Beandagger - 432 Mid Autumn by Noble Digger

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Slaving away at the magma and water systems which needed some upgrades after the first test. Basically, the elevator pumps need hatches to prevent backflow in certain places, because there are rounding errors which are gradually destroying a small percentage of the magma when they are running, and this percentage increases as the moat fills. Basically, it will never be 100% full with those pumps running until the upgrades.

Point of Interest: 07. Grand Hall 2F Entrance

I told myself I would not use the drill shafts as part of the main fortress when I started it, but I just like them. My capitulation was to never connect them to any dangerous portion of the fort. As such, we'll be breaching the cavern layer 2 via the miners' guild.

This section of the fort had several gold veins, so I built the entrances to the Lumberjacks' and Chefs' guild halls to the west, saving the heavily gold-infused rooms to use as large manors.

The construction style in here might make your eyes bleed; I design based on what the rooms would look like in first person, rather than how they look in dwarf mode. I have a strong imagination and I often look around the fort imagining what the rooms would look like before I do any construction, as I am going largely for thematic goals when I play this game. - Noble Digger

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Submitted by: Sinergistic' - 2010-06-30 to 425 Late Winter

What is with all of the grates all over the place? Flood protection?

Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2010-06-30 to 425 Late Winter

Some of the grates were scaffolding for things that needed to have their floors mined out so they could collapse. Some are in place just in case water gets in there--which is never likely to happen, but I enjoy building that sort of thing for the eventuality, especially if it adds something else to the fort at the same time. Some are there to trick forgotten beasts into going a certain way--they can't cross over grates because they try to destroy them instead.

Submitted by: Flex - 2010-07-02 to 429 Mid Winter

I'm not really sure how you can use that tileset. It's probably one of the ugliest ones I've ever seen designed for actual use by humans.

Submitted by: Sinergistic' - 2010-07-02 to 429 Mid Winter

Um, ok?

Please, bestow upon us your worldly knowledge concerning all things tilesets.

I, personally, quite like the pttg set, thank you very much.

Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2010-07-02 to 429 Mid Winter

'To each his own' is my creed,

and to the rest, a dip in the moat.

Edit: Though, if you'd like to see how this fort looks in a tileset of your choosing, feel free to suggest one and I'll export a screenshot using yours. It used to take 20+ minutes to complete the whole process, but with DF31.08 it takes 20 seconds give or take.

[Message edited on 2010/07/02 at 04:05 by Noble Digger]

Submitted by: Markavian - 2010-07-08 to 432 Mid Autumn

Wow, those magma chambers and the walled moat are something else.

Submitted by: Markavian - 2010-07-18 to 434 Early Autumn

Chimney... aha, I get it. Nice work. I like how you're theming the workshop areas around the fort - gives each place a focus and purpose.

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Points of Interest

Δ 33. 10. Southwest Drill Shaft
Take a look through. I accidentally copied the design of the northeast shaft, and had meant for them to have radial symmetry with the center of the map. By the time I noticed, I decided my fort could bear the imperfection as I didn't want to savescum over a non-catastrophic, non-testing situation.

As such, the southeast shaft also bears this imperfection, because it would have just been weird to have only one of them messed up. - Noble Digger
Δ 33. 11. Southeast Drill Shaft
This one is the newest, and cuts down to a really interesting location on level 25 which connects to all the southeastern underground map fortifications. - Noble Digger
Δ 32. 12. Upgraded Magma Excise System
I added a bunch more crap to this which should make it much, much easier to fill the top z-level of the moat with 7-depth magma. The unfortunate side-effect is that my fort will have two more entrances which could be exploited by a building destroyer swimming in the magma.

If everything goes perfectly with this system when it's done, I will eventually tear most of it apart and replace the open, mechanism-driven doors (they are to the left of the floodgates adjacent to the magma itself) and replace them with bauxite block walls. In order to remove the floodgates as well, if I am so inclined, I need only channel out the floor above the tile to the right of them and have a dwarf treat them as a Pond; dumping one bucket of water on the tile will turn it into natural rock. - Noble Digger
Δ 32. 16. Unfrozen Surface Water
This is a Light, Above Ground tile. However, if I try pumping water in here, it all freezes. If you look one level below, there's definitely magma everywhere. However, the floor tiles here don't ever become "warm" because of the Bauxite Block Roads built inside the magma below. I'm draining all this so I can remove those roads. :( - Noble Digger
Δ 31. 15. "Decorated" Prison Area
The best way I could think of to get all the hostile creatures out of their cages (and into my dwarves' bellies) was to station the military in here and order the creatures brought to a distant cage. As such, there is blood-a-plenty in here.

The next batch of prisoners to get brought in are probably not going to have a very bright outlook on their prospects of survival... - Noble Digger
Δ 30. 14. New Dyers' Shop
All the dye, and 4 dyers' shops made of silver barrels and silver buckets. The extra workshop docks will probably be used for looms or perhaps even left empty. - Noble Digger
Δ 30. 17. Magma Moat Drain
This is where I broke through the soil to begin draining the magma moat. Because of the grates, this was accomplished in relative safety. Dwarves no longer catch on fire and die by being in the same tile as 1-depth magma which is falling through a grate for a single frame. I first dug a channel down through on a single tile in each room; this was done instantly and the dwarf was gone before magma got into the grate's tile.

Later, once a significant amount of magma had drained in this way, the remainder taking forever to ooze sideways in the channel and get here, it became safe to move in and dig the remaining ramps to speed up overall drainage. - Noble Digger
Δ 29. 13. Barrel Hell
After many years of trading with the elves and humans, I have an unholy assload of other-civilization barrels, bags, and even some buckets and the like. I'm in process of atom-smashing all that junk and replacing them with homemade goods, and as far as I can tell, the only good way to do this is.......manually. d, b, d.... - Noble Digger
Δ 28. 01. The Burning Gearwheel
I'm scared to fill it with magma until the surface situation is all dealt with, even though it's a fairly fast and low-risk job. The room is currently usable and magma-safe as long as I lock the correct doors. - Noble Digger
¶ 27. 02. Magma Destruction Chambers
Because there's no longer a true "drain" for liquids (aside from the magma sea and parts deeper) due to the removal of chasm and bottomless pit tiles, I've found that the best way to dispose of magma is to pith it with an auto-repeating drawbridge. Please note that this design didn't work--after 3 months, the system became overwhelmed and stopped triggering due to its pressure plates being saturated with too much magma (they must drop below 3 depth to reset). That required a savescum back to before it was turned on, and will be fixed by a 2nd trio of triggers beside the existing ones to ensure that the bridges will fire at varying magma levels.

With adequate coverage of various trigger depths, this design will reliably crush all fluids that enter the cavern, given enough time. An enormous crushing surface area is necessary to process a high-volume indefinite flow such as the edge of the map water in the ocean, etc.

See POI 03 for the water version, which is in need of additional plates but otherwise works flawlessly for as long as it's active. - Noble Digger
Δ 25. 05. Miners' Guild Hall
Now totally smoothed, except the door frames. I intend to use this building to provide sole access to the 2nd cavern layer, which will not be attached to the drill shafts until it is secured by the military, weavers, woodcutters, and masons.

I really wish some of the babies would grow up and start helping around the fortress by now. It's been 12 years with 14 working dwarves (27 pop, 10 children, 3 military) and while the FPS is pretty smooth, they are still only 14 dwarves... It can be tough to do 2 industries at once. - Noble Digger
Δ 24. 04. Grand Hall Entrance 4F
The largest complex of permanent rooms in the fortress so far, carefully smoothed to prevent doorways and windows adjecent to smoothed walls, which I hate. :[

This is the entrance from the center of the cavern. The white staircase to the east is the central shaft that was used to enter the underground.

In this POI, the limestone doors to the west with the unsmoothed wall in the back room are a food stockpile. There are several of these through this complex. The staircase above leads to a common hall down below which connects to numerous bedrooms and fortress areas, whereas all the other staircases in this complex are part of someone's home. - Noble Digger
Δ 24. 09. Additional Gem Storage
I really don't want to put them in bins... All these pale-colored common gems, meh. I don't want to throw them away or export them, but they sure take up a lot of space.

The left room is still under construction, which slipped my mind. - Noble Digger
Δ 23. 06. Grand Hall 3F
This section of the hallway isn't really connected to any common areas except a food stockpile. The native gold doors lead to personal residences. The path to the west is meant to connect to the fortified map entrance. - Noble Digger
Δ 22. 03. Water Destruction Chamber
This was my first experiment with an infinitely re-triggering drawbridge room designed to infinitely dispose of stray liquids. It works, but when I made my test run I did so by cutting down the trees (which was not reversible by any non-defacing means) so I savescummed to the activation time. I plan to add 2-3 more drawbridges and in fact may reconstruct the majority of this system.

Each of the pressure plates is linked to both drawbridges and the entire system is magma-safe (bauxite all around). The represented trigger depths are:

3
4
5
6
7
1-2
2-3
3-4
4-5
5-6

And this guarantees that the system will continue firing pretty much no matter what amount of liquid enters it. - Noble Digger
Δ 22. 07. Grand Hall 2F Entrance
I told myself I would not use the drill shafts as part of the main fortress when I started it, but I just like them. My capitulation was to never connect them to any dangerous portion of the fort. As such, we'll be breaching the cavern layer 2 via the miners' guild.

This section of the fort had several gold veins, so I built the entrances to the Lumberjacks' and Chefs' guild halls to the west, saving the heavily gold-infused rooms to use as large manors.

The construction style in here might make your eyes bleed; I design based on what the rooms would look like in first person, rather than how they look in dwarf mode. I have a strong imagination and I often look around the fort imagining what the rooms would look like before I do any construction, as I am going largely for thematic goals when I play this game. - Noble Digger
Δ 21. 08. Grand Hall 1F Crossway
For starters, the clear glass doors indicate a common break area which will have dining tables and chairs, perhaps statues. I wouldn't want any homeless dwarves using these rooms to fuck or shoot heroin, and I decided clear doors would discourage this.

I intended this level to be the 2nd floor, that is, for there to be one level deeper. Unfortunately, when I was digging out the few little rooms I planned for the level below, nearly all of them broke the 2nd cavern layer and dropped my FPS to 15 or so. It's entirely paved with trees, creatures, and spider webs. I don't plan to break in there until there's nothing else pressing going on on the surface, and I can afford to throw all my labor (and hopefully some new-grown adult dwarves) at it.

If you follow the north hallway, you'll step out into the cavern beside Pierce's Palace. To the south is Doren's Palace and another drill shaft...

- Noble Digger

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Fortress Name: Beandagger
Map Year: 432 Mid Autumn
Author: Noble Digger
Submitted by: Noble Digger
Date Added: 08/07/2010