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[nerdyboy321123]

So, DFProspector just revealed that my latest fortress is sitting on top of 18 thousand native gold ore. I plan to use this to its full potential, ideas?

Edit: I should mention I'm playing .31.25, so nothing involving vampires or minecarts (or the new stockpile system, if you were planning on suggesting something with that... you  never know what people can make interesting on this forum).

Edit2: Also, my dining hall is currently being dug to run through 2 (that I've discovered so far) veins, so there will be golden engraved floors and walls for the dining hall.

[Urist McEngraver]

A gigantic golden tower with a bloated tuber farm on it.

[nerdyboy321123]

How would I get soil on the tower? Can you still make farms on mud? I thought that got taken out a while ago.

[GoombaGeek]

How would I get soil on the tower? Can you still make farms on mud? I thought that got taken out a while ago.

Nope, you can make farms on mud.

[nerdyboy321123]

Wonderful, then there shall be a golden bloated tuber tower farm, any size specifications/recommendations, and anything to do with the other several thousand gold I'll still have lying around? Oh. Also worth noting, 1600 amethysts, so gem encrustation is certainly a possibility.

[GoombaGeek]

Wonderful, then there shall be a golden bloated tuber tower farm, any size specifications/recommendations, and anything to do with the other several thousand gold I'll still have lying around? Oh. Also worth noting, 1600 amethysts, so gem encrustation is certainly a possibility.

Write a song about gold then spell it out in gold.

Or make golden useless crap x 10,000.

Or mine every square in the caverns and replace it with gold blocks. And build gold floors. GOLD

[Orky_Boss]

I'd say encase your entire fortress in gold. Noble's get all-gold rooms, as do any dwarves you'd like to reward. make golden brick floors, and replace the clay/soil/stone walls of your fort with Golden Bricks. Make your Trade Depot out of Gold blocks, make the walls around your fortress out of golden bricks.

Hell, even make a golden elephant or that greek building that looks like a bank.

[Loud Whispers]

Your King is now Midas.

[nerdyboy321123]

Or make golden useless crap x 10,000.

Yeah, I'm thinking entire z-level statue garden with only masterwork statues, all encrusted with amethysts or blue crystal (cuz I've got 6700 blue crystals as well). My dwarves shall never be sad.
Should go nicely with the Golden bloated tuber farm/trade depot/elf trader drop tower.

[Sabreur]

While not quite *that* extreme, I had a fortress with plenty of gold before.  I used it to make an all gold dining room, gold doors for every doorway in the fortress besides the main gate, a statue garden entirely out of gold statues, and to give every dwarf two gold cabinets in his bedroom.  It made for a very happy fortress, since everyone had the 'slept in a bedroom like a personal palace' thought and were constantly getting 'admired a fine X' thoughts from sitting at masterwork golden tables and walking through masterwork golden doorways.

[tase]

18k is above average, but doesn't beat whole layers with tons of gold veins, at 120k + gold units according to prospector (no layer modding, all legit).

[Teneb]

On top of everything else already mentioned, excavate all walls and replace them with gold ones. The floor too. And the furniture (unless you are using mods, beds can only be made of wood unfortunately). If there is gold left after you've done this and all the other stuff, cover the map in gold as well.

[Frontestro]

Gold bins and barrels. Thrones and tables too. Just make everything gold its an all yellow fort.

[Monk321654]

Make a giant gold block outside your entrance and drop it on sieges.

[granzteel]

If there's just too many gold there you could turn to doing these:

* Just mint the gold and buy out dwarven merchants every year.

* use the gold for decorating stuff (decorating weapons and armor still adds damage and defense, right?)

* gold goblets. classic medieval treasure 

* wait for a moody dwarf to use it as artifact ingredients. (ooh, gotta love an artifact weapon  )

* it's cool covering the map with gold (as others mentioned). But you'd like it after the royal dining hall you're planning

there. have fun with the 18k gold.