Sainthames - 304 Early Summer by Ignem

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This is my first map where I was dead sure that I would have both magma and an underground river, turns out the underground river spans about 20 squares and is filled with lizardmen and such. I will take care of them in the future, the other river works well except that it freezes during winter (darn magma isn't keeping the nearby river liquid, atleast it doesn't evaporate so I'll be glad!) and all I wanted was to try making a tower-cap farm for the first time.

Point of Interest: Line of Defense

Some would say that my defense is crude, but I don't want to put TOO much effort into making an impenetrable fortress, I have built coffins for a purpose! That middle weapon-trap has something like 8 large serrated iron discs and 2 iron spears, the other traps are just cage-traps and stone-fall traps. - Ignem

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    <poi-description>Some would say that my defense is crude, but I don't want to put TOO much effort into making an impenetrable fortress, I have built coffins for a purpose! That middle weapon-trap has something like 8 large serrated iron discs and 2 iron spears, the other traps are just cage-traps and stone-fall traps.</poi-description>
    <poi-author>Ignem</poi-author>
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Comments

Submitted by: Ashery - 2009-07-21 to 304 Early Summer

Oo...I like the more natural looking mining pattern. Definitely looks better than the usual grid like patterns.

I feel sorry for any dwarf sleeping in the barracks during a siege, though, as it's open to archer fire from every direction but the east, haha.

Next step: Go trapless XD

Submitted by: Ignem - 2009-07-22 to 304 Early Summer

Oh, you should have seen the previous incarnation, it had a door on the south instead of the east and one raid in particular I had to replay was when they snuck in and killed a few civilian dwarves that slept in the barracks. I never had a problem with the fortification though, I have a larger group of marksdwarves than sworddwarves. They are just not present in the barracks at this shot, and I later buildt a wall around my fortress that makes anything being fired upon as they work towards the entrance.

Yeah, traps are way powerful, but right now I want to try catching lots of goblins for weird experiments, it's my first time doing so.

Submitted by: Qjet - 2009-08-13 to 304 Early Summer

that is a sweet exploratory cave you carved out.

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Points of Interest

Δ 16. Bodyparts on the Roof
This was a surprise to me, I was actually looking at this level to cut that tree to the south-west and I noticed that there were skulls on the roof - under inspection these were bodyparts from goblins from the last fight outside. There are no stairs to the roof so they apparently flew and landed up there, DF is awesome like that! - Ignem
¶ 15. Line of Defense
Some would say that my defense is crude, but I don't want to put TOO much effort into making an impenetrable fortress, I have built coffins for a purpose! That middle weapon-trap has something like 8 large serrated iron discs and 2 iron spears, the other traps are just cage-traps and stone-fall traps. - Ignem
Δ 12. Goblin Collection
This is the start of my goblin collection, how their deaths will be executed has yet to be determined, but probably an arena vs my dwarves. I am thinking of even scattering a weapon or two to see if they attempt to pick them up and fight with. - Ignem
Δ 12. Magma Forges
This is my collection of magma forges in the fortress. The dwarves found three or four big veins of copper so I employed three smelters at once. - Ignem
Δ 11. Underground River
This is my tiny underground river, far away in the north-west corner of the map. The inhabitants consist of frogmen, lizardmen, snakemen and olmmen, at a total of 16 watery monsters. I later trapped about half of them and killed the others. - Ignem
Δ 9. Tower-cap Farm to be
This is where my tower-cap farm will be, I'm waiting for the lava to disappear so that I can let the water come in. The water that is there now is some water that came down when I unplugged a small "obsidian creating"-mistake from being a bit quick with the water. As most of you know, but for those who don't - water on magma creates obsidian, this blocked the hole from the level above and no water could make its way down, so I had to unplugg it with some mining and a stair! - Ignem
Δ 8. Living areas
This is the first time I'm trying to be ahead of the migrants and nobles, having a few rooms ready for luxurious demanding nobles and just having more small rooms than needed so there are no last-minute-bed-panic episodes. I must admit, I sort of have to have them anyway, mostly because I underestimate the popularity of my fortress. I think I got 25 both of the two first waves of migrants. - Ignem
Δ 8. Meeting zone
This is where all the dwarves can meet, discuss things, sit and drink. I put all the chairs against the wall so that I later can make a central attraction for everyone to see whilst they feast on plump helmets, plump helmets or plump helmet stew for those who don't like plump helmets. - Ignem
Δ 7. Art of Mining
This is how I prefer to mine, there are places where I've done the boring grid-pattern, but I get impatient when I'm looking for things like the underground river. I really like the organic and less predictable mining, if only I could start doing it to my overall design as well. - Ignem
Δ 4. Tombs and Graves
This place is rather small, but I usually have a really annoying knack at keeping my dwarves alive - well ok, I'm playing vanilla DF (no orc-mod and no dig deeper, so that really isn't all that hard I guess, but hey - i'm a noob at DF). The six coffins in the middle are in use, the other to the left and right are vacant. The top three are for important people. The center one is the mayor and "founder" of the fortress, the left one is the Dungeon Master's tomb and the right one is awaiting noble blood, when I get any. - Ignem

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Fortress Name: Sainthames
Map Year: 304 Early Summer
Author: Ignem
Submitted by: Ignem
Date Added: 20/07/2009