Garlicgrass - 204 Early Autumn by Aquilegia

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• Δ 16. The Hill Fortress
  When I had my first ambush a few dwarves died because I couldn't figure out how to manually set their paths as military. The goblins were between them and the entrance so they died (curse you default: 'soldier engages enemies' option).
  
  Also the invaders kept outside and didn't enter the entrance and kept hunting cats and things which was quite annoying.
  
  So then I had the idea to make an outdoor area on top of this 'hill' free from invaders by removing the ramps and channeling where it met the edge. The murky pools in the moat don't fill up very much since it's a quite dry climate, so I incorporated them in the channel so reduce workload for the miners.
  
  You can also see the wall around the first entrance I build to keep goblins from shooting down the hill into the natural 'canyon' which took me half a year to build, by bad management. In the west you can see the second and the newest entrance at the roads. The second entrance leads down from the top of the hill down into the fortress and the newest entrance leads from the top of the hill down,west and then up to a place west of the hill.
  
  The newest entrance isn't ready yet.. I still have to channel the walls in the maze (it's the sw-maze from the second-entrance maze) and carve fortifications so the marksmen can shoot the invaders and I've got to add some traps for increased safety.
  
  The Hillfortress is quite efficient now. I still haven't had a siege, but plenty of ambushers who all entered the entrances since nothing was outside and were killed or captured. I have added a small hill in the northeast with a bridge and also incorporated a part of the valley by making a 'moat' (in the northwest) - Aquilegia
• Δ 15. First Entrance
  This was my first attempt at a defended entrance, I tried to make it wagon-accessible, but failed because I didn't know staircases stop wagons. Staircases before the depot go down to the main fortress and there are also some staircases near the bridges, which give access to the long trap-filled path 1 z-level lower. Now I've build some other entrances I have raised one bridge permanently since otherwise soldiers take some problematic paths when I use soldiers-can-go-outside. - Aquilegia
• Δ 14. Goblin Disposal Unit
  Behold the great Chaos of the Dwarven empire based around this goblin-pit, workshops and stockpiles placed in an especially unpleasant and unaesthetic design. Still I'll have enough wood and stone for ages and my next fortress will look prettier I hope.
  
  Now the tower. It's 14 z-levels deep and is constructed by making the staircase first, then mining out the 7x7 square, channeling in the middle tile and afterwards i channeled the 3 by 3 square around the first channeled tile. Still some dwarves channeled under other dwarves, but luckily this resulted in only a few stunned dwarves before I made the designations more careful.
  
  The pit has already seen some use. So far no prisoners have escaped when thrown at the highest levels and the cage traps here seem a bit superfluous. But 2 goblins have somehow survived the fall, but were caged at the lowest level and thrown in again. I noticed some strange things when some goblins were thrown in: somehow heads and other body parts appeared even 2 z-levels above the impact-zone.. maybe they have splattered a lot or they might have hit the edge while falling.. ouch. - Aquilegia
• Δ 13. First living rooms
  Here I build the first basic bedrooms and dining room of the fortress. The original dining room is the smaller rectangle room in the northwest. Above it you can see a part of the 'moat' of the first entrance. If you look carefully you can see I had to rebuild a wall since I accidentally channeled through the roof of the hall. A bit to the south you can see the second dining room which I build a little bit later, since there wasn't much space in the first dining room with the extra ornamental walls and columns.
  
  One z-level up are the workshops and stockpiles which create too much noise so I'm planning to at least abandon the bedrooms in favour of those at the bottom of the fortress. - Aquilegia
• Δ 12. Second Entrance - Maze
  This was my second attempt at a good entrance. One z-level up are the bridges and fortifications and here is the maze-trap-way from my down stairs before and after the bridges. 2 Bridges will allow invaders to still enter my fortress when raised by this maze and 2 bridges between can block the fortress from the outside.
  
  I still didn't knew about staircases blocking wagons, but here I found out about this and I have removed the down-stairs by channeling and laying a floor and relocating the down-staircases to the holes in the fortification-wall. The entrance is still slightly functional, but I had to place some up-stairs in the maze (for the new down-stairs) which created a bridge between some tracks separated before with channels, creating some problems if I wanted to use this as the main entrance.
  
  The final blow to this entrances functionality was the removal of all natural up-down ramps around the hill where the wagon-entrance was located to make this hill a no-go area for invaders, giving my fortress a forest to get wood from even when sieged. - Aquilegia
• Δ 9. First water system
  Here you can see water-filled corridors leading from the river to the central reservoir. In this corridors several fortifications+floodgates are placed since I didn't have experience with water yet.
  
  The most south 1-tile corridor is the oldest one. Around half-way to the river I even build another reservoir to slow down the water, but this wasn't in fact necessary. It took half a year for the water in this channel to reach this reservoir, so I build another 1-tile corridor, but even then the reservoir was filling very slowly (I think evaporation was to blame) so I build the 2-tile channel and things went reasonably quick then.
  
  One z-level below is the well over the second reservoir. Go one z-level further down to see the water. Three z-levels below the corridors and river is the connection between the 2 reservoirs which is currently closed. When I dug down my dwarves found all this tasty hematite in the walls of the future reservoir and decided to dig it all away and construct walls of chalk on this level instead of natural walls. The same decision 2 z-levels lower of the connection for a nice blue coloured stone almost proved fatal, since the dwarves had suspended building 1 tile of wall without me noticing it, but the floodgates could be shut of before the entire fortress was flooded. You can still see the mud. - Aquilegia
• Δ 3. Dining Hall

  ( 204 to onwards )
  This is my newest addition to the fortress: The big dining hall. Sadly it's actually TOO big since the 'dining hall' zone doesn't span the entire room. I had to remove a stair and build a table in the middle to cover as much as possible, now only around 5x5 parts on the corners are excluded.
  
  The dining hall can only hold 96 dwarves at the moment if I would only put the tables in the secluded middle parts of the hall (allowing for walking-corridors), although I could of course make it more crowded if I have to. This is my only room currently which is 'royal' but I hope to change this once I got a more efficient and more specialized economy running. Engravings will come later when all my engravers are legendary or when everything is already smoothed. - Aquilegia

• Δ 1. Noble Complex
  The noble rooms are located here. Each 'apartment' has a throne room (planned) next to the corridor, one room further a dining room, then a bedroom and last but not least a tomb. Currently only 2 out of the 12 'normal' apartments are inhabited by my major/bookkeeper/manager/broker who lives in the nice detailed 'grand' apartment, and the apartment to the south is inhabited by my newly immigrated dungeonmaster. There isn't really much of interest in there apart from the architecture.. my fortress is still quite poor but in traps, engravings and toy-artifacts.
  
  The two double-size apartments in the north are for a future king/queen+consort if they show up, better to prepare now than to suffer later : )
  
  Currently there are already 77 dwarves in my fortress so more nobles are expected soon-ish and maybe I'm going to appoint a captain of the guard once I have enough bedrooms, the entrances fully trapped and a nice new water-infrastructure for more wells and instant-electrum-item-mandating-noble-disposal.
  
  One z-level up you can see the first planning for the 'water-feature'. I intend to build corridors above the rooms with a single channel-tile above each room (with maybe a grate for role-playing reasons) which link to a big water-reservoir located far up in the fortress to allow for a high water-pressure so these big rooms fill up quickly. Other grates are planned in the noble-rooms themselves linked with corridors 1 z-level down for water-disposal. Floodgates here should be lowered so these corridors fill up quickly so the noble-rooms can flood. To dispose of the water I hope the carve-a-fortification-in-the-edge trick mentioned on the wiki works.
  
  More rooms will be engraved once I have some more good engravers, it just takes too long to engrave everything with masterwork quality with my currently 2 legendary engravers. - Aquilegia

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Map details:

• Fortress Name: Garlicgrass
• Map Year: 204 Early Autumn
• Author: Aquilegia
• Submitted by: Aquilegia
• Date Added: 13/06/2009