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[Shurikane]

My map is exactly 51 Z-levels.  I can go up to 36 above ground (including ground level and "no upstairs constructions" top level) and 15 below.

[andrea]

that is... a lot!
and i am having problems to build a 16 z level tower!
nice work. how much time did you spend on that?

[Shurikane]

Right now, the fort is 5 years and a half old.  It took something like 3 or 4 years to get the initial tower up along with the access tower (the small one on the right) and the chute tower (further to the back.)  The three have been built simultaneously using scaffolds to speed things up.

Now, I'm improving on the original design, and carving a funnel out of the surrounding ground to bring more emphasis on the actual drop tower.  More screenshots will follow.

[andrea]

really nice. i spent over 7 years and i am much lower than half tower, but probably it is because wooden floors.

post your new screenshots soon, they must be itneresting.

[QuantumSawdust]

FlareChannel
Largely unfinished, but enough done to show a few results.
75,000 constructed blocks put to use over 67 years 

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Front entrance from ground level


Another shot of the entrance. The front tower is complete marble - a combined stairwell, Z-Level water pump system, and circular ramp for caravans. The right tower houses soldiers, sparring areas, shooting ranges, graves of soldiers (and family), and weapon/armor stockpiles. The background tower leads up to the throne room and a few more hallways, and houses all levers.
The structure in the far right background is my unfinished masonry complex.


Living Quarters, warmed by drafts from magma below, complete with balconies. Amazingly, the lack of guardrails has only claimed 1 life.


Standard view from inside Fortress

[Footkerchief]

Holy shit.  Everybody should be clicking that spoiler tag above.

Those apartments are awesome.  Can you post a slightly closer shot of the overall floorplan?

[QuantumSawdust]

I had some trouble getting a good shot, but hopefully these are enough

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Main floor


Magma/Water pumping system

[Footkerchief]

Haha wow that's a lot of magma.  Toasty.

[QuantumSawdust]

Gave me a few legendary pump operators in the process : )

[andrea]

this thread is depressing. it makes me feel that my project is small and unuseful.

in other words, awesome fortress! post more!

[sneakey pete]

On a tangent: holy heck that's one tall mountain behind your fort there!

[Shurikane]

OK, as requested, the 3D of the rest of the fort.  It's minuscule compared to the norm since all I've done in its six years of life is focus on basic defense and the tower itself.  Maybe if I feel like it, I'll build up some improvements and try to make it more impressive.  I've got a lot of stone lying around.

First, an overhead map of the fort.  The drop tower and the outer walls are easily visible from the outside.  Everything is protected by a dry moat, but with no river, it's impossible to feed it the water to make it become deadly.

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A main drawbridge services trade caravans and is almost always raised between trading runs.  On the side are four corridors, each lined with roughly 40 cage traps, with plans to fill the gaps and expand to 70.  The corridors all lead to a vestibule courtyard, where another drawbridge can be raised in a last ditch effort if things go really, really sour.  Finally, a set of access stairs have been placed under the main bridges in order to allow someone trapped in the dry moat to escape, or for the military to dive into and knock out invaders.

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A funnel has been dug around the tower to emphasize its height and to give the impression that it really stands on a tiny bit of stone.  Since the lower part was dug but not constructed, an improvement could be made such that these visible parts become constructed obsidian to make the entire visible part of the tower be uniform.  The tower is surrounded by ramps and floors engraved with the fort's history.

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On the far side is the access tower, through which cages are transported to the stockpile at the top of the drop tower.  On the near side is a chute in which enemy weapons are tossed to ground level.

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Corridor of death!

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FREEFALL!

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At the very bottom is a small funnel shape to end the tower and provide more rebound to the various body parts.  Viewing the Z-level right above the first ring of ramps makes a whole bunch of gibs flash on the screen as the victims explode in a magnificent shower of blood.  At the very bottom is an artificial body of water connected to the meditation chamber of the fortress.  The impact from falls is so violent that some victims' chunks actually manage to bounce out of the water and into the meditation room.  I've seen it happen on regular occasion!

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[Cavalcadeofcats]

The phrase "no terminal velocity" comes to mind. (In regards to the physics simulation.)

Those goblins must be going fast when they hit the bottom.

[Shurikane]

I couldn't find a utility to merge movies together and couldn't find any option to extend movie length past 20 seconds...  So here's Liontower's Drop in two parts!

http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-956-liontowersdrop-parti
http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-957-liontowersdrop-partii

Perhaps tomorrow I'll make a FRAPS of it instead, with the tileset and everything for extra details gibbiness.

[Draco18s]

Um...I think you didn't upload part 2, but uploaded part 1 again.