Discuss your own little mini projects!I have not seen any mini project threads, so I thought I would go post my own. As a relatively unskilled and new player I still find the concept of a
stupid dwarf trick mega project hard to grasp. Smaller projects seem much more realistic to me (in terms of planing and time consumption).
Allow me to begin, this is how I've been spending my free time lately:
So after finding out I did not leave room in my dug out fortress entrance for any siege weapons and that ballista's could not shoot down Z-levels. I had to create this:
So in order to shoot at my enemies and not loose at least 50 more effective steps for each of my workers going outside, I made a ~40 titles long runway with bridges on the fortress end of it.
These bridges I then linked to a lever, so that when I pull it, this happens:
Now, everybody who wants to enter my fortress will have to go to the other end of the runway and come running back this way.
Closer look at the runway:
At the edges I used grates so that the middle part of the ramp would not be supported by anything other than the, to another lever connected, support beam on the Z-level below. So that if there are 130 goblins on my doorstep I can just (maybe) break all their legs (I have not tried yet).
So the first time I used this I did not have walls covering my runway, I learned the hard way. Goblins came from the hill in the lower left corner and
shot about four to five dwarves had me experiencing some fun.
Now here comes the
fun boring part:
Did you know that ballista's have 130 to 150 titles of range? I know I do.
So I read this wiki when I started playing and the wiki was more interesting to me at the time (20 fps, yay), and I got the battery pattern from there.
On a side note, indoor fishing:
Hope this helps other players post their mini project stories.