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[bennerman]

Building in the mouth of a volcano right now. The lava started really low in the crater, so I'm treating it as sort-of a "reverse tower"

[fragfish]

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Central staircase with no more than 20 steps off the staircase (X/Y) to reach anything, including well, bedrooms, stockpiles, clothing, weapons, food, tables, and workshops.
Typically I use less than 10 Z levels, including all bedrooms, for an ~80 population dwarf fort.  Keeps pathfinding load to a minimum, very easy to manage.

I usually go for something similar: Central Staircase with the workshops aligned around it, with each profession having one z-level.
There are usually also some "backdoors", like from the butchery to the tannery/craftswdwarf, and generally rooms and stockpiles being laid out in production order (farms->plant stockpile->still->seed stockpile->farms over multiple z-levels). Levels contain barracks for all the dwarfs who work in it, so they sleep right next to their workplace.

On the bottom of the stairs is the main hall, lavishly decked out with booze/food stored next to it. Entrances (above and below) are through the barracks of elite squads.

[klefenz]

... and correct me if I'm wrong, but just to make everything perfectly clear, you can't farm in a mountain biome even if you do irrigate the soil/sand/clay. ...

Correct.  There is no farming in a mountain biome, at all, ever, no matter what.

The Incas would disagree.

[hlavaczech]

Thanks for all the responses.
So for the inspiration, its Moria, Erebor, Ironforge and Orzammar so far. All quite similar

Have you ever came across some book, a film or a game that would display a different kind dwarvish habitat?

[StupidElves]

Have you ever came across some book, a film or a game that would display a different kind dwarvish habitat?

No. All dwarves are the same.

[lechium]

... and correct me if I'm wrong, but just to make everything perfectly clear, you can't farm in a mountain biome even if you do irrigate the soil/sand/clay. ...

Correct.  There is no farming in a mountain biome, at all, ever, no matter what.

Not even in the caverns? The Dwarven civs get their plants only with herbalists?

[Zaerosz]

... and correct me if I'm wrong, but just to make everything perfectly clear, you can't farm in a mountain biome even if you do irrigate the soil/sand/clay. ...

Correct.  There is no farming in a mountain biome, at all, ever, no matter what.

Not even in the caverns? The Dwarven civs get their plants only with herbalists?

Underground farms will work perfectly in any biome, actually - the problem is irrigation, if you have no soil, since you can't grow on straight rock.

[Snaake]

Thanks for all the responses.
So for the inspiration, its Moria, Erebor, Ironforge and Orzammar so far. All quite similar

Have you ever came across some book, a film or a game that would display a different kind dwarvish habitat?

WoW also has hill dwarf-y settlements (the dwarven lvl 10-20 area, the wildhammer clan), and both WoW and others have had dwarven districts in human cities, which of course tend to be the smithy/industrial areas.

D&D (mostly discussing 3.x versions of the settings) has at least 2 types of deep dwarves (both evil) iirc, and a "fire dwarf" (their beards and hair are made of flame) race/creature that mostly live in the elemental plane of fire. All 3 build cities. The regular dwarves often have at least mountain/hill subtypes, sometimes also city or barbarian variants.

[klefenz]

My current fort is built around a borehole, there is a walkway around the hole on each level, and every room is on those walkways.
The only way in is through a drawbridge at the top of the hole.
A bunch of gobbos tried to get in, and i lifted the bridge just in time, they fell to the botton, around 5 z-levels at that moment and got rushed by an imprivised military. Gobbos punched to death.
I plan to get it really deep.

[doublestrafe]

Neuschwanstein above, Boatmurdered below.

[Matoro]

I usually want to build my fortresses a bit like Boatmurdered - or any fort in .23, across same z-level. Well, not entirely in one z-level, but certainly more horizontally than vertically. This usually means pretty long walking distances, but it's minor problem. It's just so satisfying to see most of your fortress at one glance, perfectly in one z-level.

[StupidElves]

I used StoneSense, and I got the galleons really close when I built them,l with them all requiring very few touch ups. So, the most fanciful fort I ever made were three large galleons in the ocean.

[bennerman]

I used StoneSense, and I got the galleons really close when I built them,l with them all requiring very few touch ups. So, the most fanciful fort I ever made were three large galleons in the ocean.

Glad I could help. I am having very little luck with my fort. Basically I have friendly "tame" ogres that are too smart to be butchered or war trained, and too dumb to do most jobs.

BASICALLY, I have super strong ogres, 10 times the size of humans, who are fishing, farming hippies. Frees up my other minions from those jobs, but still.

[StupidElves]

I think I'm going to stop using StoneSense and I'll switch to using Overseer to view my projects.

[Methadone]

Central staircase with no more than 20 steps off the staircase (X/Y) to reach anything, including well, bedrooms, stockpiles, clothing, weapons, food, tables, and workshops.
Typically I use less than 10 Z levels, including all bedrooms, for an ~80 population dwarf fort.  Keeps pathfinding load to a minimum, very easy to manage.

This is similar to my ideal fort as well. In a perfect world, I could build what amounts to a tower underground. Slim, perfectly symmetrical. Apartment blocks, workshop levels, everything contained. Of course, the caverns tend to ruin that dream.