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[Magio]

This is amazing. Do want.

[nbonaparte]

So, it doesn't look good in Stonesense AT ALL. I wish there was a zoom-out feature, 'cause you can't see enough of it at once. 
I gave DFize a try, but it, uh, needs some work to be usable.

in before Japa pops in to say that you can take screenshots of the whole fortress. I don't know exactly how, though.

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I would very much like to know how this is done.

ctrl+f5

[Dakk]

Oh my, so beautiful, I wanna see this if you really get it done. The biggest thing I have ever done is about half that size.

[SpuneDagr]

Here's a screenshot from Stonesense. Work continues.
http://imgur.com/5w5oS.jpg

I just recovered from a tantrum spiral that claimed about 80 lives. My design calls for a tomb complex built behind the city, in a rift in the mountain. The tombs were a low priority for me - I just wanted to finish the city proper, then go back and do details, like buildings and the Silent Street. So, apparently dwarves don't like it when you pile their dead in a heap, telling mourners they'll be buried, "Perhaps in two or three years."

Several workers fell from the top of the spur, plunging 300 feet to their death (just like Denethor in the movie!) Countless cave-ins, where I didn't probably plan the removal of scaffolding, attacks from goblins, mad dwarves, surgeries conducted without tables or soap  -  all have taken their toll. A big project like this sure forces you to learn every bit of the game, though.

I had no idea hospitals needed tables next to beds. 

[rhinelander]

I can't say how delighted I am with this! 

[rex mortis]

How big is your embark? I attempted to make something similarly large but my fps was ruined. It could have been all those rocks though.

[SpuneDagr]

5x5. About 250 tiles square. I regularly and constantly dump huge piles of stone in a quantum stockpile. Thus far the FPS is playable, unless I pause, and assign a ton of different jobs all at once.

[lordnincompoop]

Yeah, pathfinding is currently the largest drain.

Use at least 3 wide hallways (as few one tiles as possible; they are the bane of good FPS) and ramps instead of stairs.

[Double A]

The only problem with mazes in this game is that the only thing you're making work is the pathfinding algorithm, which is effectively omniscient. It's not like the invaders are going to go down the dead ends.

No, you're missing the point, I think. Either that, or I am.

What I understood was that you grid it, and then ONLY dig the path along the red line. You get this cool winding passage. At least, that's what I thought he meant. Digging out the whole thing does, indeed, seem pointless.

I dig the larger side passages out too. I add male cats for bait in the sidepaths, though, so gobbos still go down them, and they aren't there just to make it look cool.

Course, I don't designate it all at once. Then the miners are running around your maze like crazy. And if you do designate more than just the red part you find more gems.

And I smooth the main path, that way I don't get lost.

[Double A]

Ok, I'm curious, how did you find a 30z cliff face without using a volcano? My tallest embarkable mountains only go up to 8 or 9. If I'm lucky.

[darkflagrance]

Wow, that site is nearly perfect! I've been looking for a perfect site for a minas tirith project myself.

Are you planning to do the White Tree?

[lordnincompoop]

Ok, I'm curious, how did you find a 30z cliff face without using a volcano? My tallest embarkable mountains only go up to 8 or 9. If I'm lucky.

I'd rather have a cliff without ramps. The normal DF mountains look like friggin hills.

And just look at the cliff indicator at embark.

[SpuneDagr]

To get a nice high cliff, I played with the world gen settings. Lowlands 50, midlands 0, highlands 50, super highlands 50. Made plains and mountains more common, and swamps and seas less common.

I'm pretty sure growing a real white tree at the top of the fort is impossible. It's technically part of the mountain biome, so no plants grow there. I'm going to pave the top with olivine to look like grass and just put a statue up there. If I'm lucky, they'll carve a statue of a tree.

[Devast]

While I respect your work and wish you well Barad-dur is far more dwarfy/bad ass

[SpuneDagr]

I actually want to do a Barad Dur homage for my next fort. I picked Minas Tirith because it's so well-documented, and I find its symmetry and geometry appealing.