This is the new post for Dwarven Alcatraz, my attempt at the Dwarf Prison challenge, with you fine folks as the managing board of directors. Which means you get to decide what stupid stuff we have the Fortress do.
We're moving this to Bay12 from Reddit as the Forums are a better place for this sort of Format so it'd be great to have all you fine forum goers join in too.
Look at the **Update** Section for the most recent news/statistics on the fort.
The challenge can be found on the wiki here:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/v0.34:Challenges#Dwarven_PrisonA summary of what we're attempting:
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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.
What this means is only the initial seven Dwarves may do work, excluding things like prison labour, such as hauling items inside the prisoners area, making basic stone crafts and the like.
The twist on this challenge is that I will be playing the game by committee, you guys get to choose what direction the prison takes. Some suggestions have been made in the earlier thread and will be listed below. If you want your name in the fort post it below specifying if you want to be a prisoner, a staff member, or a Warden. If you choose to be a Warden you'll be added to the list and i'll message you when it's your go and you can inform me of any policies or projects you want me to focus on for your term as Warden.
Each year in-game a new Warden will be chosen. The Wardens are chosen from a sequential list and have almost absolute power over the prison. You need only let me know what you wish to have your Warden dictate, even to the point of overriding other suggestions and/or the rules. (Within reason, don't ruin it for others)
Each season I will post images in the imgur album and create a journal video from the perspective of the warden summarizing the goings-on of that season.
**Imgur Album:**
http://imgur.com/a/rELnm**Journal Playlist:**
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwHDG_1P2CdF8KlZ1dk0PSdOvxL9aIYZa~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Following is the list of Community suggestions currently in play, just post a reply to get yours added:
*Prison Policy:*
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**Anton2181:** "Children should be locked in a small cell without food until only one lives. Then he will join the adults."
**Derobos:** "Add some of them to a military squad called "The suicide squad", who shall do nothing but train all day long. That way, when the hippie elves or the filthy gobs attack, you can just send them out there to fight them, that way, you could also end up freeing up some space, and wasting less of the kingdom's precious food!"
**TheRoyalOtt3r:** "Make the prisoners work in deep, dark mines. Don't let them drink too much. Food is for those who deserve it (they are in Alcatraz, they DON'T) Beds are overrated. So is sleep. The surviving inmates will burn their brothers in the magma. Rinse and repeat."
**Supernamekianpenis:** "Force prisoners to make stone arts and crafts, and sell the poor quality ones to the elves. Or cut down trees in a yard, sell it back to the hippies."
**TheRedScareDS:** "Stone mugs must be produced and sacrificed in the volcano to please Armok".
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*Prison Features:*
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**TMarkos:** "Your magma tube looks vaguely like Texas. You should undertake a project to make it look exactly like Texas."
**Snover_98:** "Make a fighting pit. A tourney against various beasts and enemies shall be held once a year."
**Anton2181:** "Centre their cells around a communal location and free them once every now and then to fight over a small pile of food". Derobos: "Add workshops to their cells so they can produce stuff while they're wasting away the kingdom's precious food and water. You could add something like an airlock, that way, your prison keepers can give them the materials and take out the output without them escaping."
**BlueChilli:** Solitary Confinement using Web spitters to trap a Dwarf assigned to a lever.
**Kiyanavasala:** "Make a tower out of cells, all with beautiful views of a world the prisoners within will never again enjoy."
**Cullpepper:** "Chicken farm. 50+ chickens in individuals rooms with doors. Each chicken chamber needs a water bucket."
**dm2oo56:** "Escaping Dwarven Bookkeeper, Broker + Stone Crafter" + "Recreate prison from Shawshank"
**XXXXYYYYY:** "Pacifier" System in each cell to neutralise uppity inmates allowing the cell to be re-used.
**Aj_The_Wanderer:** "Soap slip-n-slide above the volcanoe. Prisoners try to slip/slide to escape."
**nomequeeulembro:** "Make the prison in different levels, the deeper the level the harder the tortures".
**Barskie:** "Doomsday levers that send a segment of the prison crashing into the volcano.
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*Names:*
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*Staff:*
Prison Peacekeeper: Supernamekian
Prison Engineer: XXXXYYYY
Prison Engineer: Blue Chilli
Mason/Quartermaster: Urist "Darth" McVader
*Prisoners:*
Torvud Cornhammer
Kiyana Vasala
Da Durdle Dude
Sinakus
*Escapee:* Dmium (Awaiting Appropriate prisoner)
Vitellus
Bearskie - Insane Lava-drinker
Urist McLoveSyrup - Elf-loving Hippie traitor (Dead by Magma)
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*Warden Lineup:*
**Year 1:** Z'vut "Dread" Ironladles
**Year 2:** The Royal Ott3r
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**
Update**
Current Prisoner count: 7
Dead Prisoners: 1
Insane Prisoners: 0
Useless Children: 8 ಠ_ಠ
Times Peacekeeper owned by Honey Badger: 2
Current Game Date: 1st Granite 78th Year (Spring)
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End Update**
The Reddit Threads:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/3fc9w6/dwarven_alcatraz_run_by_the_people_of_the_internet/https://www.reddit.com/r/dwarffortress/comments/3foi5u/zulashnicat_the_painful_chains_dwarven_prison_run/
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