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[Zaerosz]

Heaven does not exist. Gods are mere stories we use to explain the unexplainable, to give us hope that one day, when we die, there will be something afterwards.

But there isn't. There can't be.

And I hate that.

I am a dwarf of reason, of science. I want to believe in the impossible, but I can't for simply that reason - it IS impossible. How can one exist outside existence?

The answer: one can't.

So I will bring it into existence.

I have gathered a following of like-minded dwarves who share my ideals. We will travel to the recently discovered southern lands, rich in minerals.

We will build a golden heaven in the sky.

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So yeah. Exploiting the absurd amounts of gold in the new version, I'll build a staircase 20 Z-levels high, walled in with clear glass, and build a dwarven Heaven. Everything will be made of gold, silver, platinum and adamantite (except beds, which will merely be decorated, as you cannot build beds from anything but wood). My fortress wealth will skyrocket. I'll post a progress report at the end of each year so you can see how it's going.

Starting dwarves: two miners, two masons/carpenters, one stonecrafter/furnace operator, one hunter, one trader/cook.

And yes, nobles WILL be treated well. Shocking, I know, but I want EVERY dwarf to be happy. It's meant to be Heaven, after all.

[Scruga]

You are so going to fail.

But besides that, shouldn't this be in community games and stories?

Ok, now that all negativity is out I can just say that it sounds awesome. One big tip, do some research on what rocks contain lot's of gold because it differs very much per site!

[sizeak]

Sounds awesome, but GL as you'll need it 

[Zaerosz]

The dwarven warship was in this forum. And I'll just go for the same type of rock I went for last time - obsidian and andesite.

[Scruga]

The dwarven warship was in this forum. And I'll just go for the same type of rock I went for last time - obsidian and andesite.

Ah ok, I'm against Armok's Gauntlet as well 

[Lynkilen]

The dwarven warship was in this forum. And I'll just go for the same type of rock I went for last time - obsidian and andesite.

Ah ok, I'm against Armok's Gauntlet as well 

Armok cancels slaughter: Interrupted by blasphemy!

[Arrkhal]

And yes, nobles WILL be treated well. Shocking, I know, but I want EVERY dwarf to be happy. It's meant to be Heaven, after all.

Are you sure it wouldn't be better to have a dwarven hell, too?  Just a shaft down to the new HFS would work perfectly.

[Retro]

This forum is absolutely fine for megaprojects. And good luck! Are you planning on using a lot of yellow and white rock to replicate clouds? (and despite it being heaven and not hell, will there be magma?)

[SethCreiyd]

This forum is absolutely fine for megaprojects. And good luck! Are you planning on using a lot of yellow and white rock to replicate clouds? (and despite it being heaven and not hell, will there be magma?)

Being Dwarf Heaven and all, there should be rivers of the stuff.

[Vieto]

This forum is absolutely fine for megaprojects. And good luck! Are you planning on using a lot of yellow and white rock to replicate clouds? (and despite it being heaven and not hell, will there be magma?)

Being Dwarf Heaven and all, there should be rivers of the stuff.

Rivers of magma. It's dwarven heaven after all.

[darius]

Bonus points for pumping magma up there!

[Hakar]

Mount Olympus here I come!

[Zaerosz]

Uh...oookay, apparently one bar of potash produces 24 bars of pearlash. That's handy, I suppose. And no, no clouds, and I have no bloody idea how I'd get magma 20 z-levels into the sky, much less make rivers of the stuff.

[LordSlowpoke]

Uh...oookay, apparently one bar of potash produces 24 bars of pearlash. That's handy, I suppose. And no, no clouds, and I have no bloody idea how I'd get magma 20 z-levels into the sky, much less make rivers of the stuff.

Perpetual motion machines running on cat blood that power a huge pump system all the way from z-level 40 to 230.
...It's dwarven heaven, after all.

[Scruga]

The dwarven warship was in this forum. And I'll just go for the same type of rock I went for last time - obsidian and andesite.

Ah ok, I'm against Armok's Gauntlet as well 

Armok cancels slaughter: Interrupted by blasphemy!

I slaughtered a mountain goat to make up for this insult. I was only against it's location, stories and community games is a better place for it!