Irondrinkers - 144 Late Winter by Tharis

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I decided I'd just run a fort for a while without any "big ideas."

Getting close to retirement, I think. Not sure if I want to bother to make it the mountainhome, though I certainly could.

Point of Interest: Farmworks

The idea was that the stairs on the left would go straight down to all of the food stockpiles that would feed all of the dining halls.

I tried a decentralized dining system, with a small (by my standards) dining hall near every workshop, and bedrooms surrounding assigned to particular laborers.

It all felt very tidy until a loyalty cascade wiped out almost the entire fort. After that it seemed like too much bother to set it all up again. - Tharis

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Submitted by: ajr_ - 2016-04-14 to 144 Late Winter

It's like a progressive fortress as much as I can judge!

Submitted by: Tharis - 2016-04-14 to 144 Late Winter

Progressive? What's that mean here?

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Points of Interest

Δ 186. High mountains
I have a thing for embarks with absurdly high mountains, then I never seem to be sure what to do with them. - Tharis
¶ 164. Surface Castle
Main fort entrance on one side, and on the other is the entrance to the library, tavern, and generic temple. Just go up a few z's if you want to see. The office in the center belongs to the militia commander.

As you can see, I didn't even bother to clean up after the last two goblin sieges. - Tharis
Δ 162. Farmworks
The idea was that the stairs on the left would go straight down to all of the food stockpiles that would feed all of the dining halls.

I tried a decentralized dining system, with a small (by my standards) dining hall near every workshop, and bedrooms surrounding assigned to particular laborers.

It all felt very tidy until a loyalty cascade wiped out almost the entire fort. After that it seemed like too much bother to set it all up again. - Tharis
Δ 161. Trade Depot
Also the manager's suite and the hospital, which has seen a lot of action lately.

Fitting, the manager's office si decorated with an engraving of the original manager making an artifact mechanism. The levers are all of different stone and are associated with corresponding drawbridges outside. - Tharis
Δ 160. Main Hall
The lever in the center is made of an artifact mechanism, "The Coast of Sweltering," which was made by the former manager. It controls the main drawbridge. To the north is the baroness' quarters. She died during a massive loyalty cascade, but her suite remains. She had a thing for tetrahedrite. - Tharis
Δ 159. Stoneworks, Mayoral Suite
We've been through a number of mayors. Those bedrooms used to house several legendary masons and a legendary gem cutter, until the troubles hit. - Tharis
Δ 158. Woodworks
Like stoneworks, but different. Still making soap after the last invasion depleted our supply, but beds aren't really needed anymore. - Tharis
Δ 157. Smelters
I like how I managed to make different stockpiles for different ores, and even flux stone. The central stair goes down to the smithies, with coke on the landing. I had left a vacant space under both the smelters and the smithies in case I decided to pump magma. It never seemed worth it. - Tharis
Δ 155. Forges and Furnaces
Kind of speaks for itself. We've made a lot of steel armor here. - Tharis
Δ 153. Cloth and Leather
Dwarves gotta have clothes, ya know? - Tharis
Δ 152. Miners' quarters
Very important dwarves, all since deceased. - Tharis
Δ 151. Generic bedrooms, furniture storage, and crypt
The dead are beginning to outnumber the living.

Yes, I engraved a slab for Every Single Dead Dwarf. It was tedious, but it felt strangely satisfying to have the task finished. And I'm still not sure what started the whole disaster in the first place. - Tharis
Δ 150. Temples
One for each of the major gods, out of a material that seemed fitting. Still trying to think of a more interesting way to design these. - Tharis
Δ 147. Marble Quarry and Cavern Entrance
Had a few nasty forgotten beast battles there. They never really cleaned up after the last one. - Tharis
Δ 142. Captain's Quarters and Jail
I don't think anyone has been incarcerated, but each cell has its own well. To the right is the top of the pump stack that feeds the cistern, which was a bit of work to design but well worth it.

Pun intended. - Tharis
Δ 141. Cistern
- Tharis
Δ 135. Cavern 1
I think that's some infectious gook because all of my dogs are having their poor paws rotting off. - Tharis
Δ 105. Pump Power Station
Using drainage from the underground lake to pump water out of the same. It worked pretty well. - Tharis
Δ 28. Omsos the Wisp of Seduction
An enormous humanoid anteater made of mud, undulating rhythmically, spraying webs into the water, and full of holes from crossbows.

If I do one more thing with this fort, it is going to become a tourist attraction. It hasn't left this spot since it arrived, and then only because it dodged off of its mushroom to evade a crossbow bolt. Having evaded, it promptly climbed back up again. - Tharis
Δ 17. Where the garbage ultimately lands.
Also, adamantine. - Tharis

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Fortress Name: Irondrinkers
Map Year: 144 Late Winter
Author: Tharis
Submitted by: Tharis
Date Added: 11/04/2016