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[Kestrel]

I've floated between a few variations, but haven't pinned down anything sufficiently grand.  Looking for some inspiration.  What do you do?

[celem]

I generally just build a fairly regular suite of rooms, albeit large.  Usually I'll stick it inside a magnatite vein or something since that gives a good result with engraving.  If I lack that then on a gold deposit and I pave rather than engrave any resulting bare rock floors with gold/electrum.  Then just fill with artifact furniture to taste.

[thatkid]

A build a floor on a series of supports overlooking the magma sea, and then provide the nobles with a lever with wish they might "call their servants should they need anything"

[xeivous]

Lovely floodgates and strange water lines.

[Sting_Auer]

I haven't had a fort survive long enough for making special bedrooms for nobles and whatnot, but I am going to be using mostly regular rooms that are just a 4x3 or 4x4 box, with some some nice furniture.

[Talanic]

Usually 5x5 with a pattern of pillars inside, depending on my mood, and a whole lot of stuff.  Chests, cabinets, statues, etc.

[evileeyore]

Am I the only one who keeps his Nobles alive?




evileeyore likes goblins for their savagery, elfs for their high pitched screams of terror, cows for their haunting moos, iron for it's scarcity, and Nobles for their challenging mandates.

[Nyxalinth]

Am I the only one who keeps his Nobles alive?




evileeyore likes goblins for their savagery, elfs for their high pitched screams of terror, cows for their haunting moos, iron for it's scarcity, and Nobles for their challenging mandates.

I do, actually, even when they turn annoying. I like playing my forts as if they were a real living, breathing society.

[Halnoth]

I usually do a hammer shaped throne room with the dinning hall off one side and the royal suites off the other.

The throne room usually has pillars in it and lots of statues.

The dinning hall is usually about 12 tables or so all platinum or aluminum. I then make it a dual room the monarchs dining room and a meeting hall so its as if the king is throwing a permanent feast.

The royal suite is usually a round room with a door hidden behind a cabinet which leads down a level to the royal tomb.

I usually pump magma (or water if magma isn't possible but this is rarely the case) into it so that the tomb is on an island in the middle of a lake of magma.

[gentgeen]

I've been making townhouses for them. "First floor" (which means where the main entrance is, not necessarily the lowest z-level) is a large office/throne room, with a throne, at least one of the chests, and usually the armor stand and weapon rack. Off to one side is a stairway leading to the "second floor". The stairway enters the second floor in the dining room, and a door leads to the private bedroom. I usually have a chest in the dining room to help bring up the value, and have the cabinet in the bedroom. The mayor gets a similar suite, but with part of the office used for a private food and booze storeroom, in case I need to lock him in for a month or two, before talking to the representative from the mountainholmes. First floor is either 3x7 or 3x11, each room on the second floor is half the size of the first floor.

[Psieye]

One statue with so many decorations it's more expensive than regular artifacts would be my ideal. Never quite got to the mass decoration stage, so it was just platinum furniture to raise room value.

[Kestrel]

I think I'll start laying out a "red carpet" of rose gold flooring 1x7 tiles long through the throne room.  Although, my current fort probably won't get a king at this rate.  Dwarven traders have dwindled off, and there were no migrants last season, even though we're flourishing.

[Shook]

I usually just go with a triplet of 3x3 rooms, made of solid gold (including the furniture), and a tomb elsewhere. This tends to be valuable enough, for even a needy noble (never had higher than a duke though). What i'm contemplating, however, is to make the rooms form the united shape of the male family branch. That'd be fitting for those needy little pricks, anyways. A damn shame that dorfs can't recognize shapes though, else we could give them awesome thoughts like "was (utterly traumatized/positively elated) by sleeping in a giant dick-shaped bedroom lately". What? Don't tell me that wouldn't amuse you at least a little bit.

[darkflagrance]

I dig out two massive 20x40 or so rooms as the dining and throne rooms. These are long corridors lined with statues or tables depending on the building's purpose, with armor stands and chests aplenty. Adjoining these are rooms full of gold bars and silver nuggets. Behind them is the grand imperial bedroom, with walls lined with engravings, chests, and cabinets.

[Sir Leonard III]

Gold plated floors, with gold chairs, tables, armor stands, weapon stands, beds, cabinets and chests. The floors are then lined with magma, as are the walls. Then more magma is put into the room once the noble gets to a dead-end from the magma his favorite spot, until the entire room is overflowing with magma! Then a lever is pulled where the floors give out and he is skewered gently placed atop five or so adamantine spears, then that chamber is filled with more magma!