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[Jude]

So I got this sweet embark location. The only wildlife is modded dinosaurs which are big enough to kick the shit out of any of my dwarves that try to hunt them as of yet, and the odd rhesus macaque. Somewhere in the depths of the earth there is a cave river, either a chasm or pit, and either a magma pipe or pool.

I want to start building mainly aboveground, and get some sweet architecture going. I was hoping you guys would have some cool pictures of real or imaginary castles/fortresses to inspire me. Also, I'm uploading three pics of the landscape to help you visualize.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/JudeTheHippy/df1.jpg
This mountainside you're looking at is where I want to put a grand entrance hall. I'm hoping for statues on top of it overlooking the plain, a big ramp and bridge combo going up to the entrance and a several z-level high gate. Inside I'll probably have catwalks for marksdwarves. The partly built square structure there is my tomb building in progress; it will also be a tower eventually.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/JudeTheHippy/df2.jpg

This is looking up at where the main entrance will be, from roughly where caravans appear at.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v145/JudeTheHippy/df3.jpg

This is another view of the same mountainside from a different angle (the mausoleum building is there for reference)

So...what ideas or pictures do you have? Right now I'm thinking of having a bunch of big towers sticking up for various industries (masons' shops in one, with a stone pile in the basement, another for carpenters, etc.) with various battlements and walkways connecting them. What else could I do?

[andrea]

a fountain maybe?

[varkarrus]

That is epic. You earned a cookie.

[Shurikane]

Great Wall of China.

Build a "wall" fortress that spans from one end of the map to another.  You must even cheat the system by building drawbridges at the ends and raising them.

[LegoLord]

Make that fountain a Magma fountain.  Build a contraption that will freeze enemies in obsidian.  Or any thing else you can think of that uses magma.  OOO!  NEW IDEA!!  Build a wall out of raised drawbridges, three tiles thick with a space in between bridges.  Fill it with magma.  When a megabeast comes, it will break a wall and unleash an unstoppable flow of LAVA!!!!!!!!!!!! Btw, if the magma showed up as a double tilde, then you have a magma pipe.

Boy I love magma.

[Hague]

Based on that design, I'd say that you use the pumping tower to generate pressure which flows down through an underground tunnel and back up through the fountain?

[Warlord255]

When I don't have a wall to back into, I usually do crazy circular-plan towers.

What I'd do is find a nice flat space, dig a crater and build in the middle.

[Lord Dullard]

Huh.. that's a very interesting fountain design. I never would have thought to generate pressure that way. Bravo!

[makute]

BTW, what software do you use for that 3D shots?

[Samyotix]

Haven't used it myself yet but I think it is this one:
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Utilities#3Dwarf_Visualizer

[Duke 2.0]

 Domes.

 Everywhere.

 Out of space for domes? Build more domes on top of the old domes. There shall be no space left with no domes!

[andrea]

Based on that design, I'd say that you use the pumping tower to generate pressure which flows down through an underground tunnel and back up through the fountain?

yes, that. the pump tower is divided in 2 parts, in one there are pumps to take water up, the other is a 1 tile wide tunnel that goes all the way down to the bottom of the fountain and connect to the central hole that takes the water up again.

it makes a lot of mist.

[Onlyhestands]

 Domes.

 Everywhere.

 Out of space for domes? Build more domes on top of the old domes. There shall be no space left with no domes!

Necromunda Fortress GO!

[Suds Zimmerman]

 Domes.

 Everywhere.

 Out of space for domes? Build more domes on top of the old domes. There shall be no space left with no domes!

Necromunda Fortress GO!

I'd be making a hive fortress right now if I had the time to burn.

[Jude]

I'm not sure how you'd make a dome in DF, actually.

I think I'm going to stick with pyramids and pointy roofs.