Metalgate - 111 Late Spring by Sinergistic

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• ¶ 54. One of the bridges main support columns

  ( 111 Late Spring to onwards )
  This is one of the bridges main support columns, there are three in all, with 2 side supports built into the 'cliff' edges.
  
  You can also get a good idea how how high this bridge is, and this also gives you a good view of the arches. I wanted to build an arched bridge - Sinergistic

• Δ 40. A Lamppost

  ( 111 Late Spring to onwards )
  This is one of the lampposts I've been talking about (incase you couldn't figure it out :P)
  
  Each lamppost is made of:
  4x Clear Glass Windows
  4x Clear Glass Walls
  4x Clear Glass Floors (on the level above, positioned above the windows)
  
  Making this POI has reenforced my resolve to edit my tileset so the sky tiles aren't as similar as the window tiles. Or maybe vice versa. Who knows. - Sinergistic

• Δ 40. Magmaduct
  This is the magmaduct + pump tower. The pump tower eats up 1100~ power, and I had a heck of time getting a power plant put together that could power it.
  
  I've already filled the lampposts with magma, so I'm currently draining the duct so I can take it down (read: collapse it).
  
  I was using the pump + windmill contraption (one level up from this POI) to drain the duct, but this was rather slow. The magma was 7/7 at the other end of the duct, even after leaving it running for a few minutes. To slow.
  
  Then I remembered that floodgates act as atom smashers, so I had one of my peasants auto-repeat pull the lever connected to them, which you can see him doing right below the pump stack. It's working like a charm ^^ - Sinergistic
• Δ 39. ?Future Fort Location?
  I'm thinking I might turn this into a castle-ish fort, at the end of the bridge, with a similar, but much smaller, castle-ish fort at the other end.
  
  I haven't got any good ideas for it yet, so it's just some walls laid out around the existing landscape. - Sinergistic
• Δ 39. Birdseye View

  ( 111 Late Spring to onwards )
  A birdseye view of the bridge, to give you a sense of how long it is. - Sinergistic

• Δ 31. Sculpting the landscape
  I'm currently using massive ramp designations to remove large chunks of land, with the intent of making the 'valley' sides a little bit steeper than they were before. - Sinergistic
• Δ 28. The (double) Pumpstack

  ( 111 Late Spring to 119 Early Spring )
  This is my rather power hungry double pump stack, it rises 38 levels into the air, delivering magma to my various projects involving it.
  
  I've found that turning it on, and keeping the floodgate at the top closed, creates an effect kind of like pressurized water.
  
  With the top floodgate closed, the entire stack quickly fills to the brim with 7/7 magma x2 on each level (See the POI for what I mean, each level has 7/7 magma x2 in it).
  
  When you open the top floodgate, since pumps work almost instantly, all the magma in the tower (7/7 x2 x38) is practically teleported to the top of the tower, and out into whatever duct I have built at the time.
  
  This, I think, has been the cause behind several incidents in which I had magma go places it shouldn't have gone, almost incinerating several unlucky dwarfs (they got out of the way fast enough though).
  
  Demolished as of year 124. - Sinergistic

• Δ 16. Failed Perpetual Motion plant

  ( 111 Late Spring to onwards )
  This is my failed attempt at a perpetual motion plant to power my pump stack. It only ever really produced about 300-400 power at a time, despite having upwards of 20 waterwheels in it.
  
  It even shut off a few times do to lack of power to the single pump 'running' it. It was rather frustrating, and I redesigned it several times, but could never get it running at max capacity. Oh well :(
  
  Year 118: I've set up a working perpmotion power plant, it's been running for a couple years now without a hiccup. The waterlevel appears to be going down very slowly though. - Sinergistic

• Δ 16. Low food
  Don't use your food prep dwarfs as backup masons, since karma dictates that they will seal themselves in with walls in some secluded spot that you don't look at on a regular basis, and almost die of hunger. - Sinergistic
• Δ 15. Working powerplant

  ( 111 Late Spring to onwards )
  As I mentioned in another POI, I had a very hard time getting a powerplant capable of producing enough power to run my pump stack. This one puts out 1600 power, and I use most of it.
  
  Year 118: Looks like the tiles got messed up, those are water wheels ^^ - Sinergistic

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Map details:

• Fortress Name: Metalgate
• Map Year: 111 Late Spring
• Author: Sinergistic
• Submitted by: Sinergistic
• Date Added: 14/02/2009