Bridgeesteems - 393 Late Autumn by martinuzz

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The fort is now 38 years old. The catacombs are done. Now it's bout time to turn on invaders.

Point of Interest: Trade Depot

This is where trading takes place. In the storage room to the right you can see my excess honey. Guarded by bears. Except for the magma pool, there's no traps on the above approach. Invaders that make it past the magma and bears will be greeted here, by silver spiked balls, steel serrated dics and giant steel axeblades. In case of siege, my military will assemble in the farm rooms.

The castle form designated for digging has been in place since I embarked. It was my initial basic design idea for this fort. - martinuzz

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Submitted by: Anon - 2012-11-04 to 372 Late Winter

Might be a dumb question, but why do your dwarves have nicer beards than mine? I play on ASCII, but the "beard" is just a little mouth. Did you replace the dwarf graphic with a custom one?

Submitted by: martinuzz - 2012-11-05 to 393 Late Autumn

I do not use custom tiles. The only thing I did, is change the tileset windowed mode uses to be the same as the tileset that fullscreen mode uses. Go to DATA/INIT/init.txt, and change the line under [WINDOWEDY:25] to [FONT:curses_800x600.png]

Submitted by: Tharis - 2015-12-29 to 393 Late Autumn

That's very nice, I especially like the geometry in the lower levels, and the mosaic in the Hall of the Hated Sun.

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Points of Interest

Δ 43. Above ground
This is the entrance. The contraptions to the right can fill the goblin entrance field with magma. Those that make it past, will meet some war grizzlies.
The left side entrance is for the caravans, and can be sealed off in case of invaders. - martinuzz
Δ 43. Dome topping
The clear glass floor lets light shine through all the way down into the Hall of the Hated Sun. Well, actually, it's more the game saying "a tile that has ever seen sunlight will always remain lit", and the glass blocks are purely cosmetic. - martinuzz
Δ 42. Trade Depot
This is where trading takes place. In the storage room to the right you can see my excess honey. Guarded by bears. Except for the magma pool, there's no traps on the above approach. Invaders that make it past the magma and bears will be greeted here, by silver spiked balls, steel serrated dics and giant steel axeblades. In case of siege, my military will assemble in the farm rooms.

The castle form designated for digging has been in place since I embarked. It was my initial basic design idea for this fort. - martinuzz
Δ 41. Wood and livestock
Here cave wood is sorted by colour and processed. I had to change the corours of tunnel tubes to green, and black-caps to dark blue to get my mosaic wood floor right.
Somehow my 3d cavern does spawn blood-thorn, but no nether caps on this map.
My farmers workshops are situated here as well, and my sheep, grizzlies, cougars, yaks and some various other creatures are being bred. Selective breeding is going pretty well. It's just a pity that I can't seem to capture a male cave croc though. - martinuzz
Δ 40. Mills, breweries and tree farms
I have grown pretty fond of the new option to have stockpiles give to workshops. It expands the power of the manager's screen. You can see 6 querns here, each with their own stockpile. There's no whip vines or sliver barbs on this map, or I would have had 8 querns.
To the west, and to the south are the tree farms. It took about 15 years to grow enough wood of the needed colours. - martinuzz
Δ 39. Main organic production level
It's all here. Butcheries, tanners, leatherworks, kitchens, looms, dyers, clothiers. This level sees a lot of hard working dwarves. The mist generator, which covers the meeting area below it in comfortable mist, is visible in the middle, with power coming in from the south. - martinuzz
Δ 38. Queen's memorial
A slab made of gold nuggets, and engraved in honour of our late queen serves to form the fort's memorial hall. It always has vistors, which adds a nice touch to the fort.

The walls are made of clear glass blocks. Above the memorial is a gold and glass dome, allowing light to shine in from the surface.
A glass stairway leads down towards the catacombs. - martinuzz
Δ 38. Residential area
Around the central dining hall, living space for my common dwarves has been provided. There's two additional dining halls, a party room, and the offices for my lower nobles too. To he left of the central room is the mist generator output as well as a kitten drop chute. Instead of dropping a kitten 10+ z-levels, I only drop it a few, on top of a grinder made from spiked silver balls, which activates as soon as it's victim passes out from the fall. - martinuzz
Δ 37. Hospital and jails
The hospital and jails are situated comfortably close to the fort's two wells. The mayor's housing, as well as the captain of the guard's quarters are built here too, as well as some more commoner's houses. - martinuzz
Δ 37. Sneak preview
Descending down from the memorial hall, dwarves pass through here, getting a glimpse of what lies below. - martinuzz
Δ 36. Hall of the Hated Sun
Dwarves that die will be buried in the catacombs below. Before that, they must pass through the Hall of the Hated Sun one more time.

The floor mosaic is made from wood blocks. I had to change tunnel tubes to green, and black-caps to blue. It took about 15 years of tree-growing to get enough of all colours. Magmafalls shine a lively light through clear glass walls, as well as heating up the room. - martinuzz
Δ 36. Royal Floor
This is where the Queen was housed. The mayor still lives, in the four rooms around the central party hall, but the queen has died. In dwarven society, once a monarch dies, they immediatly lose their royal status. As a result, my mayor has been plagued by utter traumatization, because the queen, who no longer is a queen, is buried in a nicer tomb than his own. Around the royal floor are some more catacombs. These are for commoners. Military dwarves will be buried more properly. - martinuzz
Δ 35. Barracks and magmaforges
By now, 10 squads of soldiers live and train here. It seemed no more than fitting to build the magma industry here as well. - martinuzz
Δ 35. Forever Frozen Tomb
Having passed under the hated sun one last time, dead dwarves will be eternally pleased by the dark cold offered them by the Forever Frozen Tomb. Only military dwarves will earn a place here.

The tomb offers unliving space for 112 dead dwarves.
It was constructed from engraved walls, engraved floors, a few tower cap blocks, lots of spore-tree doors and spore-tree caskets. I still need more caskets. Spore trees do not spawn in abundance. - martinuzz
Δ 34. Obsidian Farm
This is a small 11x11 obsidian farm. It's empty at the moment, I still need to rechannel the top.

Slightly northwest of it you can see a raised bridge. When lowered, it connects the caverns to the above ground. Works wonders for catching wildlife in traps, it seems all aboveground animals like to leave the map through the cave, if the route is opened. - martinuzz

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Fortress Name: Bridgeesteems
Map Year: 393 Late Autumn
Author: martinuzz
Submitted by: martinuzz
Date Added: 05/11/2012