A military fortress resting along some heavily-forested foothills with a small brook running through the canyons. The local volcano is not filled to its edges, resulting in a deep and isolated crater.
This is a young fortress, my first successful fort since temporarily retiring Bustnut, but I wanted to throw something up here to show everyone what I've been working on.
Note the incredible increase in fortress size between 203 and 205--the results of training 9 Legendary Miners :)
"Pokedead" was his name. The dungeon master dredged up from the deepest tunnels of the capital arrived to Gatereign with little more than a grin and a smithing hammer to smooth over the weeks' worth of rumors that he ate children and crapped dead kittens.
For all the terror and mystery surrounding his arrival, "Pokedead" (Deduk Kuletbakust to his mom'n'pop) proved to be a fairly upstanding and productive citizen with a strong work ethic and the interests of the fortress at heart.
The masons' guild, in a not-so-subtle nod to their love of this new, productive breed of noble, constructed him a stunning obsidian palace furnished with silver, gems, and iron. The window which overlooks the brook chasm contains platinum bars. - Noble Digger
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Submitted by: Urist McDorf - 2009-01-26 to 205 Late Winter
Looks like you could use some bins for your armory... :)
Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2009-01-26 to 205 Late Winter
If you look up in the main yard there's an entire stockpile of bins and no more room--that's storing all the low quality iron armor and weapons in addition to crappy trade goods from goblins and such. :X
Submitted by: magic dwarf - 2009-01-26 to 205 Late Winter
This fort is massive! It looks very... planned out and organized. Those imps look ready to take out the first legendary weaponsmith they see.
Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2009-01-27 to 205 Late Winter
The funny part is that I don't plan my fortresses. I got really lucky that the new additions fit symmetrically on both sides of the for in almost every place.
I work a room at a time, making what I need at a given moment. Right now (I'm in year 206 or 207) I have so many construction projects going on that nothing is being completed, but rather being nudged closer to completion.
The hammerer killed 3 dwarves this year :|
Submitted by: Dakira - 2009-01-30 to 207 Early Spring
How will anyone access your Road of White Shadow?
Also, your "Hot Tubes" have inspired me to make a future fortress with central heating curtousy of our favorite molten rock.
Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2009-01-30 to 207 Early Spring
The Road of White Shadow will be flooded, and deep within the earth. It's not meant for travel, just to fool the king into thinking we have a valuable road. I also needed the stone and digging it out gave me quite a few mineral veins.
Stay tuned, I'm working on a highway to cut through the western mountains, removing all the ramps, and ensuring depot access on all approaches via a system of tunnels interconnected with ramps.