It's a fortress! There's stuff in the underground! Strangely-shaped glacier mountain molested by Dwarves! Nearly a dozen dwarves die in magma construction accidents and Giant Cave Swallow attacks!
Check out the POIs to make some sense of this rotten intro paragraph!
Yes, it's a moat almost entirely carved out of ice. I plan to fill it with magma for the delicious irony of the fact that it'll work perfectly. Since the moat is still years from being used, I set up a stockpile here which accepts all non-masterwork, non-artifact, non-metal objects which I don't want to keep. Then it's a simple matter to dump them from here into the trash compactor in the upstairs yard. This may seem like a lot of extra hauling, but lots of dwarves idle here anyway and this keeps the workshops uncluttered while dwarves skill up.
A lone Hoary Marmot on a leash stands sentry over the exit to the south, which is currently used by dwarves working on the exterior portions of the wind power plants below. (See POI 11) - Noble Digger
There are 4 comments for this map series, last post 2010-03-09
Moonsyrups
SHIFT + Key doubles keyboard scroll rate.
Don't have Flash?
You can download the compressed map file:
2010-01/nobledigger-Moonsyrups-region2-20-42420.fdf-map
but you will need the .NET version of
SL's DF Map Compressor
to convert to the .PNG image format.
Submitted by: Silfurdreki - 2010-01-14 to 20 Early Autumn
Holy huge embark Batman!
What FPS do you get? I'm seriously impressed by you CPU if you get good FPS on this map.
Really cool map, though, I really like the winding tunnel from the cliff face to the glacierside castle.
Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2010-01-14 to 20 Early Autumn
You know, this fortress was intended to be my "final DF40 fortress blowout" before Toady finishes the next release... I chose this large embark thinking I'd dick around a bit but it ended up getting good FPS. I have an Intel Core 2 Duo with 2 gigs of ram and it runs smoothly at 35+, slowing into the low 20s when dumping is going on. I haven't started moving liquids at all, which is going to CHOKE it.
The fort is playable despite its size because most of that size isn't being used for anything. :D
Submitted by: ajr_ - 2010-03-09 to 30 Mid Spring
Absolutely fabulous
Submitted by: Demonic Spoon - 2010-03-09 to 30 Mid Spring
Awesome, awe-inspiring fortress.