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[Nobbins]

So I embarked on a chert mountain, and while starting a tower, I realised I could just smooth the base instead of building a floor. This got me thinking. Do you think it's possible to smooth an entire mountain peak? (Let's say 4x4 local map tiles)

[Retro]

Well, you can't smooth ramps, but I think you can smooth the walls behind ramps. So I suppose yeah, you could. And engrave them, too!

[Nobbins]

That would be awesome. It would blow your architectural wealth up by a factor of about a million, too. Plus there's lots of room for history. =D

[inteuniso]

Imagine the ability to engrave your entire mountain of dwarves striking down elves. It's like a dream that just came true.

[Nobbins]

Imagine the ability to engrave your entire mountain of dwarves striking down elves. It's like a dream that just came true.

You know what engravings I usually find in HFS spots? Elves committing depraved acts upon dwarves. Of course it would be awesome, and it will have a tinge of revenge floating about the artwork...

[Shaostoul]

I don't know if you could do it to the ENTIRE mountain... Sometimes the could have soil layers just at the edges so you can't smooth/engrave.

Would be awesome though.

Make a giant (we'll go with cast obsidian) mountain and engrave the entire thing.

[Lost Requiem]

That would be awesome. It would blow your architectural wealth up by a factor of about a million, too. Plus there's lots of room for history. =D

Or lots of pictures of rope, barrels, cheese, and an engraving of the engraving of cheese next to it.

[Holy Mittens]

I pretty much just do this eventually after my fort gets to a certain size. Eventually, there's nothing inside to smooth/engrave so I just have my legendary engravers do the entire outside of the mountain.

[personofshadow]

Urist McEngraver: Boss, we ran out of room for history on the walls

Urist McBoss: What do you want me to do about it? Just go carve it on the mountain or something

Years later a lone adventurer would stumble upon a mountain covered in engravings telling the tale of a dwarven outpost. Ironically, according to the histories, the engraver was struck down by orcs while recording their invasion. In his dying moments he recorded his own unfortunate demise

[Ubiq]

I wonder how high you could get your Architecture based wealth doing this, especially if you use an Obsidian or flux-based mountain and take the idea even further by carving out smaller mountains to be smoothed and engraved inside of the original mountain.

[Lightning4]

Well, if you're going for an insane architecture value, you can also hollow out every ounce of stone on the map and smooth/engrave the floors.
Then rebuild the soil layers and your fortress with iron or steel, using more valuable materials where possible.
Roads count towards it too, so make plenty of those for extra value!

I'm so totally trying this sometime.

[TKGP]

Insane architectural value due to smoothing and engraving?
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46316.0
Mmhmm.

[Cockyy]

Damn, I was beaten to linking Pull The Lever

[TBot Alpha]

Make your fort out of wood, and build everything of worth out of anything other than stone. Then go with the suggestion someone else mentioned, and turn the mountain into an insane russian-doll mountain full of engravings.

When finished, cap the entrance with a door of some kind, tear down the wooden fort, abandon, then reclaim and see how many dorfs you get out of it.

[Roostre]

My suggestion, if it hasn't been made yet: Start engraving the ground at the top of the mountain, then take off the topmost ramps, do the walls and floor on the next level down... and work your way down. Mine out any gems you see poking out of the mountain along the way, just so you can have 'em.

I would wait until your stone detailer has plenty of skill, and plenty of fortress history to carve, before you begin. It is a very neat idea, though, and does sound like a cool megaproject for beginners.