In the far, cold south lies the fortress of Akrulakum,Tincaught in our language. It is a land of gentle hills, blessed with rich soil and vast reserves of iron, copper,coal and deeper down marble and gold. The fortress holds 143 residents, of which 35 are non-dwarves and 4 are dwarves from other civilisations. Its civilisation is struggling(there is no-monach, one of my founders was made queen but she was killed by zombies while out fishing), and a necromancer tower looms near, yet the fort prospers in the dawn of its 5th year.
The Fortress Entrance
Entering the fortress, there is a wide main entrance which can be easily walled off(as it is in the picture to prevent a goblin siege from charging in), as well as a long winding path lined with cage traps, which i built to capture my fortresses vast necromancer sieges. You can see the undead storied in a cage stockpile, as i have not yet thought of a way to dispose of them. The various gears you see at the bottom of the picture are transmitting the power from my vast wind-farm to my marble railroad. My Masons workshops can also be seen in the picture.
The Manufacturing Spire
Around my main stairwell though my soils layers is my farming, crafting, brewing, cloth-making, glass-making, soap-making and pretty much any industry not involving rock or metal. The level pictured is where my farming, brewing and clothes making is done.
The Industrial Heartland
This is the industrial heart of the fort. The fortresses abundant ores are smelted here using the fortress abundant coal, while the marble railway brings in marble from the depths 40z levels below, to be used as flux for the newly started steel-industry(There was no flux higher up). My Masons workshops can also be seen on this level, as can my hospital. The walled off bed in my hospital entombs are a dwarf bitten by a were-beast, while next to him sits my mayor, crippled after i ordered him to stand in front of a mine-cart after finding out he was a vampire
The Social Heartland
This the tavern, called "the tummy of home" it is getting fairly crowded with all the migrant performers i have let in(in the hope they will one day become citizens, allowing me to assign them labours, helping with my chronic manpower shortages due to my massive infrastructure projects). The bedrooms you see around are housing for non-citizens. In the future i plan to build a second, much larger tavern to cope with the overcrowding.
My Scholarly Wing
This is my library, "the creative sanctuary". It houses books brought by visiting scholars and bought from merchants, as well as those produced by local scholars(my scribes seem to lack the ability to copy, unfortunately). It is very popular with the general public, many of whom frequently read its various tomes.
Deep Housing
These are my dwarves Bedrooms, and this is my normal layout. I have another half-completed layer on the z level below just like this, and another one 2 z levels above which also contains my graveyard(which is fairly boring and functional). When my pump stack is finished(to bring water up from the caverns, as my river is frozen for half the year), i plan to engrave the walls of my bedrooms, but at present i do not have the manpower.
These various levels are all linked with a central 2x2 staircase, and a few smaller routes branch off and go far deeper as part of the creation of various large scale construction projects(at present a deep-railway and a pump-stack, but more will doubtless come)
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