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[Flaede]

80z level cliffs-above-plains ARE possible. I had one once... but I was a newb and did not realize what I had wrought until much, much later. and it was impossible to reconstruct how I'd done it.

(80 z level PIT! open to AIR! *weeps*)

[1sauber1]

Machinegod, ruled by The Council of Beasts, is slowly constructing a missile silo within a chasm.  It will have gold casing, alternations of pitchblende and graphite, water coolant that evaporates from magma (for effect), and iron catwalks.

Urist McBlofeld will approve heartily.

[Loud Whispers]

Silentthunders is an odd Fort in that when I embarked I had in mind to build an impressive megastructure, fill it with goodies for adventurers and call it a day. But then one structure led to the next, one organisation built the later and it's made the largest Fort I've ever worked on, and are still working on.

[A few bits reposted from old posts with amended notes]
Taken with Overseer, although the first 50 or so screen caps I have saved are mostly from pure ASCII zlvl view, it started getting hard to track all the changes in all the zlvls and Overseer looks so awesome. Might upload all of them one day.

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Really old screen cap of the great halls. The current ones are roughly the same size with some reparations, modifications, more tunnels/workshops and fortifications, but is roughly identical. Will screencap the future finished product when it is what I envisage - a subterranean Fortress/hall.

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Some of the very many prison cells resting on the edge of the Quarry. So far one Elf diplomat has rested there. So far one Elf diplomat has 'slipped' off the edge there.

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Colosseum/dining room. Old screen cap, but it's mostly unchanged.

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DOWDING radar.

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Silentthunder's brass battleaxe, forged long ago by grand-master metalworkers. It stands over the entrance to the Fortress city, showing the Fort's intent clearly to all invaders.

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A view of what miners and cavern dwellers see when looking up from the first ramp corner to the surface. The hole in the center is soon going to accommodate a watching post if I can find some way to safely build it entirely out of gems and floors/fortifications.

The watching post has been completed.

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Staring at the other side of the map from one of the citadels; the brass battleaxe, the brass tower and the moose pit (blocky structure on the left) can be seen. They are all pretty big. The citadel is too.

Things have since then developed more. One tower is near completion, tombs have been constructed, losses have been met with heavy hearts but still Silentthunders builds.

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A view of the courtyard's ceiling, and how when viewed from the surface you can see the patterns align with the charcoal/brass/ice floors on the levels below. Also seen is the difference between the marble and limestone blocks used to construct everything - this was carefully designated and took quite a bit of planning. Most of the scaffolding has to be accommodated into the actual structures to save time, and the designating/making of the blocks/building is a time consuming process.

Not much has changed on the courtyard since this screen cap, although now there is a higher wall being built on the West side with two more towers being constructed on either end. One megastructure inspires more.

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Depending on what angle you view the brass tower, it can look very... Different.

The brass tower is unchanged, it is perfect as it is.

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Screen shot of the entire surface, taken before my computer exploded. Very little of the surface isn't Fortress.

Much has progressed since that screen cap.

A completely up to date pic of what the farms look like right now.

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There is a line of Dwarf children who inherit the title 'Dorfus Maximus,' after the noble Dwarf of the same name reminded me of the fact that those 50 or so children can be made into makeshift farmers with the change of an order. Now all Dwarves harvest - and by that I mean, all Dwarf children.

Oh and also do note the walls in front of the walls. Since the Fort started with adventurers in mind, it's been built with adventurers' sight in mind. Any traveler walking through the Fort shall see naught but stone, even where there should be sand. These are Dwarves, and Dwarves know stone.

The statue garden and the footpaths is just something I felt should be in every big Dorf farm.

Current screenshot, post winter ere the year ends.

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Silentthunders builds.

[MrWillsauce]

Damn, what a necro.