Galleywheel - 206 Late Summer by sirbobsalot

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Galleywheel - Started Spring 206 (Nov. 16, 2009)

Currently on the third group of dwarfs attempting to colonize this mountain. The first group ran into a spot of trouble with a couple of consecutive goblin ambushes; more then the defenses at the time could cope with.

The first force sent in to recapture the fortress was doing fairly well for a while. They expanded the floorplan to cover all the basic elements, and got some decent industry going. An unfortunate mishap at a deconstruction project (someone decided to operate a magma pump manually instead of taking it apart) ended up roasting half a dozen dwarfs, throwing the fort into a tantrump spiral. That at least was amusing to watch, especially after I activated them all back into the military so they were violently unhappy and armed. =P

The second force sent to the fortress is currently one season in and settled in fairly nicely. Industry has been started back up, food supplies are in good shape, and dwarfs are happier than ever. With luck there's enough of a buffer there that the loss of one or two dwarfs won't cause another tantrum spiral.

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Currently on the third group of dwarfs attempting to colonize this mountain. The first group ran into a spot of trouble with a couple of consecutive goblin ambushes; more then the defenses at the time could cope with.

The first force sent in to recapture the fortress was doing fairly well for a while. They expanded the floorplan to cover all the basic elements, and got some decent industry going. An unfortunate mishap at a deconstruction project (someone decided to operate a magma pump manually instead of taking it apart) ended up roasting half a dozen dwarfs, throwing the fort into a tantrump spiral. That at least was amusing to watch, especially after I activated them all back into the military so they were violently unhappy and armed. =P

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Submitted by: sirbobsalot - 2009-11-18 - Removed

Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2009-11-19 to 206 Late Summer

Wow, I love your workshop complex, I may steal some of that. Also a big fan of the smokestacks, a design I've used in a couple forts before.

++ For hand pumping a volcano into your fortress.

Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2009-11-19 to 206 Late Summer

Hmmm, what I thought to be a smokestack was actually the cave river's descent. :P

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Points of Interest

Δ 96. Workshop Layout
In order to keep my workshops and my stockpiles as close as possible, I'm layering them vertically over one another where ever I can. The basic layout is:

Stockpiles
Workshops
(magma)
Stockpiles

In this shot the lower stockpile hasn't been dug yet. I'm leaving room for lots of stockpiles so I can keep stuff sorted for convenient delivery to the workshops. - sirbobsalot
Δ 21. Underground River
It flows in on the west side the map, waterfalls down a few levels, heads east a little more, then falls down a shaft to the center of the Earth.

This section right here is the only bit that's really useful to me. So far I've set up some manual pumps to flood the Tower Cap farms, but at some point I'm going to set up some waterwheels so I can get some real power going into the fortress. It's also a convenient indoor source of drinking water, so in theory the dwarfs could hole up inside the mountain and never again come out. - sirbobsalot
Δ 20. (Future) Master Control Room
This is where most of the levers controlling defensive portions of the fortress are going to be located. It's right over the common dining area, so there's always going to be a dwarf close by that can be assigned to flip the big red switch. - sirbobsalot
Δ 19. Grand Dining Hall
Still a work in progress, this will be the main dining area for the fortress. The main food supply is located one level below with interconnecting stairways, so dwarfs don't have to run far to get boozed up.

Eventually the roof is going to be channeled all the way up to the surface to give the fort an awesome skylight and hopefully prevent cave adaptation. It may just result in the dwarfs vomiting all over themselves as they sit down to eat, which is also kind of amusing in a sick and twisted way. - sirbobsalot
Δ 16. (Future) Barracks
Housing for 60 dwarfs, and plenty of storage for gear. Located it over the entrance corridor and the trap maze so (hopefully) the noise of combat will wake up any sleeping defenders. - sirbobsalot
Δ 15. (Future) Tower Cap Farm
A little over 2500 squares of muddied floor spread over five levels for growing Tower Caps. Since they take a couple of years to mature, I'm hoping that's enough space to keep the glass furnaces supplied with pearlash once I start working on skylights.

(Had all the levels muddied before I abandoned the fortress last time. Haven't had a chance to go in and pump them full of water again.) - sirbobsalot
Δ 15. Housing Block
Housing is going to be confined to the spine of the fortress. There's just enough distance that beds on the outside of the housing block will be far enough away from workshops to avoid noise issues.

Right now I'm planning on three levels of primary housing: 40 + 64 + 40. Between nobles, the military, and ghetto housing I figure that should cover a 200 population cap. - sirbobsalot
Δ 14. (Future) Maze of Death
Saw a couple of other folks do this and thought it looked nifty. Once I've got a metal industry up and going I plan on filling this area with a disgusting array of weapon and lever-activated spike traps. Lifting a bridge the level above diverts the enemies into the maze. - sirbobsalot
Δ 14. Food Pod
The fortress is roughly confined to the area underneath the mountain. In order to get some surface crops going I've located the food production area off to the right side.

90 tiles of fields each for subterrainian and surface crops should keep the fortress well stocked with booze and prepared meals. In the future it'll be expanded to include workshops for processing and milling plants into a wider selection of cooking components. - sirbobsalot
Δ 14. Magma Heating - Hand Pumped!
The magma system in the fortress is set up so that any of the workshops on level 15 can be magma-powered. I should be more than covered since there's space for 92 workshops right now. =P

Nearly that entire level was manually pumped by a pair of dwarfs up by the magma vent (you can still see some of the leftover stone from the pumping structure.) Tried to let it fill naturally from the vent, but it was cooling around the edges faster than it could fill. Once the pumps helped it get past depth 2 in every square it went a lot faster.
- sirbobsalot

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Fortress Name: Galleywheel
Map Year: 206 Late Summer
Author: sirbobsalot
Submitted by: sirbobsalot
Date Added: 18/11/2009