Nicatoltar, "Chaingilt" - 321 Mid Spring by andrea

Map Description:

a dwarf dig in the mountain, a good dwarf carve it to make a fortress, but only the most tsubborn will BUILD a mountain to live in. that is what i thought when i started this fortress, probably my first mature fortress.
here i try to make the dwarves live as long as possible (no complex death traps, sorry), while they build their mountain: 50x20, limestone block outer walls , wooden floors (a bit less than 1000 logs per z level), wooden block inner walls, wooden furniture. a lot of wood, isn't it? next time i'll bash my head on the wall before deciding that i want to make wooden floors. after 10 years, less than half the work is done. but i thought i would still upload here, and post updates later.
only underground things are stockpiles and tombs. the hole filled with water at the bottom is a problem that i had with an aquifer, while digging for limestone. but not all bad things hurt, it seem (see points of interest).
main challenge here is probably the wood. sieges aren't really hard. i am awfully bad at using traps, but champion swordsmen works just fine.

Point of Interest: fountain and pump tower

waiting for trees to grow is boring, isn't it?
so i decided to strat a side project: since i had a big aquifer pool, i built a fountain. it is all made of limestone blocks (i already tested it, floors are muddied. for some strange reason, it doesn't make FPS drop). pump tower is made using all the kinds of stone i had. i HAD to use these blocks in some way...
there are hatch covers on stairs, so that water doesn't fall through them. it is quite enjoyable, and it makes a lot of mist - andrea

There are 4 comments for this map series, last post 2008-12-03

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Submitted by: Markavian - 2008-12-02 to 321 Mid Spring

Wooden floors... mountain under construction... sounds suspicious.

Submitted by: andrea - 2008-12-02 to 321 Mid Spring

a thing i forgot to write in points of interest: the tree in the barraks. when i built it, the tree was at the center (it changed when i turned it to stone) so i decided to keep it. it is a birch, and i owuld never cut it. i would use my backup save if it happened.

edit: i wait an hour for comments, and you post just few seconds before me?!?!
(but thanks).
in which way it look suspicious? wooden floors are more comfortable than stone.

[Message edited on 2008/12/02 at 06:04 by andrea]

Submitted by: Dorten - 2008-12-02 to 321 Mid Spring

wooden floors are more comfortable than stone?

Human spy, maybe? Not an elf though, that's for certain.

Submitted by: andrea - 2008-12-03 to 321 Mid Spring

ok, another reason: limestone don't grow on trees, wood does.
also, wood is soft.

and when did i say that i am a dwarf, and if i am, when did i say that i am sane? but really, i don't know if there is enough limestone on the map.

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