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!
Upon piercing the ceiling of the pond from above, I found only sand! There's probably water below, but I have BIG plans for this feature so I'm leaving it alone until all the works are finished up. You can see the drainage pipe to the south and the pump access ramps to the east. Five pillar blocks inside the pond room will be barred up and punctured to allow water and fish (but not creatures) to pass between the reservoir and the pool below it.
The water drains east out a crack in the mountain which, conveniently, opens directly onto the center of the chasm, making it an excellent drain. Just for cool points I built a bridge across the chasm underneath the path of this water and it's mostly constructed of grates, so it should serve as a mist generator while draining.
The ramps go deep, deep down to the underground river and actually cross the chasm via a bridge, after which they become the sewer that connects all the fortress underworks. (See POI 13) - 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.