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AngleWyrm

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Re: Feeling bored
« Reply #15 on: December 24, 2010, 04:03:16 am »
Quote from: ottottott on December 24, 2010, 02:54:30 am
Though I'm gonna cut the bridge idea since it's a brook. (Possible to understand from the white spots and the lighter blue color.)
I know it's a brook, but I'de still build a bridge, for the same reason I like to pave roads, which is completely useless, and to select building materials that are the same color, which also has no material gain. That reason is aesthetics.
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ottottott

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Re: Feeling bored
« Reply #16 on: December 24, 2010, 04:23:40 am »
So I'm gonna make the bridge and to make sure they use it I'm gonna channel the brook too!
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Re: Feeling bored
« Reply #17 on: December 25, 2010, 10:18:59 am »
I finished most of the stuff. Haven't found any green stone yet. The wildlife and the useless migrants are a real problem. So I put them against eachother. I thought I'd share what I have accomplished. So here are some pics. I hope to get more building requests soon. :)
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(BTW Is double posting allowed when actually posting updates and at least 1 day has passed? Or were there some other restrictions or was double posting completely not allowed?)
« Last Edit: December 25, 2010, 10:21:29 am by ottottott »
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AngleWyrm

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Re: Feeling bored
« Reply #18 on: December 25, 2010, 11:38:01 am »
Sure beats being bored, huh? Merry Christmas :)
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Re: Feeling bored
« Reply #19 on: December 25, 2010, 02:42:18 pm »
Difficulty Level 1: Make your dorfs have a giant feud, lasting many years, then nickname two dorfs Romeo and Juliet.
I think we all know how it goes from here.

Difficulty Level 2: Make your pet carps have a giant feud, then nickname two carps Romeo and Juliet.
Refer to above for later stages.

Difficulty Level 3: Make a carp family and your dorfs have a feud, then nickname a carp and a dorf Romeo and Juliet.
He. He. He.
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Re: Feeling bored
« Reply #20 on: December 25, 2010, 06:14:04 pm »
Build a giant cast obsidian tower that starts in the first cave and juts up through to poke out of to the surface. Make the center hollow and toss goblins down it.
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« Reply #21 on: December 25, 2010, 09:41:21 pm »
Quote from: ottottott on December 22, 2010, 08:02:15 am
So... I was feeling like making a map with lots of buildings and things. But I don't have enough creativity to think up all the things. So... Post what you would want me to build. It can be anything from a waterfall or a small maze to a spaceship or a giant magma pooping dwarf.

Here's my checklist for my new aesthetic fortress. It's a few pages and not finished yet.

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Enjoy/I'm sorry you had to read that.
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ottottott

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« Reply #22 on: December 26, 2010, 01:34:56 am »
Sorry, it's hard enough to survive the wildlife. I don't even want to know what the caverns would bring. Plus I don't have much wood to get me metal to make the pumps.
Wait... You actually plan on making all that? I got bored just reading about 1/10 of it. And was that a request to me for making? Seems like an awful lot of stuff.
Oh yeah! Merry Christmas AngleWyrm! :)
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Funtimes

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« Reply #23 on: December 26, 2010, 08:45:56 am »
It was just a list of things I'd like to include in a "perfect"/pretty fortress. I just figured some ideas in there might give a little inspiration.
EVENTUALLY I will be able to include all of those in a fortress.  8)
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ottottott

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« Reply #24 on: December 27, 2010, 02:40:34 am »
Well I guess I'll take some ideas and add them to my list. Please still keep suggesting though. I'm sure someone will hit an idea I really like, that will also take a long time, eventually.
Now that I looked at it. Well... I read through it but I'm really confused. So many things are twice. Seems like just a few random words in a row that maybe mean something about something a few rows up or down. I really don't understand your list. Though I'm gonna attempt those temples. They are better explained.
« Last Edit: December 27, 2010, 02:48:29 am by ottottott »
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« Reply #25 on: December 27, 2010, 06:09:55 am »
Claim a massive part of the map by building a five z-level high, four square wide wall around it with 7*7*9 guard towers at regular intervals. Build battlements, gatehouses, moats (dry or filled with water/magma) and a series of reboudts connected to your fortress by tunnels. Build it all out of stone blocks of a single type. Courtyards should obviously be floored, with nice patterns and motives as a bonus.
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« Reply #26 on: December 27, 2010, 09:51:18 am »
Yeah, it's not complete or perfectly organised yet. So most things are referenced twice based on how I see them relative to other things. And then they come with just a small list of points to consider.

But giving all the smiths a badass lobby made of solid steel with magma underfloor covered by grates and lots of their best furniture is always my favourite place to start.

If you have aquifers you can really go to town on water features. If the aquifer is your lowest soil layer then you can cave it in to have an aquifer on any z level you like.


I think my next fortress is going to be a giant 200z pit in the ground, like in one of the star wars films.
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« Reply #27 on: December 28, 2010, 03:32:14 am »
Sandrew, I will, like I have done with the other ideas, change it a little. The wall shall be 3 squares wide, guard towers will be 5*5*7, (Not counting the decorational roof I'm gonna give them.) I don't know what a reboudt is and I didn't find it in the dictionary so I'm not adding it or the tunnels until it's explained. Oh and I might not make it all of a single stone type but if different then only different buildings. Like guard tower is 1 color, wall is other color and gatehouse is 3rd color.
And the other wall will sadly be torn down. The bridge might have to go or change position and the workshops and refuse pile might change positions also...
« Last Edit: December 28, 2010, 03:35:44 am by ottottott »
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Re: Feeling bored
« Reply #28 on: December 28, 2010, 06:20:22 am »
I assume this is what Sandrew was referring to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redoubt

Small artillery forts placed outside the walls to protect and assist troops beyond the main wall and the towers' defense bubbles, armed with ballistae or catapults (your choice, neither are that useful). Tunnels would connect the redoubts to the interior of the fort from within the redoubt's walls, and you should include fortifications for your ballistae to shoot through.
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« Reply #29 on: December 28, 2010, 07:07:51 am »
Oh... Sorry... I already made my moat and I don't have room for these anymore... Heh!
I got ambushed. I had set 6 cage traps in 2 lines in a 3 tile wide corridor. 6 invaders came. All were caught in those traps. All they did was shoot apart my 1st kittens right eye and 2nd kittens lower body and right kidney, causing some blood loss and that kitten now carries a silver bolt with him.
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