The Miscellaneous invention guide for wonderful and mundane above ground fortress survival!This pretty much sums up the thread.
MISCELLANEOUS INVENTIONS ARC
Part II
ARCHITECTURE INVENTIONS ARC
Part II
Part III (messing around with adventurers and bridges)Invention 1: Teh hammock
You're in some nasty desert, and oh no! Someone forgot the picks!
(Or you're just a poor hooman.)
What do you do?
Ladies and gentlemen...
Hammocks
Various citizens enjoying their lovely beds shielded from the glare of the sun.
View from above
How to make?
Well, step 1: first place your up stair on a flat surface... STEP ONE COMPLETE.
Step 2: place a down stair above the up stair... STEP TWO COMPLETE.
Step 3: Build a floor(s) over the area where you are going to build/designate your lovely bedroom. STEP 3 COMPLETE.
Step 4: Place furniture as requested, and designate room. STEP 4 COMPLETE, YOU SHALL NOW PROFIT FROM LOVELY OPEN AIR ROOMS.
Why bother?
Well normally beds have to be placed indoors. Sometimes, you'll be lacking resources... And may have to make do with what you have. Once you've designated the room size, you can even remove the construction materials and use them to make the next room!
Did I mention the same goes for most furniture?
Tiki bar built in the same fashion
And before you 'traditional' DF players feel left out, content with massive pits in the ground for fortresses - take note.
You can use this method to effectively path your roads with the coffins of many dead pets and migrants! Hurrah!
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Invention 2: Teh great landscaping project
Image supplied by GrizzleBridges, MS paint pro
Is your fortress located on a barren wasteland? Lacking resources to amply defend your humble abode?
I present to you: Teh great landscaping project!
Step 1: ORDER EVERYONE TO DIG SECURE LODGINGS.
Step 2: ORDER EVERYONE TO DIG EVERYTHING.
EVERYTHING.Step 3: Realize your defenses suck.
Step 4: HAVE IDEA
Step 5: Instead of building walls up, ORDER ALL TO DIG WALLS DOWN
Step 6: Get bored of waiting and begin designating future megafortress site.
Result :
- 1/3rd of population are miners. (Only 18 Dwarves so far. I think all chances of an industry have been sufficiently crippled, so I can focus on MOAR DIGGING.)
- 100% of the population in the military. (Stone is nowhere to be found :'( )
- Terraforms desert.
- Leaves suspended river, looks really cool, considering weaponizing.
- Is very inefficient.
- Could possibly turn into island with one main bridge.
Now, any suggestions on where to go with this? I might just leave it at 1z lvl of digging, but I might then continue and dig myself a fortress. Or rather, dig around where I'll make a fortress.
...Or dig everything but my fortress.
Oh, also taking questions.
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Invention 3: Horrible abomination of nature
Step 1: Mod in Zerglings
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit
Result: Hate life
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Invention 4: Nabbed straight from the
wikiStep 1: Spill blood in a river
Step 2: Follow blood
Result: Learn river flow direction