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[Myroc]

Good luck when someone falls. The bottom of the tower will turn red of blood.

Wait, they still fall?  I have never, ever seen a dwarf fall, and I've got some long-ass stairway shafts.  I was certain it wasn't still in.

I have heard they sometimes have a penchant to fall down up/down stairs when tripping. Could have gotten fixed however, i thought the problem was still there.

[0x517A5D]

Yah.  It's a 29-level ring stairway.  I thought it might be better for efficiency.

Good luck when someone falls. The bottom of the tower will turn red of blood.

Eleven years, no-one's fallen yet.  Not even when I deconstructed some stairs and the blocks fell all the way to the bottom, right past the worker who did the task.

[Rvlion]

This is my current standard layout for the bedrooms.
For the peasants it is 3*3 with 1 Bed, 1 Coffer and 1 Cabinet, in "blocks" of 5*2 rooms surrounded by 3-wide corridors.

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The Administrators and most nobles live in 9*9 combined quarters (bedroom/office/dining room) with 1 bed, 1 table and 1 throne and all other junk they might want.

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Have not been allowed to have the King arrive, did notice a message in noble screen that he/she was due to arrive soon, but quit with the fortress before he/she arrived.
The highest noble I have had so far in a 140 dwarf fortress was a Baron which was promoted to Count 1 or 2 months after he arrived.
For the king I was thinking about a 13*13 Combined room or 3 seperate 9*9 rooms (or bigger depending on my mood)

I did notice some annoyance from all the Nobles for having a lesser room then my administrators, appearently their rooms were completely Obsidian and the rooms I gave the nobles were part Alunite.
I was actually tempted to relocate the DM to better quarters because he/she is the only usefull noble I met so far. The Baron/Count can stay in the Alunite room...

[Micro102]

I just hollowed out the top of my mountian for the king, When he arrives im gonna use all the platinum ive collected to make a full platinum room.....hope he likes platinum  .

However despite how long ive waited the seasons dont change....i have 10 FPS so how long will it take in real time for the seasons to change?

[EagleV]

I was bored, so i tried an inefficient yet FUN design.

On a collab fortress, my guy was called "Mudkip" for some reason. I promptly dug out an even more inefficient design.

[Duke 2.0]

Deze foto is enkel toegankelijk voor vrienden van VertigoEagle.

 But yes, the inefficient artsy ones are the best. I always imagine making a tower fortress of them by just repeating the general design over and over on new z-levels.

 My favorite appears to be missing from this thread. I shall have to research the amazing design it was.

[LegacyCWAL]

I think the more efficient ones are best, personally.  The more efficient the bedroom design, the less time the dwarves spend making and travelling to/from them and thus the more time they have to spend making giant statues that cry tears of magma.

[smjjames]

Good luck when someone falls. The bottom of the tower will turn red of blood.

Wait, they still fall?  I have never, ever seen a dwarf fall, and I've got some long-ass stairway shafts.  I was certain it wasn't still in.

I have heard they sometimes have a penchant to fall down up/down stairs when tripping. Could have gotten fixed however, i thought the problem was still there.

I think the falling down the stairs is fixed. However, it is still possible for dust from a cave in to knock a dwarf off the stairs and plummet. I had that happen once and I thought everybody was safe inside, but somehow cave-in dust (or maybe the minor quake as a result of it bieng a massive slab) caused one of my forgeworkers to fall 15 levels straight down the stairwell. He was a legendary metalcrafter at that.

[Rowanas]

I build rooms of 5x5 combined bed/table/chair rooms. Minor nobles and admins gets a 5x5 bedroom and a 5x5 office/dining room. major nobles get whatever they require.

The peasantry get their rooms laid out with a two or three wide hallways, one room on either side of the wallway with gaps in between

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.....etc

That way both sides get enravings and they all get a lot of room without taking up too much space. All rooms must be in flux.

[EagleV]

Deze foto is enkel toegankelijk voor vrienden van VertigoEagle.

I'm sorry, should be fixed by now, it was only the second one I hope?

[doctorspoof]

Dunnno if anyone else uses this or has posted it already:

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##### ###B##C# #H##
###H# #C###B D D B#
##B D D B###H# #C##
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# = wall
  = floor
D = door
C = chest
H = cabinet
B = Bed
Rinse and repeat.
The main part to pick out is the 1x5 corridors between the alternating 3x5 rooms. After that, just fit in the cross-shaped rooms where you can.

Efficient, fractal, lotsa walls for engraving, a door for every room. You can put the middle 1x3 of each 3x5 space as stairs, or a statue in the centre, or whatever.

I find its both easy to designate (after awhile of getting used to it), space-saving, and quite pretty when it's all smoothed. If i knew how, i'd get a screenie up of my current fort's room system, but i don't.

Will if someone shows me though

[Criptfeind]

I use ether a diamond or a circle.

The empty spot in the circle can be used a dining room. Or you can add more rooms. And still have plenty of room for dining.

 Alternately you can use the circle for workshops and stockpiles.

Blue=stair

[Sizik]

Here's an interesting one I came up with:

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+: door
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Just repeatedly tile it for as many rooms as you need

[Rockphed]

Here's an interesting one I came up with:

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+: door
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Just repeatedly tile it for as many rooms as you need

Just so you know, doors need to be next to a wall, so that wouldn't work as advertised.

[Sizik]

Here's an interesting one I came up with:

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+: door
.: floor

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+...
+...
+...
Just repeatedly tile it for as many rooms as you need

Just so you know, doors need to be next to a wall, so that wouldn't work as advertised.

You can place a door nekx to a constructed wall, then remove the wall, and the door will stay up.

Or, build it like this:

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+: door
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