Dentedcastle - 463 Late Spring by Andrea

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In the past, i already attempted a tower fort, but never finished it. This time, instead of scaling it down so it is easier, i decided to go the full way and build a whole castle. All fortress walls are marble blocks, while building walls, inner walls and floors use wood blocks.
The whole fort is aboveground and i am trying to shape it like a village, with several areas ( see points of interest). The goal is not only to finish it, but get a king and start a good, working economy and giving a job to each of the 200+ dwarves I have (in 463 I am below that number, due to a small problem involving water, drinks and tantrums)

Point of Interest: The soil layer

This is the only underground part of the fortress ( the mines aren't part of the fortress. Just needed to build it. And useful to keep people inside during sieges). At the beginning of the game I can't spend all the time making aboveground stockpiles while my dwarves freeze, so i dig underground stockpiles. Usually it is just an huge room, but i decided i would try this modular thing. Which respects the cave in rule, thanks to the central pillar in each room.
The floors near stairs are old memories from "accidents" when moving some floors in the beginning.
On the right, the wood stockpiles. In the center, food stockpiles. On the left, totally stored in bins, the blocks.
Scattered around, armor, weapon and (overflowing) finished goods stockpiles.
There is also a farm plot (lovely modular design), used to grow dimple cups, so that i can get more dye. - andrea

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Submitted by: Pkassad - 2009-11-06 to 463 Late Spring

Awesome fortress. I started a new fort and am making a modified layout of your castle. Hopefully I can get a map of it up soon.

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Δ 27. High noble quarters
high by rank and floor.
We are entering unfinished areas here.
Baron quarters will be 2z-levels tall, just normal rooms with an high ceiling. King quarters will be 3 zlevels tall and I'll try to be more creative there. - andrea
Δ 25. Dining room
1 z-level can't be enough, so I use 3! this is the middle one, finished but without furniture. In the nooks in the walls there will be statues, and tables will be all around, in different sizes. In the big holes I will probably put platforms with statues, artifacts or caged animals.
The level above will be like this one, while the level below will have no holes and more statues, animals, whatever.
Such a big castle, needs a big dining room ( and more dwarves to fill it) - andrea
Δ 23. Marksdwarves quarters
After i finish other levels in the towers, and after i get more dwarves , here I will build the marksdwarf quarters, separated from the melee military. They will have their own bedrooms, a shared dining room , archery targets and most important of all access to all the outer walls. - andrea
Δ 21. Empty levels
well, i ran out of ideas. If you have any suggestion for this z-level and the one above, post here or send me a pm in the forums. - andrea
Δ 19. Cloth industry
This level , and the level above, are fully dedicated to manufacturing cloth, cloth, and more cloth. The output, when I'll have enough dwarves, will be enough to cover all the dwarves in the world. Don't call me elf for this: cloth is a great way to employ large numbers of dwarves and give reasonable wealth. Also, I am mercilessly butchering more than 10 thousands of trees to make this, then some more to get glass, metal and potash for the farms. This is one of the greatest environmental dangers of the world.
At the moment, i am using 3 different dyes ( red, green and blue), number which is not likely to change. - andrea
Δ 18. Main workshop level
This is where all miscellaneous workshops lie, the level which makes my fortress work and expand by giving us blocks, food and drinks.
It is snowy, so I will have to dismantle everything , pave everything, remove roads, then rebuild workshops. I'll do that after i finish work on the castle.
You can see supports: the plan with the tower is to eventually make it safe from cave ins. Only few levels have supports at the moment. - andrea
Δ 17. Barracks and meeting zone
nothing much to say here, temporary barracks and temporary meeting area ( temporary meaning that they will last for more or less 10 years after foundation of the fortress). Everything is snowy, but I can clean it with farm plots or dirt roads. - andrea
Δ 17. brookduct
Don't know what happened here, but it is fully natural and on this z-level the "walls" are open space. I didn't change raws and I am not using any mod so i'll blame it on d16. Too bad i generated the map before the graphic upgrades.

Still worth a point of interest in my opinion. - andrea
Δ 17. Farms
100 farm tiles are all a fortress will ever need. Well, i disaggree, so here i have more than 500 tiles, and more or less 15 dwarves working on them full time. most of it are rope reed, blade weed and hide root, while food takes only a small part. Dwarves don't eat much. - andrea
Δ 17. Lower nobles
This is where lower nobles stay, in their wooden houses
( dungeon master, mayor, bookkeeper, advisor, tax collector, philosofer). Since i don't even have a baron at the moment ( I export only goblin clothes, to clear stockpiles), this part is quite empty and i am happy with that, since high nobles quarters aren't ready yet.
I think I'll put here also the lever puller's house, with a basement that holds all the levers of my fort so that , hopefully, I can get quick lever pulling during sieges. Failing that, i'll build backup rooms underground with stockpiles, just to be sure he will do his work. His wife will be lever puller as well. - andrea
Δ 17. Military quarters(planned)
Here will live military dwarves, in 2-floor buildings with shared bedrooms and dining rooms. They will spar in a barrak designated from an armor rack, so that people won't go sleeping there. There may also be fortress guard and Captain of the guard, depending on how much space military takes ( quite slim after tantrums and sieges actually) - andrea
Δ 17. Overview
This is an overview of the ground level of the fortress, showing the areas i already built of it ( only walls actually, i plan to make more buildings inside the walls). Since buildings will be 2 or 3 z-levels tall the fort area will be quite large, even for the standards of (my) underground forts.
As you can see, the position i picked is horribly close to map border, not so close that it ruins my project, but enough to deny me the pleasure of a proper marble road. - andrea
Δ 17. Refuse
here go all goblins after they siege. muhahahaha.

great source of bones, but not iron since I use all the trees to build things and can't spare enough to melt items ( melting needs a lot of coal).
The clothes you see here are worn clothes thrown away by my dwarves, who replaced them with new and shiny clothes produced few z-levels up. - andrea
Δ 17. Water pump
May seem little, but that is what keeps my fort alive during dangerous times: the pump. This is the only part of the map which melts during 10 days of mid-summer ( not even the whole month), in which i have to collect all the water i need. Its importance I understood when I increased the size of the storage area below, causing deaths among the ill , widespread thirst while my brewers did what they could to keep up with dwarves's needs ( can't remember why I couldn't produce enough. Most likely barrels). And, of course, a tantrum spiral which caused many deaths. - andrea
Δ 16. The soil layer
This is the only underground part of the fortress ( the mines aren't part of the fortress. Just needed to build it. And useful to keep people inside during sieges). At the beginning of the game I can't spend all the time making aboveground stockpiles while my dwarves freeze, so i dig underground stockpiles. Usually it is just an huge room, but i decided i would try this modular thing. Which respects the cave in rule, thanks to the central pillar in each room.
The floors near stairs are old memories from "accidents" when moving some floors in the beginning.
On the right, the wood stockpiles. In the center, food stockpiles. On the left, totally stored in bins, the blocks.
Scattered around, armor, weapon and (overflowing) finished goods stockpiles.
There is also a farm plot (lovely modular design), used to grow dimple cups, so that i can get more dye. - andrea
Δ 15. Caves
All the stone blocks must come from somewhere, right? well, here is where i mine all the marble. Usually on semi-total aboveground forts I use aboveground mines too, channeling the ground through all the layers I need.
But due to the freezing environment, i just didn't want to be cruel against my dwarves this time. I am cruel only when i get any benefit from it.
tunnels are 6 tiles wide, to avoid ( hopefully) cave ins. If they were still in the game, of course. - andrea

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Fortress Name: Dentedcastle
Map Year: 463 Late Spring
Author: Andrea
Submitted by: Andrea
Date Added: 02/11/2009