Hairytongs - 216 Early Autumn by Corona688

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Points of Interest

• Δ 27. Tower Floor 3: The Skull
  I was filling in the center pillar in a roundabout way and realized I was making a skull with a red tongue. I moved a few things here and there to make it more skull-like and added the white floor crossbones but the important bit arose spontaneously. - Corona688
• Δ 25. Tower Base: Aboveground Farming
  Here are my aboveground farms, used mostly for textiles and millable things. The inside of the pillars, constructed at great expense of dwarven life, are mostly used to hold excess pants. Also note the wildlife enclosure in the above left. - Corona688
• Δ 24. If Worse Comes To Worst...
  You might think this place would be where the original seven first struck earth. It's not. It's actually very new, and contains everything a small group of dwarves needs to survive -- food, drink, beds, farm, well, a few tools, and stone.
  
  Everything's forbidden to prevent anything happening to it. Should this fort tantrum spiral again, the few remaining sane dwarves will seal themselves in here with the lever up top and ride it out. - Corona688
• Δ 24. Softgoods Area
  The underground farming complex, with threshing and weaving on the side. - Corona688
• Δ 23. Shopping Plaza
  I left way too much empty space in this layer when I dug it out to make more rooms, so I transformed some into tombs and some into shopping.
  
  The coffins ringing the stairways were there long before the rest of this layer was dug out. Designations are there to prevent people from stepping over them too much. - Corona688
• Δ 22. Depot Area
  The core of this layer of the hexagon contains stonework shops, masonry and craft, stockpiles for finished goods, and the trade depot. It is encircled with bands of individual housing and encrusted with a left-to-right stripe of jail.
  
  It also contains two jewelers shops, a small one surrounded by rough gems for cutting, and a lockable one for encrusting specified things.
  
  - Corona688
• ¶ 21. Main Dining Area
  Most of Hairytongs exists inside a giant hexagon of stone and earth rising to the surface and beyond. Six spiral staircases provide short paths to most anywhere.
  
  This is the Great Hall, with seating for [lots], kitchens and brewery to the left, bones to the right, the old furniture stockpile below, and the drinking saloon on top. To the right is a small garbage compactor. To the left, empty barrel storage and the old armor stockpile. - Corona688
• Δ 21. Trans-Map Aqueduct
  Here we have a pump tower feeding the aqueduct which brings power to the city. It is operating at half-strength right now since learning that it is more than strong enough to drain the brook and thereby deprive itself of a power source if I let it.
  
  Look one layer up and you'll see its still covered in strewn garbage from the reclaim. Those goblins have some dedication to haul bins full of clothing across the map, climb a tower, and tiptoe across 100-foot-high rail-less catwalk just to strew things... - Corona688
• Δ 20. Dirt Factory
  The original pit was quickly expanded into this factory floor type area, where workshops were arranged for minimum travel of goods between them, almost an assembly line. Most of it has since been abandoned since it was spread out and ugly.
  
  Observe the original meeting area on the top left, which I was forced to wall off to stop dwarves from using it. Apparently a well attracts dwarves even absolutely nothing's designated. - Corona688
• Δ 20. Dwarven Beehive
  This is the main housing area, built before reclaim and much embellished since then. - Corona688
• Δ 20. Magma Shops
  Of the entire old section this is the one thing I kept, the magma workshops. Partly because rerouting magma would be difficult and dangerous, partly because I've heard rumors of magma-shop related bugs on reclaim. These work, so I leave them alone. - Corona688
• Δ 20. Main Drive Shaft
  This shaft rises all the way to the surface. Paging Dr Freud. - Corona688
• Δ 20. Strike the Earth
  Here is where the very first earth was dug, quickly excavated into that large dirt room, where all seven lived, farmed, and everything else. A trade depot was directly outside. Primitive indeed. - Corona688
• Δ 20. The Last Soldier
  This lone human guard is the last survivor of the horrible tantrum-spiral that depopulated Hairytongs. He stayed in that area, for years, not moving more than three tiles, creeping me out so much I walled him in forever.
  
  [edit] This 'friendly' fellow turned out to be a surviving invader. Good thing I walled him in. - Corona688
• Δ 19. Mechanical: Power Receiver
  A pump tower and trans-map aqueduct bring water here to drive a set of six waterwheels. That's four more than I need, but since waterwheels can be finicky about being driven from non-river sources, the more the merrier.
  
  At present it drives a millstone way up in the softgoods section and not much else, but I have plans to raise water to make it more convenient to get in the higher levels. - Corona688
• Δ 18. Mechanical B: Channels
  Just putting water wheels in a row and shooting water under them doesn't work very well if they're not on a river. If the water's too high it won't turn, too low and it won't turn, not enough or too much turbulence and it won't turn. Diagnol flow is used as pressure control, restrictions and long channels affect the rate, and an output channel above abruptly lowers the water to help it power the topmost pair of wheels.
  
  The floodgates fly open whenever power is disengaged to drain it as rapidly as possible. - Corona688
• Δ 14. A Series of Tubes
  This is the ugly plumbing in the deepest sub-basement underneath Hairytongs. The long up/down channel continues to return water from the pumps back to the brook. The one off to the left used to be used as a water return for the magma pump system, not once needed since the reclaim. - Corona688

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Map details:

• Fortress Name: Hairytongs
• Map Year: 216 Early Autumn
• Author: Corona688
• Submitted by: Corona688
• Date Added: 14/07/2009