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[Kaelem Gaen]

Wow, nicely done.   

I think undergrotto needs a symbol to be carved into all worlds.

[mattie2009]

Wow, nicely done.  

I think undergrotto needs a symbol to be carved into all worlds.

How about the symbol of the universe imploding.

[Quift]

My God this is beautiful! Applause! I have thought of doing something similar but this is better than I could have dreamt of doing it. You have exceeded my narcissistic dreams.

[Shade-o]

Fffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-

[atomicthumbs]

God damn.

[NW_Kohaku]

From the depths of Hell I stab at thee, et al.

Why do you have to make my fortress planning lack-of-skills look so terrible?

[Saint]

I decided to take a good look around and download the save.
I found my self wanting to cause hell.
Housing collapsed from the roof and fun insued.

[Orkel]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

This is amazing!

[Sphalerite]

Undergrotto is one of the first mega-fortress-projects I've seen posted where I, personally, wouldn't mind living.  Even my own megaproject doesn't qualify - too bleak and industrial.  But Undergrotto is beautiful.

[Retro]

Thanks again guys :) It's nice to get a good response after a lot of time and effort.

Why do you have to make my fortress planning lack-of-skills look so terrible?

Suspiciously little planning went into this >_> Well, before-hand planning, that is. I knew the general idea of how I wanted it to look and from there I kind of just made up projects on the spot (ie: "Okay, so I want a social area. Well, there's a nice-looking plateau there - what do dwarves even do to be social anyhow? I guess I could put the mayor's house there - ooh, a manor! Important dwarves should all live there. Hm, well, I guess nobility's gonna need a palace... and the chamberlain's gonna need a bank or some ETC ETC ETC ETC" and only a few of those really panned out). This is a little paint file of literally all the actual planning I did:



I have one or two really general sketches that I'd upload but my printer's pretty busted, so no scanning capabilities. The whole thing, well all the little projects anyways, was just a matter of 'hm, so I need a ___' but then adding functionality and vague realism to it. Like, the jail are expanded from being another cavern with offices for the captain of the guard, hammerer, and dungeon master until I seperately realized that each had a purpose that needed a different building to fulfill (DM - beasts/animal taming, Hammerer - sadistic side of justice, or torture, Captain - justice). Then for stuff like the jail I decided I wanted to isolate it and give it a sense of loneliness, and it ended up being a really high-up penitentiary. I gave it some offices and stuff and added desks all over including a waiting area and then assigned dwarves to it so it would seem very loosely like a police station and so on. I almost made a guardhouse in the magma outside the palace for the royal guard, actually, but it would've ruined the visual I think.

I have a tendency to ramble on in an over-explanitive manner. Have you noticed? :P

I decided to take a good look around and download the save.
I found my self wanting to cause hell.
Housing collapsed from the roof and fun insued.

Bahaha! I never even thought of the fun I could have destroying the grotto. I just tried this and it was awesome (a few screens of death and artwork defacement). Gonna go see what other shit I can stir up.

The screenie turned out wicked, too - this is from the cave-in game freeze before the water went everywhere, hehehehe.



ed- Bleck. I don't think I can get the standard-tileset map to sync to my POIs, and there are waaay too many to just redo them. I might just delete the second map. You non-tileset folk will have to make do, I guess :\ Sorry.

[John Keel]

This is amazing. That's about all that needs to be said.

[NW_Kohaku]

Maybe, but my fortress largely consists of a B1 floor made of a huge sprawl of ever-expanding warehouses (I make far more stuff than I can ever hope to use... in fact, I make stuff just to employ people... I can't even trade this stuff away fast enough...)

They're rapidly approaching making a single, giant, 100x100 warehouse, and my warehouses are spreading to other floors.

I'm actually a little paralyzed right now, because I'm not quite sure how I want to design my... well, it looks pitiful now, but it's my "great hall".  I'm going to wall it in statues, have four waterfalls, and at the end of it, there will be a titan that I'm going to chain up behind a moat like King Kong.  (I'll probably mod and tame her first, just so she doesn't scare the dwarves.) 

Now, it just seems like a chaotic mess.

Your little zig-zagging powerplant inspired me a little, though.  I'm definitely using that, as I'm almost completely ready to tap my underground river.

Maybe I'll redeem myself by making one of those clocks out of this whole thing, and the aligator moat is still kind of cool.

[Tazgrent]

This. This is what dwarf fortress was made for. I don't think I can ever use a pick again without bursting into tears knowing I will always pale in comparison to this.

[They Got Leader]

Maybe I'll redeem myself by making one of those clocks out of this whole thing, and the aligator moat is still kind of cool.

Better yet. Make an alligator clock...

[NW_Kohaku]

Maybe I'll redeem myself by making one of those clocks out of this whole thing, and the aligator moat is still kind of cool.

Better yet. Make an alligator clock...

I don't even know how I could make a resetable automatic clock out of alligators.

I mean, I could have an alligator drop down infinitely alternating 1-tile bridges, triggering a single "tick" of the next set in the clock when he finally hit bottom by falling on top of a creature-triggered pressure plate. 

The problem would be resetting this, I would need to ensure that I always had one, and exactly one, 'gator at the top of that fall at all times (which would require more than one gator at anything but the really long long ticks), plus, if I am using a single pressure plate, that 'gator would have to immediately path off that pressure plate to go back to standing over the top bridge, which would have to automatically position that 'gator in just the right spot.

Hmm... I'm trying, but I'm not seeing this as feasable.