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[GalileoMateo]

Hey everyone i always like seeing how different people approach the same thing in dwarf fortress, so i was wondering what your guys' panic rooms look like!  When all things go awry, where do u send your nobles?  Mine is currently under construction so ill post a picture as soon as its done.  I hope some of yours involve !Science! to deal with potential intruders!

[Evil One]

where do u send your nobles?

Usually to their deaths in a sealed room, although as they starve and eventually go insane I supposed some of them do panic... Does that count as a panic room?

[TDSS02]

Hello GalileoMateo, my "panic room" i call my "control room" and it operates as such. basically what i do is make a decent sized room where all the levers and "controls" are located (usually near my main hallway) to operate everything in the fort. i use double doors with a space in between on both side's so i can tie up two guard dogs. I also dig out a bedroom, dinning room and office thats connected to the control room for one dwarf who i name "control". He is the only one allowed to operate everything. In addition to the rooms there is also a Food/Beer stockpile plus 1 Pickaxe and a stone to seal up the space i leave behind the door, incase the fort gets over-run he can hang out till the next migrant wave or until the danger passes, then he can pick up the pickaxe and dig himself out. He is a true "vault dweller" 

[Urist Imiknorris]

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The 2x2 space in the small room contains a bed, table, throne, and a large quantum stockpile of slabs and a few barrels. The 3x3 space marked with * is a craftsdwarf's workshop to engrave the slabs and then get converted to a still. The stockpile contains plump helmets and their spawn, which the farm will grow. The door is a left-raising drawbridge. The large room is for placing slabs, with the exception of the ^ in the corner, which is the lever that controls the bridge. My Chosen One is always a planter.

[thijser]

I usually just place a couple of cage traps and doors in front of my dwarfs bedrooms combined with tiny food/booze storages troughout my fortress these make interesting short term hidding places (there is little capable of both beeing a mayor tread and avoiding cage traps and opening doors). Sometimes these areas can also be closed off with a bridge and a channel. In very rare cases these areas have a single pick and a farming area.

[FrisianDude]

Hello GalileoMateo, my "panic room" i call my "control room" and it operates as such. basically what i do is make a decent sized room where all the levers and "controls" are located (usually near my main hallway) to operate everything in the fort.

How on earth do you remember which lever does what?

[Namfuak]

Hello GalileoMateo, my "panic room" i call my "control room" and it operates as such. basically what i do is make a decent sized room where all the levers and "controls" are located (usually near my main hallway) to operate everything in the fort.

How on earth do you remember which lever does what?

Different materials make different colored levers, and you can put notes on top.  If worst comes to worst you can just check what the lever isn't able to be connected to.

As for me, I don't ever have control rooms or panic rooms.  The closest I ever come is putting booze and food stockpiles and a dining room near the barracks area so that my military doesn't have to go all the way to the dining room when they get hungry and can keep training (I also don't use danger rooms).  Usually I have plenty of idle dwarves, so I just put all my levers right next to the dining hall and statue garden.

[TDSS02]

Hello GalileoMateo, my "panic room" i call my "control room" and it operates as such. basically what i do is make a decent sized room where all the levers and "controls" are located (usually near my main hallway) to operate everything in the fort.

How on earth do you remember which lever does what?

hehe i usually put the levers in order to what they open on the map, for example. If i have 2 bridges up top a hatch in the middle and a floodgate down below on my fort that is the order i will place the levers in the control room so they kinda "mirror" how its setup in the fort. Sorry if i'm not explaining it right lol. its actually really easy and orderly.

[ch00beh]

My entire fortress only has one land based entrance topside, so the entire thing is basically a panic room once the drawbridge is sealed. The control room for my levers is a statue garden/zoo next to the legendary dining room and noble throne room. Another drawbridge seals up the caverns, too.

Of course, flying building destroyers can fly in through the bridge I built over my volcano and knock down the roof access doors, or they can knock down the sealed bottomside drawbridge, but we're going to hope that it never comes to that. If it does, there are bigger things to worry about than surviving. (like completing project Fuck the Fortress which may or may not involve pressurized magma)

[Krelian]

not exactly a panic room, but the entrance of the fortress is an underground bridge over a very deep fall (ala Khazad dum) which can retract, and at the same time, there is a cyclops and a ettin caged (and wired to a lever of course) to the outside part of the bridge. In dire times, they shall be released.

[NSQuote]

I have a drawbridge that closes down over the ramp entrance to my fort. This setup, of course, almost ended up starving the fort. Niow that I've gotten it worked out, it works very well at keeping invaders out.

[iron_general]

I don't really us a panic romm but achieve the sam effect by puting all my workshops, farms and beds on a handfull of levels, defend the top with towers and a drawbirdge, and the bottom with a very long passage between the stairs ( to give my soldiers time to react), many ballistas behind fortifications and many, many spike traps.

[ch00beh]

There's something really satisfying about knowing that your useless arts and crafts industry is chugging along merrily despite the presence of a billion goblins outside.

[FrisianDude]

hehe i usually put the levers in order to what they open on the map, for example. If i have 2 bridges up top a hatch in the middle and a floodgate down below on my fort that is the order i will place the levers in the control room so they kinda "mirror" how its setup in the fort. Sorry if i'm not explaining it right lol. its actually really easy and orderly.

More or less what I've started to do, unless I want them in my dining room.

Different materials make different colored levers, and you can put notes on top.  If worst comes to worst you can just check what the lever isn't able to be connected to.

Notes? How?

[Encased in burning magma]

My noble rooms are outside. You know, ambush detectors.