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[Kyubee]

what is your favorite pointless thing youve had your dwarves do? Me? I've never had a fort live stably enough for me to consider it. nobodys good at anything and they always die because fish are extinct for some reason

[Ironfang]

I am currently making a tower out of dog soap, like the days of old.

Just dog soap, no other kind of soap

[TheFlame52]

In Doomforests I built two huge brass towers in front of the fortress. I also built a huge pixel art of my personal symbol out front.

In Murderflood I built another huge brass tower over the depot, which took over 3000 brass bars.

I like brass.

[slashnul]

Im working on making Orthanc, Saruman's tower from LOTR.  Its going slow... Im in a reanimating biome, but the scorched earth landscape adds to the theme.  The tower was described to be made of black stone.  Would obsidian be the most fitting stone to use?

[Ironfang]

Of course

Anything but obsidian would be shameful.

[MehMuffin]

It would need to be cast obsidian, ofc.

[EuphoriaToRegret]

I've always been a huge fan of building a ridiculous over-sized keep on the surface of the world.

I've especially become interested in building a fully fledged town for humans, elves, goblins and such who decide to live as citizens in buildings surrounding the outside of the keep.

[Derro]

I dug a hole, but left a pillar in the middle. The hole got deep, and the pillar got tall.

While my dwarves dug, I added all sorts of interesting features. The top of the pillar was connected to the world proper with a drawbridge and a stone tower was built on it. A massive dining room around the whole pit was made, with glass windows allowing dwarves to look outside. Large living districts were built: it was beautiful. There was very little in ways of transportations between levels; the central staircase through the pillar was the favored way.

Then I tried to ward off an attack and discovered all my guards had gotten cave-adapted. Yay.

[onciblu]

I am currently having lots of fun with above ground forts

[Kyubee]

I'm considering making a massive South-American inspired jungle fort with my modded kobold race now. Anyone have any tips?

[Derro]

I'm considering making a massive South-American inspired jungle fort with my modded kobold race now. Anyone have any tips?

Giant pyramid of blood sacrifices seems a natural fit.

Also, once you get a jaguar man resident/captive, worship them as a god.

[Ironfang]

I'm considering making a massive South-American inspired jungle fort with my modded kobold race now. Anyone have any tips?

Giant pyramid of blood sacrifices seems a natural fit.

Also, once you get a jaguar man resident/captive, worship them as a god.

Make your kobolds carve a lot of suns too. Have your soldiers wear cottons vests, obsidian short swords, and leather armor made from the skins of your sacrifices.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

The most time consuming project is removing floors over a lake, believe or not, I have to remove them bit by bit, otherwise accidents just happen, and I hate to have items/corpses under the water.

[Immortal-D]

Really depends on the site.  Although this is less of a Megaproject and more of a challenge, I'm fond of building a Fortress entirely within the Caverns.  No prep time or other setup, just dig straight into Cavern 1 and survive.

[TheFlame52]

I forgot my best and most famous megaproject! In Bastiongate I built a wall around hell. Then I floored over the pits. Then I flooded the place to the ceiling with water from the third cavern. Then I drained the whole thing, uncovered the pits (for ambience) and modded blood thorns to grow in hell.

And grow they did. With sheer dwarven might and ingenuity I turned hell into the fourth cavern. Dwarves could walk there safe from all harm. I even built a GCS-based webbing trap into the wall so I could catch demons. I made a demon ranching operation!

The most time consuming project is removing floors over a lake, believe or not, I have to remove them bit by bit, otherwise accidents just happen, and I hate to have items/corpses under the water.

The hardest part of the hell wall was taking down the scaffolding. If anyone slipped they went splat on slade floors. I lost three workers that way, and even the luckiest worker had five or six pages of medical treatment.