Alåthid, "Boltrock" - 1059 Mid Autumn by Turgid Bolk

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Your majesty, King Likotkib! We bring news from the latest fortress you have ordered to expand the great nation of The Golden Savage Rack of Deserts! Indeed it seems you were wise to choose a site that wasn't a desert this time, as there are no giant scorpions at Boltrock like here at the capital. You may even wish to move there once the fortress gets established, if you ever desire slightly cooler climes.

In any case, I, your humble servant, have just met with the merchants returning and have annotated their map of the fortress for your scrutiny, along with the planned rooms and expansions. It seems the settlers have had little trouble aside from a macaque raid just after arriving, which only provided a bit more meat for the stores. They soon set up temporary workshops to begin work. Digging commenced and a small farm was constructed without incident, and as the weather turned hot and the grass grew dry on the plain, they were already harvesting the first crops and beginning to manufacture some crafts to trade. The supply caravan was scheduled to arrive this autumn, which they say is a particularly beautiful time of year at Boltrock, and a relief from the summer heat. Unfortunately when the merchants arrived in autumn, they brought mostly leather and cloth, hardly the sort of supplies a fledgling fortress needs to survive the winter. So they were given only a few trinkets in return for their few slabs of meat. Not to worry, I had the merchants drowned as soon as they gave me the map, which I leave here for you to review at your leisure.

There are 6 comments for this map series, last post 2007-08-24

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Submitted by: Turgid Bolk - 2007-08-22 to 1059 Mid Autumn

There's an odd black border on the bottom and right sides of the map, dunno why. At least it didn't cut off any of the tiles. Also, for me, when I first load the map it centers on the bottom edge. Minor weirdness.

Submitted by: Markavian - 2007-08-22 to 1059 Mid Autumn

You "had the merchants drowned as soon as they gave me the map"... that was a bit cruel wasn't it?

RE: The black border, thats the map viewer adding extra space in, the blocks of tiles it generates need to be a certain size and it pads them with black space if they are too small.

The viewer centres to a specific X, Y coordinate usually the front gate on most maps - but your map has been cropped, and that's why it starts off along the bottom.

I really enjoyed reading your report to the king, well written - I look forward to future reports from Boltrock!

Submitted by: Turgid Bolk - 2007-08-23 to 1059 Mid Autumn

Hm, I guess it's not necessary to crop it anyway, so I'll leave future maps full size. Thanks!

Submitted by: Markavian - 2007-08-24 to 1060 Mid Autumn

So its not really a corpse in the graveyard stockpile? They're all buried, right?

That's one crazy housing layout you've come up with. Are you not going to mirror it on the south side?

See if you can make some unicorn leather from the dead creatures, it may serve as a fine present to your king.

Submitted by: Mzbundifund - 2007-08-24 to 1060 Mid Autumn

I really like your organic bedroom hallway. I also notice somebody's been statued into their room and is dying of thirst. Some uppity noble or something?

Submitted by: Turgid Bolk - 2007-08-24 to 1060 Mid Autumn

Haha, well it really is a corpse, but it will get buried as soon as the over-worked dwarves move the food from the stockpile and do countless other hauling tasks. It seems they don't want to butcher those dang unicorns...I really want to have some unicorn skull totems! Just like the "real" unicorn skulls that have appeared in museums and fascinated Victorian gentlewomen.

I might mirror it eventually, but it's really too big for my current population and not very efficient. I'd like to see what else I can come up with for the other side...I'm not sure yet what I'll need and what might balance it aesthetically. Just another chance to use the ol' DF creativity!

And oops, the statue was just there so I could put the door where I wanted it (next time I'll design it so I don't have to use an exploit to place the doors), and someone snuck in there before anyone managed to drag the statue over. It's set to 'remove' but goodness knows when the dwarves will get around to it; they have food to move!
Anyway, thanks for the kind words.

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