Wasprag - 46 Early Spring by Quietust

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In the past 4 years, it's mainly been renovation.

The dining halls have been refurnished with tables made of gold and steel and chairs made of copper and zinc.

The elves have brought a few friendly vermin for the zoo.

A few more stockpiles were dug out.

Rooms were dug out for the king, queen, and advisor, should I decide to summon them.

Tons of rocks were cleared away, and numerous hallways were smoothed.

The guards were given copper swords to play with. One died to a sparring injury and was soon replaced by a single migrant, restoring my population to exactly 200. His replacement died soon afterward, but a subsequent replacement hasn't yet shown up.

In the intervening time, I had a vision. A great pyramid, 23 Z-levels tall, made entirely of clear glass.

I must make it happen.

The foundation has already been laid. Thousands of trees will burn. I will not allow the Elves to interfere.

Point of Interest: The Pyramid

The foundation of my glass pyramid has already been laid. It will extend all the way to the top of the sky.

When it is complete, I shall fill it with magma. By pumping it in from below. - Quietust

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    <map-description>In the past 4 years, it's mainly been renovation.

The dining halls have been refurnished with tables made of gold and steel and chairs made of copper and zinc.

The elves have brought a few friendly vermin for the zoo.

A few more stockpiles were dug out.

Rooms were dug out for the king, queen, and advisor, should I decide to summon them.

Tons of rocks were cleared away, and numerous hallways were smoothed.

The guards were given copper swords to play with. One died to a sparring injury and was soon replaced by a single migrant, restoring my population to exactly 200. His replacement died soon afterward, but a subsequent replacement hasn't yet shown up.

In the intervening time, I had a vision. A great pyramid, 23 Z-levels tall, made entirely of clear glass.

I [b]must[/b] make it happen.

The foundation has already been laid. Thousands of trees will burn. I will [b]not[/b] allow the Elves to interfere.</map-description>
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    <poi-description>The foundation of my glass pyramid has already been laid. It will extend all the way to the top of the sky.

When it is complete, I shall fill it with magma. By pumping it in from below.</poi-description>
    <poi-author>Quietust</poi-author>
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Comments

Submitted by: Durin - 2009-09-12 to 42 Early Summer

Awesome.

Submitted by: Servu - 2009-09-15 to 46 Early Spring

Holy crap thats cool. How are you gonna get all that magma there? construct a big pumping tower?

Submitted by: Quietust - 2009-09-15 to 46 Early Spring

I'll build a pump tower extending all the way to the top of the map, then direct its output into a tube that goes down to ground level, through a short tunnel, and into an opening at the bottom of the pyramid. Pump pressure should allow it to fill all the way to the top.

Submitted by: Markavian - 2009-09-27 to 58 Early Winter

Needs more points of interest!
Holy-crap that pyramid is awesome.

Submitted by: Caranha - 2009-09-28 to 59 Early Winter

That's a fantastic fortress. Do the fortifications in the tower cap farm actually drain water?

Submitted by: Quietust - 2009-09-28 to 59 Early Winter

Absolutely - in fact, that's exactly why I built them.

Submitted by: Obsidian - 2009-11-02 to 75 Mid Spring

Sweet jesus this is epic.

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Points of Interest

¶ 17. The Pyramid
The foundation of my glass pyramid has already been laid. It will extend all the way to the top of the sky.

When it is complete, I shall fill it with magma. By pumping it in from below. - Quietust
16. Back Entrance

( 38 Mid Autumn to 62 Late Winter )
When Wasprag was first settled, this was the front door. It has since been sealed off, serving only to grow the occasional Tower-cap. - Quietust
16. Farming Area

( 36 Early Spring to onwards )
Eight 5x5 farm plots, 4 for surface plants (left) and 4 for underground plants (right), all fully irrigated.

The surface farms required a bit of trickery - surface farm plots normally cannot be built within 5 tiles of the map edge. However, underground ones can be built right up to the edge, and channeling out the roof makes them work fine for surface crops. In this particular instance, the roof had been removed in advance, so dtil had to be used in order to place the upper 2 plots (a separate test was done in order to prove that removing the roof afterwards would work correctly). - Quietust
15. Entryway

( 36 Early Spring to onwards )
To the west, the fortress's "moat", a 32-tile gap across the magma pipe - a pair of raising bridges on each end (for keeping out unwanted guests), three retracting bridges in the center (for removing unwanted guests), and a set of magma pumps (for immediate removal of unwanted guests).

In the middle, the trade depot. Enclosed on either side by floodgates to form an airlock, though it tends to be left open most of the time.

To the east, the main control room. Levers here control the bridges, magma pumps, and the trade depot airlock gates (plus walls around the road as of year 49 and the magmafall as of year 54).

To the north, barracks and archery ranges. - Quietust
15. Suicide Booth

( 36 Early Spring to onwards )
Should any dwarf become unruly, simply order the dwarf to pull this lever (using the workshop profile to ensure the correct dwarf uses it). Initially built as a contingency for an early Mayor with a preference for crystal glass, it proved to be unnecessary and remained unused until the year 70. - Quietust
13. Leisure Areas

( 46 Early Spring to onwards )
On the top, two legendary dining halls, the left furnished with gold and zinc, the right furnished with steel and copper.

Bottom left, my museum. Housing all of my artifact furniture, the atmosphere is further enhanced by a mist generator (of AncientEnemy's design).

Bottom right, my vermin zoo. Populated mainly by red squirrels and chipmunks, also resident to a fox squirrel, three olms, and four moghoppers, and an artifact cave lobster shell cage containing a tamed Dragon as the centerpiece. - Quietust
13. Mist Generator

( 36 Early Spring to onwards )
Using AncientEnemy's design, this sculpture garden is perpetually filled with mist, keeping my dwarves happy. 2 levels up, a lever linked to an additional pump allows me to shut off the mist generator at a moment's notice to permit renovation without job interruption. - Quietust
11. Milking Room

( 38 Mid Autumn to onwards )
A nice quiet room for milking purring maggots. As of year 54, completely furnished and stocked with food and drink for extended milking sessions. - Quietust
11. Silk Farm

( 38 Mid Autumn to 46 Early Spring )
The spider isn't actually attached to a chain - it was originally chained inside, then it was released and the chain removed. As a result, it constantly tries to path out of the room, flashing with a blue "?" and bumping into the doors, and each time it does, it sees the chained goblin and shoots webs at it. The webs currently visible were generated in a matter of minutes.

I'll eventually want to try hooking the entrance gate (4 floodgates) and harvesting shield (raising bridge, so the weavers don't get scared away by the goblin) to a timer so I don't have to constantly supervise silk production, making it as simple as double-pulling a lever each time a weaver complains about a lack of webs. - Quietust
Δ 10. Anvil Stockpile
My Duke is obsessed with anvils. - Quietust
8. Power Plant

( 42 Early Summer to onwards )
All of the machine power the fortress will ever need, conveniently fed to a drive shaft that extends all the way to the top level. - Quietust
8. Underground Forest

( 42 Early Summer to onwards )
A dense tower-cap farm. Irrigation comes from an array of pumps on the east edge (pulling water from the extended underground river) and drains through fortifications along the west edge.

A magma channel at the north edge permits drying out all of the mud, though at the cost of leaving ashes strewn everywhere.

In year 67, an additional farm was dug out directly below. - Quietust
5. Obsidian Factory

( 42 Early Summer to onwards )
If you've got unlimited magma and unlimited water, you need to have an obsidian factory. All of the levers are color-coded - Red fills the lower level with magma, Blue fills the upper level with water, Purple drops the bridge and allows the two to mix, and Gray opens the front gates for mining access. - Quietust
4. Catacombs

( 36 Early Spring to 62 Late Winter )
On the left, burial for my citizens.

On the right, burial for their pets. - Quietust
Common Housing

( 36 Early Spring to onwards )
Living quarters for all of my non-Noble dwarves. - Quietust

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Fortress Name: Wasprag
Map Year: 46 Early Spring
Author: Quietust
Submitted by: Quietust
Date Added: 14/09/2009