Bustnut - 115 Late Winter by Noble Digger

Map Description:

Åblelishlum (Bustnut) at the twilight of her 15th year.

Founded in a rocky desert beside an open magma pipe, Bustnut has struggled against a near-total lack of water, absence of flux, absence of iron, sparsity of trees, and seasonal goblin and elven ambushes. No sieges have come thus far, though all the magma-containing rooms in the entire fortress have been paved with iron flooring by the good grace of narrow iron armor from our green-skinned friends.

Point of Interest: The Execution Shaft

The Execution Shaft was completed midway through 115. Designed to augment the prisoner processing capabilities of the Shoving Tower, the shaft is a 16-level-deep 1x1 shaft with various mechanized support structures.

Prisoners are condemned to the shaft from a PitPond zone beside a cinnabar bridge 4 levels up. My hope was that some prisoners would be mildly injured when first thrown onto the execution platform, a rose gold hatch designed to allow me to simultaneously execute many prisoners. If the hatch is retracted before the prisoner is condemned, then condemnation doubles as execution and extends the depth of the shaft to 19 or 20 z-levels.

The first test of the shaft simultaneously sent 9 puppies straight to the bottom, breaking all 9 into the maximum number of gibs (head, 4 limbs, tail, corpse).

The north lever on level 16 opens the access floodgate in case I wrongly condemn a prisoner, while the south lever performs the actual execution by retracting the hatch cover.

On level 1, a similar access floodgate allows for cleanout of corpses and other debris. If I decide I don't want to clean it out, I can instead use the south lever on level 1 to lower the black bronze drawbridge and eradicate waste matter.

I plan to have green glass windows on all 4 sides of the shaft within a year. - Noble Digger

There are 8 comments for this map series, last post 2009-09-11

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Submitted by: Dakira - 2008-10-19 to 115 Late Winter

Very Interesting fortress. I enjoyed reading all the details and it makes we look back on my desert city.

Ah memories of riots.

Also, why do the elves hate you so?

Submitted by: Ambivalence - 2008-10-19 to 115 Late Winter

Nice fortress! You maintain the wasteland splendidly. The vault is cool, and I'm going to steal your trade depot layout.

Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2008-10-19 to 115 Late Winter

Please steal everything you like! I stole a bunch of it myself. Just put your own spin on it, improve on what you see so we all get smarter!

Thanks for the comments.

Submitted by: ^^atte - 2008-10-19 - Removed

Submitted by: C File - 2009-01-09 to 115 Late Winter

I got a kick out of your jewelers' names.

Submitted by: Jebraltix - 2009-01-24 to 115 Late Winter

Looks like you spent more time on those POIs than you did building the fort itself. Favorited.

Submitted by: Riffraff - 2009-07-28 to 115 Late Winter

The text of "The Vault" has the potential to offend; might wanna tone it down a bit :P

Submitted by: Noble Digger - 2009-09-08 to 115 Late Winter

Tis all in jest, I kid because I love. Furthermore, those are the actual names of those two dwarves ;)

Submitted by: ajr_ - 2009-09-11 to 115 Late Winter

A mark of excellence.

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