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Truean

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Designing a dwarven fort (blueprints?)
« on: February 23, 2011, 01:41:04 pm »
What the title says and one additional question:
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What things must a Dwarven Fort have? This would be designing something that is worthy of being a Mountainhome. It would balance efficiency with architectural beauty.

What functional features should a fort have?
Sealing entrance, if only a drawbridge?
Moat?
Pastures (walled off?)

What aesthetic features should a fort have?
The rooms can't all be square?
Empty spaces make the ceilings high sometimes?
Pillars?

This is just for starters? What do you think?
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Re: Designing a dwarven fort (blueprints?)
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2011, 01:43:03 pm »
I don't get how to raise roofs. (whoo whoo)
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Re: Designing a dwarven fort (blueprints?)
« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2011, 01:51:44 pm »
Quote from: Truean on February 23, 2011, 01:41:04 pm
What functional features should a fort have?
Sealing entrance, if only a drawbridge?

What aesthetic features should a fort have?
The rooms can't all be square?

What do you think?

I am currently trying to do some 3D fractal fort design like described in the Wiki but a modified version. It just looks cool.

About the entrance: There will be a long road on a higher level like this but the road on it will be entirely made of retracting bridges.
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Re: Designing a dwarven fort (blueprints?)
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2011, 01:53:08 pm »
Gotta wait for the new release to get the bug fixes, I believe.
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Re: Designing a dwarven fort (blueprints?)
« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2011, 02:32:59 pm »
He doesn't update a release, so everytime there is something new DF wil get a new version number. So the fixes in there are not in the game yet.
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