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[ajar]

Hello,  I've been long thinking what will I include in my first dwarven hotel. The first schemes were under the name "The Inn of Drowning" which would include a large drowning trap. There's been several other ideas since, but currently I've gone through the testing of a magma cast Inn concept, successfully. The only obstacle now is speed of construction, which I did make improvements in. It's not just a matter of showing off, or making elaborate plans beforehand. There are many lucrative simple concepts out there that we don't consider ourselves, but the adopting of which would make us happier than the basic "my own inn" effect. It doesn't have to be even 50% mine 50% communal, it can be 100% communism, 90% own and 80% foreign.

Here's a 100% foreign concept I've come across from the world of magazines (The Guardian), which is impossible to imitate in dwarf fortress, but which is just impressive in an exotic manner.

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[Loud Whispers]

In mine, I plan on having wanderers will come in, and marvel at the skylight dug several z layers into the main stage, where they can drink and marvel at whatever is on show. So essentially what it would be, is if the Globe Theatre was several hundred tiers tall, and inside a mountain.

[angelious]

so is anybody planning on creating a normal tavern then?

[miauw62]

I'll probably set up elf drop shafts so my visitors can be covered in elf blood.

[Dampe]

I haven't even thought that far ahead.
If foreigners want to come to this dank, corpse-strewn hole in the middle of nowhere, let them come.

[NW_Kohaku]

My plan so far is largely based upon my standard legendary dining hall plans. 

Engrave everything (except maybe for glass floor show), masterwork every table and chair, luxurious bedrooms, and a zoo of all the random crap I caught (always embark savage!) plus cages holding all the fools who dared attack my fortress, sitting naked and pelted with leftover turkey bones from visitors for fun.  Glass floorshow will be military training on naked goblins or elves.

In general, I've longed for multi-racial forts for years, so I want to entice as many animal-people to my fort as possible.  Hence, I want to pamper these suckers with every dwarven luxury I am capable of providing until I get a decent population of interesting critters.

[Akura]

I suppose I could build an inn in the same structure as the hospital. I mean, that's how it works in all the other games, doesn't it?

Here's a 100% foreign concept I've come across from the world of magazines (The Guardian), which is impossible to imitate in dwarf fortress, but which is just impressive in an exotic manner.

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Oh, really?!

[The Bard]

I'll be adding a new floor to the Depot building I already make for the tavern and entertainment section with a shaft going down the back leading to underground luxury rooms.

The dwarves of the keep proper will, of course live in a high rise apartment tower.

[ajar]

I suppose I could build an inn in the same structure as the hospital. I mean, that's how it works in all the other games, doesn't it?

Here's a 100% foreign concept I've come across from the world of magazines (The Guardian), which is impossible to imitate in dwarf fortress, but which is just impressive in an exotic manner.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh, really?!

That was just my opinion

[Dunamisdeos]

I suppose I could build an inn in the same structure as the hospital. I mean, that's how it works in all the other games, doesn't it?

Here's a 100% foreign concept I've come across from the world of magazines (The Guardian), which is impossible to imitate in dwarf fortress, but which is just impressive in an exotic manner.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh, really?!

That was just my opinion

Gonna cast that thing underground. Gonna set my population to 30 and make em' the hotel staff. Then, the single support lever is thrown.

Anyway, I plan on multi-level taverns. Like a western saloon with rooms up above and entertainment on the first floor.

[NW_Kohaku]

I suppose I could build an inn in the same structure as the hospital. I mean, that's how it works in all the other games, doesn't it?

Here's a 100% foreign concept I've come across from the world of magazines (The Guardian), which is impossible to imitate in dwarf fortress, but which is just impressive in an exotic manner.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Oh, really?!

That was just my opinion

Looking at them, it seems like those buildings are 29 z-levels high, (embark on a steep slope or something for room,) a lot of clear glass and bricks (magma kilns and forestry, ho!) and while that's likely concrete, limestone or a similar stone should appropriately replicate the appearance. 

[Vattic]

I tend to have a long road leading down into the fort proper; The surface forsaken except save a simple access fortification. It would make some sense to have a tavern for outsiders on the surface, not sure yet. If we can have multiple then I plan to have a few scattered in the more sprawling forts.

[vjmdhzgr]

I'll probably either go for a nice big two-story wooden building with a big dining hall on the bottom floor, and bedrooms on the top floor. Or I'll put it in the giant room I dig out on the other side of the grand dining hall that I dig out that I used to use for stockpiles, but more recently just don't really use at all.

[StagnantSoul]

They'll be getting the best possible treatment, if they come. A walkway to the building, being a paved road, with statues along both sides, most likely silver, with a fountain/mist generator in the middle, a waterfall on the side, and statues lining all the walls but one, which will have a staircase leading to the bedrooms, each having a highwood or oak door, a masterwork bed, a stone table and chair, a wooden chest, and an armour stand. There will be some cats living in the area.

[Albedo]

Gonna cast that thing underground. Gonna set my population to 30 and make em' the hotel staff. Then, the single support lever is thrown.

All work and no play makes Urist a dull dwarf.