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[Mesa]

Dwarven Prison

Faced with rising criminal rates the king has decided to go for a zero-tolerance policy. He sent out seven dwarves to build and manage a prison to hold the worst of the worst criminals of dwarvenkind.

• Only your initial 7 dwarves may do any work
• All immigrants are treated as inmates sentenced to life-long prison sentences. Yes, even the children. Don't ask, you are just doing your job and who are you to criticize the dwarven justice system?
• Every inmate is locked up in solitary confinement within his/her own bedroom cell with only a bed and a forbidden metal door. Metal bars instead of walls are optional.
• Inmates have to be kept alive in their cells, but don't pamper them: Make them live on a diet of water and raw plump helmets. Feed them by dumping the plump helmets through holes in the cell ceilings or using an airlock system. Water can be provided through a water hole in the floor leading to a sewer system.
• Should an inmate start to rebel the sheriff chief warden should restore discipline with an iron hand.
• It won't take long until a few inmates start to go insane from sensory deprivation. Too bad for them.
• BONUS: build a lever for mad dwarves to commit suicide by cave-in

I'm not a Fortress mode player, so even a decent forts are off-limits for me, much less challenges, so I won't do it myself. (not yet, anyway)

But did anyone ever do it? Moreover, is there a story about that kind of fort (succession or not) that I could read?

[Matoro]

I tried that once. It was meant to be an prison fort in the glacier. I decided that first year immigrants will be all "good guys" and all after that were prisoners.

It didn't last long. I don't remember exactly why I abadonded, I think it was because my interest was in a succession forts and other things at the moment. I should some day try it again.

[kleril]

From the sounds of it, I don't think those forts would turn out very interesting, unless you had a VERY low pop. cap. Taking care of the needs of all other fort dorfs would be way too time consuming to develop a fortress further, unless some serious automation / efficiency magicks were exercised.

Actually, scratch all that. This would be awesome to try out, if only to test the limits of fort automation.

[grody311]

I think you could have fun with this without being so stringent.  No reason for the first 7 to be the only gatekeepers.  I would probably wait until the mega wave hits (usually 3rd or 4th migrant wave), then throw all those bastards into the prison.  Nice payback for all those times the mega wave gave you an hour long headache as you tried to sort out all their labors.

[Mesa]

So what, Dwarf Fortress makes better Prison Architect than Prison Architect itself?
It's free, anyway.

And you know, I just quoted the wiki on that one. To each his own. If I were to make this, I'd probably make the first one/two migrant waves the "warden" waves and then it would be prisoners.

It would also be fun in adventurer mode trying to escape such a prison. How exactly, I don't know.

[Brandon816]

It would also be fun in adventurer mode trying to escape such a prison. How exactly, I don't know.

Water can be provided through a water hole in the floor leading to a sewer system.

Guess it would have to be an open hole (no well). Maybe some alligators thrown in for good measure.

[Repseki]

I might have to go try this on a glacier. I definitely foresee automated food dumps on a timer, and disposing of rowdy inmates via flash freezer so the next inmate in that cell knows not to act out.

EDIT: So I just embarked on a sinister glacier to try this out. First time embarking on either glacier or fully evil area, so I expect spectacular failure, but I'll do what I can.

Hopefully the game naming the fortress Corruptedward is a sign of good things to come.

[Aquathug]

I did this once so I could try and hold my FPS up higher. It ended with the Pariahs of dwarven society being drafted as masons and building their own prison. I set up two stockpiles of stone next to each other and all they did all day was haul stone back and forth between both piles until they eventually died of exhaustion. Or starving. Or dehydration. Or going berserk and getting slamhammered by my military/dorfcops. I also vaguely remember building a waterslide in that fortress that pushed them off a cliff down to the caverns which was like a 50 z-level drop.