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[Sheb]

A few fortress ago, I became sick of square and rectangular rooms, and I started digging more artistics rooms. Of course, it's useless and time-consuming but I enjoy the look it give to the fortress, and it's a nice way to recompense legendary badasses.

Since I just lost my fortress to a Skeletal Mammoth attack (One passed my stuck drawbridge, and while I was busy locking him into my statue garden, the rest of the herd broke into my main hall), I have only one exemple to show you, my necropolis (To give you an idea of how high my mortality rate was, every coffins but the eyes' and nose's where full. After 4 years.)



So, do you have any exemple of dwarf digging?

[RedWick]

I'll have to snag a picture of one, but I love carving out elaborate, multi-level dining halls with statues set in niches on the higher levels.  I figure, if my dwarves are gonna be impressed by a legendary dining room, then I want to be impressed by it also.

[Cruxador]

I tend to dig out some pretty elaborate labyrinths at the bottom level. Can't really take a screenshot, since they're expansive by nature, but I do lots of little designs and things.

[Canadark]

Haha, the title of this thread was a tad misleading...

All of my fortresses up to this point have been very utilitarian, so I would totally be open to doing something more aesthetic. I just finished connecting an island to the mainland via a bridge and I am ready to dig into the island side and more or less abandon my fortress on the mainland.

Keep the ideas coming.

[dogstile]

At the moment i'm building a twisting turning fort out of wood above ground

its a god damn labyrinth

[RandomNumberGenerator]

While I haven't made any rooms shaped like something, I tend to make fractal patterns that are more interesting than rectangles.

[Aeltar]

I tend to build workshops and bedrooms in open spirals - dwarves don't need doors!

The other rooms, though, I like to make more elaborate patterns.  Throne room is two interlocking spirals ending in two center points: one containing the throne, the other ending my magma channel.  That sort of thing.

[XSI]

I dig where the mountain tells me to dig, ore seams are the corridors. Chasms are to be build along for housing, so that every dwarf may have a window overlooking the hole. The dining room will be in either a large cluster of gems, ore(Magnetite), or at the end of a large ore seam.

[Count Dorku]

I tend to dig grids into lower levels when actually mining - this lets me dissect an entire floor for significant resource patches. (Less significant ones generally have to wait).

On the subject of actual artistry, only the occasional corridor in the shape of the words "WELL FUCK".

[3]

I'll attempt to dig every room, bar regular bedrooms and sometimes storage rooms, in some elaborate quasi-fractal pattern. I don't think I've ever made a square entry hall.

I might upload a shot of one of my bedroom-complex design concepts at some point - I've got one particularly good-looking one which I've never got round to actually making, but it'll be a lot easier now with the new macros.

[ein]

I tend to make utilitarian, but still somewhat artistic corridors.
On a few occasions, I have dug out semi-random areas to simulate natural caverns.
One time, I dug out the area and built walls to create an underground dwarf town. Nearly every mined stone went to block making.
Sometime soon, I want to try out an inverse tower setup where I have a fixed area size and I have to build inside of that.