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[Urist McDetective]

I'm imagining CarpKissed - the fortress that spent all it's embark points on fish, then built a tower out of their bones. I like the building idea.

[Aldaris]

I'm imagining CarpKissed - the fortress that spent all it's embark points on fish, then built a tower out of their bones. I like the building idea.

A fort made out of only Carp bones, all above ground... Imagine it, in the shape of a stuck up middle finger...

Thank you for this legendary awesomantine artifact, all craftsdwarvesship is of the hightest quality, it menaces with spikes of awesome, it is adorned with hanging rings of TAKE THAT!

[Luke_Prowler]

Skulls for the skull throne!

Being serious, where would you build these "bone blocks"? And as much as I love this idea, it would conflict with creating practice bolts for my markdwarfs.

[Rakeela]

What?  You would build a fortress out of fish?  I have no time for such nonsense!

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This phrase has been haunting my dreams for the past bloody five days.  I figured it'd be better to revive a thread than post a new one.  I keep imagining an entire fortress built out of materials gathered from the sea, with its exterior a gleaming white layer of bone.  Set on a low narrow peninsula, so its construction appeared to rise out of the ocean like a seaweed-draped monstrosity.

[Deimos56]

While we're at it, why don't we just put blood in the glue for that added grimness?

...Also, apparently someone necro'd this. Why did a suggestion that's awesome like this need to be necro'd?

[mickel]

Why did a suggestion that's awesome like this need to be necro'd?

Because there is just so much awesome in this forum that it drowned anyway.

But yea, good question. Who would have the expertise to make building blocks out of bones? My best guess would be the mason or the bonecarver.

[G-Flex]

skull furniture and buildings should give your fort an EVIL rating ^^<P>if all requirements are met, the fort is considered evil!<P>1:bone infrastructure
2:merchants are pillaged
3:ritual sacrifices of civilized beings
4:stone littering your hallways!

But why? Bones aren't necessarily evil. You're judging it from the perspective of your own culture.

DF is planned to move away from the good/evil surroundings framework in general, I believe, and even now more of the civ wars are determined by actual ethics and not "good" or "evil".

[RAM]

Well, if undead become a result of a particular race, then I want to be able to play as that race!!!

If you like the idea of what dwarves could do with a bone fortress, just think what a necromancer would do with it...

[Deimos56]

I'd imagine that bones themselves would make up the majority of furniture/blocks, with skulls and similar bits working as decorations. (skull handrests on the bone throne. Even better, skulls of past elven kings making up all of the corners of said throne, with polished ribs making the back and femurs making the base.)

[Felblood]

I favor the idea of being able to encrust constructions with skulls, since the Skull Tower linked earlier provides an actual historical precedent.

However, the rest of these ideas are also pretty cool.

I remember, I once saw a documentary on some catacomb in Europe, where they build retaining walls out of interlocked bones, to keep the tons and tons of jumbled skeletons from spilling into the pathways. Some of these things are really elaborately patterned, with the different shapes of bones being arranged in the walls to form artistic designs, that repeat for miles. All of this gets more surreal, when they point out that subway vibrations collapse the walls every few months, and the whole thing has to be built all over again.

There are actually modern people who make their living by arranging piles of human bones into aesthetically pleasing and structurally sound patterns. In keeping with the theory that dwarven society should be at least as screwed up as our own, we need to have bone walls.

[ousire]

the second i saw the title for this thread i realised my king needed a throne made from the bones of a dragon

this must be implemented. now.

[SirHoneyBadger]

Bones can also be ground up and mixed into mortar. Bone meal and bone ash have lots of uses too, if I remember correctly.

Makes great fertilizer, for one thing.

[Starver]

All this talking of castles made of bone makes me want to make one entirely of teeth.

Just so you know.

[Muz]

Once we have necromancy.. Walking skeletal towers! Ohhhh yeah!

Or bone golems. That cave in on people, lol.

[QuakeIV]

This idea rocks.