Frenzycities - 1056 Early Spring by CptFastbreak

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Points of Interest

• Δ 156. Defense tower
  Come time, this will be a tower where deadly torrents of crossbow bolts rain down on the vile forces of darkness gathering before our front door. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 155. Riverside forest
  Incredible, isn't it? - CptFastbreak
• ¶ 154. Entrance
  This is the stone-fall trap lined entrance hallway. It originally led through the farm area, one of the oldest parts of the fortress, but has been redirected to lead towards the new military area. The door to the farming area is to be walled off shortly.
  
  Stone fall traps are not too effective damage-wise but they soften up a small squad of ambushers well enough for the close combat military to step in and mop up the rest. You can still see the remains and the armor of the recent gobbo ambush squad here, and their blood spattering all over the place.
  
  So far the strategy for proper sieges (and we got really huge sieges here) has been to order everyone inside, raise the kimberlite bridge and wait for the bad guys to get bored. We're still looking into that. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 154. Farming area
  Next point on our guided tour is the farming area, as I said one of the oldest parts of the fortress further south we can still see the haphazard ways of irrigation that were used to muddy the soil for farming. Originally we farmed mainly plump helmets here but with the refinement of our food processing industry we have moved towards a more diverse assortment of crops that make for our famous cuisine.
  
  There's lots of stuff still lying around also, because this used to be a storage area until the relatively recent underground expansion. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 154. Magma pumps power
  For unknown reasons appearing to be digging desgnations are four waterwheels powering the magma pumps below. We originally anticipated that more water wheels were needed, hence the large enclosure. It was only recently that we heard that goblin sieges sometimes come mounted on tamed Giant Bats. Needless to say, hasty construction desgnations were issued.
  
  A bit further to the south is the pump that is supposed to feed the Great Waterfall at a later point, powered by a windmill. This, too has to be enclosed against flying invaders at some point. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 154. Old Trade Depot
  This used to be the trade depot, and it could probably be a nice location being in the center of the map and quite near to the entrance. But it has just been destroyed by sieging trolls for the second time, not to mention the two caravans that were slain in the process, so we're planning to move it inside now, if only to spare the hassle of rebuilding it all the time.
  
  Strangely though, the loss of their 1054 trade caravan only enticed the elves to come back with even more stuff the following year. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 154. Preliminary burial site
  These coffins mainly hold the remains of the previous caravan from the homelands but also those of the three military dwarves we lost in the ambushes. The elven trader's remains rot in the ponds.
  
  North and south from here are the previous offices of the arsenal dwarf and the bookkeeper, and the old barracks to the north west. These have all been moved further below since, but we are still unsure how to utilize this place now. The large room directly south from here used to be a dining hall back in the days, but its a craft storeroom now. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 153. Logging
  Because of the constant threat from gobbo ambushes and sieges, we try not to have the woodcutters stray too far from the fortress entrances. This means that although the area is really, really heavily forested, trees in the immediate vicinity of the main entrance have become sparse, so we build a second entrance just for woodcutting. When the wood is gone from here as well, we will probably build more. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 153. Military industrial complex
  To the northwest, the close combat squad barracks where invaders that survive the siege engines and traps will provide a welcome break from individual combat drills. Closer to the actual fortress, the hospital which has so far not seen any patients but is well stocked with thread and cloth. The doctor's union so far refused to put crutches and splints in there - we're still trying to negotiate that, or to find out why the hell they won't and what the hell they want.
  
  In between there is the military dormitory, arsenal dwarf's office, stockpiles for ammo, weapons and armor, and an archery range that is probably the least used room in the whole fortress, including some walled off areas. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 152. Animal stockpile
  An earlier elven caravan had an unfortunate encounter with a goblin siege, leaving us with a lot of cages and animals. But the pride of Frenzycities is the bronze colossus that has been trapped in a rather stable wooden cage and is now pondering its past mistakes in the same stockpile as a fox and a deer that have been caught in outside cage trap experiments. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 152. Pantry
  Back in the days, this used to be the main workshop area. You can still sort of tell by some of the stuff littering the area. After the Great Underground Expansion of 1055, we're utilizing the Decentralized Workshop plan from the wise Wiki McWick.
  
  These are food related industries, kitchen, brewery, butchery, tanners workshop, fishery. Only one of the millstones is powered, the additional's windmill was about to be built when we ran into kind of a wood shortage during the last siege.
  
  The well to the south is fed by two ponds on the surface, the water input is controlled manually by a lever because we didn't have time to build fancy machinery back in the days. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 132. The Great Hall
  This is our legendary dining hall. It has four stockpiles for prepared food and drinks and a hole in the center where a waterfall is to please the deadbeats hanging out there at some later point. The floor grates are made of silver.
  
  As you can see we're having a bit of an animal problem right now, as the butcheries have come into operation relatively recently, and the fortress' animal population had already exploded until then - sadly not literally.
  
  This is also the place where the citizens retreat in times of danger until the gates are closed, and where said closing of gates is controlled by convenient levers. Hey, hands off that! Maybe at a later point you would like to try one of our famous *dog liver roasts*, or a glass of (prickle berry wine)? - CptFastbreak
• Δ 130. Catacombs
  Next to the baron's quarters we plan to dig a huge burial site for commoners. The design has been shamelessly nabbed from the beautiful fortress Helmscrest by FadingEternity, slightly modified for symmetry. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 129. Jail
  This is the jail, directly adjacent to the sherriff's office and the baroness' quarters, where the poor dwarves can think about how they were supposed to make native aluminum items. We originally wanted to make all golden chains so that the inmates at least get some happy thoughts but due to a production bottleneck, most are actually nickel chains originally intended to restrain animals under the pantry.
  
  Further south you can see one of our skilled masons dilligently at work smoothing the baroness' quarters, and even further south the baroness' tomb that had to be hastily erected after she was traumatized by some dead trader's grave being nicer than hers. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 128. Peasant dormitories
  This is were homeless dwarves are supposed to sleep. For unknown reasons, however, a lot of dwarves insist on staying in here, sleeping on the rough floor even though they have their own rooms only one level below. Maybe it's time to move the dormitories *really* deep. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 127. Quarters
  These quarters complex was built following a traditional dwarven pattern from the ancient scrolls of wiki. They currently have room for about 125 dwarves, and since we didn't get any immigrants for a while due to sieges, even babies have their own rooms now.
  
  The pillars around the center will be smoothed and engraved, and the very center is supposed to eventually be the bottom level of the great waterfall. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 126. Caves
  The top level of one of several extensive cave system that so far hold two forgotten beasts. Walling every breach off has kept them at bay so far, we've been extra careful not even to allow downward stairs on the levels above. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 114. Magma pumps
  This is the top level of the magma pump tower. We spent most of the first two years forging iron pump parts to make about 25 magma proof screw pumps, and also quite some wood on about 40 vertical axles towards the water wheels upwards, but it was totally worth it.
  
  An inept architect in the early times of this fortress decided to pump the magma up an additional level for, this has proven to be a mistake. The magma would pour out of the holes dug for the magma workshops, so we had to add a floodgate to the construction. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 114. Smithy
  Powered by the great magma reservoir one level below, these are the smithies. We have already produced huge numbers of steel bars waiting to be turned into steel armor for our warriors only to idly sit in their stockpiles while the arsenal dwarf is doing nothing.
  
  The stockpile north of the smelters holds only iron ore, other metal ores are stored two levels below under the magma reservoir. Lets hope that no wet dwarves go there until the strange melting occurrences stop happening.
  
  The glass works only work with imported sand since we don't appear to have sand in this area. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 113. Magma reservoir
  This is the magma reservoir. We learned the hard way that a lot more stones are magma proof nowadays. What still remains to be done is transporting the magma about 40 levels upwards for goblin frying goodness. - CptFastbreak
• Δ 91. Magma source
  Below this point is a breach towards the magma sea in the cave that fills up from there. It has been removed from this guided tour for safety reasons. - CptFastbreak

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• Fortress Name: Frenzycities
• Map Year: 1056 Early Spring
• Author: CptFastbreak
• Submitted by: CptFastbreak
• Date Added: 24/04/2010