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[Archonex]

I actually did something like this a long time ago.  Apparently, in the build I had, if you dug out the top of a mined out cavern and exposed it to sun then grass could grow there. 

The catch was was that I was in an arctic/glacier environment where it was physically impossible for "green" terrain to grow outside.  I ended up deconstructing and reconstructing a massive portion of the mountain out of ice blocks and having a "biodome" in the middle of the arctic wastes that looked like I was in a temperate or tropical environment, albeit with some areas being snowy, grass covered areas too, due to snowfall covering the grass before I could construct the ceiling.  I imagine the place looked like something out of a James Bond movie.


Ironically, it's now an underwater indoors biodome filled with greenery now, too, since I really screwed the pooch on my water pumping idea.  So there's an indoor lake littered with the skeletons of drowned dwarves in the mountain now.

[Yuu_Inohara]

I actually did something like this a long time ago.  Apparently, in the build I had, if you dug out the top of a mined out cavern and exposed it to sun then grass could grow there. 

The catch was was that I was in an arctic/glacier environment where it was physically impossible for "green" terrain to grow outside.  I ended up deconstructing and reconstructing a massive portion of the mountain out of ice blocks and having a "biodome" in the middle of the arctic wastes that looked like I was in a temperate or tropical environment, albeit with some areas being snowy, grass covered areas too, due to snowfall covering the grass before I could construct the ceiling.  I imagine the place looked like something out of a James Bond movie.


Ironically, it's now an underwater indoors biodome filled with greenery now, too, since I really screwed the pooch on my water pumping idea.  So there's an indoor lake littered with the skeletons of drowned dwarves in the mountain now.

Wow, thats pretty sweet.

Anyway, attempt 1, failure, I managed to make a shelter fort as I carved out the inside, and then hit a point where I ran out of drink... And I had been hoping to find the level with the aquifer on it by now, no such luck, though, the ensuing tantrum spiral seems to have gotten its own engraving

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Fortess Overview, pardon the crappy camera work.
http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-1255-mountaincityattempt1

at the time of the recording about half the dwarves were insane and beating each other to death with their own pants, and half dying of thirst

[Hoborobo234]

I make a mountain within a mountain. I use it for training. I will make a fort then when i get bored i will make an 'arena' that is craved inside the ground witch looks like a mountain. I use it for military and leisure uses.