Wadedcastles v2 - 204 Early Spring by FunkyWaltDogg

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Things seem to be going pretty well. I've secured the perimeter and started building weapon traps to defend the main moat crossing. I've also built housing for my dwarves, and successfully tested an extremely cheesy method for generating free power.

On the downside, my initial attempt to tap into the magma pipe was something of a debacle. Fortunately no dwarves were lost, and I have high hopes for the next try.

Point of Interest: Weapon trap alley

( 204 Early Spring → 206 Late Winter )

Thanks to my weapon traps here, I killed three deer, two unicorns and a raccoon before I ever got a hunter. - FunkyWaltDogg

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Submitted by: Lord_Shadow - 2009-04-24 to 205 Early Spring

good luck starting to look like awesomeness

Submitted by: FunkyWaltDogg - 2009-04-25 to 207 Early Spring

Thanks! I am finally starting to make some real progress on the core projects.

Submitted by: ToonyMan - 2009-04-30 to 209 Early Spring

Your fort is so big and open!

Submitted by: FunkyWaltDogg - 2009-04-30 to 209 Early Spring

I didn't see the point in digging out a lot of area underground to pack stockpiles and workshops into since I'm ultimately going to be constructing buildings on the surface to house all that stuff. So for now, everything pretty much just gets plopped down wherever I've got a space.

Submitted by: Pisano - 2010-07-21 to 209 Early Spring

Really nice layout and a great seed to have magma so close to the surface. I can't figure out how you get the water up the main building with the housing though. I don't see a pumpstack but I do see pumps at the top.

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Δ 15. Can you spot the problem?
Because I sure didn't! More details to come once the 205 map goes up. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. East bridge
I built this bridge for my miners to use in digging the aquifer drainage for the moat, since they prefer to repeatedly attempt to cut through the moat (using the ramps you can see in 203) and cancel due to dangerous terrain rather than walking around via the south bridge.
Even after I built the bridge, they still wouldn't use it so I had to designate traffic zones to get them to cooperate.
This bridge is linked to a lever, but I'll probably forget to raise it until my first ambush sneaks across it, totally bypassing my weapon traps. I do have a couple of champion wrestlers, so all would not be lost in such a case. - FunkyWaltDogg
15. Ground-level aquifer

( 203 Early Spring to 206 Late Winter )
I don't know how it happened, but the aquifer reaches the very top soil layer at this point. I wasn't yet ready to deal with breaching it so I built a wall to secure this part of the perimeter. - FunkyWaltDogg
¶ 15. Weapon trap alley

( 204 Early Spring to 206 Late Winter )
Thanks to my weapon traps here, I killed three deer, two unicorns and a raccoon before I ever got a hunter. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 15. Wooden road
In my second year I continued the trend of not being able to take full advantage of the dwarven caravan; this time, because a tree had grown up in the path I'd cleared to the depot. So I got on the ball and started on a road. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. Aquifer drainage
By tapping into the aquifer, I was able to drain enough water out of the moat for my miners to get in and cut down the ramps. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. Housing

( 204 Early Spring to 205 Late Winter )
Bedrooms are here. The next housing expansion will go on the next level down (which is the lower limit due do the aquifer); after that I'll construct rooms on the surface. Eventually the dining room will go on top of that, and maybe some really nice bedrooms on higher levels. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 14. Perpetual motion test run

( 204 Early Spring to 206 Late Winter )
The aquifer made constructing this power plant quite simple. It is a pretty glaring exploit but I intend to make use of it nonetheless. - FunkyWaltDogg
Δ 12. Tapping the magma, take one

( 204 Early Spring to 205 Late Winter )
While digging out the intake pool for the perpetual motion power plant to run the magma pump stack, I got impatient and breached the aquifer without checking to be sure the mason who started building this wall actually finished it rather than stopping for a nap. Fortunately I hadn't installed any pumps yet (I was still collecting sand for the glass furnace) so my only loss aside from the mining time was a single basalt door.
I've roofed the whole thing over and hopefully everyone will forget this ever happened. You can see the access stairwell for my next, hopefully more successful attempt to the south. - FunkyWaltDogg

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Fortress Name: Wadedcastles v2
Map Year: 204 Early Spring
Author: FunkyWaltDogg
Submitted by: FunkyWaltDogg
Date Added: 22/04/2009