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[Jurph]

I will tell you why you haven't become a Mountainhome yet.  The King of the Dwarves is looking at his trade surplus from working with you, and doing the math:

(A) Emigrate to Undergrotto, surround myself with opulent wealth, and inform Ilem II that the King will take over the massive responsibility of managing this epic fortress from now on,

or

(B) Keep the whole thing a secret, and let the Dwarves back home chalk the kingdom's success (and the King's unprecedented wealth and popularity!) to the King's own laid-back management style and savvy foreign relations.

If the Duke doesn't show up soon, you guys ought to secede!  (Seriously: this is possibly the most epic fortress I have ever seen.  Creations like this are why sandbox games are so amazing.  Great work!)

[Heliomance]

I have been inspired by this to attempt my own project of an underground cavernous lake, fed by waterfalls, on which my settlement is built. From the centre of the lake will rise an enormous stone goblet filled with magma.

However, I shall wait until the new version to start work.

[arghy]

I always tried to make waterfall projects but it never worked due to the horrible FPS hit that comes from it.

[kilakan]

I diverted my river into a chasm once, then built my fort around the waterfall, the river was also the cut off point for seiges so occasionally the water would run red with blood, very dwarf-like.

[jfsh]

This looks pretty cool in Khazad.  I took a couple of screenshots if anyone is interested.

World Overview

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From the other side

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With the terrain removed, you can really see the size of the grotto

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Overhead shot of the grotto

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The entrance ramp

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Overhead, good shot of the ship

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One more shot of the grotto

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The corkscrew thing

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The hermit's hut

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I definitely encourage people to check this out in their visualizer of choice, the screen caps don't do it justice.

[Sutremaine]

This is truly a thing of beauty. Kudos.

[Retro]

Wow, thanks for taking those screenshots jfsh! I especially like the third one, I hadn't realized its scope before with the mountain in the way! I might go stick a few of those in the tour :D

ed- In response to the below, there are some screenies up of the next version's caves - they won't be more than maybe 2-3z high, so don't get your hopes up :P

[arghy]

Fuck if only the game could generate mountain homes that looked like that. I want to make a fortress where i hollow out the entire area underground and have a giant hole so sunlight could shine down--who knows maybe the new underground features will make fortresses like this for us.

[jfsh]

Wow, thanks for taking those screenshots jfsh! I especially like the third one, I hadn't realized its scope before with the mountain in the way! I might go stick a few of those in the tour

Cool, glad you liked them.  Feel free.

[Sutremaine]

ed- In response to the below, there are some screenies up of the next version's caves - they won't be more than maybe 2-3z high, so don't get your hopes up

I thought it was going to be a part of the worldgen or init options? Or does that refer to how far below the surface the caves start, with the shallow caves repeating for as many layers as the map allows?

[NW_Kohaku]

I do think it would be wonderful if we could upload our own fully functional forts into a repository for this sort of thing, and then download forts into a folder for potential pre-generated mountainhomes that could be randomly selected at worldgen.

Of course, I somehow think that maybe this fort would cause most CPUs to spontaniously combust upon having to integrate it into a world.

[Particleman]

Holy shit...


Just... holy shit.

[furrot]

How in Armoks name is this on the third page. Retro this is the single coolest thing I've seen done in this game. You did a great job of adding a bunch of elements together to create something greater then it's parts. The more I read your post the more impressed I was. You've given me a lot of ideas and demonstrated quite well that multi-Z level rooms have a great purpose, looking f'ing awesome! I think the prison is one of my favorite parts, I liked how you set the cells up so the prisoners could live well. I think it's more lavish then the rooms I make for early nobles.

Your fort is so awesome I feel like an idiot because it was made in the same game as my 1Z left-to-right symmetrical crap forts. I can't imagine what you could do next after this wonder. I think the Wiki needs a "Seven Wonders of Armok" page and this should be at the top.

Also thanks for introducing me to Stonesense, I didn't know there was a visualizer like that available.

[rylen]

Utterly amazing.

[TheDancinZerg]

You are a god.