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[TeleDwarf]

Here I will post the story of my fortress that is about to begin. The idea belongs to accoro. I accept such a challenge.

Preliminary Thoughts

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I will not turn invaders off or wall-off/bridge-off the map.

The only area that is acceptable to be walled off is the keep - noble manor/palace, elite squad or two as a royal guard and ducal/baron/count guard, a selected few craftsdwarves, who earned a house inside the keep by their devotion and skill (royal mason, royal armorer, etc...).

Housing considerations: dormitories are for poor human students and sodomitical elves. Dwarves sleep in own bed or in the mud. house on the other hand is not guaranteed. The poor dwarves may live in a sleeping stockpiles: a large houses with lots of beds. each assigned as a bedroom for some poor fellow.

Wealthy(skillful, honored, etc...) dwarves will get their own home and if they desire so - a workshop. a workshop on the first floor, a bedroom and a dining room on the second. Children of the wealthy dwarves will live in the parent's house in the child-room(s) - either a "children sleeping stockpile" or individual tiny rooms for wealthiest.

Unskilled peasantry will work in the town (outside of the keep) in communal factories - houses with lot's of workshops.

I'll try to preserve a piece of natural beauty - a "central park" - an area in the center of the city (outside the keep though) which will not be developed/chopped out/harvested and designated as forbidden pathing area to preserve saplings. Perhaps intersecting footpaths will be assigned as highways for more "central park" experience.

Roads in the town will eventually be paved. important roads in the wealthy districts will then be re-paved with gold, platinum and such.

I will not constrain myself by not making any digging or tunelling - I will have a quarry, mine shafts going into various directions, wine cellars, plumbing, perhaps a shelter (after I will consider the city big and important enough). also I intend to connect some buildings with underground tunnels. In a nutshell - the closer to medieval city - the better.

I will try to keep my initial 7 alive as long as possible. I will also try to merry them to each other to form (in an ideal situation) a baron and three noble houses, eventually enclosing noble titles succession inside their families.

I will burrow nobles inside the keep and commoners outside the keep. Chosen craftsdwarves and elite guards who have proven their right to live inside the keep will be allowed to go wherever they like. a group of royal servants will b allowed inside the keep, but only to supply things needed by residents. they will not be allowed to private chambers and leisure areas, only to the stockpiles and service corridors.
Nobles will not do a thing after they will take up residence inside the palace. all maintenance jobs (building of new installations, furniture, cleaning, etc...) will be taken by chosen craftsdwarves.

Engineering and architecture: All buildings (except original few) will be constructed from blocks of consistent colours and on a foundation. I will try to create a few landmarks in the city, like a fountain, aqueduct, raising bridge, public bath with hot water, etc. (I take proposals here.).

Military: security of such insecure place will be provided by a hierarchy of military organization.
The lowest rank of this organization will be the public martial arts dojos - each dwarf will be a member of some squad. Each squad on this level will be assigned to some barracks, but will never have a training schedule. Only individual initiative is present here. No weapon of course, as it is a spirit martial art we train here.
The next level would be hunters - dwarves with hunting animals and junk crossbows to protect the city from wild beasts and hopefully decimate some attackers.
The third tier would be town guards. They will have barracs in the center of the city (but outside the keep) and will patrol the city perimeter on schedule. they will not work and will have a weapon and armor.
The highest-quality soldiers will be allowed into the keep to guard the best of the dwarfkind. They will be allowed to use the weapon they have a skill for, as they will be levied from town guards who already had some experience. They will train, socialize and have ceremonial duties like a honor guard at the gates of the keep, palace, noble rooms, etc. and are supposed to fight only in the direst situations.
The special tasks will be given to the police of the fortress - the guards. they will be given war dogs and light  crossbows and ordered to patrol craft districts and central market square to fend of thieves.

The Year of Armok 6

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In The Eternal World, on The Infamous Continent, in depthe of The Jungle of Executing there is a Temperate Conifier Forest. In that forest, on the bunks of Major River Vilemonk, the Bewildering Dignity a new fort was to be built.

The queen of The Rings of Squids gathered her court and issued a strange order:
"The dwarfkind is for too long were hiding underground. It is now time to claim woods and water. A major settlement is to be built on a major river. This settlement is to provide comfortable conditions for royal family and court."

In fear of magma mist chambers of MountainHome, Nakoval'nya Kormuglya, the unfortunate dwarf who was chosen to execute this plan had nothing else to do except gather some crazy friends and move out. She chose to take three male hunters to protect from early badgers attacks and three females to provide comforting services to the hunters.
Spring

As males were busy killing wild animals, females were tasked to do house work - dig, chop, build, butcher...
Hunters massacre wild badgers.

Females are working to prepare some room for initial village.

Draining murky pool to start a quarry.

Area is not flat enough, some major digging operations are in order. peasants will be happy to do cave-ins to preserve grass. Medics will be happy too.

The river is not as major as embark screen promised. Perhaps I will widen it later.
Temporary low bridge will be replaced after keep is at least somehow ready. It is just illogical to build rising bridge for a small village.

Updates will be posted in OP, questions answered in posts below.

[tommy521]

Amazing, posting to watch!

[Loud Whispers]

Amazing, posting to watch!

This.

Watch out for buzzards.

[Stoutpants]

Amazing, posting to watch!

This.

Watch out for buzzards.

No kidding. I'm doing an all above ground fort right now. Buzzards are the bane of my existence. Once a year they come through in swarms and I have to endure two months of job cancellation spam.

[Mitchewawa]

I look forward to pics. Don't forget to put a statue garden in there.

[Plutocrat]

It was the coons in my above ground fort.

A couple of musings: Peasants where allowed into the keep when the walls where breached, farmers where usually the only people who lived outside the town wall. Walls usually had a few entry points and these had postings of archer towers. Medieval towns has disgusting density (20 or so per room with no beds) because everyone wanted to live within the walls. Aqueducts and heated water? In medieval Europe?

I'm curious how your going to equip your royal guards with trade only metals. Watching for sure

[Loud Whispers]

You should have wood cutter huts, small villages and isolated burrows for migrants to live in... And serve as warning systems for your keep dwarves. The brilliant thing is, if you use burrows effectively, your lumberdwarves will be the only dwarves who chop down trees, and bring them to the fortress stockpiles

[TeleDwarf]

Aqueducts and heated water? In medieval Europe?

Well, I feel playfull. If I could mod roman senat in (with all those censors, questors, legates and consuls) - I would.

I'm curious how your going to equip your royal guards with trade only metals. Watching for sure

Why trade only? I will have mine shafts going everywhere from quarry.

[accoro]

Posting to watch! Got a new pc in the mail, so I may not comment very often, but rest assured - I will be watching! Thanks for giving this a go

[wypie]

Im going to try this aswell I hope we both can get past the first seige .

[CriticallyAshamed]

This sounds like good fun actually. I might start a game like this just for funnsies. That embark looks nice too.

[wypie]

Did Did this thread die before it started?

[Loud Whispers]

Did Did this thread die before it started?

Apparently. TeleDwarf might just be on a hiatus or something though

[Cellmonk]

Posting to watch! If this is carried out, this could be EPIC.