Roadsaviors - 1075 Mid Summer by hyndis

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Large, multi-level fortress underground. Experimenting with a new entrance design using a large, deep open pit with ramps around the exterior.

Point of Interest: Main Hall

Tall, natural stone pillars and a high ceiling make the main hall an impressive meeting zone for the fortress. - hyndis

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Submitted by: Zavior - 2010-07-12 to 1075 Mid Summer

Really like the design. The amount of stone excavated must be huge.

Submitted by: hyndis - 2010-07-12 to 1075 Mid Summer

Yes, massive amounts of stone mined out. I dumped about half of it into atom smashers, the rest of the stone I use a custom prospecting reaction to get 1 metal bar out of many worthless stones.

Its 5 stone per 1 cheap metal bar (iron, lead, copper, etc), 10 stone per expensive metal (gold and silver), 20 per rare (aluminum and platinum) and 50 for 1 adamantine wafer.

This both eats up the stone and also lets me get metal to work with.

Submitted by: Rubicon - 2010-07-12 to 1075 Mid Summer

Your underground seems to have so many trees, much more than I have ever seen in my games.

Is this because you have not cut any down for a long time? Incidentally, what settings did you use to generate those caverns? Very cool.

Submitted by: hyndis - 2010-07-13 to 1075 Mid Summer

Openness 100/100
Passages 0/0
Water 25/25

Its been 25 years after embark and most regions of the cavern have never seen a woodcutter or herbalist. I get so much wood from the traders that I don't need to chop down any trees. The traders are nice enough to bring huge piles of wood to me, and wood is extremely cheap. Just a few trinkets and I can buy out all of the wood from the caravan.

Also I currently have some 1500 barrels, 1500 bins, and about 200 beds made up already. Pretty much no more need for wood anymore, except to make charcoal.

Submitted by: Snook - 2010-07-19 to 1075 Mid Summer

How did you get the stone so relatively uniform?

Submitted by: hyndis - 2010-07-20 to 1075 Mid Summer

Everything in the main fortress is smoothed. The upper areas are engraved before the stairs are dug away to make big, empty, great halls.

Submitted by: alcoholdependent - 2011-04-14 to 1075 Mid Summer

Cool above-ground entrance in its simplicity.

Also thumbs up for trying to domesticate the caverns. I want to do something similar with my fortress, but have it extend into massive, well designed walls.

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Points of Interest

Δ 108. Greenhouse Roof
Though currently covered in snow the greenhouse is made out of green glass blocks. During the very short summer in the fortress' climate the snow will melt, and the green glass blocks will be visible. - hyndis
Δ 107. Brook
The climate is extremely cold. No liquid water ever flows on the surface. Dwarves need to drink from the caverns to quench their thirst. During a few brief weeks each year the snow will melt, but the brook and ponds will never thaw. - hyndis
Δ 107. Exterior Gate
Provides protection for the main shaft that leads down into the fortress. Marksdwarves can fire from atop the walls and the drawbridge can be raised to seal the fortress from the outside. Currently under construction. This is just the foundation of the above ground citadel. - hyndis
Δ 105. Farms
Above ground farms kept safe and secure in a greenhouse. Note that the farms are currently small. The fortress has so much meat from hunting that little farming is needed. - hyndis
Δ 105. Spiral Ramps, main
Ramps carved into the walls of a deep pit are the main entrance to the fortress. - hyndis
Δ 103. Air Vent
This actually has no in-game purpose, but it leads from the upper level of the workshops to the main entrance pit. I like to think that smoke and hot air rises, then drifts upwards where it vents into the pit. - hyndis
Δ 96. Classrooms
Educational workshops where dwarves may practice their skills.
Custom workshops that produce nothing but allows dwarves to gain experience at their chosen profession. - hyndis
Δ 96. Dining Hall
Booze lines the walls of the dining hall, with several sets of tables and chairs for fine dining. - hyndis
Δ 96. Dorms, southern
Simple rooms with beds behind iron doors for dwarves to sleep in.
Bedrooms are currently broken and so there is no point in assigning a dwarf his individual room. Once that is resolved, each dwarf will have his own 3x3 room behind an iron door for privacy. - hyndis
Δ 96. Hall of Crafting
Large, two story room filled with workshops of every type, including forges. - hyndis
Δ 96. Hall of Metal
Smelters and wood furnaces fill the room. Here is where the metal is refined, which then goes to feed the forges in the Hall of Crafting. - hyndis
Δ 96. Hospital
Several beds, in semi-private rooms, are currently empty. No injuries reported!
The bags contain medical supplies. - hyndis
Δ 96. Kitchen
Booze is brewed and roasts are cooked here. Storage for food is above the kitchen. - hyndis
¶ 96. Main Hall
Tall, natural stone pillars and a high ceiling make the main hall an impressive meeting zone for the fortress. - hyndis
Δ 96. Mines
Mineshafts used to mine for rock and gems which are then prospected for ore or cut and then encrusted onto items.
Custom building and custom reactions used. Requires the mining skill. Think of the buildings as the top of a mineshaft dig off-map. - hyndis
Δ 96. Spiral Ramps, upper
These ramps lead from the fortress to the first layer of caverns. There is a nearby booze stockpile in case of emergency, as well as a lever to drop a bridge to seal off the caverns. - hyndis
Δ 96. Storage, furniture
Vertically stacked storerooms contain the fortress' unused furniture. - hyndis
Δ 96. Throne Room
This is where the Laziest Noble resides.
He is in fact so lazy that lately he has become covered in layers of sand and garnierite. He is apparently fossilizing due to lack of activity.
He has been on break for 20 out of the 25 years of this fortress' existence. He refuses to do any work aside from drink his preferred prickle berry wine. He also enjoys giant spiked balls. Guarding his room is an artifact adamantine spiked ball trap.
The Laziest Noble resides in his room on a nearly continual basis, drinking his booze and admiring his balls. - hyndis
Δ 96. Trade Depot
The trade depot is actually outside. The spiral ramps around the outside of the pit provide access down into the fortress. Snow falls down to the bottom of the pit from above providing a great ambiance for the entrance and main gates of the fortress. - hyndis
Δ 96. Training Grounds
This is where the military trains. Currently they are off-duty, as lots of stuff needs to be hauled around.
This will eventually be improved to be a proper fortress main gate, with fortifications carved into the level above, pits, and drawbridges. - hyndis
Δ 96. Well
Currently undergoing renovations. It was discovered that the well had a tragic lack of menacing spikes.
The well was promptly deconstructed and the forge lords are furiously working at the forge to make sure it menaces with sufficient spikes. - hyndis
Δ 95. Storage, goods
The fortress' wealth is stored here. These bins contain weapons, armor, gems, cloth, trinkets, and other highly valuable items used for production and trade. - hyndis
Δ 94. Storage, fuel
Vast quantities of charcoal and coke are stored here, used for the furnaces above. - hyndis
Δ 93. Storage, metal
The furnaces produce metal, which is stored in this area. The metal is then used by the dedicated forge lords, legendary+5 in all aspects of working with metal. - hyndis
Δ 90. Storage, refuse
The lower levels under the workshop hold bones, unrefined ore, and wood. Butchering and tanning workshops are nearby to ensure that all corpses are promptly processed. - hyndis
Δ 90. The Grinder
Only a single dwarf is allowed to use this lever. This is his only task. The twin shafts from above drop down onto the crushing bridges that smash all refuse into oblivion. Useless corpses are tossed down here as well. The walls of the shaft into the grinder, as well as the grinder itself are coated red with blood. - hyndis
Δ 85. Catacombs
The dead rest here eternally. - hyndis
Δ 85. Cavern Fortifications
Entrances to the cavern are heavily protected. Masons, working with engineers, have rigged up fortified narrow passages leading from the rest of the wild and dangerous caverns to the relative safety of the fortress.
Weapon traps loaded with giant steel discs shred anything attempting to enter the fortress from below.
This is also a highly effective form of automated hunting.
Note that after 10 years of these traps catching innumerable cave creatures, the local cavern creature population seems to have been exhausted. There are still creatures in the lower two caverns, but no longer does anything appear on the upper cavern. - hyndis
Δ 85. Cavern Terraforming
Ramps have been removed, isolating the levels of the caverns from each other. Access between levels is now done through proper carved stairs, which can be easily defended in case of invasion, or locked down to prevent an intruder from reaching other levels.
Lockdown system is currently under construction. - hyndis
Δ 85. Fishing Pond
There are no fish in the pond. :( - hyndis
Δ 85. Spiral Ramps, lower
Currently under construction, this last set of ramps will allow access to the lowest recesses of the caverns. - hyndis
Δ 83. Chasm
A very deep, natural pit links the top cavern to the middle cavern. A spiral ramp is being constructed adjacent to the pit to provide access for dwarves. - hyndis
Δ 63. Cavern, middle
Combat around the edge of an extremely deep pit is very hazardous. The remains of numerous creatures fallen to their doom are still unrecoverable. This cavern shall be reclaimed once the spiral ramp is complete and the dwarven military sanitizes the region. - hyndis
Δ 59. Cavern, natural passage
This natural cave links the middle and lower caverns. As both the middle and lower caverns are still currently untamed, the Autonomous Dwarven Rovers have had difficulty in mapping the region. Several attempts were required to properly map out the terrain. - hyndis
Δ 44. Adamantine
Praise the miners! - hyndis
Δ 44. Cavern, lower
A strange underworld, filled with strange, horrible creatures. Mapped, though completely untamed and extremely dangerous. - hyndis

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Fortress Name: Roadsaviors
Map Year: 1075 Mid Summer
Author: hyndis
Submitted by: hyndis
Date Added: 12/07/2010