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[Buttery_Mess]

You guys have weird forts.

Here's a snap of my 'main level'

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All my forts follow a basic design centred around 11x11 rooms. I experiment with variations on that theme.

I can't comprehend forts with higgledy piggledy corridors and varying rooms sizes. It makes it impossible to plan ahead or expand in an efficient way. But, most people don't seem to plan forts like me.

[wuphonsreach]

My preference is about a 45x45 tile footprint maximum on each level (*maybe* 60x60), centered around a 2x2 staircase, with at least 25Z worth of vertical space to work with.  I do a lot of 2-tile corridors with 5x11 rooms branching off to the sides, or 3x4 workshops, or a pack of 3x3 rooms for quarters.

[Urist Da Vinci]

You guys have weird forts.
Here's a snap of my 'main level'
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All my forts follow a basic design centred around 11x11 rooms. I experiment with variations on that theme.
I can't comprehend forts with higgledy piggledy corridors and varying rooms sizes. It makes it impossible to plan ahead or expand in an efficient way. But, most people don't seem to plan forts like me.

A lot of people seem to like flat, almost 2D forts. I am not usually one of them.

My current 6x6 fort, where there are only 5 underground z-levels, and 20 above ground. Caverns are disabled, so I use above-ground plants and animals. The mining project in the upper right is to get to a patch of nice stone/ore under the aquifer.

The fort is a wood stockade/palisade w/moat around a courtyard and keep. The central keep is mostly made of wood, and has bedrooms above and a food storage basement below in the one non-aquifer sand level.

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I do have the save file from seconds after embark, if someone else is interested in trying out the concept. The dwarven caravan will bring surface animal/plant goods like the humans usually do. There are carp and gators in the river. Just before I made the first save, some Rhesus Macaques entered the map.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

How do you make 2d forts. All mine have 5x5 central staircases with no hallways.

[Aramco]

How do you make 2d forts. All mine have 5x5 central staircases with no hallways.

You build hallways instead of stairs, and keep everything you can on one z-level.

[Poindexterity]

23 idlers?! That's terrible! Nobody should ever idle, even if that means that they're hauling junk back and forth.

nothing says "quick lever response time" quite like 23 idlers

[Aramco]

Nothing says, "Hey goblins, there are 23 dwarves in my meeting hall" quite like having 23 idlers.

[kaenneth]

Hmm, I have been laying out my dining rooms by putting multiple chairs around tables;

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[Jordan~]

My current fortress, capital of The Castle of Gold, founded by The Gold-Mines on The Golden Plains in the year 5. As you might guess, there's a lot of gold.

Spoiler: Entrance (click to show/hide)

The entrance, trade depot, a meeting hall (north), the stairs down to the palaces (south), the (currently out of order) dwarven water reactors that power the irrigation pump stack (east) and a few workshops feeding on to their stockpiles (north west/north centre):

Spoiler: Ducal Palace (click to show/hide)

The palace belonging to the duke (also the manager, broker, bookkeeper and mayor) and his consort:

Spoiler: Royal Palace (click to show/hide)

The palace belonging to the king and his consort:

Spoiler: Southern fortress (click to show/hide)

The southern half of the main working area of the fortress, with the farms (the top of the pump stack visible to the south), the dining room, and a few stockpiles. There are more food stockpiles on the floor below, along with the drainage canal and the magma reservoirs for the furnaces:

Spoiler: Northern fortress (click to show/hide)

The northern half of the main working area of the fortress, with the smelters and forges (east - the northern one is for bronze, the southern one for gold), the well (south centre), the hospital (west), and various stockpiles and workshops. To the north of this area are the caverns and the staircase to the bedrooms:

Spoiler: Bedrooms (click to show/hide)

There are three identical bedroom halls, with all dwarves living in 4-bed barracks. This is the newest hall, and as such some of the beds will probably never be occupied (fortress population is at 274):

There you go. The entrance, not pictured, is a natural Ayer's Rock-style boulder made of rock salt which I've smoothed and engraved - it used to have caves in it, I mined it hollow and built the path down to the fortress. There's also the ruins of the expeditionary base in the soil layers, where the first hundred dwarves lived while I was building the gold fortress - when they moved in, it was complete except a few stockpiles and bedrooms I've added. If it's yellow and it isn't a bed, it's made of gold; if it's made of gold and it has quality, it's a masterpiece. Fortress wealth has just gone over 10,000,000, most of which is in forgotten beast meat and dwarven syrup roasts.

[Newbunkle]

I guess having more than a hundred idlers is a bad thing then?

Nice gold palace. That's one thing I miss with the current scarcity of metals. Hopefully when the caravan arc is finished we can trade for more than three or four bars at a time.

[Jordan~]

You do have the latest version, right? There's a world gen parameter (and an option when you choose Create New World Now) that allows you to set metal scarcity. You can make it more common than it was before.

[Newbunkle]

I'll have to check it out. I have it, but I imported my previous map because I liked that fortress.

[Laser Cake]

Ok, so I just finished building the drawbridge, and lo! AMBUSH! As soon as my pithy squad fell to goblin swords all my helpful dwarves ran out of the fortress to their doom, took 37 of 75 of them dying before I found the burrow/military/civilan alerts thingy. On the bright side I cut WAY down on idlers...  Still, quite content with the fortress aesthetic as a whole, even though everyone is now going insane!

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Screen shot 2011-03-18 at 2.30.54 AM by laser cake

[BulMaster]

Id love to post my fort but i feel like the only one using a tileset

[Urist Da Vinci]

Id love to post my fort but i feel like the only one using a tileset

You could turn off graphical (tileset) mode long enough to take a screenshot. Look in the init.txt file.