This is my first map where I was dead sure that I would have both magma and an underground river, turns out the underground river spans about 20 squares and is filled with lizardmen and such. I will take care of them in the future, the other river works well except that it freezes during winter (darn magma isn't keeping the nearby river liquid, atleast it doesn't evaporate so I'll be glad!) and all I wanted was to try making a tower-cap farm for the first time.
This is the first time I'm trying to be ahead of the migrants and nobles, having a few rooms ready for luxurious demanding nobles and just having more small rooms than needed so there are no last-minute-bed-panic episodes. I must admit, I sort of have to have them anyway, mostly because I underestimate the popularity of my fortress. I think I got 25 both of the two first waves of migrants. - Ignem
There are 3 comments for this map series, last post 2009-08-13
Sainthames
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Submitted by: Ashery - 2009-07-21 to 304 Early Summer
Oo...I like the more natural looking mining pattern. Definitely looks better than the usual grid like patterns.
I feel sorry for any dwarf sleeping in the barracks during a siege, though, as it's open to archer fire from every direction but the east, haha.
Next step: Go trapless XD
Submitted by: Ignem - 2009-07-22 to 304 Early Summer
Oh, you should have seen the previous incarnation, it had a door on the south instead of the east and one raid in particular I had to replay was when they snuck in and killed a few civilian dwarves that slept in the barracks. I never had a problem with the fortification though, I have a larger group of marksdwarves than sworddwarves. They are just not present in the barracks at this shot, and I later buildt a wall around my fortress that makes anything being fired upon as they work towards the entrance.
Yeah, traps are way powerful, but right now I want to try catching lots of goblins for weird experiments, it's my first time doing so.
Submitted by: Qjet - 2009-08-13 to 304 Early Summer
that is a sweet exploratory cave you carved out.