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[monk12]

Its an Isolation Chamber. Seal the Philosopher in because it gives him a chance to meditate, or seal the Hammerer in because nobody likes the Hammerer. 

[expwnent]

You could give him a small farm plot and let him feed himself, but that might defeat the purpose.

[Ubiq]

Put a chair in the room with that dwarf, designate it as an office, and make him the Manager and Bookkeeper.

[Lost Requiem]

Put a chair in the room with that dwarf, designate it as an office, and make him the Manager and Bookkeeper.

the ultimate internship, eh?

[MoonLightBird]

You should make a tower for any gabbos you cage. But make the tower so you can drop the whole thing in to the water. Lots of work for a drowning chamber...but thats the dwarf way! Bonus points if on the top floor of the tower is your nobles rooms!

[Lost Requiem]

Have you read the rest of the thread? I have special accommodations for the nobles in a tower made out of 100% pearlash. I've already thought of an appropriate death for them, too.

This project has turned into something bigger than I foresaw, which is a rarity (the foresight part). I'm into my fortress's 6th year now. This last winter was a bust because of a siege. The dwarves spent half of the winter gathering goods from the gobs' corpses. No dwarves were lost in the debacle, but my axeman did sustain an arm injury and walked himself back to his wife's bed to rest. At the same time, an elven diplomat came to my fortress (5 dwarfbucks if you can guess what I answered), and ironically, my axeman is a woodcutter.

I reshaped the Noble Tower and opted to use 100% pearlash for both the walls and floors. Make it extra expensive for the nobles. I'm also using Diorite for the 2nd floors of the residential district, and in between them will be a path up to the east that will be the Barracks. As I make the 2nd floor, the first residents into the megastructure are slowly being moved in. First will come the beds, then cabinets and finally chests. Once I expand the basement to fill the entire bottom of the first floor of the main fortress, I will start punching out holes to put in walls and other things. I will also maybe make a few special pictures. Here's an example of one I made last night.

[Canadark]

Well done sir *bows*

[monk12]

Ok thats just awesome. You win.

[hexedmagica]

Heh. Coolface picture. Win.

[jokermatt999]

Ok thats just awesome. You win.

Why yes, it is :awesome:. :smug:

[Lost Requiem]

Alright, next update.

7th year is about to start. My axedwarf is almost fully healed now and was able to survive the one month freeze (since water can't be brought to him since it's all frozen and I lack a reservoir); thank Armok for Superdwarvenly Toughness. This freeze was spent fixing some issue in the basement. From what I witnessed, an ice floor that is covered in water by even 1/7 will disappear if the water freezes. *That explains that collapse during the defrost last year* Now I'm setting up floodgates and doors to help stop flows into rooms that are completed from rooms that are incomplete.

In preparations for future sieges against goblins and possibly elves, I am remaking the entrances to my base. Going off of <name>'s idea, I made a ramp going up to a second floor that goes down a long pathway with retracting bridges in a 7x40 dimension. A siege comes in, I pull the lever, the enemy forces fall into the pit of doom underneath. The pit is lined with glass spike traps. I'll see if I can make enough spikes to put 10 on each trap. That's an assload of spikes. 7x50x10 = 3500 spikes.

[Lost Requiem]

Another update. The 7th winter was another big bust because of another siege of 80 gobs. 22 of them survived due to my two dwarves mucking about and my own personal error of not making the lever for the pit of doom.

One cool thing, however, did occur. During the siege, my axedwarf (who I nicknamed Butcher Pete for obvious reasons) entered a martial trance and ran right into a fresh squad of gob pikemen and axemen. All you could see is him run into the midst of them, then dance around them and suddenly the entire wall and floor is sprayed with fresh coats of blood and limbs flying around all over the place. It... it was beautiful.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKqACfSpozU&feature=related
Imagine the Gray Fox scene with more beards.

I finished establishing my first real basement which is now being used to store more equipment. the 2nd floor of the south residential zone has been finished and can accomodate 120 dwarves. all I have to do now is move furniture in and make the roof out of granite and my dwarves will now have their own rooms. In case you weren't keeping track, I am now into my 8th year.

In the spring during an Elf merchant and Diplomat visit, I had yet another siege. Now with another
marksdwarf to help the fight, I was able to kill all but two of the 60 gobs that besieged me. All because of a cat, two gobs escaped. Now with the Elves and gobs out of the way, I can continue the fortress.

[Lost Requiem]

Update! Finally, Visual Fortress is working for me again. Here's a longview of the whole fortress above water.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

South: Entrance to the Fortress. Two bridges leading into the fortress will soon become one. The ramp up goes over the pit of doom with 4 7x10 retracting bridges built over it. Past that is another set of traps just in case. From there is leads into the main fortress and the underground outpost. Workshops are built above, as well as a few built underground in case I need to recall all dwarves to the interior, but with tightened security, this is very rare. Crops are grown in the west end of grass patch. There is also a windmill powered Millstone in this area.

Center East: The main fortress. Currently the stockpile for all my blocks and bars, once I erect walls, it will be the location of stockpiles and workshops. The dining hall will also be here. Built into the floors and walls will be my own images. I've already picked the images I'll be making into it. This is where the dining hall will also be found, located probably on the second or third floor, next to the food stockpile.

Center South East: The trade depot.

Far East: An experiment of mine. I'll be creating a mist-generating tower and learning how the screw pumps work when moving water up multiple Z-levels.

Center West: The residential district. Only the Southern Tower has been successfully built. one floor on one tower can house 60 dwarves. Once the North Tower has been built, the district will be able to house 240 dwarves, more than I'll ever have.

Far West: The Noble Tower. It will be made entirely out of Pearlash. One Noble will be assigned to each floor, save for the first, which will be decorated with masterpiece whathaveyou.

Unfinished areas: Just to add character to the fortress, I'll add in random towers at my own discretion.

Planned areas: The castle will be built somewhere supported by VERY high walls, and will probably be the tallest place in the fortress. This will house the King once he arrives. The barracks will be built between the main fortress and the residential district and will be 'floating' around the crossroads. This will enable them to be easily able to respond to a siege without having to run to the other side and grab more equipment during the time they're supposed to be killing.

[monk12]

Beautiful. Sexy, even.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Just out of curiosity, can you farm on the lake-top fort?

Because I tried a similar idea on the ocean, and "there are no seeds available for this location" starved my fort to death. Which was absolute BS, because the elves had actually brought useful stuff (sun berries, two bags of sun berry seeds, two bags of whip vine seeds, fisher berries (and seeds), and rope reed seeds, in addition to their usual junk, plus two no-quality wooden short swords and a no-quality spear)