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[ed boy]

It seems that legendary rooms are too easy to get nowadays. All you have to do is make the room a decent size, plonk in a bit of furniture and you're there. This irritates me somewhat - when I have a legendary room, I want it to be truly legendary.

For that reason, I have decided that my king will have a set of rooms truly worthy of the description legendary.

I have got the shape worked out, and he will have his bedroom, throne room and dining room all slightly larger than two embark tiles (that's roughly 5000 tiles available). However, I have reached a new and unexpected hurdle, so I must turn to the DF community to help me solve this problem.

What shall I place within these rooms? beds, tables, and the like only take up one tile each, and the room will look very bare with only them in. Although fancy features like magmafalls would be nice, they would need several z-levels of setup, and I have to get by with all the stuff on one z-level, or it will disrupt the rest of the fort.

[smjjames]

How about stuff like fancy statues? I'm sure you have excess gold, maybe silver, or platnium. Put some of your best artifacts in there (although it doesn't look like dwarves get a good thought from just seeing an artifact ring or whatever in a stockpile in the hallway), or create a mosaic out of coloured tiles.

[katyrnyn]

If it isn't at least five z-levels high, then how can it be truly legendary?

My first order of business would be to chain a dozen War Lions or War Tigers in there using masterwork gold chains.  (No lions and tigers?  Then go for War Bears.)

[ed boy]

I'm afraid that for this fort, I'm making everything out of clear glass, so gold/platinum statues are not an option.

Artifacts are also being used in a seperate artefact storage coming off of the king's rooms.

Animals, however, would be very nice - I'll probably fill up the study with a veritable forest of fearsome beasts.

[smjjames]

I'm afraid that for this fort, I'm making everything out of clear glass, so gold/platinum statues are not an option.

Artifacts are also being used in a seperate artefact storage coming off of the king's rooms.

Animals, however, would be very nice - I'll probably fill up the study with a veritable forest of fearsome beasts.

You could have said that earlier, the part about clear glass.

How about gem windows? You should be able to include raw clear glass in it, so that should still count. Since I don't think you can make glass chains (barring an artifact), you could make the chains (if you use them) out of gold or whatever and decorate that with clear glass.

[Ricky]

a truly legendary room doesnt need to be that big.. just make it very tall, and very deep, make the clear glass floor have water or magma underneath, or even captured wild animals elves, wild animals will spook the king

[Mysteriousbluepuppet]

I really think you should adapt it to the dwarf you watn to impress. If he like an type of fish, make a wall full of aquariums with those fishes. If you picture him more as a warlord, masterwork iron statue next to a steel throne, in a room with a massive magma waterfall  and clear glass over a magma cistern. Engrave the walls with picture of melting goblins/elves if avalaible

[thijser]

Hint: you can use obsidian casting+engraving to keep resetting until you get the right engraving.

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

colour coordination with the tables and chairs to draw a giant dwarven picture, based on the likes of the king.

[UmbrageOfSnow]

With a mile-wide room, you're never going to fill it up with anything less than maybe some stockpiles, a bunch of workshops, peasant living quarters and a dining hall.

Can you even define rooms to be embark-squares wide?  I know there is some upper limit on at least some designations of things.

[Zanthra]

Put down floor tiles of varying colors spelling the owner's name out, then from whatever tileset you are using, recreate his symbol in the floor.  Engrave the walls of all z-levels of the room, and create balconies inside the room.  You could make a self contained pillbox hanging from the ceiling for his personal guards.

[thijser]

Yes there is a quite small limit to room size just experienced it myself it's slightly less then one normal screen in size. So this won't be an offical room.


I can already imagen problems with the distance that dwarfs will have to walk to get to such a large room.

[smjjames]

Maybe he meant the 48x48 embark square?

Anyways, as far as the king, yea, check out the legends. Sometimes you'll end up with a king/queen who has done great things. Like for example I've seen a king in the legends who was a great hunter. So, going with what your king/queens skills are and their past will help with the theme.

[Jordrake]

Make the whole thing a massive maze, with various traps that will kill/capture literally anything that takes a wrong turn, be it dwarf, cat or goblin. Keep a set of levers rigged to floodgates throughout the labyrinth that change the shape of the corridors at the centre of each room, where the King's living quarters will be kept, as well as heaps of valuables.
Being made out of clear glass will make the happless dwarves' goblins' inevitable wrong turns into doom all the more hilarious.

[BodyGripper]

Maybe some sort of humanoid zoo. 

Edit:  Put all his citizens into cages, and line his room with them.