Glazedstop - 239 Mid Autumn by FacesOfMu

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My first fort that used the Decentralised Workshops and Living Quarters plans and they worked a peach! Rather than putting the dining rooms where indicated in the living plans I later dug through the dining food storage wall and made a connecting 3x20 hallway between the two hubs. This became my legendary dining room and thoroughfare. Although it would have been more efficient to connect on every level, I only let the "two towers" connect on one level where the the dining hall was.
What I also really liked about this fort was that although the road departs the map on the left past the residences, the fort entrance road carries over and past the residences into the trades 'tower'. I like the way that the fort sort of curls down and back in on itself like this so as to create this great shooting galley above the residences. It reminds me of a backwards G shape, and I always pictured the road as a long rifle pointed west, the gunman's head, shoulders and body as the tower above the trades hub, and the gunman's hand holding up the barrel above the residential hub.

Point of Interest: My big mistake

I stopped working on this fort a few weeks back, but only a few days ago I learned that ballista can't fire down or up. So my plans to have two towers vigilently guarded by eight ballistas above was for naught. I can never control siege operators anyway (they always run in terror from the enemies or get shot by ranged attackers!) - FacesOfMu

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    <map-description>My first fort that used the [url=http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Design_strategies#Decentralized_Workshop_Complex]Decentralised Workshops[/url] and [url=http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Bedroom_Design#Decentralized_Living]Living Quarters[/url] plans and they worked a peach! Rather than putting the dining rooms where indicated in the living plans I later dug through the dining food storage wall and made a connecting 3x20 hallway between the two hubs. This became my legendary dining room and thoroughfare. Although it would have been more efficient to connect on every level, I only let the "two towers" connect on one level where the the dining hall was. 
What I also really liked about this fort was that although the road departs the map on the left past the residences, the fort entrance road carries over and past the residences into the trades 'tower'. I like the way that the fort sort of curls down and back in on itself like this so as to create this great shooting galley above the residences. It reminds me of a backwards G shape, and I always pictured the road as a long rifle pointed west, the gunman's head, shoulders and body as the tower above the trades hub, and the gunman's hand holding up the barrel above the residential hub.</map-description>
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    <poi-description>I stopped working on this fort a few weeks back, but only a few days ago I learned that ballista can't fire down or up. So my plans to have two towers vigilently guarded by eight ballistas above was for naught. I can never control siege operators anyway (they always run in terror from the enemies or get shot by ranged attackers!)</poi-description>
    <poi-author>FacesOfMu</poi-author>
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Submitted by: Wow. - 2009-02-28 to 239 Mid Autumn

Wow. Pretty awesome.

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Δ 18. Ballistae.
This tower can kill 10 goblins a second. - Wow.
Δ 18. My big mistake
I stopped working on this fort a few weeks back, but only a few days ago I learned that ballista can't fire down or up. So my plans to have two towers vigilently guarded by eight ballistas above was for naught. I can never control siege operators anyway (they always run in terror from the enemies or get shot by ranged attackers!) - FacesOfMu
Δ 17. The Rifle Gally
This is the bridge leading from the western road, across my valley home, through the tower above the residences, to the trades tower and depot on the right. This is largely designed for trap and ranged defences, with marksdwarves stationed at the archery slits in the residence tower along side the road, around the depot, and in the towers above.
Although there are levers for the bridges in the trade tower on the floor below, I never intended to use them.
The two orthoclase guard houses to the west have their own little rations and facilities underneath for the marksdwarves stationed there. The ideal would have been to connect these two guard houses to an underground tunnel going back to the fort so that even this remote defence position was accessible during a siege, but I didn't want uber ugly extension tunnels underneath and horrible pathing issues for dwarves going everywhere I don't want them to. - FacesOfMu
Δ 15. The Brook and Two Towers
This is where I started my fortress and decided to have the residences and the trades complex on either side of the brook. It is essentially the centre of the fort on the x, y, and z axis'.
I wish water would make surrounding stone surfaces turn to grass. Not only would this have made the area look much nicer, but it would also have meant I could have had my outdoor farms safely down here rather than up by the road. - FacesOfMu
Δ 14. The farms
Just the farms here next to the brook. I tried to create a pipette between the brook and the farm so that I only needed to fill the pipette once and let it go into the farm to muddy the entire area. However, I miscalulated and only got half the area covered in about a 1x15 tube. I doubled the farm space and then doubled the pipette width, but I didn't want to go any further until I needed it. - FacesOfMu
Δ 12. Overview of the two hubs
On the left is the four levels of the living quarters. On the right is two levels of the decentralised workshops complex. Between the two, to reduce noise to the bedrooms and create and underground passage way, is the dining hall. From memory the pink seat is an artifact throne I placed for anyone's use and admiration.
Eventually my plans were to let water fall from the brook above into the dining hall for misty goodness, then channel it around the trade complex and siphon it back up to the empty pool behind the trades tower, but I worried how much this would kill the fps. - FacesOfMu

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Fortress Name: Glazedstop
Map Year: 239 Mid Autumn
Author: FacesOfMu
Submitted by: FacesOfMu
Date Added: 12/02/2009