The latest project is a cave of exiles. It's design to accommodate moody dwarfs that like to throw tantrum.
It has three parts. The first part, a huge dirt room at level 97, where the prisoners can pick plump helmet off the ground. This room is isolated from the main fort by an airlock.
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And the second part, a cistern at level -17, where the prisoners can drink fresh lake water taken from the cavern. The third part is a control room for the three drawbridges (two for airlock, one for cistern intake).
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The dirt room is connected by a straight fly of 115 levels of stairs to the cistern.
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The control room. Incidentally, to the south is the one necromancer that went stark raving mad.
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The statue in the room. The weeping cave fish symbolizes dwarven melancholy. 8)
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There's nothing else there. No bed, no nothing.
As I'm writing this post, Sodel Geshudod the weaver, is throwing a tantrum! He'll be our first user of this new construction!
edit: I think Sodel manages to get stuck trying to drink and failing because he has lost the ability to grasp, yet still holding a mug. He's been standing there trying to drink for days.
edit: Sodel got unstuck and he lives in the Cave of Exiles now, 23rd Felsite, 131, Late Spring.
edit: A few days later Sodel died to infection.
edit: 4th Obsidian, 131, Late Winter.
Deler Asteshkidet, Lye Maker moves into the Cave of Exiles. He's drinking by the cistern in this picture.
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Does the picture show?
I can't see the picture myself. That's really weird! I add some pictures of the Cave of Exiles to the previous post.
There are also several other places worth mentioning here:
The diagonal entry to butchery. This keeps miasma in and yet allows the soldiers to rush to the zombies as soon as they rise.
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The magma workshops. It's an enclosed part of the 1st cavern. North to the wall there are zombies walking. The topmost magma is the result of a botched attempt. I accidentally created a diagonal leak from the magma pipe. Note all the ash on the ground. The magma caused a fire that burnt through 1/4 of the cavern. I built the wall and claimed a large part of the cavern after the fire went out. I like this particular area as it seems to give a vibe of the Boatmurdered 2D era.
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Abundant cave spider silk to collect.
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Well room. Diligent dwarfs have already tidied up all but one tile.
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I used to only have 1 diagonal tile as the miasma stopper but the corpses kept running out and got killed outside and lay there rotting. Then I came up with this idea. Now the soldiers always strike down the zombie before it reaches the end of the diagonal corridor. It keeps miasma in.
Building a panic room around the well is a very good idea. I'll do this before I breach the Adamantine.
Now it's year 131, late spring. Dead/Missing 5083.
I got around to reduce the zombie horde in the caverns. First, I opened the entrance to the 1st cavern. Zombies began to march in roughly a single file towards my fort! Dozens of them used to gather around the map edge, probably attracted to there by wild animals entering the map. As soon as I open the gate, they started staggering shambling rolling to the entrance and climbing up the 80+ levels of stairs like an undead river flowing upward to my dwarfs! I forgot to take screenshots but that really looked like the army of Saruman marching from his tower. I only captured the aftermaths:
(https://i.ibb.co/S6tCpPQ/Screenshot-from-2021-12-01-11-18-14.png) (https://ibb.co/YNcsG3D)
This corridor probably contains every possible species from the cavern. Jabberes, cave crocodiles, blind cave ogres, and even unusual ones like maneras and a gremlin. I wonder if a severed gremlin arm still can pull levers and open cages when it crawls around...
While the dead were marching, a flame blob name Cuthabe arrived in the 1st cavern and also wanted to enter my fort.
(https://i.ibb.co/FWpTvJk/Screenshot-from-2021-12-01-11-24-54.png) (https://ibb.co/b3t9hLj)
Wherever it walks it leaves fire, smoke, ashes, and sometimes pools of grease of the molten victims. This Cuthabe set a fire that took out many zombies and I managed to shut the gate just before it could get in.
The second thing I did, was flood the whole 2nd cavern with magma. This also took out the horde there, as well as many mangled corpses that my dwarfs wouldn't need to haul anymore. Here's a picture of the mushroom trees standing in magma:
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These two actions reduce the zombies from ~400 to ~200.
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As I'm writing this post, a goblin siege comes. I somehow made the last siege path into the cavern and that took care of the siege instantly. This time, the goblins are meandering on the surface and refuse to enter my zombie trap.
I maneuvred the goblins, zombies, and Cuthabe into a narrow corridor. A three-way battle forms: The goblins fight the zombies, and Cuthabe sets both parties on fire. Since Cuthabe the flame blob is non-organic, thus not living, the zombies ignore it, and effectively tank for its flimsy flame body! This also brings my FPS to 5, and occasionally even to 0.
(https://i.ibb.co/VCLT4bJ/Screenshot-from-2021-12-01-13-15-05.png) (https://imgbb.com/)
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Cuthabe died in the fight and the goblins finally all perished in fighting with their dead comrades. After the magma flood, fire, and goblin army, the cavern zombie horde is destroyed. Now there are only about 70 of them, reduced from more than 400.
Mid Autumn, year 132, Ghost of Thob Siguncatten batters Momuz Okiloltar, literally spilling his guts. The grey things Momuz is dragging behind are his guts...
(https://i.ibb.co/ZzwHp4S/Screenshot-from-2021-12-02-08-54-15.png) (https://imgbb.com/)
Muthrosut, "The Dead Bones", a quartzite slab.
(https://i.ibb.co/KVpJQZP/Screenshot-from-2021-12-02-11-31-27.png) (https://imgbb.com/)
(https://i.ibb.co/TbgmLPB/Screenshot-from-2021-12-02-11-31-50.png) (https://ibb.co/X3CS8FZ)
Spring, year 133, the humans and the elves decided to siege us at the same time.
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This ended poorly for the elves.
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I dug out a cistern under the aquifer. I'll the see how slow the new aquifer is... This cistern is 3 levels deep and becomes smaller to the bottom like a funnel.
(https://i.ibb.co/gdBPhLY/Screenshot-from-2021-12-03-09-58-55.png) (https://imgbb.com/)
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While the humans are sieging my fort, a werekoala arrived. It successfully scored a few bites that got through skin. I look forward to the werekoala outbreak in the human camp!
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edit:
Plan Werekoala failed. A human turned into a werekoala, but he stands among other human soldiers, peacefully.
Year 134, population 85, death 5770.
Sarek the forgotten beast was fighting human siegers. Its web fell many a human warriors before it succumbed to the stabbing of a spearman. This happened in about year 133.
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A patch of "Grass" appears deep in the cavern. Note that it's "inside" and "underground".
(https://i.ibb.co/kHRT6xD/Screenshot-from-2021-12-06-17-43-30.png) (https://ibb.co/bWSVRPv)
Again in this corridor, a forgotten beast met the siegers. This time, the siegers were elves with human name. The forgotten beast, Eslul, really lulled the enemies to sleep with its deadly dust!
(https://i.ibb.co/2yG5CF7/Screenshot-from-2021-12-06-18-20-06.png) (https://ibb.co/Vtf3zLW)
Eslul died before it could put all soldiers to sleep.
(https://i.ibb.co/Bwt1gNT/Screenshot-from-2021-12-06-18-20-43.png) (https://ibb.co/ZNVZhmc)
However, after it was dead, and all the elves fell asleep, the corpse of Eslul rose! And it killed its enemies in their sleep.
(https://i.ibb.co/rFR6ZKT/Screenshot-from-2021-12-06-18-23-11.png) (https://ibb.co/8NL5jnT)
Also my alcohol stock:
(https://i.ibb.co/XpnnHXj/Screenshot-from-2021-12-06-18-48-23.png) (https://ibb.co/hHGG0sL)
And the little bee house:
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A patch of "Grass" appears deep in the cavern. Note that it's "inside" and "underground".
I don't see any images in this and the recent previous posts, all the spoilers are empty. Looking at the quote in the editor here I can see links to pages, like https://ibb.co/bWSVRPv. Going to that page, at the bottom is an Embed codes tab where it has BBCode for inlining the images, which I can see in the preview, like the following:
(https://i.ibb.co/kHRT6xD/Screenshot-from-2021-12-06-17-43-30.png) (https://ibb.co/bWSVRPv)
Edit: yeah, I can see the image in my spoiler in this post
This is the 1st spoiler that is empty for me:
I used to only have 1 diagonal tile as the miasma stopper but the corpses kept running out and got killed outside and lay there rotting. Then I came up with this idea. Now the soldiers always strike down the zombie before it reaches the end of the diagonal corridor. It keeps miasma in.
Building a panic room around the well is a very good idea. I'll do this before I breach the Adamantine.
Now it's year 131, late spring. Dead/Missing 5083.
I got around to reduce the zombie horde in the caverns. First, I opened the entrance to the 1st cavern. Zombies began to march in roughly a single file towards my fort! Dozens of them used to gather around the map edge, probably attracted to there by wild animals entering the map. As soon as I open the gate, they started staggering shambling rolling to the entrance and climbing up the 80+ levels of stairs like an undead river flowing upward to my dwarfs! I forgot to take screenshots but that really looked like the army of Saruman marching from his tower. I only captured the aftermaths:
Thanks. I'll edit those posts.
A forgotten beast arrived right between two mushroom trees and got stuck there.
(https://i.ibb.co/6mfDhVp/Screenshot-from-2021-12-07-11-35-13.png) (https://imgbb.com/)
A fortress-born dwarf became the Holy Match just after he grew up into a peasant.
(https://i.ibb.co/KqNBfbr/Screenshot-from-2021-12-07-12-49-48.png) (https://ibb.co/DCGmvzR)
Do I need to build a church specifically for his cult?
17 Granite, year 136, Early Spring. Citizens 83, deaths 6150.
A giant mole skulked into my fort while the dwarfs were walling up the 1st cavern. The dogs picked fight with it and somehow the conflict involved this grey langur who had been living in the fort for many years. Originally rescued from the elven caravan, this intelligent creature had had full freedom to roam in the dwarven settlement! Poor monkey died to this ferocious giant mole.
(https://i.ibb.co/gjd7SMq/Screenshot-from-2021-12-08-12-24-02.png) (https://imgbb.com/)
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Now I'm planning to breach the ____. As if knowing my plan, the dwarfs began to include ____ in their work.
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This post documents the event of ____ breaching in Wanedinks.
Olon Votukuzar dug into the ____ and soon:
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Full legion of ____:
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I spot a few that have shell. This will solve the problem of not having any shell for strange mood.
They poured out of ____ and met these goblin siegers mid-way up the stairs.
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This goblin was very bruised and burnt.
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Go Necrovultures!
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Necrovultures fell after valiantly roasting some goblins.
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Eventually, the goblins were defeated. Apocalypse took over.
Burning zombies walking out of wild fire...
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Abominations hovering over snow-crested winter trees... smoke rising...
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Things collapsing here and there...
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All this, of course, didn't affect my dwarfs at all. They were making soaps day and night to keep up with the consumption after the second bath was open.
Then an ettin came, one of the first of her kind as I remember.
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The ettin was immediately buried under a group of thornbills who somehow were beakless.
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Meanwhile, 5 animals in the farm chose to die at the same time when spring arrived.
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This scared others mightily. Note those blue !'s.
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Miraculously, an elven caravan made its way across the Apocalypse and safely arrived at the depot! Truly Nature's friend, blending into the forest so well.
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Honestly if I saw 5 animals drop dead of old age at the same time, I'd be freaked out as well.
When I get a usable ladder I'll play Smallhand. I read about it and it's quite interesting even though I can't see the pics.
28 Slate, year 136, Mid-Spring. Citizen 83, deaths 6194
The kitchen. From top to bottom: honey and oil; flour, sugar, leaves, and eggs; rock nut cakes.
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The soap stock has been recovering after I locked the second bath.
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The currently locked second bath:
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The fore-mentioned elven caravan, somehow got into my dump shaft when I didn't open the gate in time for them to leave.
(https://i.ibb.co/G9S52f6/Screenshot-from-2021-12-11-15-31-26.png) (https://ibb.co/pQFLz67)
The shaft goes straight to the magma pool. The C is magma crab chitin that endures the heat.
(https://i.ibb.co/YQJfqmv/Screenshot-from-2021-12-11-15-32-03.png) (https://ibb.co/c3R270z)
The magma pool is a power plant that burns garbage and fuel the smelters.
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The only entry to the shaft (1 tile north to the minecart) is channeled out.
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I have no idea how they got in, and it's difficult to get them out, even more so to smuggle them out of the map when &'s are rampaging. And if I let them starve there, they'll become zombies that spam cancellation when dwarfs are dumping. I came up with a solution: Bombarding them with my decade of bone pile. A stream of little 2's flows into the shaft:
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It worked. They jumped and ducked and bumped into each other and eventually into the magma.
(https://i.ibb.co/9HyBYhM/Screenshot-from-2021-12-11-15-45-46.png) (https://ibb.co/d4kXKth)
!!elf!!
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Meanwhile down in ____, there is an ____ which is emaciated and short and obese at the same time. Horrible indeed.
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19th Obsidian, 136, Late Winter. Citizens 83, deaths 6594, body parts 1387/5692, corpses 84/2106.
This ____ stood here long enough that the door melted into a pool of magma.
(https://i.ibb.co/5BdkpNM/Screenshot-from-2021-12-13-11-18-25.png) (https://ibb.co/gzGdq5j)
The necromancer lock expert made yet another breakthrough.
(https://i.ibb.co/wCxTPcV/Screenshot-from-2021-12-13-11-21-50.png) (https://ibb.co/J2MNG3V)
I let four ____ into the tunnel. That dead dwarf was the result of a siege many years ago.
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After an intense fight:
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With the help of Urdim, the war cat of Ustuth:
(https://i.ibb.co/1vRTg18/Screenshot-from-2021-12-13-15-07-18.png) (https://ibb.co/K0VWPdF)
(https://i.ibb.co/9tzfPHH/Screenshot-from-2021-12-13-15-07-48.png) (https://ibb.co/zJjLdVV)
The four ____ were slain. Here's a big wing that could make a nice fry:
(https://i.ibb.co/S5zJjpg/Screenshot-from-2021-12-13-16-46-33.png) (https://ibb.co/bQk70nV)