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[Retro]

Let's dust this thread off, shall we?

I've completed the next couple years of work on Undergrotto. I avoided taking any old shots again, but here's the old quote from earlier in the thread with the last set of images:

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The park (muddy plateau), the beach by the lake, a pool, and the trade depot post.


The social sector: The lighthouse, mayor's manor (unfinished), tavern, and glass 'food pyramid' leading down to the glass dining pod over the lake.


Engineering, including the head engineer's aquarium office.


A nice slope leading up to the plateau where the jail will eventually be. Also an overhang.


The magma caldera. The cave there goes down to the DM's dungeon (seen in the last screenshot).


Part of the industrial plaza.


The very plain shrine to Armok out in the middle of the lake.


The graveyard + undertaker's shack. Every dwarf gets a mound, and a statue for a headstone if it's occupied.


Mountaingate, the hollow mountain that serves as the decorative main gate. The current bridge system is temporary.


The DM's dungeon under the magma caldera.

The newer stuff:

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The ship, made solely out of wood. Currently mast-less and rather sparse in terms of furnishings. I added a gear assembly for a steering wheel.



A somewhat messy composite image of the underground palace I'm working on. It's going to be nearly entirely in iron when complete (exceptions being other metals and glass) as well as being 5 to 6z high. The green glass thing there is going to be a hot tub (it's over a magma basin), with nobles operating the levers to turn the gear assemblies/jets. The five-pointed gold star is the symbole of my civilization.


Mountaingate, the creatively-named mountain gate that is the very beginning of the fort's long and winding entrance, now has an ice arch / bridge to house the military and a pool within it.



I fixed up the mayoral manor a bit, so it looks more like an actual manor. Seems a bit of a waste with all the colours looking the same here, though.



In my quote above, remember where I posted "a nice slope leading up to the plateau where the jail will eventually be"? Well, here's our jail. Four floors, each 2z high, and a roof with a tower. Has offices for all the fortress guard and 12 nice jails.




...But the jail also has a sinister side: Underneath lies the Hammerer's dungeon, with caged prisoners trapped on rocky posts all around him as he quietly works in the darkness.


Engineering has added three more offices, though the chief engineer's aquarium office is still the most impressive.


The top of the drop tower (and accompanying access tower). It stands high above the mountains, centered around a 91z drop into the grotto. Goblins await within the tower for their turn, windows showing the landscape far below. Eventually they will fall and land smack-dab in the center of the shrine to Armok, turning the pool of water to blood.



The trade depot got an upgrade, too-- I call it the cage. Appropriate since all the humans and elves who've arrived have been sealed away and captured. It's all copper, and the depot's black bronze.


Finally, a bit of the stalactite housing I tried to show before. Turning off black space helped.

[Buddybud]

holy crap that is amazing.... you really show the benefit's of stonesense as a visualizer, even if just for screenshots. My dwarfs are gonna revolt if they catch wind of such a homestead.  I myself am quite humbled.

You should change your name from Retro to "Fucking Awesome" 

cheers, you deserve it!

Bud

[Moontayle]

I humbly salute your dwarfiness, sir.

[Hippoman]

I humbly salute your dwarfiness, sir.

couldn't have said it better.

[Micro102]

will this stonesense be compatible with the newest version?

[Sukasa]

Probably not for a while, since usually after a first release, there are one or two bugfix releases right after, and after that, dfhack/stonesense have to be updated to work with the new versions.

[quinnr]

Those are the screenies I need to introduce DF to my internet friends. Thank you, good sir.

[Thorik]

Holy ****ing ****!!!  Is that a real functioning fortress?  All these screenies from page 1 to here, are those real functioning fortresses with like, food and stuff?  No cheats?  Started out at 7 dwarves?  holy shiz did you like, hollow out a freakin' mountain and build a city out of blocks or something!?  Do people really make forts like that?  damn!

[Asmodeous]

I believe the answer to all those questions is yes, Thorik, save for maybe the no cheats.

[Levi]

Let's dust this thread off, shall we?

I've completed the next couple years of work on Undergrotto. I avoided taking any old shots again, but here's the old quote from earlier in the thread with the last set of images:

Those are simply amazing.  Puts anything I've tried to shame.  Do you plan all those out from the start or do you randomly decide to work on whatever comes to mind?

[Retro]

I believe the answer to all those questions is yes, Thorik, save for maybe the no cheats.

Sort-of no cheats. I used a handful, but only for superficial purposes (ie. I accidentally destroyed some natural ramps and turned the newly built ones into natural ones for the benefit of visualizers). The sandy beach was a stretch, but I was a real-time month in by the time I realized I'd forgot to check for sand on embark (original plan was to collapse a surface sand layer down). I also use [SPEED:0], but only because the framerate's so appalling low that without it it's hard to tell if dwarves are moving or not - even with it, they still don't seem to move very fast.

Do you plan all those out from the start or do you randomly decide to work on whatever comes to mind?

I've been planning since the last week of October and playing it since November. I don't want to detail the process too much here since I'm I hope a week away from finishing the damned thing and I plan to make my own thread at that point. I feel bad enough for semi-hijacking this thread, anyhow >_>;

[Lagren]

My Legendary Dining Hall doesn't seem to fit. Ah well, it still looks cool.
Spoiler tagged for huge.

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In case you're wondering, yes, those are tombs in the pillars. I'm working on hollowing out the outside of them; eventually they'll be smoothed and engraved along their whole length and have water flowing down their sides.

[LoneJedi7]

Retro........i humbly salute you.
 you have hearby officially earned the title of Dwarfy.

[Heliomance]

I have one major problem with Stonesense. It makes everything look far too light and airy and happy for dwarf fortress. Armok would be ashamed

[buckets]

My Legendary Dining Hall doesn't seem to fit. Ah well, it still looks cool.
Spoiler tagged for huge.
*snip*
In case you're wondering, yes, those are tombs in the pillars. I'm working on hollowing out the outside of them; eventually they'll be smoothed and engraved along their whole length and have water flowing down their sides.

Woah, that's awesome. Also massive, what's your population?