Abbeytunneled - 1054 Early Spring by Charrat

Map Description:

My third year! I have completed the mining project I started in the year earlier. The next year will focus on ridding the central living space from excess floors and laying out the perminant rooms and slowly breaking down the temporary stockpiles and workshops.

I have 69 dwarves at the moment, including 9 legendary miners. I have gone way overboard making statues, coffers, and cabinets, mostly because I set the workshops to automatic and then forgot about them.

Even though I have brought 200 units of wood and probably traded for a 100 more, I still don't have enough. =)

Point of Interest: Central Living Space

My main mission during the third year was to hollow out the space around the magma pipe. I am going to try to add some interesting lore to this fortress by incorporating non-functional elements. I intend to have 8 levels of magma pipe exposed, and all rooms facing towards it. Perhaps these dwarves worship the magma for the heat it provides, which they desperately need in this frosty environment?

I have begun channelling out the outer most rim of what will be the large empty space surrounding the magma pipe. I intend to only channel the rim of the floor between the pipe and the hallway and then caving-in the floors because that might be less effort.

The bottom 1 to 3 levels of this central space will be used to store water melted from the glacier above. - Charrat

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maps/2008-06/charrat-Abbeytunneled-region1-spr-1054-1054-0.fdf-map My third year! I have completed the mining project I started in the year earlier. The next year will focus on ridding the central living space from excess floors and laying out the perminant rooms and slowly breaking down the temporary stockpiles and workshops. I have 69 dwarves at the moment, including 9 legendary miners. I have gone way overboard making statues, coffers, and cabinets, mostly because I set the workshops to automatic and then forgot about them. Even though I have brought 200 units of wood and probably traded for a 100 more, I still don't have enough. =) 8 2368 2800 1.00 top My main mission during the third year was to hollow out the space around the magma pipe. I am going to try to add some interesting lore to this fortress by incorporating non-functional elements. I intend to have 8 levels of magma pipe exposed, and all rooms facing towards it. Perhaps these dwarves worship the magma for the heat it provides, which they desperately need in this frosty environment? I have begun channelling out the outer most rim of what will be the large empty space surrounding the magma pipe. I intend to only channel the rim of the floor between the pipe and the hallway and then caving-in the floors because that might be less effort. The bottom 1 to 3 levels of this central space will be used to store water melted from the glacier above. Charrat

Comments

Submitted by: Yojimbo - 2008-06-12 to 1052 Mid Spring

Looks like a good start on a really tough map. Hope things go well for you and your stunty minions.

Submitted by: Old Dwarf - 2008-06-22 to 1055 Early Spring

Please tell me what color scheme are you using!

Submitted by: Charrat - 2008-06-22 to 1055 Early Spring

Old Dwarf, I am using "Another Scheme" that is up on the DF Wiki. =)

[Message edited on 2008/06/22 at 08:40 by Charrat]

Submitted by: Markavian` - 2008-08-11 to 1072 Mid Winter

Yes, that is quite an insane fortress you have.

Submitted by: Unbeltedsundew - 2008-08-11 to 1072 Mid Winter

Awe inspireing fortress. I get annoyed when the fps hits about thirty so its pretty persevering of you to remain until its 4.

Those floating floors are strange are the bridges still built (as in can the withdrawn bridges till be supporting it?)?

Submitted by: Charrat - 2008-08-11 to 1072 Mid Winter

Yes the bridges are still there (retracted at the moment). I had thought that retracting the bridges would be enough to collapse the floors, but apparently not. I would have preferred simply using deconstruction or channeling to collapse the floors instead, but the dwarves tend to get themselves stuck in dangerous positions when I try that. =)

Submitted by: metasynthetic - 2008-08-11 to 1072 Mid Winter

Someday, when I have an hour in which I want to think about Dwarf Fortress but not actually play it, I will attempt to really understand this fortress. I especially like how you hollowed around the magma pipe, that's some truly epic dwarven engineering.

Submitted by: Maggarg - 2008-10-15 to 1072 Mid Winter

This is godly.

Submitted by: sneakeypete - 2008-11-20 to 1073 Early Autumn

i *think* that the water in your cisterns on the left and right need to get completely full (eg [7/7] all over) on the z levels where they are currently 5's/4's before it'll swell up into your chamber. (eg, on z level 4). And, of course, if you want to fill up the second z level of your chamber, then you'd need to get all z level 5 of your cisterns up to [7/7] first. Guess you'll need to melt some more ice...

Bloody awesome fort though



[Message edited on 2008/11/20 at 10:56 by sneakeypete]

Submitted by: sneakeypete - 2008-11-22 to 1073 Early Autumn

Hmm, that's odd. did you re upload the map or something?

Submitted by: Drone - 2008-11-22 to 1073 Early Autumn

I think water doesn't follow normal pressure rules if it has to go through a floor hatch.

Submitted by: Markavian - 2008-11-22 to 1073 Early Autumn

You do know you can share points of interest across multiple years, right? I was a bit bemused at your opening message linking to an older version of the map.

Submitted by: Charrat - 2008-11-22 to 1073 Early Autumn

sneakypete--I am going to try to melt some more ice and see if that helps at all. I didn't re-upload the map, does it seem that way? =P

Drone--I am afraid that might be the problem. If it is, I would probably have to drain the cisterns, remove the floor hatches, melt more ice, and refill the cisterns to make it work.

Markavian--I knew that it was possible, but I couldn't figure it out, and it seemed easier just to link to the last map. =P I just noticed the checkbox that makes POI sharing work, so I set it up properly.

Submitted by: sneakeypete - 2008-11-23 to 1073 Early Autumn

Well, it said that the map was uploaded "4 hours ago" about 20 hours after i made my original comment.

it now says that the map was uploaded "24 hours ago", even though i made my second comment "32 hours ago"

Submitted by: Markavian - 2008-11-25 to 1073 Early Autumn

If you edit a map description it changes the date on the map entry... not perfect, but good way of tracking recent edits. Sorry for the confusion...

Submitted by: Squeegy - 2008-11-26 to 1073 Early Autumn

By the way, I believe those floating floors won't collapse because there's a roof above them. Not sure, but worth a try.

Submitted by: blarg - 2008-12-18 to 1072 Mid Winter

this looks like a cool fortress.

Submitted by: SiliconJesus - 2009-03-26 to 1072 Mid Winter

Do you happen to have a list of how you broke out the stone separation by color? I would love to see your breakdown of it.

Submitted by: Chromie - 2009-03-27 to 1055 Early Spring

re: the patches of sand, apparently when you build a construction on the layer of rock directly under the ice layers, and then deconstruct it, the floor isn't rock but a random soil type. It's a bug. :( Enjoy the glass in this version though ;-)

Submitted by: Asra - 2009-08-05 to 1073 Early Autumn

Was the lava always under the surface or did you have to wall it off first?

Submitted by: Charrat - 2009-11-27 to 1073 Early Autumn

It is a magma pipe that I found and built the fortress around.

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