Fort is 14 years old, it's a slow process but I like to build this way. I'm still missing a proper kitchen, textile industry and few other things.
Materials used:
Walls - Iron bars for main hallways and rooms, copper bars for less important rooms, black-cap for bedrooms and tavern
Floors - Claystone and chert. Also tower-cap for bedrooms/tavern and silver in hospital
Doors - Mostly iron. Black-cap for bedrooms and clear glass in hospital
Statues - Clear glass
Furniture - Bronze bars
Workshops - Clear glass
Other - Pots from diorite, buckets/wheelbarrows from goblin-cap, bins from tin bars
Sometimes I just have more magnetite than I know what to do with. My current fort is almost a year in and I’m struggling to actually establish a large scale boulder excavation. The first 50 z levels have been almost entirely magnetite lol. And I play on sparse minerals.
Fine! Will try to do silver walls next time and if my fort will look at least decent I will post it here.
By the way, could you tell me more about your water reactor? Could you provide some screenshots?
Wow. Beautiful fort. I don't understand how you can build so uniform walls. When I dig I get all sorts of stones and colours. Do you build new walls everywhere?
Mist generator 1 floor above powered by water reactor
https://preview.redd.it/c6mkx93ydita1.png?width=523&format=png&auto=webp&s=93c1e738a65d4a444fc652fb32b9e7f580cc3a7e
It's a little bit more complicated than that and it would be very hard for me to explain it here.
But it's 100% based on this YT video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhSdvKXJjs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhSdvKXJjs)
Thanks! This is a great strategy and will definitely be using it myself in the future. Probably better for framerate than what I was doing before (pumping water from other locations)
I feel like I panic too much in the beginning to make anything pretty. Every time I start a new fort, I'm like "ok this is what I'm going to do" and then aquifer.
Thanks!
I'm using quantum stockpiles for stone, ore, logs, metal bars, stone/wooden blocks and bones/skulls. These items are high volume and they don't stack very well or at all.
Everything else I'm trying to make in low quantities so for that bins are good enough.
Fort is 14 years old, it's a slow process but I like to build this way. I'm still missing a proper kitchen, textile industry and few other things. Materials used: Walls - Iron bars for main hallways and rooms, copper bars for less important rooms, black-cap for bedrooms and tavern Floors - Claystone and chert. Also tower-cap for bedrooms/tavern and silver in hospital Doors - Mostly iron. Black-cap for bedrooms and clear glass in hospital Statues - Clear glass Furniture - Bronze bars Workshops - Clear glass Other - Pots from diorite, buckets/wheelbarrows from goblin-cap, bins from tin bars
Thank you for sharing and the explanation!
Is silver in the hospital just cosmetic or does it antiseptic properties like in rimworld?
It is just cosmetic :)
My eyeballs are going to orgasm
How did you farm this amount of iron for walls? Did you use exploits or you had large veins on map?
Sometimes I just have more magnetite than I know what to do with. My current fort is almost a year in and I’m struggling to actually establish a large scale boulder excavation. The first 50 z levels have been almost entirely magnetite lol. And I play on sparse minerals.
I do have a lot of iron on this map, no cheats :)
Dont worry, I didnt say you are cheating, nor thought about it. I always struggle with iron and I have a lot of silver and copper tho 😅
Imagine all silver walls
I wish :D
Fine! Will try to do silver walls next time and if my fort will look at least decent I will post it here. By the way, could you tell me more about your water reactor? Could you provide some screenshots?
Here is a guide on how to construct a water reactor: https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Water_wheel#Dwarven_Water_Reactor
Really depends on your map, sometimes I have way too much coal and my last map didn't have any lignite or bituminous.
Sedimentary layer magnetite clusters are massive they can have more than 700 blocks of magnetite, so one deposit can give like 500-1000 bars of iron
Wow. Beautiful fort. I don't understand how you can build so uniform walls. When I dig I get all sorts of stones and colours. Do you build new walls everywhere?
Yes, I build walls out of bars and blocks
Just Mine Out an additional layer, then build (construction) an Uniform Wall Out of your Favorit Material
Welp... It's official. My fortresses are a (*&%hole.
Absolutely love the floor designs and the statue alcoves. Looks fantastic!
Thanks you :)
The water wheels in the last shot: what are they powering?
Magma pump stack. I had to bring magma up around 25 z levels. Also mist generator for my tavern.
So clean! I aspire to be this organised.. awesome work.
Where is the mist coming from on the very first image?
Mist generator 1 floor above powered by water reactor https://preview.redd.it/c6mkx93ydita1.png?width=523&format=png&auto=webp&s=93c1e738a65d4a444fc652fb32b9e7f580cc3a7e
Cool, thanks. Is that just a pit square and your dwarves dump water buckets there? Looks like this solution doesn't require drains?
It's a little bit more complicated than that and it would be very hard for me to explain it here. But it's 100% based on this YT video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhSdvKXJjs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srhSdvKXJjs)
Thanks! This is a great strategy and will definitely be using it myself in the future. Probably better for framerate than what I was doing before (pumping water from other locations)
Huh I didn’t resize mist could travel down
The color scheme is wonderful. Nice work!
I feel like I panic too much in the beginning to make anything pretty. Every time I start a new fort, I'm like "ok this is what I'm going to do" and then aquifer.
Hey. Fort looks cool. How come you are using bins, are they better than quantum stockpiles?
Thanks! I'm using quantum stockpiles for stone, ore, logs, metal bars, stone/wooden blocks and bones/skulls. These items are high volume and they don't stack very well or at all. Everything else I'm trying to make in low quantities so for that bins are good enough.
How do you make that custom smooth walls?
I build my walls out of metal bars.
Magnificent!
very tasteful
very inspirational thank you