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Title: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: vp on January 09, 2016, 11:56:00 am
So I built a dragon:

http://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2016/01/fe6b084ef408b65e61241763aeedcf73.png

http://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2016/01/80da63e3bf7c6f2791ff203c4d40b0ac.png

http://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2016/01/fdeebb0de78cc1289f4031072bf3e155.png

http://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2016/01/0ccabac1cbb0fb2133e14c0073621231.png

Dragon is 148x64x69 tiles, it consists of 43K stone blocks and 6K metal bars. Blue is microcline, yellow is native gold or brass, white is silver or native silver, black is obsidian, red is bauxite or magma. Fort is 32 years old, populated by 170 dwarves (including queen), wealth is 93M. There's a fully functional dwarven colony inside (except fields and trade depot, those are located underground). If you read Russian you may enjoy full story at http://vadim-proskurin.livejournal.com/tag/anvilbodice there are also 300+ pictures.

My previous fort was Arrowrags: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=152114.0

Edit: made photos more visible.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: FrisianDude on January 09, 2016, 12:28:27 pm
Sweeet lord :O That's amazing
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: NedeN on January 09, 2016, 01:54:46 pm
So does it spit magma? Can it defend against sieges?
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: Immortal-D on January 09, 2016, 02:04:57 pm
So I built a dragon
And thus, the internet was won.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: vp on January 09, 2016, 02:07:51 pm
So does it spit magma? Can it defend against sieges?

No, it doesn't. It really has magma inside its belly:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

But it's only for metallurgyish purposes.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: vjek on January 09, 2016, 03:08:41 pm
That is pretty cool. Nicely done.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: SQman on January 09, 2016, 04:14:26 pm
Regular player: "I've made a dragonfire pillbox"
Experienced player: "I use wild dragons to remove refuse, but only if a minecart dumps socks into the chicken coop"
vp: "So I built a dragon. It has magma inside its belly"

I like how it's covered in vomit too.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: martinuzz on January 09, 2016, 05:10:03 pm
Dude! That's pretty darn nice dragon you got there!
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: mobucks on January 09, 2016, 06:21:08 pm
Quite the achievement! Thanks for sharing!

Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: BlackBronze on January 09, 2016, 08:40:30 pm
Wow. That honestly has to be the coolest thing I've seen so far in Dwarf Fortress. It's so epic!
It almost saddens me that every single merchant, soldier, and citizen can only recognize that there's a wall here and a floor tile there, and not be able to fully grasp the fact that they're living inside a massive dragon. I would be the one tourist that spends about ten minutes gawking at it before finally realizing that I'm standing in someone's way.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: Halnoth on January 09, 2016, 10:34:41 pm
The masterwork vomit covering is a nice touch.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: Raphite1 on January 09, 2016, 10:36:08 pm
Wow. That honestly has to be the coolest thing I've seen so far in Dwarf Fortress. It's so epic!
It almost saddens me that every single merchant, soldier, and citizen can only recognize that there's a wall here and a floor tile there, and not be able to fully grasp the fact that they're living inside a massive dragon. I would be the one tourist that spends about ten minutes gawking at it before finally realizing that I'm standing in someone's way.

Omg what if that is us irl? We're like "yup there are some planets over there" and have no idea it's part of an operational sculpture of an interdimensional monster imagined by its creators to be even greater than they? WE'RE THE DWARVES IN THE DRAGON WITH MAGMA IN ITS BELLY.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: Heretic on January 10, 2016, 02:42:37 am
G.R.E.A.T.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: mirrizin on January 10, 2016, 02:46:47 pm
Dwarf Fortress Map Archive?

Brilliant design, I miss seeing things like this.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: Findulidas on January 10, 2016, 02:50:40 pm
Pretty damn sweet, something to be proud of for sure.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: BesorgterZwerg on January 10, 2016, 02:51:22 pm
Very impressive  :o
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: mgotthard on January 10, 2016, 06:52:16 pm
Man...
Any estimate on the number of hours required to achieve this?
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: Urlance Woolsbane on January 11, 2016, 01:44:01 am
Wow. That honestly has to be the coolest thing I've seen so far in Dwarf Fortress. It's so epic!
It almost saddens me that every single merchant, soldier, and citizen can only recognize that there's a wall here and a floor tile there, and not be able to fully grasp the fact that they're living inside a massive dragon. I would be the one tourist that spends about ten minutes gawking at it before finally realizing that I'm standing in someone's way.

Omg what if that is us irl? We're like "yup there are some planets over there" and have no idea it's part of an operational sculpture of an interdimensional monster imagined by its creators to be even greater than they? WE'RE THE DWARVES IN THE DRAGON WITH MAGMA IN ITS BELLY.
Perhaps Dwarf Fortress is a protrusion of another dimension into our own, and the Dwarves are playing with us? :P
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: vp on January 11, 2016, 02:07:07 pm
Dwarf Fortress Map Archive?

Here it is: http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-12609-anvilbodice

I don't know why my DF exported it only as raw ASCII, why map converter could not fit all the levels in 700K fdf-map and what the hell are those fucking rainbows on higher levels. I tried to fix all these issues but failed. Honestly, I think the map is nearly useless, it's much easier to understand the fortress design (if needed) with my Russian-language blog, Google translator is not very bad. It mixes map/card, cell/cage, trade/bargain etc, loses commas, adds hillarious "I" in the beginning of sentences instead of assumed "there", but it surprisingly correctly translates Освенцим as Auschwitz, I'm impressed. Overall, the translation is quite understandable. You may imagine an old dwarf telling this story in master Yoda's voice and manner.

For example: https://translate.google.ru/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fvadim-proskurin.livejournal.com%2F878085.html

Any estimate on the number of hours required to achieve this?

Near 500, I guess. At average it was some 3 hours daily for half-year, most of the time I was fucking around internets, occasionally glimsing at dwarven progress as they build what they're told. FPS was damned low most of the time.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: mirrizin on January 11, 2016, 04:27:22 pm
Dwarf Fortress Map Archive?

Here it is: http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-12609-anvilbodice

I don't know why my DF exported it only as raw ASCII, why map converter could not fit all the levels in 700K fdf-map and what the hell are those fucking rainbows on higher levels. I tried to fix all these issues but failed. Honestly, I think the map is nearly useless, it's much easier to understand the fortress design (if needed) with my Russian-language blog, Google translator is not very bad. It mixes map/card, cell/cage, trade/bargain etc, loses commas, adds hillarious "I" in the beginning of sentences instead of assumed "there", but it surprisingly correctly translates Освенцим as Auschwitz, I'm impressed. Overall, the translation is quite understandable. You may imagine an old dwarf telling this story in master Yoda's voice and manner.

For example: https://translate.google.ru/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fvadim-proskurin.livejournal.com%2F878085.html

Any estimate on the number of hours required to achieve this?

Near 500, I guess. At average it was some 3 hours daily for half-year, most of the time I was fucking around internets, occasionally glimsing at dwarven progress as they build what they're told. FPS was damned low most of the time.
Thanks! :)
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: Detros on January 12, 2016, 09:19:26 am
Really nice. How do you plan for such big statues? Do you just use millimetre paper or some graphical software?
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: vp on January 12, 2016, 01:15:23 pm
How do you plan for such big statues? Do you just use millimetre paper or some graphical software?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: Melting Sky on January 12, 2016, 09:09:15 pm
This really belongs in The Hall of Legends. Amazing work.  :o
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: Pancakes on January 13, 2016, 06:41:00 pm
+1 for excessive vomit

Holy cow that is amazing, the best megabuild I have seen, great work!
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: Khorinis on January 15, 2016, 07:04:53 pm
 very nice and impressive! but whats the red cover underneath him, is it clay?
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: MoonyTheHuman on January 16, 2016, 09:18:05 am
Absolutely amazing!
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: vp on January 16, 2016, 09:34:52 am
but whats the red cover underneath him, is it clay?

It's magma.

http://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2015/12/dd05614ecea58de0c095e864f6e3f4c9.png
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: SimRobert2001 on January 16, 2016, 04:00:23 pm
Holy crap that is amazing. I would love to do something like this.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: Dunamisdeos on January 16, 2016, 07:55:22 pm
Impressive. Most Impressive.
Title: Re: Anvilebodice, the fort of the dragon
Post by: AzyWng on January 16, 2016, 09:03:33 pm
I applaud you.

In comparison, I can barely reach the part where I start the metal industry, let alone break through an aquifer or use magma as fuel...