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[Minnakht]

I just build a 3x3 square of up-down staircases. It goes down and down to the magma sea, either punching through caverns using constructed stairs (if I feel brave) or being set to a side to go through an in-cavern pillar (if I don't feel brave). Along this spine of the fortress, there are rectanglish rooms, large and usually containing workshops and related stockpiles - as well as a few levels for bedrooms and dining halls. The lowest level contains magma smelters, kilns, glass furnaces, forges...

And then the stairs go up, too, forming a 10x10 or 11x11 square tower. I'd place barracks inside the tower if I knew how to military. One level of the tower is lined with fortifications instead of walls on the outside and has an inner ring of walls - kind of a marksdwarf balcony.

Usually, the lowest level of the constructed tower holds aboveground farms, and the level above it holds a drawbridge which is the only way in. In the next renditions, I'm planning on moving the drawbridge about ten z-levels up and making an alternative path of 1-width floors on the same level - lined with traps. It's fun to see goblins dodge off and splatter against the ground. And if any made it past, they'd have to bash down through several floors of the tower, filled with barracks...

The fortress is mostly underground, aside from the tower.

[Triaxx2]

Hmm... let's see. The current fortress is well underground, except for the initial penetration fortress, which is all within the top two layers of soil. (Aquifer) There's an above ground wall protecting the trade depot, which will eventually go up another level and then be roofed over.

Down 15 or so z-levels into the stone is the bedroom complex, which is several groups of 3x5 bedrooms plus some 3x7's for those pesky nobles and officers and mayor types who want more than meager. Eventually they'll live down at -4z. (Magma is down at -7.)

And I'm currently building an Aquifer Flush Entrance, though it's a little slow going. The area is kind of tree heavy and getting a 5 by 5 square cleared takes some patience. Then I have to mine out the two levels to drop into the aquifer to punch through. It's only a 3 by 3 entrance I need, but it's not easy to get.

That won't get connected until I'm sure it's flood proof. Once is enough. Need another windmill though. And to get in and chop down that stupid tree.

Primary bridge, which leads to the Trade Depot has two over hanging archer lookouts, which will be able to shoot over the dry moat. (Eventually I'll have a water moat as well, but the Magma is too far away to to be any use. Pity.)

I've never been invaded before though. Never had a fort last long enough. We're into year two, so we'll see.

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I did at one point plan out a Tower Fort. One massive 30x30 King Tower, rising a majestic 40 z-levels, and four lesser Lord Towers, each rising 20 z-levels and containing central, spiral stair cases, filled with Weapon traps, and centers with fortified walls so my dwarf archers could shoot at the invaders as they attempted to ascend to the hanging bridges to cross into the King's Tower. The bridges of course only exist so that they can be dropped when the goblins are inside, falling 18z to the ground and being splatted by a de-constructing cave-in.

[Aramco]

I hate undug blocks, and two tile wide walls. I like symmetry. These things turned into my current fortress, Kolocig.

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It may not be the grandest of places, but I just started it, and it is only the home of two Dwarves, so it doesn't need to be bigger.

[Excedion]

Usually have a 3x3 stairwell all the way down. and build design out from their. If i have alot of above ground z levels then i usually build apartment blocks and towers. Fortress usually slowly progresses into a city scape and then i either get killed by demons or die from boredom

[Triaxx2]

@Aramco: Looks like the map from the Atari 'Tank Combat' game. Awesome.

[Aramco]

@Aramco: Looks like the map from the Atari 'Tank Combat' game. Awesome.

It does, a bit, now that you mention it.

[Sutremaine]

I drill down in a spiral and add rooms and access between them as necessary. No corridors.