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[Nyxalinth]

My fort layouts are random and crap-ass compared to the ones listed here.  But when I'm bored and mining out deep levels, I do things like these.

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[AngleWyrm]

And a cavern entrance. I'd honestly like to see a pict or two from other people on this, as I'm not satisfied with the current state of the entrance.

Here's my entrance to cavern levels. It has a small drawbridge for emergency backup, and a military outpost consisting of barracks, danger room, small dining area and food storage. There's also a loom and silk storage for web collection. Also in the picture is the bottom floor of an 8-story killing pit.

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[abadidea]

My fort layouts are random and crap-ass compared to the ones listed here.  But when I'm bored and mining out deep levels, I do things like these.

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That is excessively artful!

RE: Caverns, I made sure to make an entirely closed area that accesses fresh water. (salt map.) I had thought that forgotten beasts could break walls, but apparently they can't. I've had two spawn into the lake that my tunnel accesses, but neither of them have bothered to crawl out...

[Nyxalinth]

Thanks

Ironically, I can't draw foir shit any other time!

[Johnny Madhouse]

I need to upload some of my designs. Here is my brother's bedroom design from 40d after some Fun happened. I modified his design for a while, adding another bedroom in each of the cardinal directions and turning the inside four into noble rooms. His design has 60 or so 3x3 rooms per level, and it looks pretty good in my opinion. Adding the other ones nets 64.

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His account of what happened:

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This is the last stand on the bedroom level. Basically the story is that if you find a glowing pit, wall that shit off immediately and don't accidentally breach it again from an upper level because you're careless with your exploratory mining. 64 dwarves (including the king dwarf who showed up in plain clothes once I started unearthing adamantine) were reduced to 11 by the time it was over, only 1 of which was unharmed (a recent ranger immigrant who killed the last demon with his crossbow). 6 promptly died of injuries or madness, so now I'm left with the ranger, a child, and three bed-ridden champions to rebuild with. After the carnage I got to see what was probably the Saddest Thing: a dwarven swordswoman who had lost her whole family went into intense melancholy and started climbing up my (unfinished) curtain wall and throwing herself off in an attempt to commit suicide. The drop was not sufficient and she was too tough to die that way, so every time she landed she'd be stunned for a moment and then crawl, weeping, back to the top of the wall for another attempt. This went on until she starved to death.

[FearfulJesuit]

I'm experimenting with a new fortress design which uses lots of vertical space.

Here's some floors going down.

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[Vorthon]

I usually just go for an organic kind of build-as-I-go setup. If I manage to the population and resources I need, though, I usually end up making 'apartment blocks' for sleeping quarters and put my workshops in niches in the sides of a long, wide hall.

[celem]

I'm experimenting with a new fortress design which uses lots of vertical space.

Here's some floors going down.

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I just love these.  Almost everything I build uses vertical runs so I love to embark on mountain edges and start high.  You slope away toward low ground due to higher magma and stuff in the mountains to make diagonals (particularly at a volcano)

[abadidea]

I'm experimenting with a new fortress design which uses lots of vertical space.

Here's some floors going down.

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Pretty similar to mine, actually! I love how DF teaches you to think about problems in new dimensions.

[Shrugging Khan]

I'm currently making an almost purely vertical fortress...starting at a cliff face, going down to the magma, rarely having more than one or two workshops or bedrooms on one level. It's kind of fun, but the plumbing is hell to install.

[belannaer]

Finally started to make private housing for my dwarves (after 22 years of running the fortress). Inspired by Jaxicat's picture I made this today:

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It fits 240 3x3 rooms (I have 223 dwarves). Too bad 2 of my staircases collided with it but I'll fix those and do some additional work to make it a bit more interesting

[Wiro]

And a cavern entrance. I'd honestly like to see a pict or two from other people on this, as I'm not satisfied with the current state of the entrance.

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Basically what I did with my cavern was smoothen the walls and construct new ones where needed, built bridges, traps, stairs to connect cavern main camp to a little cavern outpost through an underground tunnel. I just move somewhere, dig, cut trees, collect plants, smoothen walls and floors, built walls and floors then slowly expand. Eventually I started getting rid of the stone hanging from the ceiling through cave-in's near the entrance, too. Also made food/booze stockpiles and small dining and resting rooms. There's also a refuse room for trash since it'd be annoying having to drag that all the way upstairs. The ramps I mostly get rid of, except usually 3 ramps next to eachother to get to the next level. Makes it easier to build ways around and connect it to other parts.

[Shoku]

I still just wall off steep slopes in the caverns. I don't want to move five levels to see something five tiles away and heaven forbid I have to scroll up and down twice that much.

Gentle rolling hills though, those I'm quite fond of.

[MiniMacker]

Many of you have given me inspiration to start with Dwarf Mode again. I always build compact and simple. But it always crashes down on me when I get a higher population. The entire fortress gets flooded with drunk, smelly midgets because I made it too small.

*Generates a new world*
Here we go!

[Tcei]

Here's the design Im currently working on
This is the main working area. The living area shares the same general design but with a wider variety of room sizes.

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I'm very tempted to steal that bedroom design Belannaer