This is Reinhammers, founded 235, currently in its late eighth year.
Dwarf numbers have plateaud at around ~220, while my FPS seems to have reached a steady 25-30 range. Sieges, massive dump-designates, and other huge job queue additions tend to bring me down to 19-20 FPS.
The latest goblin siege has left me with a gigantic mess to clean up. I was, however, able to conveniently dump the vast majority of useless clothing on to the dwarven traders who had just arrived.
( 243 Early Spring → 254 Early Spring )
This is the base of the step pyramid on top of the fort. The bottom step is surrounded by fortifications that my marksdwarves are sent out to patrol regularly. - Lord Dullard
There are 35 comments for this map series, last post 2009-10-20
Reinhammers
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Submitted by: PTTG - 2008-08-21 to 243 Mid Autumn
Amazing! I am Awed by the Dining Pods.
Submitted by: lambskin - 2008-08-21 to 243 Mid Autumn
Amazing fortress! What are the coffins made of?
Submitted by: Lord Dullard - 2008-08-21 to 243 Mid Autumn
Thank you both.
The coffins are all dolomite, which is the material used in most of the fort's constructions. I may eventually replace some of the more important dwarves' coffins with steel or platinum editions - but since I settled on a map with no magma, for now I'm conserving wood and don't want to waste the charcoal.
Submitted by: Invictus - 2008-08-22 to 243 Mid Autumn
Itīs really something. That Forge an surrounding quarters looks like a undeground ship with all the water around. Almost all points of interest contains some great idea of architecture.
My respect.
Submitted by: Hellzon - 2008-08-22 to 243 Mid Autumn
Awesome.
Nice architecture, but I'm still giggling about the vomit on the Philosoher's sunroof.
Submitted by: Lacero - 2008-08-22 to 243 Mid Autumn
Favourited :)
Submitted by: Lord Dullard - 2008-08-22 to 245 Late Spring
I should note that in between 243-245 I gave 'Loamy Sand' a [SOIL_SAND] tag. I didn't realize upon embarking that loamy sand wasn't actually a sand, so I edited the raw rather than start a whole new fortress just to achieve glass production.
[Message edited on 2008/08/22 at 01:38 by Lord Dullard]
Submitted by: Katsuun - 2008-08-22 to 245 Late Spring
Heh. I've never had a fortress thats lasted this long, so I can only be awed.
Submitted by: Gaulgath - 2008-08-22 to 245 Late Spring
It is rare indeed when a fortress filled with such architectural achievement is uploaded here. Bravo sir!
[Message edited on 2008/09/03 at 06:13 by Gaulgath]
Submitted by: Doppel - 2008-08-23 to 245 Late Spring
Wow, i love the layout of this fort. I love how its neat and clean and impressive, but not too overdone.
How do you make a fountain like that btw?
I also really like the color sheme.
Submitted by: Lord Dullard - 2008-08-23 - Removed
Submitted by: Lord Dullard - 2008-08-23 to 245 Late Spring
Thank you to everyone who has commented.
As for the fountain - the setup is actually relatively simple. It's just tiered layers of solid walls with stacked screw pumps in the center and a cistern underneath. Grates surround the entire thing so that when the water spills off of the bottom level it feeds back into the cistern and starts the process over again.
Submitted by: Markavian - 2008-08-24 to 243 Mid Autumn
*Also favourites*... the entire fort is filled with character and its just so neat and tidy...
Submitted by: Ambivalence - 2008-08-28 to 250 Early Summer
Nice bazaar, and the whole place looks really crisp and clean.
Submitted by: stummelist - 2008-08-28 to 250 Early Summer
wtf? great fortress design... also liked the dining pods most.
Submitted by: Maggarg - 2008-08-28 to 246 Early Autumn
I love the library.
I wish I could be bothered to build things like that.
Honestly, I can only imagine the stories in that fort.
Submitted by: kein - 2008-08-30 to 246 Early Autumn
Fantasic work. +Favored.
I like how you didnt dirty it up with a graphic set like most DF vetrans do. Is that the "natural" color scheme or something else? Love the maze. The catacombs look like a starship :)
Submitted by: Lord Dullard - 2008-08-30 to 250 Early Summer
kein: I use 'Another scheme'.
Submitted by: Dakira - 2008-09-03 to 255 Early Spring
Marvelous.
Also, I think your FPS died due to the fountain. When I tried to use fountains, my FPS always took a serious blow.
Submitted by: RavingManiac - 2008-09-09 to 255 Early Spring
Hmm, I wonder which of the tombs belongs to the tax collector...
Submitted by: Yojimbo - 2008-09-27 to 255 Early Spring
Sir! We salute you!!
That is impressive. Excellent theme and execution.
Yoj
Submitted by: Alex Encandar - 2008-09-28 to 262 Mid Spring
Quite awesome :D
Submitted by: Marzen - 2008-11-11 to 262 Mid Spring
...Man, this fortress ROCKS. Like, seriously, it's been a great help for my newest one. Awesome clean layout, awesome projects. Speaking of projects, how did you make that giant hole? AND smooth it. I can't see a way you'd do it without having your dwarfs fly. Also, you still working on this? Been looking at it for ages, and I thought you'd add in one more map, but it's been 2 months now.
Submitted by: Lord Dullard - 2008-11-13 to 262 Mid Spring
Hi, Marzen. Thanks for the comment.
If the hole you are referring to is the one under the altar, I just dug/channeled out a 5x5 pit, leaving a single stairwell as I went. Once the pit was dug out I just removed the stairs. This is how I build most of my large projects - I build up 'scaffolding' surrounding them until they're finished, then remove it at the end from the top-down.
I haven't been playing DF much lately (LotRO and Fallout 3 have been eating my free time for the past few months), but I still plan on trying to 'finish' this fort. Eventually.
[Message edited on 2008/11/13 at 03:09 by Lord Dullard]
Submitted by: Nilus - 2008-12-04 to 263 Late Winter
This fortress is disturbingly epic.
I hate you for being better than me.
Submitted by: Luckymoose - 2008-12-04 to 263 Late Winter
This just might be the best fortress I have ever seen. It is making me and my friends jealous. We will probably try something more epic and fail.
That Skull is amazing, did you use a template or just wing it?
Submitted by: Doppel - 2008-12-05 to 263 Late Winter
This fortress continues to become epicly better each time i see it!
Great job.
Submitted by: Mintie2 - 2009-02-15 to 250 Early Summer
This fort is the best! Good design and innovation. Sorry to bug you even more about the tileset, but I can't seem to find it. Can you tell us where you got it?
[Message edited on 2009/02/19 at 10:42 by Mintie2]
[Message edited on 2009/02/25 at 09:17 by Mintie2]
Submitted by: Lord Dullard - 2009-03-12 to 263 Late Winter
I use the tileset here: http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/List_of_user_character_sets#Unknown
It's the second one under the 'Unknown' listing.
Submitted by: Markavian - 2009-03-12 to 263 Late Winter
dude. that skull is frickin' scary
Submitted by: Markavian - 2009-03-12 to 263 Late Winter
"Some people would say it's silly to have a huge, creepy-looking mural of the visage of Armok that your dwarves can't actually see.
I agree. But what the hell."
- but what if some sky deity / god type person could view that room from above with all the rock and sand and sky stripped away... what would they think then?
Submitted by: MrGimp - 2009-05-26 to 263 Late Winter
This fort rocks!!! The skull mural is the shit! Woooo!!!
Submitted by: ECNM - 2009-07-09 to 250 Early Summer
Man, that's pretty cool about the Leader's Shrine.
The Founding Dwarves really are all the most important.
Submitted by: Agent Fransis - 2009-07-12 to 250 Early Summer
This is an epic fortress. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encircled with bands of win and manaces with spikes of awesome.
Submitted by: Markavian` - 2009-09-13 to 250 Early Summer
Super-neat fort is superneat.
The bazaar is wonderfully colourful.
Good work :)
Submitted by: Markavian` - 2009-10-20 to 263 Late Winter
Stonesense screenshot made by Japa: