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[Drug_unit]

Undergrotto, my still WIP giant open-air underground grotto. Currently about 25z high, and 100% dug out (nothing is actually built except seperate building within the cavern). Haven't had a chance to touch it since early December, but I've put about two months of work into it thus far and will probably need another one or two to realize all the projects I'd originally envisioned. Hopefully I'll be able to take some time off in February to get this done before the new release. Screenies are big, fyi.

In Visual Fortress:

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A shot from within the grotto, before the lake was filled.


The eagle-eye shot, also from before the lake was filled.


A view from 'outside' the walls, which includes the fun little tunnel down. Still from before the lake was filled.


Bird's eye with a full lake!


Shot from within the cavern, post-lake.


The hollow mountain I've named 'Mountaingate' that houses the bridge leading to the fort's entrance. It's one of those mini-spire mountains. Once I'm done with the project, there'll be a giant arch gate in front of the semi-circle opening there.

In Stonesense (yeah, I've posted these ones before, kinda old):

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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 again.


The DM's dungeon under the magma caldera.

Also, Untelligent, every time you post screenies of that fort I am impressed anew. Jesus, man.

Holy BUGGER that is AMAZING.

[Blargityblarg]

Untelligent, Quietust and Retro:

Morul H. Tapdancing Cattenmat, those are awesome.

[Shrike]

I ... uh... dug a large lake... and filled it. I've been waiting for the next release before I get really ambitious, but I've mostly got a problem of lacking imagination and driving too much for efficiency. It's hard to justify a sprawling living structure when you tend to do the bare minimum for commoners and stuff everything a noble demands into one room.  Need to work on that.

[darthbob88]

Never did much with mega constructions; only started playing in August and on a relatively old laptop, so I couldn't/wouldn't do much with enormous projects. Still, I've recently started a few. Haven't got any screenshots, but they're basic enough that descriptions should suffice.
First and simplest was a green glass pyramid, 10 on a side, topped with 4 exceptional glass statues. The intent was to use it as a burial chamber for the heroes of my fortress, though it could likely have held my entire fortress if necessary.
After completing that, I decided it was too close to my fort, and too small besides, and demolished it to reconstruct a new and larger version, still in green glass, and still capped with statues of dwarven heroes also in green glass. A pyramid 17 by 17 by 8 levels high in shining glass, capped with statues of the dwarven heroes Sankis, Morul, Ironblood, and Tholtig, and right smack in the path traders take to come in. I like to think it helped me get better trading terms by sheer intimidation value, though the carved facade of obsidian and marble, stretching for a mile in either direction, probably didn't hurt matters any.
Because even a pyramid that stretches above my fortress by 6 z-levels of vertiginous altitudinality is insufficiently awesome, I'm going to start magma casting for another project. Don't know exactly what it'll be, but most likely it'll become another pyramid for burying dwarven heroes. Once I get this magma casting business down, I can probably make each champion his own 5x5 pyramid for burial.

[M.R. Siegal]

I posted it before, my last megaproject was the Constructtargets Gem http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=38264.msg904145#msg904145

Currently working on a much larger project now.  Won't be finished before the next version I suppose, but I'm pot-committed now.  I intend to see it through.

[xdarkcodex]

Nice giant gem.

Has anyone filled a hollow mega structure with magma before?

[Kaiser Reinhard]

So far I have a magma cannon floating above my fort, I'm thinking of making it the yamato cannon of a gigantic Dorfen Battlecruiser.

[ungulateman]

I'm working on building a giant green glass tunnel to my fort. Made entirely out of windows.

Then, I'll put green glass enclosures with captured animals outside the tunnel, to spook the migrants coming in.

[Blargityblarg]

xdarkcodex: Quietust made a clear glass pyramid full o' magma, he linked to it earlier in the thread.

[Shrike]

I'm now imagining a megaproject... A clear glass "Teacup" with dwarves living in the walls, filled with magma, golden-rimmed. The magma pumps are in the handle. A saucer as well; it'd be faster to construct

A teacup because it would be more challenging to build than a mug or stein, especially if you get really fancy with the flutes and 'painting'.

It would be a perfect trap for elves, who'd come over expecting a tea party. And it would confuse the hell out of the orcs. "Rathar, what that?" "It... culture...?" "RUN 'WAY! RUN 'WAY!"

Hey, maybe I should mod in a quarry bush tea drink. Anyway... TO THE WORLD GENERATOR!

[Quietust]

Tea cups generally aren't made of clear glass, though - they're usually ceramic, so you should make it out of kaolinite, optionally decorated with microcline and orthoclase.

If you want to make something out of clear glass, do a wine glass and fill it with magma. Or, even better, make a martini glass and include a giant wooden toothpick with an olive (made from olivine, of course).

[Shrike]

Tea cups generally aren't made of clear glass, though - they're usually ceramic, so you should make it out of kaolinite, optionally decorated with microcline and orthoclase.

If you want to make something out of clear glass, do a wine glass and fill it with magma. Or, even better, make a martini glass and include a giant wooden toothpick with an olive (made from olivine, of course).

Yes, I was thinking that myself (as far as the clear glass is concerned). Wasn't sure if I could get enough material for a ceramic one, though. There are glass teacups, to be certain.

But I love the wineglass (with magma pouring from a green glass bottle, similar to  this) and martini glass ideas.

[xdarkcodex]

xdarkcodex: Quietust made a clear glass pyramid full o' magma, he linked to it earlier in the thread.

Awesome!

[Silfurdreki]

I just finished filling my artificial lake on my underwater fortress, Silverwaters. It's taken 44 in-game years to construct the whole shebang (mostly because I didn't have more than 20-30 dwarves until the residential section was complete). Current plans are constructing a palace on top of the housing district, widening and decoration of the road, and just general decorating of the fortress.

Screentshots:

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Overview of the lake, from the north-east.


View of the entrance dam and keep, as seen from the west end of the northern dam.


This is the underwater entrance hall, you can see the lake outside the windows on the far side (to the right) and the dining hall through the window to the left. All traders pass here on their way to the depot.


This is just a picture of the lake and entrance bridge, as seen in the Stonesense visualiser

[Retro]

Oh, wow, Sulfurdreki. I think you've posted VF screenies before, but opaque water doesn't show off the fort properly. Those Stonesense screenshots really make it look awesome.

I swear I'm not stalking you :|