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[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

Flarechannel = Copperblazes 3D

I second this!

[Lord Dakoth]

Wow. This is just amazing. I never thought that anyone could stick with one fort for so long. Your dedication is inspiring.

Hey, you're from Tucson? Me too! It's cool to think that there is such an awesome DF fan is within 25 miles of me. You go to the U of A?

[Zruku]

Would you mid posting the worldgen parameters? Seems like a very nice place to embark.

[QuantumSawdust]

I would be happy too. The site has HFS and a second bottomless pit I haven't uncovered yet. Contact with 2 elves (argg), goblin, and human. However, as of earlier this afternoon, my computer is completely dead, which means until I replace the parts there isn't much I can do.

Hey, you're from Tucson? Me too! It's cool to think that there is such an awesome DF fan is within 25 miles of me. You go to the U of A?

Yeah, going to the U of A until December, or maybe May. Depending on if I can get a job. You going to / considering it?
I know a few other Tucson DF players - maybe if we get some more coming fourth from the forums a Tucson meet-up will be in order.

[Asehujiko]

Does the corpse built into the walls have a name?

[Alex Encandar]

Wow. This is just amazing. I never thought that anyone could stick with one fort for so long. Your dedication is inspiring.

Hey, you're from Tucson? Me too! It's cool to think that there is such an awesome DF fan is within 25 miles of me. You go to the U of A?

The amount of AZ dwarfers is just creepy.

Raised in Prescott, going to NAU right now.

[Jude]

Well, I didn't think DF was a game that could be won, but you just won it.

I can't even dream of doing something that epic, partly for lack of dedication and partly because my computer would plummet to 2-3 FPS wayyyyyyy before I manage to get even a third of a project that size done.

Also, I remember seeing it in the visual fortress thread and the Temple of Armok was under construction. I thought you were going to add a dome? Did you just scrap that idea? I'd really like to see a dome, although designating and building it would be incredibly tedious and I'm not sure how it would look in VF.

Either way, that's still officially the most awesome thing ever done in DF. It needs to be chronicled in the history books along with Boatmurdered and all the rest. Did you keep track of any other interesting stories that happened along the way?

[Lord Dakoth]

Yeah, going to the U of A until December, or maybe May. Depending on if I can get a job. You going to / considering it?
I know a few other Tucson DF players - maybe if we get some more coming fourth from the forums a Tucson meet-up will be in order.

Maybe. The U of A isn't on (or near) the top of my list, but it's still a possibility. I applied a while ago and was accepted, but I still don't feel incredibly enthusiastic about going there. My goals lie out of state, but if money turns out to be an issue I'll probably go to NAU instead. Or Pima. *shudders*

A Tucson dwarf meeting would be nothing short of awesome. I would want to show up, but it would depend on how permissive my homework schedule was. PM me if you decide to organize something like that.

[Alex Encandar]

Yeah, going to the U of A until December, or maybe May. Depending on if I can get a job. You going to / considering it?
I know a few other Tucson DF players - maybe if we get some more coming fourth from the forums a Tucson meet-up will be in order.

Maybe. The U of A isn't on (or near) the top of my list, but it's still a possibility. I applied a while ago and was accepted, but I still don't feel incredibly enthusiastic about going there. My goals lie out of state, but if money turns out to be an issue I'll probably go to NAU instead. Or Pima. *shudders*

A Tucson dwarf meeting would be nothing short of awesome. I would want to show up, but it would depend on how permissive my homework schedule was. PM me if you decide to organize something like that.

That would be awesome. I would show up if I could. But it would have to be

NAU's pretty awesome so far.

[QuantumSawdust]

I scrapped the dome idea because of the sheer amount of stones required. I'm still letting the fortress run through some stuff, so if I end up mining enough gold I may be able to post the 3-D version. It probably won't be a full dome, but the sun, rays, and planets will be domed. I may add the skeleton of a dome in some sense, if I think it won't detract from the view of the sun mosaic, which is iffy.

Also, I second NAU as a pretty swell place. Much better city than Tucson, if you don't mind the cold. I've lived in both, and have hugely fond childhood memories of Flagstaff. Ahhhh, sentimentality.

[hitto]

Your fortress is awesome... I eagerly wait for your savegame! 

[Alrenous]

Also, the giant eagle on top of the glass dome was completely unrestrained, no rope or chain. He would occasionally move a few blocks, but always returned to the center.

There was thread I recently read about draining the ocean to trap some walruses, which occurred because the walrus family found their way to the bottom of the sea and stayed there. It sounds like the eagle is running the same code, but standing in the highest place instead of the lowest. (Local maxima, at least.)

The rest I don't know anything about, though.

[Doomshifter]

Also, the giant eagle on top of the glass dome was completely unrestrained, no rope or chain. He would occasionally move a few blocks, but always returned to the center.

There was thread I recently read about draining the ocean to trap some walruses, which occurred because the walrus family found their way to the bottom of the sea and stayed there. It sounds like the eagle is running the same code, but standing in the highest place instead of the lowest. (Local maxima, at least.)

The rest I don't know anything about, though.

I think that creatures and even dwarves like to stick around places that they spend a lot of time at, unless they have to be somewhere else.

[Mraedis]

This fortress is awesome, there just is no other word for it. 

I'm going to try to build something remotely similar, as in a giant city on two mountains and a lake.

[QuantumSawdust]

Why hello there thread bump!
Guess it's time to offload some updates.

First off, thanks for the posts everyone, and definitely try to make something amazing yourself. Many parts of my fort are directly inspired by the fortresses of others from DFMA and the old 3-D thread, so if I can pass on that inspiration then I suppose that's kinda some sort of awesome Dwarf Fortress evolution or something.

So, first for stats!
Year: 538 (237)

Stone blocks: 260,000

Artifacts: 123 - so it turns out that my strange moods had NOT been bugged. The way it works is that in order to satisfy one of the requirements for strange mood, you have to reveal tiles through mining. However, this does not work on tiles within game squares that start partially revealed (game squares being the 48x48 breakdown of the playing area). So this means that if you spend your time mining out mountain tops (which, in Flarechannel, start with part of their 48x48 square revealed), then that mining does not count toward strange mood requirements. Once I started digging underground again, strange moods have returned (over 100 year lapse) without pause.

Children
Duchess - Kel Regabod with 31 children so far
Second place - Zasit Bomrekmemad with 27 children

Kills
Muthkat Dostobled Eshom Nin - Died of old age with 409 notable kills, including two dragons and two titans.
Second place - Ducim Zoluthdumat Zonendok Shizek with 342 notable kills, including 2 dragons, still alive


Pictures!
Duchess

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The kids tend to follow her around in packs of 2-4, sometimes breaking off to get drinks together, or go eat. I guess she teaches them not to travel anywhere alone, which is odd since the inside of the fortress is ridiculously safe. Although the Baroness has lost a handful of children to goblin thieves when she's gone outside the walls, so maybe that has made her a bit overprotective. Lucky for everyone else, her massive child army has supplied great Dwarves, seeing as how no dwarf has migrated to Flarechannel for 200 or so years (save for the occasional nobel).

Fortress wealth

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The wealth of Flarechannel has almost doubled since I've trained up a legendary Armorer, Weaponsmith, Metalsmith, and Blacksmith. The decoration quarters of the fortress are a few years from completion, and I have a large number of masterwork armor, weapons, statues, doors, tables, chairs, etc. to start encrusting with the thousands of gems, metals, and bones I have stocked up. Since I have started saving all the bones from goblin and elf attacks, I have something like 15,000 bones stored up to decorate with. Many will go do litter the catacombs with, but the rest will adorn the fortress as decorations.

Close to completion Decoration Tower/Magma-Water Tower, and Spa.

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The only major upgrade above ground. The tower on the left carries magma and water up, and the top will house all the workshops for a decoration industry. It will also carry magma to the magma tank, which carries magma through the outer wall of Flarechannel which can be dumped out to flood the plain below. The Spa (on the right, above the Meeting Chamber) has a pool of magma sitting beneath a flood-chamber, which will be used to train my dwarves to swim. Seeing has how falling into pools of water has claimed more lives than all invasions combined, I think it's about time. Only have to finish the flood chamber before it'll be in use.

The first 20% of the Catacombs

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Top layer underneath Flarechannel.


Most recent layer, the walls will be mostly vertical from this point downward. Also, if you notice there appears to be an upcoming release of HFS. That'll be fun.


3-D view of part of the catacombs.


Another part of the catacombs.


Eventually once I dig down to the lowest z-level, I'll build back up a wondrous necropolis inside, leaving an immensely vast chamber of magma pools and tombs, including the entrance to the lowest underground sections of Flarechannel in case of surface disaster, and the Temple to the Minor Gods, or 'Moon Temple', which will compliment the Temple to Armok, or 'Sun Temple' that lies above ground.
This is the top of the Moon Temple (though this diagram can not be seen by Dwarves). The temple itself will be almost an exact match to the Sun Temple, but the Temple to Armok portion will be replaced with 8 temples for each of the minor gods in the lore of Flarechannel.

There is still a fair chance I will finish the current aspirations of Flarechannel, since in the one and a half months since the last update I've gotten about 20-25% done with the current project. But it's not looking as gloomy as it used to, and generally it's remained pretty fun to work on this as it doesn't take up near as much time as it used to. The framerate of 5-6 when I start digging has pretty much forced me to let DF run without interference for long periods of time, so now I spend most of my time just unpausing the occasional auto-pause while doing other stuff.