Moonsyrups - 20 Early Autumn by Noble Digger

Map Description:

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!

Point of Interest: 16. Magmazine Temple

Large, mechanical, unnecessarily complicated. Check, check, check. This series of 12 5x5 round shafts reach all the way to the bottom of the map. All of these levers are currently hooked up to floodgates which allow me to control individual tubes. It won't be clear how this works until I add another 500000 magma pumps and get it running!

The area to the north with the Siege Workshop is the secondary magmazine; it can only be filled once the primary (to the south) is already full. Each successive tank is filled up when the previous tank overflows, allowing magma to cross horizontally to the next tank. An absolute mess of pump shafts, access ways, and iron grates, doors, floodgates, and bars are installed in each shaft and all the stone was dumped out onto tiles in the magmazine lobbies.

A lot of work is still to be done, but I have everything straight in my head as far as how this will all work. My one major fear is my poor understanding of pressure and how fortresses get destroyed by irresponsible pumping. Some trial and error will be needed. - Noble Digger

There are 4 comments for this map series, last post 2010-03-09

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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.

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