Strongsalves - 107 Early Summer by Sinergistic

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Some more building has taken place, I've expanded the dungeon a little.

Lost my most recent elf caravan to an ambush, which was disappointing because it was my first one in several years and I was hoping for more exotic animals. Stupid elves. I bet they planned it that way.

Also, lots of gobbo's in the dungeon now.

I've begun preperations to dam the river, partly just because, partly because of where I want to put my noble housing. I want to modify the way the river flows as well.

What else... Ah, I've finished a section of Tombs for future noble/good dwarf use. I plan on moving all my coffins to similar structure in the near future. I've also completed the connection between the old fort and what will become the new fort.

Point of Interest: The first death

( 107 Early Summer → onwards )

This coffin has the first (and so far only) dwarf death. During a seige (+ an ambush) one of the miners somehow got trapped outside, and instead of seeking cover inside the fort, ran straight for the invading goblin army (who where flinging themselves on my cage traps).

He managed to get through 10-20 goblins unscathed, and kept going. I was hoping he would keep going past the bridges, so that I could raise them and save him, but no dice. He just reaches the bridges, and decides to turn around and head back. He reaches the rear end of the goblin army, turns a corner and bumps right into a goblin spearman who promptly skewers him on the spot.

I was worried about a tantrum spiral (since my fort as had a couple long periods of nothing going on, so lots of friends all around) but I never noticed any signs of unhappiness and stopped worrying about it after a couple months. Since then I've installed doors to the outside that I lock when an ambush shows up. - Sinergistic

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Submitted by: magic dwarf - 2009-01-10 to 105 Early Spring

nice grand stair case! That must have been alot of channeling.

Submitted by: Sinergistic - 2009-01-10 to 105 Early Spring

Not really, no, I just channeled around the edges, and then collapsed it ^_^ (after locking my dwarfs up in their bedrooms and the food room)

It took several tries to get it to collapse, I kept pulling the level attached to the supports I had installed, and nothing would happen. I finally got it on the 4th attempt though, after completely channeling around the top level, and then collapsing that down on to the layers below.

Submitted by: magic dwarf - 2009-01-11 to 105 Early Spring

all of my *manual collapses* have ended in epic fail so far, I've lost many good miners trying to collapse things and I also managed to bust a hole in my ceiling causing magma to pour in!

Submitted by: Markavian - 2009-01-13 to 107 Early Summer

Like woah

Submitted by: Sinergistic - 2009-01-13 to 107 Early Summer

"Like woah" - Markavian

So, uh, what bit of it was 'woah'? :P

Edit: I would also like you thank you for your amazing website. I've seen so many cool and inspiring forts since I started browsing it about 8-9 months ago. (didn't register until recently) It is a very awesome service, and a huge boon to the DF community.

[Message edited on 2009/01/13 at 11:22 by Sinergistic]

Submitted by: sneakeypete - 2009-01-14 to 107 Early Summer

What are all the B's in your cages?

Submitted by: Sinergistic - 2009-01-14 to 107 Early Summer

'Bugbears' part of the Goblin Family mod found here.

I tinkered with it a little to adapt it to the kind of fort I wanted (got rid of TRAPAVOID for one, because that just wouldn't work now, would it?). I also removed the [CANSPEAK] tag as well, which leads to all of them wanting me dead. Lots of sieges, lots of ambushes, lots of good times in the future with I begin work on the arenas.

I updated 'The Dungeon' point of interest with a little more info on what's in the cages.

[Message edited on 2009/01/15 at 12:04 by Sinergistic]

Submitted by: SiliconJesus - 2009-01-16 to 107 Early Summer

I've seen this tileset being used a lot lately, which one is it?

Submitted by: Sinergistic - 2009-01-16 to 107 Early Summer

I'm using a hand drawn copy of Dortens and whatever came with the mayday v16 set.

I'm still playing around with it and tweaking it to how I want it.

Submitted by: Markavian - 2009-01-17 to 107 Early Summer

Singergistic, you've hollowed out a huge cylinder with a walk way around the edge of each level. It looks fantasticly grand. And then there's the spiral dungeon on the ground floor. Its just epic proportions. A far cry from the single tunnel hovels that most people begin building.

And thanks for the kind words : )

Submitted by: Jebraltix - 2009-01-24 to 107 Early Summer

I haven't had too many problems with manual channeling. My worst problem probably is dealing with the unhappy thoughts of being knocked off your feet.

Submitted by: Markavian - 2009-01-29 to 105 Early Spring

I would just like to point out the historic 10,000th point of interest attributable to this map. Cheers everyone, I love what you've done for this site :)

Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2009-05-20 to 111 Mid Spring

Awesome! I love the look of the glass-furnished bedrooms with this tileset. The central shaft of chaotic stairway hell is also amazing, and the spirally area way down below.

Submitted by: Retro - 2009-11-19 to 111 Mid Spring

Very grand-looking fort. Has a nice, smooth feel to it - very much like the basis around the central pit / giant empty space.

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Points of Interest

Δ 18. The Entrance

( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
This is the only entrance to the fort, and is rather slapdash one, though it gets the job done.

The state it's in now is the default state. The bridges on ground level are down, allowing traders and goblins alike access to the fortress. Ambushes are generally spotted the moment they enter the walls.

Step one involves waiting for as many attackers to enter the noose as possible. Once I've gotten as many goblins behind the two bridges on ground level as possible, I raise, sealing the goblins inside. This prevents them from running away.

Step two involves waiting for the goblins to throw themselves on the traps, after enough get trapped, the rest get scared and just mill about without jumping on the traps like nice goblins. Once this occurs, I move to...

Step three, where I lower the small bridge one z-level up. This provides a route of escape for the goblins, who then run straight through the rest of the traps in an attempt to leave the map.

Step four, I revert to the default state, while allowing my dwarfs outside to clean and reload the traps with fresh cages. - Sinergistic
15. First River Strainer

( 105 Mid Autumn to onwards )
Cage traps + aggressive animals = caged animals. I love it. My dwarfs go to pick up the first victim/future gladiator and what happens? More jump up to attack my dwarfs and get caught. Dwarfs go back to get cages, and the process repeats. Still quite a few in the river, however. - Sinergistic
15. The Magma Industry

( 105 Early Spring to onwards )
This is where all the glass working, smithing and furnaces are. The bags you see are mostly silk with a few leather ones I embarked with.

The empty bit in the center is a sand collection spot. In theory, it should cut down on the amount of traveling dwarfs need to do to fill the bags with sand, but they have a mind of their own and INSIST on getting bags from a stockpile much farther away. Most of the time anyway, once they get started, it works ok. - Sinergistic
Δ 15. The Second River Strainer

( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
I think I built it a little to far from where the creatures where, but I had plans for the area closer to the edge that I didn't want to risk spoiling, so I built it farther back. Said plans have since been scrapped, so I think I might build another strainer (or just extend this one) to try and catch the 'fish' closer to the edge. Currently, I'm just playing the waiting game and seeing if I can get anymore without having to change anything.

I've caught at least 6 'fish' with this one so far (That I know of), so it wasn't a total failure. - Sinergistic
13. Bedrooms

( 105 to onwards )
The beginning of the bedroom section, which will hold about 140 or so at current count, I'm most likely going to have to expand this once I raise the pop cap. - Sinergistic
Δ 13. Goblin Goods

( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
This level is one of the stockpile levels. The stockpile on the right is an obvious furniture stockpile, but the ones are the left and bottom are a little less obvious.

The upper left stockpile is a armor stockpile and contains pretty much ALL of the goblin armor I've confiscated.

The lower left is an weapon stockpile and contains a few screw pumps + all the goblin weapons I've confiscated.

The bottom stockpile is a finished goods stockpile, and since I don't do any craftsdwarf work, it's full of all the goblin cloths I've confiscated. Narrow this and Narrow that and Narrow such and such.

There are plans to build an incinerator to destroy this contraband, but the architect is having a hard time deciding where to put it, and is beginning to question whether we should build one at all. - Sinergistic
Δ 10. The Tombs

( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
This is the highest level of my tombs, currently empty as of 107. I'm think I will rip out the walls that go from the center to the sides and redo them with all constructed walls. It looks somewhat crap right now, I kinda wish I hadn't engraved the walls :(

- Sinergistic
Δ 9. Dungeon Processing

( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
This stockpile is where all of the goblins that are captured above ground end up. This stockpile takes from a stockpile closer to the entrance, and is set to accept only goblins.

Once they end up on this stockpile, I strip them of their gear, and then move them to their cells. - Sinergistic
¶ 9. The connection

( 107 to onwards )
This is the connection, and the only planned connection, between the old (current) fort and the new (expansion) fort. In the future, I plan on redoing the floors in a brighter color to provide contrast with the darker walls.

In the lower right you can see the bottom of my tombs. - Sinergistic
Δ 9. The first death

( 107 Early Summer to onwards )
This coffin has the first (and so far only) dwarf death. During a seige (+ an ambush) one of the miners somehow got trapped outside, and instead of seeking cover inside the fort, ran straight for the invading goblin army (who where flinging themselves on my cage traps).

He managed to get through 10-20 goblins unscathed, and kept going. I was hoping he would keep going past the bridges, so that I could raise them and save him, but no dice. He just reaches the bridges, and decides to turn around and head back. He reaches the rear end of the goblin army, turns a corner and bumps right into a goblin spearman who promptly skewers him on the spot.

I was worried about a tantrum spiral (since my fort as had a couple long periods of nothing going on, so lots of friends all around) but I never noticed any signs of unhappiness and stopped worrying about it after a couple months. Since then I've installed doors to the outside that I lock when an ambush shows up. - Sinergistic
7. The Dungeons

( 105 Early Spring to onwards )
The beginning of the dungeons, each of those cages has a goblin in it.

Future plans: Add some magma features dotted around the area, maybe seal off different 'sections' with magma moats and bridges, like the entrance. I also plan on having military patrols through here, once I get enough dwarfs together.

Edit: It's in the comments, but I may as well mention it here as well. I am using the Goblin Family mod (found here) to add a bunch of different goblin types to the game.

'B' = Bugbear
'g' = Goblin Morlock
'w' = Woodwose
'H' = Hobgoblin

And that is all I've encountered so far. - Sinergistic
Δ 7. Goblin Hammer Lord
This is the first *-Lord I interned. The original plan was to keep his armor/weapons intact and then let him face off against The Hammer and see what happened, but I spaced and stripped him by mistake. - Sinergistic

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Fortress Name: Strongsalves
Map Year: 107 Early Summer
Author: Sinergistic
Submitted by: Sinergistic
Date Added: 13/01/2009