Diamondseizures - 266 Late Autumn by Retro

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Got a little wave of nostalgia the other day, so I went back and uploaded my very first fortress, Diamondseizures. It ended up being surprisingly successful, and also had the best randomly generated name I've found yet. I don't think I've touched it since June or July.

I advise you to check out the Goblin Run POIs. They're the closest thing to a megaproject this fort had.

Point of Interest: Goblin Run 5: Spikes and Bridges

Admissively incomplete, this part of the run is the most likely one for the few remaining goblins to get wounded in. The idea was that goblins had to run from the to-left to the bottom-right, but the ground would be littered with one-spike spike traps and many bridges, all hooked up to the same three repeaters from before. The pathfinding would cause them to run all over the place (and those who fell would have to start all over), and the spikes would randomly cut them up.

The last handful of wounded, limping survivors would make it to the last part of the trap: The drowning chamber (see next POI) - Retro

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Submitted by: Markavian - 2010-02-22 to 266 Late Autumn

Love the firey miner mural; a blazing work of art.

Submitted by: RavingManiac - 2010-02-23 to 266 Late Autumn

So does the Goblin Run work? Any chance you could upload a video of it in action?

Submitted by: Retro - 2010-02-23 to 266 Late Autumn

It... sort of works. Hooking up all the repeaters to all the different bridges and spike traps and whatnot was taking godsdamned forever, so I gave up on that. Currently the goblins run straight through the labyrinth, across the magma largely unassailed by the lazy marksdwarves, stand around while the eagles ignore them, run across the incomplete bridge/spike room, and then generally outrun the flooding room. The whole process takes like half an hour, so no, I won't be taking a video, but I tried it out a few times and it was kind of disappointing anyways. Needs way more micromanagement than I have time for to hook everything up.

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Points of Interest

Δ 26. Goblin Run 6: The final drowning run
Once the pressure plate the next level up was flipped, the 1500+ blocks of 7/7 water would begin filling the room incredibly rapidly as goblins struggled to wind their way all the way around each level. I later chained a giant eagle to the top because the whole thing reminded me of the Helmaroc King battle in Wind Waker.

Survivors supposedly got to go free. Read the story I linked in the first goblin run POI to see how I treated them instead. - Retro
Δ 21. Suites
My favourite seven (not quite the starting seven) got the works. Private pool, engravings, and a personal furniture artifact. - Retro
Δ 15. Entrance and fiery miner mural
The mural doesn't look that great, but it was my first attempt at one.

When under siege, the central bridges were raised and gobbos got to run back and forth across the huge amount of cage traps to try and get in whil under siege from marksdwarves above. I usually pulled the bridges out from them anyhow just because it was funny. - Retro
Δ 15. Miasmatic trade depot
Later on in the fort's life (I have no idea how old it is, but the fort's got a few grandchildren now) I began causing cave ins above the depot and knocking elves into the water pipe below. It was always funny. - Retro
Δ 15. Overview
I like overviews. As you can see, I also used to like cage traps a lot. - Retro
Δ 15. Some sort of trap?
I was making some kind of trap here. Don't recall what it was anymore, or why there's a dead eagle in there. - Retro
Δ 14. End of the magma trail
I didn't really know about pumps at this point, so magma had to flow an incredibly random path to get to the final archer tower here. Try and find your way back to where it originated from if you dare. - Retro
Δ 14. Remains of temp fort
Now flooded with magma. - Retro
Δ 13. Goblin Run 5: Spikes and Bridges
Admissively incomplete, this part of the run is the most likely one for the few remaining goblins to get wounded in. The idea was that goblins had to run from the to-left to the bottom-right, but the ground would be littered with one-spike spike traps and many bridges, all hooked up to the same three repeaters from before. The pathfinding would cause them to run all over the place (and those who fell would have to start all over), and the spikes would randomly cut them up.

The last handful of wounded, limping survivors would make it to the last part of the trap: The drowning chamber (see next POI) - Retro
Δ 13. Great Hall
Six z-levels of this in the center of the fort. I later started adding floating dining chambers, but got lazy and never finished. - Retro
Δ 10. Goblin Run 4: The arena
The north door is locked once the goblins are released, but they will continue to path to it nonetheless. Once they're all idling inside, I lock the southern door and release two war eagles. The door doesn't open again until the birds are dead, and there's an extra z-level above for the eagles to maneuver.

Actually, at the time of this save there were 24 giant eagles in the fort. I think there were a lot more later, but I'd broken the water system by then, so we're going off of this save. - Retro
¶ 7. Goblin Run 1: The cages.
The entire death run is outlined here.

I've got 168 caged goblins in here. They're about to be have some fun in the labyrinth... (see next POI) - Retro
Δ 7. Goblin Run 2: The 3D labyrinth
A 17x17x5 labyrinth. It goes up and down indiscriminately (in fact, I challenge you to find your way through it).

You may think that due to pathfinding, the goblins will have no trouble. That's why there's a bunch of 1x1 bridges with channels underneath hooked up to three seperate repeaters. Their paths will be messed up all over the place, and they may end up falling into other parts of the maze. In fact, if they finally do make it to the final stretch, they might fall into a vat of water and drown if they've got bad timing with the bridge. Once (or if) they make it through there, it's time to run the Gauntlet... (see next POI) - Retro
Δ 7. Goblin Run 3: The Gauntlet
When in use, a marksdwarf will be stationed right next to each of these fortifications. The goblins will have to run across (likely tripping over the monkey) as their ranged assailants are closer and closer. If they can make it through there, they head up to the Arena... (see next POI) - Retro
Δ 7. Tombs
My first try at a cool design. Dunno if I succeeded or not. My favourites got the clear glass tombs in the center. - Retro

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Fortress Name: Diamondseizures
Map Year: 266 Late Autumn
Author: Retro
Submitted by: Retro
Date Added: 22/02/2010