So, I just realized that this fort is called Splatteredboulder, which simply adds to it's awesome factor. Yesterday I decided to try DF again after not playing for 6 months and I managed to find one of the sweetest locations I've ever embarked on. The fort is set on the junction of 3 minor rivers, two of which join together in a spectacular triangular gorge before plunging ~15z into the third. There's wood, sand, loads of iron and coal, flux, winter freeze....and way too much goblinite
EDIT: Update....evidently there's also a bouncy castle on this map. I'm seriously ready to say this map has everything.
In the end, that oblong thing in between the gorges is supposed to be the grand hall. Half of it will be open up the z levels (hopefully to the surface) and lined entirely in clear glass (with the dining room level below river level), while the other half will be built up into a living quarter for my legendary dwarves. There are two levels in between the surface and the grand hall which are aquifier, which I plan to use to create a water feature down through the grand hall without the pumping infrastructure. Sometime soon I will probably go magma hunting and pump it up to a reservoir for my forges. I'm half debating putting the reservoir under the gorge, so it remains thawed in the winter, and have the kitchen level below the great hall have windows into it.
With winter break coming up hopefully i'll be able to get some good progress on this thing before I get swept up with school again, but since the wiki is down and my Dorf Engineering degree a bit rusty, I need your help folks....
1. As stated before, there's 2 levels of soil aquifier above my fort. In the winter the map does freeze, but only for maybe 10 minutes real time. I'm building an army of masons and miners to work as fast as possible, but what do you think is the best way to CLEAR those two layers completely? If possible, I want my great hall to have a glass ceiling too.
2. As shown above, goblins and kobolds love this fort, and while my entrance is pretty secure (as those things go anyway), the caravans get routinely slaughtered. I'm certain all the junk lying around outside will eventually ruin my FPS. Wat do? Edit: To elaborate on the scale of the problem, that's the mess after about 4 years. It'll probably be at least another 12 until the fort is done, and though i haven't gotten any sieges yet, there's usually 4-5x ambush squads every other season, both kobolds and gobs (so they slaughter each other too)
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