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: Numnum Factory

As with many fortresses, the largest portion of Bustnut's export value is prepared meals. This is where the magic happens! 'Nums' Mamotushat and 'Shine' Nishcog can cook and brew thousands of raw food items into roasts and liquor in the time it takes for a caravan to reach the trade depot and unload their goods.

To the southwest with Orthoclase statues is the dining hall. This was built very early on and since it's considered Legendary already, I haven't yet bothered to upgrade it in size or furniture quality.

North of the dining hall is a small meeting room filled with chairs and statues. This room's furnishing is changed weekly. It pretty much gets whatever I feel like putting in there and doesn't remain consistent for long.

To the east are kitchen workshops and querns for producing food. These 8 shops have produced many ☼ worth of iron-purchasing power. The stockpiles on this level only store raw or processable food items such as plants, meat, milk, syrup, etc. To prevent dwarves from placing flour, roasts, and dye bags into barrels (which is a huge waste) I created a separate stockpile below which does not allow any barrels. Liquor in bulk is stored above the kitchen, and 2 levels below is a backup raw food storage pile (which is normally quite laden).

To the east of the kitchen is a sandy cavern which stores seed bags (without barrels!) and which normally contains haphazardly-shaped farm plots. I haven't grown any underground crops in 5 years since we're so far ahead on food though.

- 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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