Well, I'm going to start a megaproject. I mean a MEGA project. It's something far beyond my capabilities and my dwarves are likely to burn in a fiery magma sauce.
Details- The Scourge of Armok, Aka, The World Just Got Fucked.
What's it going to be-
1. 1 large river basin with a fortress in it. Completely constructed of course, we aint mining a fortress, we're building one.
2. The Fortress has to be at least 20z levels tall, and 30x30 (Ugh... The building.)
3. The top Z level will be the roof, just 1z level above the lava, with a bridge extending from it to the edge of the map. One way in, one way out.
4. There's going to be one giant mother fucking magma water fall. 20z levels high, we'll see how my dwarves like mist when there faces are burning off.
5. A large cistern of water occupying the area under the fortress, supplied by... Oh I don't know, a river or something, falling off a cliff, down into the fortress cistern. But wait- that's not all. There will be a space between the fortress walls and the fortress floor, in this space I'll have a 21z level water fall. Top of the fortress, to the cistern below.
Here's the design-
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That's the design for the central area,
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That's pretty much the top z level design, except I'll have a system that poors the water down the walls, I'll work that out later, too tired to make it in asci.
Here's a simple way to visualize what I mean by a magma waterfall-
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Pretty simple. Err- Well, simple being hellish mining, but simple anyway.
I have a template I think I'm going to use (the plane of cool, some where in the world gen cook book)
I'm going to try and pick a spot without too much mountain, just enough to make the fortress.
So- thoughts, tips? No seriously, tips, please. Also- I'm going to back up and probably release the saves.
(PS. Tried putting it in tags, fucked too much up <.<.