• Map Year: 217 Mid Autumn
• Author: NFossil
• Submitted by: NFossil
• Date Added: 26/05/2009