Stormwires - 223 Early Winter by Kanddak

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I haven't played this fort in a couple months but I've always felt like I ought to export it and put it up on DFMA. I did some lovely experiments in this fort. I stopped playing when there was a tantrum spiral after I threw too many children into the magma. I actually might have been pretty close to riding it out successfully, I just lost interest, and started playing other forts.
This is the fort where I...
...learned about burning coal blocks in iron bins.
...gave every dwarf a luxurious suite of rooms.
...first intensively micromanaged mood materials to make artifacts out of only the most valuable stuff, by giving all moodable workshops either a drop chute or an airlock.
...first micromanaged dwarf skills to make all the farmers and such dabblers in one of the metalworking skills. It worked pretty well, I got a full set of legendary smiths.
...perfected systems for flinging immigrants, nobles, and children into the magma vent.
...made my first tower-cap farm.

Point of Interest: Fire sprinklers

These reservoirs are over the fort's central stairwell and booze stockpile. Realgar alarm levers near the pump gym can be used to dump them to put out fires. This system was designed after two dwarves burned to death in the infamous burning-coal-blocks-in-an-iron-bin experiment, and there was a near-disaster in the food pile involving fire imp fat. - Kanddak

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Δ 18. Fire sprinklers
These reservoirs are over the fort's central stairwell and booze stockpile. Realgar alarm levers near the pump gym can be used to dump them to put out fires. This system was designed after two dwarves burned to death in the infamous burning-coal-blocks-in-an-iron-bin experiment, and there was a near-disaster in the food pile involving fire imp fat. - Kanddak
Δ 17. Child & noble trap
To catch nobles, the lever's workshop profile is set to allow only the noble I want to kill and it's ordered pulled. When the noble enters the hallway, I lock the doors and pull the bridge, dumping him onto the execution platform (or into the magma if that bridge is already retracted).
To catch children, I set up some big hauling project to make sure all adults have jobs, then order the constructed floors in the 5x5 room to be removed. Children enter the hallway, and again are locked in and dumped onto the execution platform. There are also ways to micromanage this involving designating one tile at a time, looking at the job list to see who got assigned to it, then undesignating the floors assigned to dwarves you don't want killed.
I killed children for about three years without problems, partly due to the amazing rooms for all dwarves. Then I did it and everyone flipped out and there was a devastating tantrum spiral. I don't know what made the difference.

It all started because I was drafting and burning all the regular migrants, but then noticed their children, being undraftable, would stroll into the fort, so I'd have all these orphans lying around having woodcrafting moods. After I burned all the orphans, I figured I might as well fry the rest of the children, too. - Kanddak
¶ 16. Front lawn / Magma stuff
So this is the front gate area. You'll notice magma tubes connected to the pump tower to the east. There is a control room in the fort where the iron doors can be opened to permit magma to flow from the tubes and incinerate goblins, elves, etc. It is a lovely sight to behold. There is a water gun on the level above, for cooling the magma after a firing of the magma cannons. Then I dig out the obsidian. There is an (unfinished) auxiliary gate a couple levels above that to permit egress while the front lawn is buried under obsidian.
To the southeast you will also see the execution platform, a 10x10 bridge (currently retracted) positioned above the opening of the magma vent. This fort had a very strict immigration policy: Not a metalworker? Die in magma.
Unwanted migrants would be conscripted and stationed on the platform, then locked in and dumped into the magma. Needless to say, the fort's unit list is full of flaming recruits. - Kanddak
Δ 14. Magma lab
This is where I carried out my infamous experiment where I put a lignite block in an iron bin and applied magma. The block caught fire, and could not be extinguished by water due to its containment in the bin. It burned for a year and nothing could be done to stop it.
Someone reproduced this experiment and then dropped the bin into an ocean. That was pretty spectacular. - Kanddak
Δ 13. Dwarves' suites
No 2x1 closets for the dwarves in this fort!
My goal at the beginning of this fort was to give every dwarf their own personal suite of dining room, office, bedroom, and tomb, with good furniture, engraved.
When dwarves died, I dug out new tombs for the new occupants of their suites.
The level below has the married couple rooms, since couples share bedrooms and dining rooms. - Kanddak
Δ 10. Power plant
To start, a dwarf runs one of the pumps manually. Then the water turns the wheels, which power the pumps.
Apparently water flows into underground rivers faster than it leaves, because when the pumps are running, the top level of the river floods.
The wheels keep turning even when the whole thing is flooded to 7s. I'm not sure why this works. This system on a lake works too, but a similar system I built from an artificial reservoir didn't. - Kanddak
Δ 9. Towercap farm
My first ever tower-cap farm. It's not terribly sophisticated. First, the big room on this level was flooded, then the water was dumped into a drainage collection room to be pumped back into the reservoir.
Then I dug a second part of the farm to the south, where I dug out every level down to the drainage level, and put in hatches so that the water would flood every level on the way down. - Kanddak

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Fortress Name: Stormwires
Map Year: 223 Early Winter
Author: Kanddak
Submitted by: Kanddak
Date Added: 25/05/2009