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DTF

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Need some creative input on a nice location
« on: November 11, 2011, 03:57:13 pm »
Hello bearded gentleman and bearded ladies.
I've just reinstalled DF again and immediately found a very nice embark location.



It's a stream running from the south east to the north west in a 6z level deep canyon. 2 adjacent smaller streams flow into the canyon via waterfalls.
Usually I just derp right into the next best hillside for several years - but this calls for a massive surface construction project.

I thought about making the middle part of the location (the one that edges into the canyon) an island in the canyon and add a couple more waterfalls. Due to lack of creativity (dwarfiness) I kind of cannot come up with something more epic. Any ideas? There are carp in the canyon... too bad they were nerfed.
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Re: Need some creative input on a nice location
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2011, 04:11:35 pm »
Dig down into the canyon and connect through the middle with a series of bridges.
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Re: Need some creative input on a nice location
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2011, 04:37:04 pm »
That big middle part. Drain it, put a roof on it then turn the entire thing into your base.
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« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2011, 05:07:12 pm »
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Re: Need some creative input on a nice location
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2011, 05:31:46 pm »
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« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2011, 05:33:39 pm »
Dig out a cylindrical shaft in the middle and turn all tunnels into bridges connecting to central spire in the middle. Then turn the shaft into refillable cistern so your dorfs would live in supersized aquarium. Extra water can be drawn from the depths via central spire to make more waterfalls.
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« Reply #6 on: November 11, 2011, 06:06:26 pm »
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« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2011, 07:16:25 pm »
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« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2011, 02:01:47 pm »
It seems like the canyon is slowly but surely filling up with the water the 2 other streams provide. I am not certain yet, but I bet the canyon will eventually be a lake. Unless I can come up with a method of limiting the input of the 2 streams...
For now, I am busy building a wall asap - those giant badgers throw me terrifying glances from across the canyon. So glad they spawned on the wrong sides until now. But the way the map is divided allows for some easy trapping and archery practice from across one side of the canyon.
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Re: Need some creative input on a nice location
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2011, 02:09:23 pm »
Quote from: DTF on November 12, 2011, 02:01:47 pm
It seems like the canyon is slowly but surely filling up with the water the 2 other streams provide. I am not certain yet, but I bet the canyon will eventually be a lake. Unless I can come up with a method of limiting the input of the 2 streams...
For now, I am busy building a wall asap - those giant badgers throw me terrifying glances from across the canyon. So glad they spawned on the wrong sides until now. But the way the map is divided allows for some easy trapping and archery practice from across one side of the canyon.

Build bridges connecting all sides of the canyon, and build a massive gate house fortress above the gates. Defend against all who dare to cross.
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« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2011, 02:49:39 pm »
I already had the gatehouse thing in mind:

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grey - walls
yellow - medium tower
red - great tower
green - bridges

I would divide the fortress into 3 parts:
the top part would be the armory, baracks, jail and such fun.
the lower part would be farms, pastures, etc.
the middle part would be the living area whereas the tower itself will be reserved for the nobility (with long narrow skyways to maybe provoke basejumping activities for bored nobles). 
I plan on connecting the 3 parts with smaller bridges inside the canyon - if it doesnt fill up.

Still, building towers doesnt sound very dorfy unless build into the magma sea... maybe turning the middle island into a giant diamond will do the trick. If the canyon ends up as a lake eventually, it would also impose a challenging dead line as to when the lower half would have to be finished.
Hasnt actually someone already done this "diamond in a canyon" thing, I vaguely remember something of thart sort?
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Re: Need some creative input on a nice location
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2011, 04:15:33 pm »
A lot of people (including myself) have done this before, but other then that, I have only seen a few threads about it, the most recent I believe being about an oxbow bend turning into an isolated island, and that island turning into Dwarf Prison:P
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« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2011, 07:37:17 am »
This looks good. What biome(s) is this embark a part of? Could you toss the world gen info and embark spot on the DF cookbook thread maybe, or here?
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« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2011, 08:17:25 am »
Embark location:
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There are a few more waterfalls along that canyon.

As for the world gen info... how do I retrieve it? I know you can save the parameters while genning the world - but how do I do it beyond that point?
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« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2011, 09:29:31 am »
Dig out all your rooms in the canyon cliffs, and have them connected mainly by bridges and constructed floors running along the cliff face.
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