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DWARF FORTRESS
Boro_Bandito:
Trials and tribulations of Earthrasp, a giant brown fortress that utilizes the river that its original gorge entrance was carved from. Right now I've got 40 dwarves, one injured in attack and probably as good as dead, currently trying to figure out how to power my pump stack so I can finally set in motion my waterfall in Dwarf Fortress. Goblins attacked, defenses held out, caught 4, killed 2, injured one, other than the one valuable mechanic I lost just a couple valiant but stupid pups, not too shabby for a surprise ambush .
The one goblin that survived ran away bruised and defeated, but so far all I have are automated defenses, need militia and soon. Established huge indoor farming operation, making the fortress completely self sufficiant, except for wood, though it does have a lot of outdoor space. Thinking about installing Arena when my waterfall's finally functional, I want to make it run by Waterwheel power but I don't understand how the waterwheel works at all.
Just gonna show the nifty parts, so not too many photos:
This is the upper level of the outside of the fortress, trading post, kennel, watchtower are all here. My first farm was up here too, didn't do squat.
And then the lower part. I used a natural sort of bowl that had formed by the river and basically just hollowed it out, adding the drawbridge and wall, the big ol' statue garden is where the original little hole in the wall was, though its pretty unrecognizable now. Carved a moat, moat worked really well, better than I was expecting.
This is my farm, which has a section of the moat dug deeper than the rest so that I could irrigate it. Wasn't sure if I would need to again over time so I built the floodgate thingy, which I suppose as a last ditch act could be opened and flood the whole fortress, along with the pump stack I'm making if it ever seems like all hope is lost.
And last my royal dining hall, with the waterfall ready to go, just needing power. Or so I hope, if not then I'll have a very impressive death trap.
KharBevNor:
You know how the emissary from the Mountainhomes always butters you up by saying your efforts are legendary back there? I think it's probably true for my current fortress. I imagine dwarfs probably talk sometimes about the legendary wealth of Waywardcrypts, where the screw pumps and weapon traps are made from silver because it's cheaper and more plentiful than bronze or iron. Where the dwarves dine every night on Elephant biscuits in the Hall of the Hammer, and sing songs of the Cleaning Lenses, the mighty militia of Waywardcrypts, and especially their ferocious leader Urith Tongueponds, who once slew a Tigerman single-handed armed only with her own son.
It's ludicrous how this one is working out. Scouring multiple z-levels I've found like one small vein of tetrahedrite and a couple of bismuthinite inclusions. I have also found, and I'm not shitting hear, pretty much three whole z-levels made of native gold. There was platinum and diamonds literally just sticking out the fucking ground in front of me when I embarked.
Boro_Bandito:
Damn, I haven't so much as found silver this time around, just fucktons of chert sometimes laced with either kaolinite or limonite. Little bit of bituminous coal, but yeah my fortress is mostly known for the roughly 100k I can put towards the bargaining table in chert stone crafts whenever a caravan rolls through and the somewhat interesting architecture, also given that I like to have a large crew of stone detailers (I think I'm up to 7) just going around and smoothing out and engraving every square inch of the place.
KharBevNor:
Yeah. The other main resource I have is looads of gems. I've got one dwarf permanently on cutting them, one on encrusting things with them. Unfortunately their dwarvish proclivities mean I have little control over what they actually encrust, which is why I now have a mahogany training sword worth 1960*, studded with gold, bands of silver, bands of electrum, images in tanzanite and diamond.
Late last night I found me a magma pipe. I'm going to have to put some thinking in to whether I want to set up a glass industry, churn out green glass pumps and bring it up, or just whack in the smelters and kilns down there, and build a second 'deep' section of Waywardcrypts. The other possibility is a Magma Piston. I have already built a similiar mechanism designed to destroy the stairwell into the depths in case a Forgotten Beast manages to penetrated the UnderFortress.
Boro_Bandito:
I've discovered in-game quote tunnels guys.
"Engraved on the wall is a masterfully designed image of Cerol Merchantconfine the dwarf by Cerol Asmelkacoth. Cerol Merchantconfine is engraving. The artwork refers to the masterful engraving 'The Murky Fortunes' created by the dwarf Cerol Merchantconfine for The Long Knife at Earthrasp in the late winter of 617."
Looked up the other drawing, its about another engraving he did. What a self-important little prick.
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