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[Trekkin]

I generated a world with 100 z-levels above cavern layer 3, intending to put my dwarves between 3 and the magma. All well and good, except that there's a deep pit right above where I would put my fort. Thus, before deciding the site is unsuitable, I'm pondering what to do with such a giant hole. At present, I'm thinking of mining out everything around it, building a huge tree farm, and leaving the layers selectively floodable. Once I add animals, I'll have a lovely nature preserve/arena/prison/science chamber/meat rain machine.

But that's just my limited imagination. What would you guys do with a giant hole in the ground above your fortress?

[JTTCOTE1]

Define Deep.

[Triaxx2]

What do I do? I build my fortress in a tower hanging inside the hole. That's what I do.

[Tirion]

What do I do? I build my fortress in a tower hanging inside the hole. That's what I do.

With self-destruct levers!

[Ushiromiya]

Make a giant version of Sparta. Dwarf edition.

[Viking]

What do I do? I build my fortress in a tower hanging inside the hole. That's what I do.

I like this idea, plus having the outer rings be a nature preserve!

[HraTaika]

PICTURES!

[Trekkin]

Pictures of what? It's a hole. It starts at -31 and ends at -135,  by the way, so "deep" is 104 z-levels. As for internal space, it occupies part of a 35x37 tile box, with 769 empty tiles per level. Not counting local variation at the ends, that's about 79,000 tiles of empty space.

Which is, you know, cool, but I still dunno what to DO with it. Building my fortress in it is a cool idea, though; the site's metal-rich enough that I could theoretically do a 20x20x100 solid (or hollow, with floors on every level) gold stalactite hanging off the ceiling, and still use less than half the gold on site. I probably should have mentioned that, in case it causes any ideas: the site, being so deep and having a mineral scarcity of 100, has 121,000 units of tetrahedrite, 96,000 of native gold, and at least a thousand of every other base metal in ore except platinum (267), bismuth(40), and native aluminum (0). Between that and 53,756 gems of various sorts, I could maybe cover the outside in gem-encrusted gold statues.

Unless there's a better use for it.

[thiosk]

This sounds likea proper cavern pit.   I love the idea of hanging the tower in it, I envision lots of retractable causeways.

[AutomataKittay]

Yes, build gold pyramid in it, with silver furnishings and gem windows to look out at the depth for every single one of your dwarves.

I mean, not like there're better use for gold and silvers, are there?

[GreatWyrmGold]

What do I do? I build my fortress in a tower hanging inside the hole. That's what I do.

And no walls, only floors and stairs. And flying pets. And can I get a save or something?

[Trekkin]

How ought I to post the world? I removed everything but sand, clay, and fire clay from the raws (this world gen was originally to play with as many industries as possible), so I don't know if a seed would work.

[RiderofDark]

Zip the folder using a utility like WinRar or 7Zip, upload to DFFD, and link the file here.

[GreatWyrmGold]

...That.
Also, clay, fire clay, and sand? Sweet! You need to establish a colony on the surface to collect clay and sand, then dump them downstairs.

[Trekkin]

Or just dump the tiles themselves down via cave-in.

Also, does running a graphics set impact the usability of the save? if so, how can I make it more generally usable?

EDIT: Posted the save here. http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6868