Progress is getting a lot slower with a lower FPS now. I've had my first real siege, 6 goblins were shot from the gate-towers, 6 were caged in my caged traps. Also the baron, tax-gatherer, hammerer and some other noble has just arrived now and things are going well.
Here I have 12 3x3 bedrooms arranged around a 7x7 multifunctional courtyard. It is only a pity that repeating this design would result in a very inefficient pan-cake type of fortress. The courtyards will later be filled with staircases, statues and cages for zoo's and statue-gardens. Some lucky dwarves have a nice vision on the bones of their enemies (the goblin-siegers) who were dropped down the pit and spattered multiple z-levels. (Actually I got the idea to create courtyards when that goblin-instant-death-pit was in the way for my housing project)
Maybe this type of design will be more useful if the 'burrow' system gets implemented so I can keep dwarves in the same column (with workshops located several z-levels up from their bedrooms+a few stockpiles) - Aquilegia
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Submitted by: Huttuunen - 2009-06-13 to 204 Early Autumn
This is actually pretty cool fortress already. :)
You are doing very well if this is your first fortress!
Submitted by: Aquilegia - 2009-06-14 to 204 Early Autumn
Thanks :) I actually read almost the entire wiki before getting started so that might have helped a bit, but I intend to keep playing with this one until I understand also the late-game so my next fortresses won't fail just after I spend days on some magnificent designs for them : )