Firethrone - 209 Mid Autumn by erdtirdmans

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Points of Interest

• Δ 24. Screw pump maintenance floor
  This floor would have been the top floor of the castle, housing a ton of screw pumps. These pumps would be the final step for bringing the water from the bowls of the fortress (the bottom floor cistern) all the way up to the top and dropping it back down through grates in the center column, creating mist on every floor in the main walkway. - erdtirdmans
• Δ 23. Glass Ceiling

  ( 209 Mid Autumn to onwards )
  This is the floor where the glass ceiling would have covered the roof of the courtyards. - erdtirdmans

• Δ 21. Ballista corridor 1
  Two ballistas fire down the corridor, which is conveniently 2-wide when the floodgates are up. - erdtirdmans
• Δ 21. Ballista corridor 2
  Two ballistas fire down the corridor, which is conveniently 2-wide when the floodgates are up. - erdtirdmans
• Δ 21. Bridge trap
  If I panicked, this area would have been a huge retractable bridge. Retract, and drop all the enemies into the chamber below which at the flick of a lever could be filled with moat water almost instantly. With another lever, the water wheels above would power screw pumps to drain the moat back out.
  
  If I really panicked, I could simply retract the bridge below this as well, dropping enemies four floors down into lava. This latter switch was also how I would make obsidian at will. - erdtirdmans
• Δ 21. Gym

  ( 209 Mid Autumn to onwards )
  This eastern courtyard is a huge outdoor training facility.
  
  The northern third is an archery range.
  
  The middle third is a siege engine training yard. That's what the cubby to the far east is for: Two siege engines firing down a 2-wide corridor (when the floodgates are up, as they are here). When the floodgates are down, trade caravans can get in regardless of the front drawbridge's status.
  
  The bottom third is for dwarf-powered screw pumps. CRANK, CRANK, CRANK! - erdtirdmans

• Δ 20. Farm
  The left side would remain dark subterranean while the right side would have a glass ceiling and be light above ground. - erdtirdmans
• Δ 20. Garbage dump
  Anything i don't want cluttering up the map can get dumped down here and stacked endlessly upon itself on the floor below. - erdtirdmans
• Δ 19. Magma tube
  This is the magma tube in question that ultimately stopped progress on the fortress. Initially, it was 2-wide. When that didn't work I spent months turning it into what you see here. Then, that didn't work. It seems like magma doesn't flow how I'd like it to. You live and learn... - erdtirdmans
• Δ 19. Staircase swap
  In order to accomodate the Trade Depot, the staircases needed to be staggered here. From here down, the 4 stairwells provide a main mode of travel for all dwarves. The stairweels would have had plenty of mist around them if the waterfall feature was operation (each of the 3x4 rooms around this would be screw pumps that carry all through this column of the fortress.
  
  The north, west, south, and east stairs are a simpler affair for secondary travel. Doubtless, dwarves would be using these often as well, and that's why they would be lit from bottom to top courtesy of glass floors all throughout. Go ahead, go up and down on the z-level! You'll see there's a 3x3 section left unblocked all the way through! - erdtirdmans
• Δ 18. Tower cap farm
  Step 1: Open Underground river reroute floodgates.
  Step 2: Close when Tower-cap farm has been covered with water.
  Step 3: Let water dry up.
  Step 4: Kill the frogmen
  Step 5: Never harvest wood in the dangerous outdoors again. - erdtirdmans
• Δ 16. Coffins piling up

  ( 209 Mid Autumn to onwards )
  Coffins started piling up after the Bronze Colossus and subsequent happiness spiral. Seems some of my warriors had made a lot of friends... not to mention that no one wants to clean up the junk the butchers leave all over the place. - erdtirdmans

• Δ 11. Cistern

  ( 209 Mid Autumn to onwards )
  If the waterfall feature was complete, this would be its lowest floor. All the water would land here after being dropped from the tippy-top of the tower and be picked up again by screw pumps just above it. This stuff would of course be walled off.
  
  Everything below here is for mining. That's right, my dwarves would be able to do literally everything without leaving the fortress, all in a purposefully-designed, well-defended, reasonably-optimized fashion. Oh, if only the magma would flow faster. - erdtirdmans

• 22. Ramparts

  ( 205 Late Autumn to onwards )
  Though I'm on an evil map and - thus - marksdwarves are less useful, I still went ahead and built ramparts for them to fire from. Who knows, maybe after they've trained in maces or hammers, they'll train for crossbows too to pick off goblin sieges. What's a castle without ramparts, anyway? - erdtirdmans

• 21. Statue Garden, Pool, and Execution Chamber

  ( 205 Late Autumn to onwards )
  This area is the Statue Garden complimented with small waterfalls on its western wall, a swimming pool in the east, and a 3-way (starvation, spikes, drowning) glass execution chamber to the north. Only the finest for the Firethrone dwarves!
  
  I'm bouncing around the idea of making a date clock that somehow changes the scenery of this are to show the current month. I haven't looked in to do that yet, but I assume the indicator will be colored objects in between the statues. - erdtirdmans

• 21. Water wheel stack

  ( 205 Late Autumn to onwards )
  Considering I'll be supplying 12 pumps per floor with the ability to make mist on my central stairwells, the number of water wheels here shouldn't seem as insane. - erdtirdmans

• 20. Trade Depot

  ( 205 Late Autumn to onwards )
  This Trade Depot is underground to enable trading during siege and also surrounded on three sides by stairs that lead almost straight to the stockpiles. Generally, I let items sit in the Trade Depot between caravans (d -> b -> f) to save hauling time. - erdtirdmans

• 21. Imush's Last Stand

  ( 202 Early Autumn to onwards )
  This is where I decided Imush was running way too far to ever survive and recruited him into the military. The logic was that I could station him back in the fortress where he'd be safe from the undead. The reality? He decided that, as a military man, he could fight them.
  
  He was beaten mercilessly by zombie mountain goats.
  
  Somehow, we recovered his corpse. Mega-project memorial, anyone? - erdtirdmans

• 19. Industrial Floor

  ( 202 Early Autumn to onwards )
  The workshop floor, divided into four sections.
  
  Roughly left to right
  NW (Wood and stone): Bowyer, Mason, Jeweler, Carpenter, Craftsdwarf, Wood Furnace
  N: Kennel
  NE (Cloth & Leather) Mechanic (somewhat out of place, but still not far. The NW wing expands too fast for Mechanics to go there as well), Leatherworker, Dyer, Loom, Tanner, Clothier
  SW Bars and Blocks: Craftsdwarf, Ashery, Magma Glass Furnace, Magma Kiln, Magma Smelter, Magma Forge
  S: Siege Workshop
  SE Food: Butcher, Butcher, Quern, Fishery, Air lock to Bone, Corpse, Shell and Hide Stockpile, Kitchen, Still, Farmer's
  E: Seed Stockpile next to stairs to Farm and Greenhouse
  
  * The 3x4 rooms around the middle are for a stacked screw pump waterfall assembly. They are not going to be workshops - erdtirdmans

• 18. Stockpiles, top floor

  ( 202 Early Autumn to onwards )
  The top floor of the stockpiles, positioned conveniently below their relevant workshops.
  
  NW: Wood
  N: Animal (forgot to mark it in 202 Autumn)
  NE: Cloth, Leather, and Dye
  SW: Bar-Block and Sand
  SSW: Magma channel, both for the functionality of the workshops above and for the dump chute on the Trade Depot level
  S: Siege Parts & Arrowheads (forgot to mark it in 202 Autumn)
  SE: WeaponTrap, Ammo, and Armor - erdtirdmans

• 16. Tomb floor

  ( 205 Late Autumn to onwards )
  To the northwest: a pet graveyard. To the southwest: a dwarf graveyard. To the north and south: tombs for the nobles. To the east: the top floor of the Mess Hall - erdtirdmans

• 15. Entertainment floor

  ( 205 Late Autumn to onwards )
  To the northwest: A jail, which may become part of the zoo's "Sentient Life Exhibit" if I eventually decide to extend it beyond its standard borders.
  
  To the southwest: A zooaquarium!
  
  To the north and south: Shops, for all your greedy desires
  
  To the east: A the mess hall, where dwarves come to make a mess... and eat. Note that it is two floors, despite that being irrelevant to dwarves. Also, note that the staircases continue straight down from the food and booze stockpile. - erdtirdmans

• 17. Stockpiles, bottom floor

  ( 202 Early Autumn to onwards )
  Floor 2 of the Stockpiles, conveniently located under the relevant workshops.
  
  NW: Gem, Economic Stone
  NE: Furniture, except Barrels and Siege Parts and Ammo
  SW: Finished Goods
  SE: Barrels and Food, except Dye and Seeds - erdtirdmans

• 13. Dormitories

  ( 205 Late Autumn to onwards )
  Dorms of many sizes - mostly 2x3s or 3x3s, though there is a 1x3 that makes me kind of sad. Very loosely based on the Greek Cross plans from the wiki on bedroom design. - erdtirdmans

• 14. Noble Dorms and Barracks

  ( 203 Mid Winter to onwards )
  A cross-shaped design featuring the King's room to the left, a Barracks to the right, and noble housing everywhere in between. - erdtirdmans

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Firethrone

• 209 Mid Autumn [R]
• 205 Late Autumn
• 203 Mid Winter
• 202 Early Autumn
• 202 Early Summer

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Map details:

• Fortress Name: Firethrone
• Map Year: 209 Mid Autumn
• Author: erdtirdmans
• Submitted by: erdtirdmans
• Date Added: 07/08/2011