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[Saturos]

Firstly hi there!  First post and all.

I'm looking to build a set of forts based on the elemental lighthouses of golden sun, problem is designing the forts.  The lighthouses are intended to be tower structures of about 20 floors in total.  Nicely filled with traps and any form of mechanics hidden well.

I was just wondering if anyone could recommend a good program for planning out forts?  It's mostly so I can work a series of traps that would be fun in adventure mode into a working fort.

I'm also looking for ideas on clever devices if anyone would be willing to share them.  Currently I'm working on mercury lighthouse since it seems like a good way to learn all about water mechs.  So water based traps and clever flow tricks would be most welcome

Thanks in advance!

[Psieye]

The first rule: do not build cage traps. Or at least, deconstruct them before abandoning. An init setting must be flipped on for adventurers to be vulnerable to traps and cage traps are overpowered with no way to escape at present. Beyond that, be aware that adventurers typically are good at swimming because they'll train in it before going on serious adventures. Also, be aware that water 'flow' is sometimes cheated by teleporting high pressure water to low pressure regions, as opposed to a true flow. This means that if submerged fully in 7/7 water, nothing can be moved by a gushing 'flow' of water as the back/top of the water is just teleporting to the front/bottom.

[Shrike]

And you even have an appropriate name. My opinions of GS aside, easiest way for you to go would be look up any maps (or make one yourself) of the dungeons/lighthouses. Then build them.

You'll need to implement the piping puzzles using walls and bridges and doors/floodgates, though, since rolling pipes are not something that can be implemented.

For fort planning, you can use MS paint to take care of most of it, zooming in and doing things pixel-by-pixel.

[Astramancer]

Also, Quickfort

It might not be terribly useful unless you're already fairly used to DF, but once you get the hang of it, you'll be able to keep any designs that work when you (inevitably) restart 'cause something screwed up.

[Organum]

This project interests me and I wish to celebrate you for beginning it.

[Saturos]

Thanks for the tips and support.

If someone could tell me how to (since I have no idea) I could show what I've already done (apart from screw up an ocean).