I am currently trying to design an entire fort to upload into quickfort. My levels go like this:
- Maze with traps
- Barracks
- Tavern/food
- Wood industry
- Stone industry
- Furniture stockpile
- Cloth industry
- Soap/Hospital
- Finished Goods stockpile
- Meat/Leather
- Metal industy
- Farms (To set up a challenge and I don't like how dug out soil looks like)
- Water/Magma reservoir
- Cave outpost
Did I forgot anything? Also, where would you put places like nobles chambers, library or temple in my layout?
1. A 5-9 tile wide tunnel with traps and guard dogs and barracks (With quarters for military and a lever room) and ballista with the trade depot at the end with the finished goods stock pile surrounding it.
2. Non-specific industry/s with its own respective stock pile and quarters for the dwarves who work in said industry.
3. Non-specific industry/s with its own respective stock pile and quarters for the dwarves who work in said industry.
4. Non-specific industry/s with its own respective stock pile and quarters for the dwarves who work in said industry.
5. Non-specific industry/s with its own respective stock pile and quarters for the dwarves who work in said industry.
6. Non-specific industry/s with its own respective stock pile and quarters for the dwarves who work in said industry.
7. Lever-room, tavern, meeting hall, temples, crypt, museum, library, hospital, medical dwarf quarters, furniture stockpile, aqueduct (leading from aquifer, river or caverns), prison, colosseum, statue garden, and quarters for special dwarfs (Nobles, manager etc.)
8. Non-specific industry/s with its own respective stock pile and quarters for the dwarves who work in said industry.
What ever you want to do in caverns. EDIT: Set up farms and sheep and tanning and buthering in the caverns.
Before you can get lava furnaces just have regular furnaces for your metal industry a few levels above the magma level so later on you can upgrade you furnaces.
Between all the numbered layers have at least 3 blocks between them. Also if you want mine carts place everything with them in mind. So you have 4 wide corridors throughout the fort. Place and atom smasher on each floor to get rid of rocks and corpses and worn out items. Also place gates on each level to block stuff off.
EDIT: Also dont be afraid to be creative.
EDIT: I meant 3 layers between floors not 2.