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[GreatWyrmGold]

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I just lost my favorite current fort (second- or third-favorite ever) to a daemon siege, which killed most of my population, including all my useful ones except my double-legendary miner/engraver, almost all of my domestic animals, the elven traders (meh), the giant badger the elves brought (NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), and the horse their leader rode in on (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA). They all died, but I didn't have any of the various needed professions to survive and didn't feel like rebuilding, so I abandoned.

So I decided to start a community fort.

This fortress will be the communtiest community fort EVER! I want to know what YOU want to see in a community fort. Soap tower? Faux-Elven Retreat? No defense except giant cave spiders and tight corridors? Something crazier?
Notes:
0. This is a community fort, not a succession fort. I'll start a succession fort later.
1a. You can choose a mod (any on the forums, or one you create and upload), or vanilla. If you don't mention it, I'll assume you don't care.
1b. I don't like graphics, though. I just can't understand them. Thus I'd prefer mods that don't involve graphics.
1c. I have a couple little things changed in my raws, such as a wood-growing workshop, plastic-grains soil, and the ability to tame any cave creature. If "true" vanilla matters so much to you, I'll consider finding a fresh copy.
2. I'm a little n00bish, so if you choose something too complex/dangerous (surface fort in Fortress Defense mod), it'll be a short community fort.
2b. I am, however, willing to try anything.
3. I'll give everyone a day or so to respond.
4. Once that day is up, I'll take the top few ideas, choose the one that has the most votes and seems least-impossible, and apply a similar attitude to mods.
5. Sure, I'll take dwarfings, but unless the idea for the fort dictates otherwise, I'll choose the starting 7 (possibly with influence from pre-requested dwarfings), so you might have to wait for a migrant.
6. Don't expect a year a day, but an update a day is likely.

I can't wait to see what you choose!

Dawnstone is a community surface fort, my first community fort. Dawnstone I, my first attempt, ended badly. It used a modified version of the Monster Hunter Universe mod, and I am playing as felynes. Somewhat claustrophobic felynes. They have, because of a cryptic warning from their deceased expedition leader, forsaken the depths and chosen to build a fort entirely on the surface. They died anyways.

History of Dawnstone I

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We have embarked.
Shortly after embark, three plesioloths killed Zurko and Das. Expedition leadership passed briefly to Das, then to Bini the many-talented after Das's inevitable death, all by random chance. After claiming Bini as my new felyne, he and the others went on to come up with some ground rules, such as avoiding ground near plesioloths. This last measure didn't go well, as barely a week after the tragedies of the fastest deaths of any of my forts, Pinetreasure, unhappy from the deaths of her late friends, accidentally enraged the killer of one...
...but nothing much happened; the giant sea-lizard wandered off. The killer of Zurko later wandered back in, but was beaten back after some halfhearted shots at a yak and, erm, suddenly losing the ability to breathe. Das's killer swam away, but after losing the ability to breathe air, the last plesioloth was trapped in a small pond. This lead to Ulde being attacked, twice, by this beast. The first was nothing, the second ended with a drowning clothier being bitten in the head. However, morale was dropping from all of these deaths. Since Specut was busy following Bini round, she didn't have a chance to make any kind of burial receptacle, which made people sadder. This ended with Specut going berserk, killing Bini (who she had been following around for more than a month, stopping only for food and drink...creepy?), crippled a dog, wounded another, and was finally killed. But morale is at an all-time low as the horror of the situation finally makes Hode unhappy...because the person she had a grudge against is dead. As Niwar noted, "I am the only sane one left."
Perfect time for an intermission!
As Niwar tried to figure out what to do, Hode was attacked by a large, angry bullfango. After many more attacks, Hode is finally killed, followed by the yak. As Niwar makes plans to rebuild, she is ambushed by a few bullfangoes while getting a drink. She was killed messily.

Felynes of Dawnstones I:

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Zurko "Wyvernsheart" Relicorgan: Woodcutter, Broker, Bookkeeper, Manager, Etc. Claimed by GreatWyrmGold. DECEASED: killed in one "slam" by Breakkillers the plesioloth.
Specut Pinestreasure: Mason, Carpenter. Implied to have started stalking Bini Dancedpearl after Zurko and Das were killed. DECEASED: Killed by a tame apaceros while berserk.
Ulde Ripevessels: Clothier, Mechanic. Killed by Rentnames the plesioloth.
Niwar Basementsubmerge: Grower, Weaver. Only remaining sane (fluff-wise) dwarf. DECEASED: Killed by a bullfango.
Bini "Many-Talonted" Dancedpearl: Furnace Operator, Stonecrafter, Wood Burner, Potter. Several other talents alluded to in-story. Claimed by GreatWyrmGold. DECEASED: Killed by berserk-stalker Specut Pinestreasure.
Hode Purplepanthers:Miner, Engraver. Dyes her fur. Implied to be crazy. DECEASED: Killed by Skewerbent the bullfango.
Das Coastbud: Brewer, cook, herbalist, gigantic. DECEASED: shot and killed by the watery spittle of Furnaceshut.
Claimed Not Claimed Forumer who has requested a felyne but has not received one Dead, claimed Dead, unclaimed

Dawnstone II, or Dawnstone as its inhabitants call it, uses the Fortress Defense mod and my modded version of DF. Similarly to the felynes of Dawnstone I, they follow the warning of their leader and choose to avoid the depths. May they fare better.

Spoiler: History of Dawnstone, Take 2 (click to show/hide)

Year 31: The Year of the Birth
We have embarked. Again.
Animals are butchered, tunnels are dug, some supplies are created. Several items were accidently tossed into the river. Farms were plowed, a kiln and a wood furnace were made. Badgers attacked but were clearly outmatched, a running joke was started, walls were built. A need for seed was noted.
Badger men bothered Glovedbound. Giant badgers appear and get the fortress terrified at their very existence. Migrants arrived.
The caverns were accidentally breached, but then sealed. A militia is drafted and armamants ordered to be made from the fort's limited materials. Great-Wyrm Bronze gets an office. The badgers shrink. A well is built. A siege-training area is built. Several domestic animals gave birth, each to one male and one female. Poor remembrances of Elvish are made. The War of Badgerman Invasion begins. Reference to [reference not identified, cookie to identifier] made. The Battle of the West Bank, the largest military conflict yet, fought as war is officially declared.
Migrants arrive. Badgers are slain for food. A battle is fought. Two militiadwarves drown. Sadness ensues (for me). Ponds were breached. The caravan arrived.
Trading was done with the traders. A bridge was planned. A gosling was seen on top of a wall. The trading continued. Vengeance was wrought. The merchants got greedy. The liason tried to talk to Great-Wyrm Bronze. Tileset was changed. Wolves came. A soap tower was planned. The merchants left. The guards stuck around. Macaques attacked, as did wolves. No casualties.
Requests are made to the Mountainhomes.  Requests are made from the Mountainhomes. Great-Wyrm Bronze's office was completed, with soap. Trout were noticed in the slowly flooding farms. The barracks in the front gate were completed. Many minerals were struck in the Soap Tower's basement. An aboveground farm, to use all of these aboveground seeds, was made. Gar makes clay mechanisms. Steel-making is started. The year ends.
Year 32: The Year of the Present-Time
The barracks are completed. Badgers attack. Tons of migrants arrive.
Several dwarves "inexplicably" died. The door to their watery grave was (eventually) removed. Badgers attack and get killed. A militia member jumped into the river. A fish cleaner was possessed. A militiadwarf became attached to a training spear. A badger woman was captured.
Saventrent, a dolomite harp, was created. Gems are ordered cut. A kennel is made; the badger woman is tamed and then assigned some jobs. She doesn't do them. A giant bat enters the fortress and kills the only gem cutter. The badger woman has a couple attempts on her life made, including throwing her thirty feet into the river, at which point she swam to an opening in the fortress and re-entered. I could toss her in the migrant-drowning chamber, but she'd probably gnaw herself an airhole or something, so she's going into the military with the current name of "". (You can claim the badger woman if you like...)
War animals are trained. A giant badger attacked a yak calf. A ghost rose from the dead to terrorise the living! Elves come to sell their animals and such for new summer fashions. Carpenter troubles occur. The badger woman was trained in the "Art of War." A goblin webber, a goblin subspecies who fires obsidian webs, was captured trying to steal the fortress's children! We may have an obsidian/silk farm someday...
The Gland of Flushing was engraved. Badgerfolk invade the Soap Tower. There was an odd announcement. A carpenter tantrumed and was beaten. With an axe. Skull supplies run low. The elves leave. Bone armor is made; a fishery is ordered. Solon refuses to diagnose the carpenter. Iron-smelting is complete. A ballista battery is started. Migrants, including two marksdwarves, arrive.
Giant badgers attack. Casualties: One giant badger died, another was locked into the drowning chamber. Masterwork items were created. A planterwithdraws from society, creating an artifact dolomite ring, decorated in white and red, with a miniature Savantrent depicted on it. The giant badger is drowned. A jabberer lays an egg. The lowest level of the soap tower had its wall completed, entirely from jabberer and GCS soap. Masterwork bolts were made. A beak wolf siege comes!
The militia moves in to kill the weird bird-dog-thing monsters, but half a dozen bow-goblins (bowglins for short) and a pikegoblin ambush us from the south! A single marksdwarf stands on the northwestern bank, smacking beak wolves with his crossbow and entering a martial trance, eventually dodging into the river, but not without taking out (not down) a beak wolf. Some wolves are captured or killed, but more pikegoblins (two fire goblins) show their ugly faces. Dwarves die, including the creator of Savantrent. Then Kogan Boatblizzards awakes...and stands in the barracks, doing nothing, for days. The other marksdwarf flees from the goblins, refusing to fire his crossbow. The carpenter who was beaten dies of thirst. A wrestler whose helm distracted the beak wolves wakes up, leading to the loss of several peripheral appendages. Kogan, still standing in the barracks, begins recording as Great-Wyrm Bronze hides in his room with the door locked. One bowglin is killed as more militiadwarves wake up and rush into battle, including Kogan and her war dog, who is killed. Kogan survives, but is fixated on denting the nice new goblinite helm instead of killing the other goblins. Two of the other surviving militia members, including the creator of Greedfaith the Deer of Rust, are unconscious and bleeding, one is bleeding, and one is volunteering his helm as beak wolves' chew toy.
A bowglin kills a dwarf by smacking him in the head with his bow. The ambush is soon defeated, and the beak wolves leave. We start to repair the fortress...And the save gets corrupted.

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31: Year of the Birth--The fortress begins. Badgers showed their ugly faces, starting a running joke. The caverns were breached, oops. A catapulting area was built. War was declared on the Badger-People. Militiadwarves drown, but their bodies are retrieved, starting a flooding problem that goes on for many, many months in the farm plots. Traders arrived. A soap tower was started. Steel-making starts.

Dwarves:

Spoiler: Population Rising (My updates are far behind the fortress) (click to show/hide)

From now on I'll only list claimed dwarves.

Olin "Great-Wyrm Bronze" Smootharrows: Woodcutter, leader person, etc. Likes bronze, stubborn yet patient. Claimed by GreatWyrmGold.
Tulon "Gar" Wheelslanced: Clothier, mechanic, oddly oxymoronic. Claimed by perregaret.
"Robinson": Will be a peasant hermit. Will be claimed by Urist McHuman.

Artifacts:

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Vumomeshik, "Savantrent," a dolomite harp. Encrusted with dolomite and silty clay; adorned with hanging rings of dolomite; menacing with spikes of wolf leather. Has an image of a plump helmet in dolomite. USE: Put on display in Great-Wyrm Bronze's office in a display case. Lost due to save corruption.
Daltabar Kizbiz Kezar, "Greedfaith the Deer of Rust," a dolomite ring. Encircled with bands of dolomite (interpreted as being multiple dolomite rings); adorned with rings of silty clay; menaces with spikes of bloodstone and badger bone; has a dolomite image of Savantrent (interpreted as a minuscule model). USE: Would have been displayed in the dining room. Lost due to save corruption.

[UltraValican]

I haven't seen a surface community before so a surface fort any mod(vanilla would be easiest for surface fort) would be cool. Even though the key to a good comunity fort is story, especially when you reach THAT point in a fort when you have enought food to last several dwarven lifetimes.
-edit fort was capitalized for some reason.
-edit edit some interesting mods
Monster hunter universe-You can play as Kittehs!
Hydra/Phoenix Rising could use some publicity
Dead Space Mod
If you need links I can get them.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I'll work on the story, don't you worry.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Does no one else have ideas, or is it just that no one else has read this?

[sayaks]

Live like a human! Just make everything aboveground and only have the mine go belowground. Also maybe mod it so that you can play like a human.

also can i get dorfed (humaned?)

[NRDL]

Fortress of Pain.  Here's my idea.

Claim a dwarf for yourself, with a nice villainous title/nickname.  He is the most important one, he is you. 

In Headshoots style, separate your dorf, the military, and all named and important ( presumably legendary ) dwarves in one part of the fort, completely isolated, and incapable of making contact with the less important dwarves.

It is up to you to decide how to torture the less important dwarves.  Lock one in his bedroom with a few badgers?  Do that if you wish.  Goblins try to siege?  Capture them, drop them down a pit filled with wild animals, or whatever you want.  Sky's the limit, use as much sadism as possible.  Nothing will die a quick death. 

If there's a tantrum, which I hope there will be, let it sort itself out, and keep your important dwarves safe and secure in the isolated, self-sufficient part of the fort.

BONUS POINTS: Have the less important dwarves toil and suffer on the surface, the important dwarves happily living underground. 

REMINDER: Nobles are VERY unimportant. 

[sayaks]

Or a mix: create an awesome huge castle for the important ones which isolate them then use the unimportant ones to do all the work (send them down in the mines(no security of any sort) go around and chop wood anything the unimportant shouldn't do) have them send the stuff in somehow yet not coming in contact and let everything go like it would and only care about those inside the castle.

You might have to crate a mine inside the castle after some time.   

[NRDL]

Your idea doesn't involve torture. 

[sayaks]

What if we embark on a terrifying spot and have them not get any food no beds no booze nothing apart from a pick and what they need of tools. (btw gig now so no more replies from me)

[NRDL]

That's still torture, it's slightly sadistic, but barely scratching the surface.  I'm talking about entire rooms and chambers designed for sheer dwarven pain and suffering. 

[sayaks]

Ok so everything i previously plus that the workshops are floodable with lava and several spikes in the corridors, plus large floodable meeting areas with refuse stockpiles and all sorts of machines and no block from the caverns.(i could answer because it didn't take long what i was doing.

[NRDL]

Also, easily releasable cage traps filled with dangerous animals, but animals that won't kill immediately ( like badgers, maybe some monkeys ).

Really, the sky is the limit.  The point of this fort is to find new and innovative ways to mutilate and permanently scar dwarves.  There are many methods of science available to us, let's use them. 

So do you support this? 

[peregarrett]

Hell, that as my recent idea - make a fort of unhappy dwarves!!!
Everything you do should serve the purpose of keeping dwarves unhappy and barely alive. For survival reason we can make a self-sufficient vault for one or two happy dwarves, so the fort won't crumble to end.

So, main goals are:
- Massive socializing. Friends with everyone! Especially those who are the most dangerous
- Regular switching from cave dwellers to surface, so cave adaptation scores it's hit.
- Children are wandering outside and are subjected to ambushes and snatchers
- Ghosts. Never bury deads - at least before they rot to skeletons.
- Miasma. Refuse stockpiles at meeting halls. Caged zombies.
- Regular switching from "cats is best dwarf's friend" to "no cat's allowed'. So tantrums and swarms of vermins.
- Booze and bedrooms for nobles only! And for guards.
- No jail, or small jail with cages.
- ...

Just think of it - a lot of macabre moods!

REMINDER: Nobles are VERY unimportant. 

No, they are very important. The have demands, and dwarves are to be punished for not fulfilling them!

[Qwernt]

"Shopping Mall" is an idea I have been toying with for my own fortress that I think would be fun as a community.  Basic idea:

We are setting up a tourist spot.  Each starting dwarf must have a skill as max as possible that makes something for trade.  As soon as possible, each "Master" dwarf must get a trade depot and then create a determined number of items (after which they can build a little "shop" for themselves.  Which ever trade depot the caravan goes to determines what kind of goods can be traded.  IE, if they go to the mason shop, the mason gets to trade and therefor gets to make more stuff, which means he will gain more skill. It would be a little race to see which becomes the Lengendary first.  Obviously, artifacts might ruin the race... might actually consider truning them off.  Also, determining Militia and defense is up to you.  I was thinking of no enemies just so I could focus on the race. 

Also, there may have to be a little support network:  IE, the Mason needs stone so either they have to have a pick, or have a miner as an apprentice.  Similar, you could have 1 shop be "McDwarfnalds" with a chef, but they would eventually need a food supply.  In some cases, you could do things like: Fisherman can only have x barrels of fish.  If Chef uses one then he can go fishing again.  Similar with Herbalist/Growers/millers/etc.

I have also thought about a mini fort that is "Restraunt row".  Basically you have food suppliers and chefs (plus army).  Chefs may specialize (fish + flour only - selling "Fish Sandwiches" verses the guy down the street with his "Mushrooms in berry sauce") or just allow them all to have access to all.

Random thoughts, feel free to use here (as I won't be doing community, just running one for myself).

[UltraValican]

Fortress of Pain.  Here's my idea.

Claim a dwarf for yourself, with a nice villainous title/nickname.  He is the most important one, he is you. 

In Headshoots style, separate your dorf, the military, and all named and important ( presumably legendary ) dwarves in one part of the fort, completely isolated, and incapable of making contact with the less important dwarves.

It is up to you to decide how to torture the less important dwarves.  Lock one in his bedroom with a few badgers?  Do that if you wish.  Goblins try to siege?  Capture them, drop them down a pit filled with wild animals, or whatever you want.  Sky's the limit, use as much sadism as possible.  Nothing will die a quick death. 

If there's a tantrum, which I hope there will be, let it sort itself out, and keep your important dwarves safe and secure in the isolated, self-sufficient part of the fort.

BONUS POINTS: Have the less important dwarves toil and suffer on the surface, the important dwarves happily living underground. 

REMINDER: Nobles are VERY unimportant.

I thought headshoots divisions were situational though.....