So, as of the eighteenth of Malachite, both of the threatening skeletons are rather thoroughly deceased. To prevent any further resurrections, I've ordered the dead beasts claimed and thrown into the volcano. Meanwhile, our aristocrat friend is currently busy with a mysterious construction. I hope it's less mysterious than the construction of our fortress.
The construction of our fortress is entirely sane and logical.
.....for a certain, very specific definition of those two words.
Everything was constructed here for a reason. Just, sometimes, they weren’t good ones, or the designs were so bad they were abandoned.
For example, the lava cannon was designed to flood the outside with lava, flood the area on the fortress island but outside the main keep with lava, and flood the keep (and main fortress) with lava.
New Townbrush (named after Townbrush, another legendary fort from DF2010) was intended to be a survival shelter in case the rest of the fortress was overrun.
We should add multi-layer water constructs and mechanisms for no reason.
You haven't seen this fort yet, have you? We've already got at least one abandoned non-functional reactor, a device that floods the fort with magma, a device that floods the outside of the fort with magma (just not very well), and something down to the south/south-east of the fort that does something with magma, but no one knows what (and it's unfinished). And that's just the stuff I can remember off the top of my head.
So yeah, we probably should add more....if the game can take it. FPS is already pretty low.
We actually have two non-functional reactors. One was never properly finished, the other was completed but didn’t work properly.
There’s a partially constructed green glass tower thing that seems to be a magma pumpstack. The hallways down there were probably intended for transporting magma too, but that was never finished and they are now used for getting from A to B and storing excess materials.
There’s also a large number of stacked drawbridges I believe were intended to either fling lava upwards or punch it out of existence.
The water pumpstack was never switched on and I think we need more reactors to get it working.
I believe the best course of action would be to install some powered minecart networks, with reactors in acceptable positions. I wanted to extend the water pumpstack aboveground, but circumstances did not allow it.