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Points of Interest

• "Internal plumbing" for noble suites

  ( 1053 to onwards )
  You can see the channels connecting the noble suites here. The floodgate in the top-left feeds water into the channels (which are between the walls of the noble suites), and a lever outside each suite controls the three floodgates in that suite. - SL

• Chasmer, mainly for nobles

  ( 1063 to onwards )
  The original purpose of this device was to chasm goblin prisoners. I have not as yet come up with a truly effective means of accomplishing this, but it has found another purpose: As an environmentally friendly non-polluting noble disposal machine.
  
  The way this works is that a noble is asked to please repeatedly pull a lever in that room up top, and once they're there, someone else pulls a lever to retract these bridges over the chasm. Meanwhile, the noble is told "Oh! We don't need you pulling this lever anymore."
  
  If they cooperate, they walk into the bridges, and at some point in their journey the bridges vanish, dropping them into the chasm.
  
  In the event that they make it to the end before the bridges vanish, we just ask them to go back and pull those levers again. They turn around, and then fall shortly thereafter.
  
  We have, over the years since this was first finished, executed dozens of nobles with it. However, it isn't foolproof.
  
  Occasionally a noble refuses to leave the lever room. Either he's admiring his lever, or the bridges vanished in front of his eyes, and he's terrified of going onto them once they reappear. The first noble to do this was a broker, and he sat in the lever room for quite a while. Eventually I stopped waiting for him to leave, and went off to do other things, and he snuck out. He was allowed to live, for a time, since his demands initially weren't TOO outrageous (he wanted marble items made, but I didn't know at the time I sent him here that simply digging out marble tiles counted - once I found that out, he got his reprieve).
  
  Plus, the broker loves to tell me exactly how ridiculously much profit the fool traders think they're getting for being my garbage disposal service - I fill their wagons with as much narrow/large/etc clothing and leather armor as I can manage to carry to the depot in time, and buy whatever I have to in order to make room in their wagons for the junk. With the elves, that meant buying barrels of useless gnomeblight and goblin salve. With the hunams, I bought mostly exotic booze and herbs, which I would have bought anyways (along with a bit more gnomeblight). - SL

• Containment area for unhappy dwarves

  ( 1063 to onwards )
  This is a self-contained mini-village for unhappy dwarves. The idea is to lock them away from masterwork items and let them rehabilitate in here. They can farm, brew, cook, and potentially construct carpenter and mason items as well. (We were also going to have them detail the area, but floor detailing jobs seem to be grabbed and promptly cancelled by dwarves who can't reach the area)
  
  In 1063, all the supplies had yet to be moved in, and regular farmers were helping with the initial farming. The bulkheads also hadn't been sealed. The bridges you see here are raiseable, the left set by the left lever, and the right set by the right lever. The doors are intended to be locked to prevent dwarves from walking onto the bridges while they're being raised, but as you can see, they are somewhat blocked by rocks at the moment. The levers are fully operational, however.
  
  The purpose of the 8x6 area between the two bulkheads is to allow supplies to be exchanged - it was designed to be, and eventually was used as, an airlock.
  
  However, for a few years, it was fully open due to a lack of meals, seeds, and unhappy dwarves (We had a few earlier who rehabilitated by helping with farming here, but they did make trips outside the area to get seeds).
  
  Unhappy dwarves or anyone else to be confined in here are given a bed in the bedroom up top, and assigned a variety of jobs to carry out in the area (farming, making barrels, brewing, and cooking, mostly).
  
  As of 1068, we have one pick in the containment area, but haven't managed to get an axe in there yet. We also only have one kind of seed (cave wheat), along with plump helmet seeds in the airlock, but annoyingly, the contained dwarf is failing to move any of them into the barrels in the containment area.
  
  In 1068, we appointed Momuz Eseshast to be the official Warden of the rehabilitation/containment area. She will remain in the area even when there are no unhappy dwarves there (unfortunately this is rather necessary - whenever a new Captain of the Guard arrives at the fort, he/she immediately says "I SMELL A PRODUCTION ORDER VIOLATOR" and proceeds to try to beat up Momuz). - SL

• Drawbridges and walls over river

  ( 1053 to onwards )
  The white bridges over the river are raised bridge-walls, acting as railings to keep dwarves from being washed downriver and to keep monsters out of the main entrance. The grey bridges between them are actually all hooked up to a lever, and can be raised on command to block the way into the fort. - SL

• Farms

  ( 1053 to onwards )
  These farms are naturally flooded each spring. - SL

• Δ Meeting Room for trade discussions

  ( 1069 Mid Summer to onwards )
  The room with all the tables and chairs is our meeting room for trade discussion. In the image from mid-summer 1069, you can see the Guildmaster and Merchant Princess negotiating here. - SL

• Paved River

  ( 1059 to onwards )
  We paved over the river here with 1-tile bridges in order to complete our hallways here. The white bridges are barriers, keeping dwarves from being pulled into the remaining parts of the river. - SL

• Permawave generator

  ( 1067 to onwards )
  This loop (with channels in it) is what generated the permawaves in 1067 (which were undone by a temporal discontinuity). It was supposed to generate a flood followed by an antiflood, but apparently Bad Things happened when it hit a wall or something (It was hard to tell, since I could only see the flood water when it was on the bridges over the river!).
  
  In the future, it may be used to generate a fortress-wide permaflood, to be destroyed by an antiflood generated elsewhere, although this would be a rather drastic thing to do. We would have to evacuate all our dwarves to a contained area first, which may be difficult. - SL

• South cage trapped river crossing

  ( 1053 to onwards )
  I have several trapped crossings like this, everywhere there's a crossing over the river - These channels force anything that crosses the outside river to go through the cage traps in order to move north or south on the east side of the river. This protects dwarves harvesting lumber east of the river from wild animals. - SL

• Steam chamber and heating experiments

  ( 1063 to onwards )
  This rather large chamber, shown in 1063 without steam (Fill the channels with water before turning on the magma to prevent steam) is designed essentially to create a massive amount of steam. This steam is of course utterly harmless, as far as I can tell, but it also serves two other purposes: There are a few caged goblins here, for possible exhibition (once the bridges are completed), and there are some metal armor pieces laid out along here to test whether magma or steam near items will raise their temperature eventually to their melting point (though I doubt it will).
  
  Also, if it turns out that steam generation results in a low framerate (it did appear to when I tested it for a minute or so), I'll leave it like this instead.
  
  This has a minor flaw - one of the channels that was supposed to be for magma is split by columns, so the magma didn't get into it. Water, instead, fills it in this image. This makes the steam generation incomplete, but we corrected this later. - SL

• Trapped outside trade depot

  ( 1053 to onwards )
  Our trade depot is located outside the fortress (but cut into the rock), and is protected by a several cage traps and channels. The channels force wildlife coming from the west side of the map into the traps. The additional traps south of the depot protect the path to the fortress entrance. - SL

• Vault

  ( 1063 to onwards )
  The vault now contains an artifact floodgate, several iron anvils, a cute elven willow amulet (they engraved it with an image of elves traveling), and some cages that the dwarves will hopefully eventually remove (I was trying to induce artifact droppage by ratman attack, but it didn't work well - one ratman refused to fight, as he went stark raving mad due to his long captivity, two others died in their cages before being released, and the other wound up being released in the stockpile due to lousy releasing AI (the tamer brought an empty cage, swapped it for the ratman cage in the vault, took the ratman cage to the captured humanoids stockpile, and released him there. A marksdwarf stationed outside the vault at the time shot that ratman to death moments later.). - SL

• Waste Management

  ( 1059 to onwards )
  Here you can see where refuse goes. The stockpiles behind the doors (the whole left side is one stockpile, the right side has 3 or so because the wall moves) hold stuff which can cause miasma. The rest of the stockpiles are only for bones, shells, and skulls.
  
  Due to the way this is set up, no dwarf is ever exposed to miasma from decaying refuse in here. - SL

• World flooder with integrated de-perma-flooder

  ( 1059 to onwards )
  The two-high tunnel with the channel in it is the world flooder. The twisty tunnel below it is used to generate an anti-flood. To generate an antiflood, first, the two floodgates on the river for the antiflooder are opened to flood the anti-flood generator. Second, once the whole antiflood loop is filled with water, they are closed, generating the anti-flood. Third, immediately after the floodgates close, the floodgate on the left connecting the anti-flood tunnels to the world flooder is opened. When the anti-flood reaches that open floodgate, it passes into the world flooder and proceeds to eliminate all connected floodwater.
  
  The principles important for this device are: (a) an antiflood will not be generated if the flood is a permaflood, and (b) an antiflood which has already been generated continues propagating even if the flood it is consuming becomes a permaflood after the antiflood has been created, (c) connecting the flood in the antiflood loop to the permaflood turns it into a permaflood and provides a way for the antiflood to pass into the original permaflood.
  
  The tunnels above and below those ones are the incomplete channel re-fillers for this area. (There are more to the south, connected to the other channels)
  
  This was mostly built as an experiment, as water floods outside don't cause drowning. I'm pondering how best to convert it to use magma, once I dig there. I'm thinking the best way may be to use a bridge over the north re-filler to channel the magma into the world flooder tunnel. (Liquid will not flow under an aqueduct, but a bridge should work. And if not, we can just raise it when we need to use the re-filler)
  
  We shouldn't need an anti-flood generator to de-flood magma, by the way, since it shouldn't become a permaflood (unless it got back into the fort and managed to reach the magma flow or another magma channel). - SL

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Map details:

• Fortress Name: Tombsclub
• Map Year: 1069 Mid Summer
• Author: SL
• Submitted by: SL
• Date Added: 17/08/2007