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[Funtimes]

Recently I've been thoroughly bored with square rooms and fortresses. Symettry has really become so last Obsidian. 
Now I've been trawling through the map archive for days, searching for interesting ideas, but there aren't many out there that stray away from these well trusted quadrilaterals. I did a little experimenting and it's definitely harder than I thought to come up with something that I like.

I'm trying to come up with some ideas that would feel at home in an organic fortress, but I'm struggling. These few are the ones that I'm not immediately resentful towards.

This one is based upon the sandwich idea, stick one of these above and below a 3-wide hallway and you're done. Great, I though, but now I want to introduce sewage/plumbing (under every room), so that's not future-proof enough for me.

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This being a lengthened room layout, the top removed one of the double wall section to see if it was any less ugly.

This one I like a lot more, it's intended to be a mezzanine level overlooking the Trade Depot, or meeting areas.

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You can already see I screwed up the bottom left corner, but it's a good start. The corridor will likely go, I put it in as a placeholder and forgot to undesignate it before digging started.

Anybody care to contribute their own designs? I'm a little lacking in inspiration today. Efficiency is second place to beauty and creativity. 

[ElChad]

Try a hexagonal design. Each room is the exact same size. And perfectly aligned.

[Itnetlolor]

I still haven't decided on a good housing design (noble and otherwise) for my Wavehandle revisit. I could use some ideas as well. My last idea used in the previous version was an uninventive squaring off with nobility in the center rooms and peasantry in the outer rooms (from a single central hallway). Plus, it was only in 1Z of space, so yeah.

I like to see if anyone has any 3D solutions that are efficient, yet aesthetically pleasing. Sorry for a lack of ideas here.

[DDR]

I've been developing room layouts like below of late. I've been experimenting with random and organic room growth, and I've been fairly happy with the result. Try growing this pattern into one or two others, the 4/1 slope provides a nice alternative to the traditional 45deg rotations of rooms.

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I haven't found any 3D non-45deg tessellations, though.

[Agamemnon]

Well, there are only so much n-ominoes and even less that stack together with 1-tile walls in between.

Maybe try mixing sleeping quarters with burial chambers of different size to fill in any odd-shaped gaps...

[Miggy]

Can always try to mess around with circles instead. Those always provide much fun.

[Urist McTaverish]

I usually go with living pods.  They're easy to make, scalable, and relatively walk efficient.

[breadbocks]

Try this. Not practical, but neat.

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