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[Magua]

Yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking.  "Oooh, someone made an obsidian monolith.  Big deal."  Well, see, it is a big deal.  Or, at least, it's big.

The mold:

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The mold is 70x41.  Including the bridges, which aren't shown in the 3dwarf screenshot, that were used to scaffold the mold, ~6500 stone were used for the mold and the scaffolding. 

The tower in the middle of the mold has a set of magma pumps, and a set of water pumps -- I really like the idea of my monolith having indoor plumbing available on every level if I need it.  The secondary tower in the distance is almost directly on top of the volcano, and supplies more lava -- tests showed that the magma pumps in the tower inside the mold was too far from the volcano to pump lava fast enough.

The strange "arms" on the interior tower are to provide support for the retracting bridges that weren't adjacent to a wall, so they didn't fall when the whole thing retracted.

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The filling.   In a needlessly dwarfy complication, I built retracting bridges at the very top of the map to hold water, which is why it looks like there's a ceiling -- that's all the water waiting to be dropped.  Turns out that would crash DF when the retracting bridges would reset.  So I dropped the retracting bridges down a level, which works fine. 

The big problem with the filling was the magma.  Drained the volcano doing this.  Twice.  And that was just filling a layer with 2/7 magma before dropping the water on it.  Took *years*.

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Done!  This is in the process of removing the mold.  The finished product is 68x39x23.  That's 60,996 tiles worth of obsidian.  Now, the indoor plumbing pipe is 690 of those tiles, so if you were to dig this thing out top to bottom, you'd only get a maximum of 60,306 obsidian. 

Now, the question becomes, what to do with it?  To be honest, I hadn't planned that far.  I'm thinking of abandoning, and starting a community fort based on new dwarves coming in and finding this...structure...that speaks to them, at night, in their dreams...

[Boogerman]

That thing is immense!
I, for one, definitely want to see what you do with this.

[i are not good with compu]

Wow.

A community fort or something along that lines is a must, simply so we can see the building (shaping?) in progress. 

[Jay]

Wow.

A community fort or something along that lines is a must, simply so we can see the building (shaping?) in progress. 

Uh..  What?
You already did.
It's already built.

[i are not good with compu]

Wow.

A community fort or something along that lines is a must, simply so we can see the building (shaping?) in progress. 

Uh..  What?
You already did.
It's already built.

Hence "(shaping?)"

Like he said, the next step is what to do with it.

[Jay]

Wow.

A community fort or something along that lines is a must, simply so we can see the building (shaping?) in progress. 

Uh..  What?
You already did.
It's already built.

Hence "(shaping?)"

Like he said, the next step is what to do with it.

...

we can see the building (shaping?) in progress.

Uh..  What?
You already did.
It's already built.

If you're talking about CARVING...
You don't shape stuff that's rock.
Too hard.

[i are not good with compu]

Edit: Also, this quote pyramid is too big.  Detracts from the thread.

[Jay]

Making use of it is just that -- making use of it.
Building refers to construction, which is what we've already seen.
Carving refers to cutting away, obviously, which is what you seem to be referring to.
Shaping refers to modelling, like clay, which cannot be done with a rigid substance like stone.

Semantics or not, it's best to say stuff so that it isn't misinterpreted.

[i are not good with compu]

Stuff

Gonna go shape some stone and you can't stop me.
Nyah nyah nyah.

But seriously... Whatever.  Let that be the end of it, because this topic shouldn't be derailed in the first three posts over something that doesn't matter.

[Squeegy]

trolling

Go argue about something actually worth arguing about.

[sonerohi]

Like the most effective way of slaughtering goblins and kittens.

Anyways, on topic actually, that thing looks sweet. I think you should make the smallest fort possible that would still encompass that magma pipe and the cube, and make the best damn fort you ever did see. Make it like a goblin tower, but better.

Dwarves: Saying fuck you world, we do everything best, including physics! Since Toady made them.

[Idiom]

For the love of Armok! Save the game and upload!

[Teeto_K]

I look forward to seeing what is welded out of this edifice of gems.

While my computer is probably too wimpy, and schedule too full to participate in a community fort, I'd certainly love reading about it. My largest fort so far doesn't hardly span 10 floors, and having 23 to work with is just too manly to let it go to waste!

[Aqizzar]

Indeed, you simply must turn the whole dang thing into an efficient, preplanned fort.  Documenting it as a community game would be great.

[Jay]

I look forward to seeing what is welded out of this edifice of gems.

While my computer is probably too wimpy, and schedule too full to participate in a community fort, I'd certainly love reading about it. My largest fort so far doesn't hardly span 10 floors, and having 23 to work with is just too manly to let it go to waste!

For the record, all maps have at least 30 z layers.
I'm fairly certain your computer could run it if you tried.
I make my forts with as few z's as possible.
Most I've ever completely used in a single fort: 2.
And this is on a 2x2 map.