Gilddesert - 1059 Late Winter by Visi

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Points of Interest

• Δ 36. Above Ground Statue Garden
  The light, it burns our fragile skin. :( - Visi
• Δ 35. Training Area
  Here be the new and improved military. All armed with adamantine swords and, once the armorer gets off his ass, breastplates. Look at that sword just thrown on the floor like that, the miners who risked their life to get the materials would be so annoyed if they saw!
  
  The previous military was not so well equipped, and was wiped out by a small band of humans.
  
  To the right is the Captain of the Guard's new rooms, built of Olivine and with matching green glass windows and a little balcony. - Visi
• ¶ 34. Ground level - Default POI
  - Visi
• Δ 34. Ground Level and Entrance
  Those fortification-rooms never were any use, but they made a nice little passageway for traps. Defenses consist of two individually controlled bridges, one retracting and one raising, and a mixture of stone, cage and weapon traps. To the right you can see the prisoner-disposal room and empty cage storage. The bridge in there raises, but I couldn't get marksdwarves to shoot through fortifications reliably so it's rarely used. - Visi
• Δ 33. Coffins and Statue Maze
  This area accidentally got flooded when the brook unfroze a couple of years back, you can see the repair on the wall near the yellow statue. I wanted to try out a labyrinth type design, see how it looked. There was originally supposed to be a well for the military, concluding in the prisoner disposal room, with a reservoir renewed from the brook each summer, but even with a roof over it, the borehole still froze up in winter.
  
  This is also where the dead were stored before I switched to housing them in the caverns. I think most of these were from one forgotten beast attack. - Visi
• Δ 32. Prisoner Termination Area and Olivine Mine
  Here I mined out the Olivine used to build the above-ground apartment. I also started storing wood here in year 1 and it never got moved.
  
  There's two drop-holes from the surface, where prisoners can be thrown in. I'd never tried a repeating-spike trap before, and sadly it didn't work. The stone-fall traps did though. And oh yeah, I also gave the last lot of prisoners some kittens to play with.
  
  In the lower-left is my atom-smasher. - Visi
• Δ 31. Workshops and Furniture Stockpile
  I produce way too much furniture. Off to the right is an adamantine stockpile and behind my brewery is an empty-barrel storage room. I was hoping I could take the monkeys I have caged along the left wall, but no dungeon master ever turned up. If the fort had gone on longer I would have dug more workshops along the left. - Visi
• Δ 30. Dining Hall
  Now fully engraved! Booze stockpile at the top, food stockpile at the bottom, seeds should be down by the farms but I think it bugged and they stored them up here anyway. Despite the fact it looks full, everyone is apparently starving. The yellow blobs are fat, which in future I will store separately.
  
  My Mayor has an awful lot of children. Something like six girls and two boys. I may have killed off her husband though now.
  
  I was planning to relocate the dining room somewhere else and turn this into stockpiles, which is why there's a few piles and workshops encroaching on the corners. - Visi
• Δ 29. Bedrooms!
  (Nearly) Everyone gets a bed, a cabinet and a coffer. Sometimes two! Despite that, they all insist on throwing their clothes around the place like slobs. I eventually connected the bedrooms straight to the dining room and main well for efficiencies sake. - Visi
• Δ 29. Noble Rooms
  The small rooms to the right belong to the mayor, the big apartment to the left belongs to the children of the former Count/Baron/Captain of the guard, who is entombed at the back. Both their parents were in the military, and came to an unfortunate end, so they inherited the rooms. The new Captain of the Guard sleeps above the barracks.
  
  That's a clear glass window in the bedroom. Two cows in cages in the dining room, because Ast was fond of cows.
  
  The dining room is set as a meeting hall, but nobody ever goes in there. - Visi
• Δ 29. Washroom
  An experimental washroom, a proof of concept. The yellow statue is a statue of a mermaid set as a meeting hall, there's stairs below and an escape stairway for if anyone or anything gets washed through the grates. It's rather useless right now though as the reservoir is empty.
  
  The lever in the well-room controls the wooden retracting bridge on the surface. - Visi
• Δ 28. Washroom Drain
  The water drains out through the fortifcations and into the cavern below. - Visi
• Δ 27. Forgotten Beast Ichor
  I don't know why it's there. But it's everywhere. There's like, six forgotten beasts down here too, adventurers watch out! - Visi
• Δ 26. Hospitals and Roof
  Each bed in the hospital has a table, a cabinet, a coffer and a traction bench.
  
  I put a roof over the section of the cavern I was using, due to an incident with a mutant hummingbird beast. This area was walled off anyway, in theory, but it didn't quite work out like that.
  
  I like engraving gold veins. Don't judge me! - Visi
• Δ 25. Jails and Burial Area
  That pitiful thing to the left is supposed to be the seed stockpile, not sure what's going on there. To the right are the jail cells (Which the mayor says there's STILL not enough of) and if you scroll up you can see two forgotten beasts lounging behind the wall at the edge of the map.
  
  I recently unwalled this section of the cavern slightly so I could chop some trees and pick some plants and engrave some gold floor that I'd missed.
  
  Nobody is actually locked in the jail, it's just a popular dining place. - Visi
• Δ 24. Farms and omgwater
  Water supply for the prison well, water supply for the hospital wall, and I briefly tested out what would happen if I dropped water into the middle of a magma pipe. I was also gonna try making an obsidian factory and this was the easiest place to route water from.
  
  I moved the farms down here after I lost a lot of mud in the cavern, but most of my food was imported I guess. If something bleeds on a muddy square, and then it gets cleaned up, they clean the mud away too. - Visi
• Δ 19. Magma Stuff
  Magma smelter and forge in the center, ***awesome*** furniture and finished goods stockpile to the left, bar stockpile to the north and brief first attempt at getting my head around an obsidian farm, to the south. - Visi
• Δ 18. Magma and second cavern.
  When I was digging out this room I found a second cavern. I walled it up, cancelled the designations and went further down. - Visi
• Δ 17. Magma intake
  Started digging the magma intake further down, then discovered a third cavern wrapped around the pipe and had to move it further up. - Visi
• Δ 16. Retracting Bridges
  These are bridges and they retract. I don't think they're actually connected to a lever yet though. The water was supposed to store here. - Visi
• Δ 15. Magma Storage Area
  It is what it is. The road to the left is where the magma was supposed to come in. Thankfully I stopped digging when I hit damp stone, although it was a close-thing. - Visi
• Δ 12. Adamantine Mine
  Nicely engraved to warn future generations. - Visi
• Δ 11. Breech
  I looked it up, and carved fortifications to see if the pillar was hollow or not.
  
  It was, there went my FPS. Built a little wall over the space anyway, so no children could look in and have their eyes burnt out.
  
  Interestingly, the moment I breeched, some random guy got possessed. - Visi
• Δ 10. King's Room
  Nice and warm, with masterful furniture and an artifact statue. I'm sure he would have liked it if he'd ever turned up. - Visi

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Map details:

• Fortress Name: Gilddesert
• Map Year: 1059 Late Winter
• Author: Visi
• Submitted by: Visi
• Date Added: 28/10/2010