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[silverskull39]

Alright, here's the idea; Post a description of your seven most successful/extravagant megaprojects, or, if memory fails you, your most recent ones. No more than seven, but you can do less if you choose. if possible, include screenshots and other details such as materials used, the greatest difficulties encountered, the project's name, any special meaning it has for you, and any other details as you see fit.

Alternately, if there's enough support for it, we could have a competition for the seven most dwarvenly wonders of all bay12ers.

What do you think?

I suppose I should start, though I don't have screens of any of mine. had a nasty spyware infection and accidentally deleted my df folder and all my saves in the process of fixing it.

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1. Armok's timepiece; A large set of two piramids, one completely filled with constructed walls except for a small part carved out for a tomb, and the other, inverted ontop of the first and completely empty except for a small spot at the tip. Overall, it was supposed to look like a giant hourglass with a visualizer, but I lost the save before I could check. Not very hard to make, but time consuming setting up the base, and I lost a few dwarves during a cave in caused by my own negligence. It was because of these deaths that I decided to turn the base into a burial ground to honor them and a few of my worthy dwarves.

2. The S.S. Stone Sail; A completely boat and accompanying harbor. started out by building a "dock", then I made the boat. I couldn't make it as large as I wanted due to a low amount of wood on the map, but through trading I managed to make it decently sized. I even built it a mast complete with  a granite "sail" and a crows nest. The harbor was a bigger problem than the boat though, because by the point I decided to build the boat most of my dwarves were cave addapted. The solution? not to build the boat underground and make an underground harbor, but to build a massive housing for the harbor  that would be tall enough to allow the boat to be constructed. I had a grand total of twelve un-cave adapted dwarves at this point, some woodworkers and recent migrants.

3.Rimtar's Court; An extravagant meeting hall built and named in honor of a champion swordsdwarf that singlehandedly fended off a siege. in its entirety it spans ten z-levels made mostly using the ramp method; two empty z levels at the top, three levels with four make shift funnel towers to catch water coming down in waterfalls, which were channeled into a single tile waterfall over some grates. every z level was fully engraved, of course. the hardest part was keeping the waterfalls from flooding. Had to start over twice and the third time it happened I managed to salvage it with pumps.

those are my only good ones worth mentioning.

What are your best seven?

[Sphalerite]

I only have one at the moment.

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Pagedslipped, the giant green glass pyramid.  Currently about 35 Z-levels high, targeted to be 43 Z-levels high when finished.  The top ten levels are made from clear glass, and the lack of any native wood in the treeless desert surrounding the fortress is slowing the construction rate down.

The entrance is over a 90 tile long retracting copper bridge over a 15 level deep pit.  Caravans are forced to enter the map at the end of the bridge.   Side passages lined with alternating pressure plates and retracting bridges lure thieves and ambush parties to their doom.  An elaborate system of repeater-driven retracting bridges at the bottom of the pit act as a crude conveyor belt to fling invader trash into the center of the fortress where it can be safely retrieved and melted down.



Initially, the interior of the pyramid was hollow.  Since this shot was taken I have been constructing various buildings suspended from the inner walls.  The dining room and automated animal breeding engine are already visible in the lower left of this shot, but I have since added several large storage and workshop buildings higher up.  The dwarven boarding school is well under construction, and plans are being drawn up for the suspended golden palace which will house the queen when she arrives.



Map is at http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-8059-pagedslipped but I've built a lot since then.

[Jetsquirrel]

that little hole is for dropping creatures right? RIGHT?!?!

[Sphalerite]

Actually the little hole is where I am going to run the magma pipe that will be used to fill the hollow clear glass capstone with magma.

[hiho216]

That is definitely pretty badass.

[SkyRender]

I'd say Towerscrape qualifies.

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The entire tower is fully constructed on each and every floor.  The top floors are all green glass, and overall it took about 20,000 blocks across all materials used to build.

On the roof is my insignia, made in steel.

And if not, my desert fort I forgot the name of ages ago definitely does.

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Lots of stuff I built in that desert fort, like the above-ground apartments, the administrative/military palace, the arena, and the king's pyramid.  It's a sort of Dwarven Alexandria.

[DarkDragon]

Skyrender, do you use modded reactions to quickly and easily get all the materials you need for your constructions or are they all "legit" (that is, you mine out, trade for, or make everything you use)?

Just curious.

I eventually want to do some megaprojects that do more than dump lots of magma on invaders, and look well doing it, but I definately run into material shortages when I want to use a specific material.

I couldn't even finish my bronze tower (4x4 including walls, ran out halfway up, switched to kimberlite, now out of that too... grr).

[Chicken Launcher]

Well, if you have magma and sand, just use magma glass furnaces and you have an infinite amount of green glass.

[Sphalerite]

Well, if you have magma and sand, just use magma glass furnaces and you have an infinite amount of green glass.

This.  Pagedslipped is built from over 47,000 blocks of green glass, which came from several dozen magma-fueled glass furnaces set to collect glass and produce green glass blocks.  At least a third of my population are legendary glassmakers.  Glass megastructures are pretty easy when you have magma and patience.

[DarkDragon]

I don't, so that's why i'm asking. I wasn't referring the glass pyramid, I was referring more to the other constructions.

[SkyRender]

Skyrender, do you use modded reactions to quickly and easily get all the materials you need for your constructions or are they all "legit" (that is, you mine out, trade for, or make everything you use)?

Just curious.

I eventually want to do some megaprojects that do more than dump lots of magma on invaders, and look well doing it, but I definately run into material shortages when I want to use a specific material.

I couldn't even finish my bronze tower (4x4 including walls, ran out halfway up, switched to kimberlite, now out of that too... grr).

 For all of my megaprojects prior to Gearholes, I've turned invaders and cave-ins off, but no modifications besides that.  The former is critical for making any megaproject that's not going to be resembling a military compound.  The latter is just precautionary to prevent untimely deaths if I ever have to disassemble something I don't mean to build and it drops onto someone's head.  Gearholes, however, I've got those on for, and it resembles the fact too.

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This is a little outdated, but as you can see, it's pretty well walled in and not at all designed (or pretty).  The blank patches in the roadway are trap corridors full of cage traps.

[arghy]

God i cant wait for the new version so many plans!

[BodyGripper]

This kinda makes me want to build 7 megaprojects in my world. 

Hmm....

[silverskull39]

God i cant wait for the new version so many plans!

I know! the suspense is killing me!

[UristMcGunsmith]

This thread has inspired me. NO MORE MEDIOCRITY, ALL AWESOMENESS ALL DAY.

*Russian accent*
New fort will be beautiful!
Like Russian Bear!
Make of woman!
*End Russian accent