While everyone's having a 0.31 party, I'm still toiling away in 0.28 on my fort Swordbaldness. It's grown pretty large, and once I finish my current dig project, I'll have plenty of masons (and stone) to continue working on the fortress proper. It'll never be a Flarechannel, but it's my baby and I wanted to share.
It's still far from complete, and looks pretty dull, but only the visualizer can give you a full impression of its size.
Visualizer Image
All that's clear in the pic is the arena to the left; the main fort in the middle, with the entry hall in the front and the red and gold royal chambers in the rear; the magma and water tanks on the right; the beginnings of the main bridge; and the dig project all around the perimeter of the fort. Unfortunately, much of the rest is either hidden behind walls and ceilings, or is buried underground.
That dig took forever, since I had to wall off an aquifer 20 tiles at a time, which is no easy task. But thankfully, it's almost complete. It also takes up a huge portion of the map, and the fort takes up much of the dig space.
Take a look at the map on the archive. There you can find three distinct forts. The starter fort one z-level underground, almost right in the middle, consisting of a few empty rooms dug out in the soil. The second, larger fort, that is also underground and that I abandoned after a tantrum spiral; moving the dwarfs from there to the new fort was a real pain, and there are still some workshops down there I haven't moved. And last is, of course, this big above-ground fort. I think it's cool seeing the place where my dwarfs huddled together away from the bats and zombies while they hurriedly punched through the aquifer well over half a year ago.
Swordbaldness on the map archive
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