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[existent]

I have only lost 3 forts to bad stuff... Pretty much every fort gets abandoned because it is untidy...

Same.

[clc02]

Three times I seen 'I flail helplessly'  I laughed each time because it describes me more often then not.

I currently got tired of immigrants so  I decided to embark on a (volcanic) island, immigrants still come, and I have a 32 z-level difference.

I am using channels to make it all flat with ramps up to the natural map tiles like:

U-up ramps D-Down ramps #-walls .-floors
z-level 2

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DD
#D
#D
DD

z-level 1

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..D
#UD
#UD
UUD

Until the whole map looks like:

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#######
#UUUUU#
#U...U#
#U...U#
#U...U#
#UUUUU#
#######



[nbonaparte]

My trade depot room must always be exactly 7x7.

[existent]

My trade depot room must always be exactly 7x7.

That's funny, because mine must always be exactly 5x5.

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wwwwwww
wDDDDDw
wDDDDDw
wDDDDDw
wDDDDDw
ww---ww
where w = wall, D = depot, - = floor.

[The1nk]

My trade depot room must always be exactly 7x7.

That's funny, because mine must always be exactly 5x5.

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wwwwwww
wDDDDDw
wDDDDDw
wDDDDDw
wDDDDDw
ww---ww
where w = wall, D = depot, - = floor.

..Mine, also, is always 7x7. I never feel like they can walk through the depot, unless I leave a path around it.. :\

[lanceleoghauni]

I get antsy if I can't color code my levers by basic functions. Red for magma, Microcline/Kimberlite for water, others by whatever I feel like for that fort.

I have a green glass fixation as well.

[Neyvn]

Spiral Ramp to the First Caverns, 5tiles wide and cicular.
Always Start in the First Caverns with no true walls around my camp.
Build a small Village IN that area (still no walls) but not within the actual walls of the Cavern.
New Spiral Ramp to the next and rinse and repeat, walls for second and then actual Fort down the bottom where everyone will live, making the upper two caverns as outposts for warriors to guard the entrances...

5 Tiles for the Main hall, 3 tiles for the Extention Halls, 2 Tiles for local area halls.

Dorms are appartment blocks, These are for lower units, divided by Caste (Barrows) while better units get higher level homes.

Axewarriors are my Main War force. Spear and Crossbow as Backup.
'Police' force are mainly Spear.

Tanners next to Leatherworks in the same area so that their shapes mirror one another.

[PermanentInk]

I nickname all dwarves with their arrival group (original 7 as '1', first migrant wave as '2', et al).

I loved this idea but found numbers a bit too impersonal, so last night I started a fort where I used names starting with 'A' for founders (Adam, Alice, etc.), 'B' (Bob, Billy, etc.) for the first wave of migrants, etc.  Been really happy with the results -- having a letter picked makes names easier to come up with, and the initials really give me nice visibility into a given dwarf's circumstances.

[Funtimes]

What about surnames and children? Do you make family webs visible?

Also, Therapist can sort your Dorfs by migration wave pretty accurately (it treats kids as a separate wave).

[elfhater]

If I dig into the side of a hill or cliff, I need at least four layers above the entrance to be in line with it, like a sheer cliff, and I'll spend a lot of time channeling or building walls until they are. I also remove all the ramps around the entrance because I don't like the idea of enemies coming from directions that aren't line-of-sight from the door.

On the other hand I have no problem with starting a fort straight down rather than into a hill. I tend to prefer rather extensive above-ground farms, palisades, towers, and roads. I like to make it look like an actual settlement when viewed from outside, rather than just a door or hatch into the earth. Otherwise the filthy elves might get the idea that the area is uninhabited, and try to get friendly with my timber.

Almost always, my halls will be 3 tiles wide, and will terminate in a 2x2 stair complex. Lately, rather than putting workshops into rooms off of the hallway, I'll just widen the hallway by 3x3 or 3x4 where I want the workshop to go. Who cares if a Dwarven hallway is noisy? The sound of the forge is soothing.

I almost never use ramps underground, though if I embark in an area that has a plateau/valley situation, I'll ramp a tunnel to connect them with roads coming out either end, and build my fort around the tunnel, with the main entrance in the center of the tunnel. Makes a great choke point, and it's kind of like a toll booth.

[mLegion]

My fortress is always made up of 5x5 tile rooms and no hallways except the living quarters and the central staircase which is always a 11x11 room with a central group of 5x5 up/down stairways. Also i always smooth every outside tile.

[Zyrjello]

In general, all of my workshops and similar (furnaces, trade depot) go in their own rooms with a 1-tile border around the building, so workshops go in 5x5 rooms and the trade depot goes in a 7x7 room. The workshops have one entrance each, so I can set down a door or a cage trap to deal with any berserk dwarves.

Also, I prefer to smooth everything, but I don't like engravings. They're too visually busy, so I leave them to a few select areas where I know they will be appreciated.

[nbonaparte]

Also, I prefer to smooth everything, but I don't like engravings. They're too visually busy, so I leave them to a few select areas where I know they will be appreciated.

d-v

It toggles the pictures in favor of something that looks like a better smooth wall.

[Zyrjello]

Yeah, I know, but then it still clashes with constructed walls.

[Xenos]

I always build a strip mine as the second z level of my base with the pattern of

x=wall
-=floor

-------
-xx-xx-
-xx-xx-
-xx-xx-
-xx-xx-
-xx-xx-
-xx-xx-
-xx-xx-
-xx-xx-
-xx-xx-
-xx-xx-
-------

and then after mining all useful gems and ores out of it, i will smooth and engrave THE ENTIRE MINE

This will then be repeated across several z levels until i need space.  sadly during the engraving process my fps dies...