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Meh, close enough.And someone create crappy mspaint recreations of the lost images.On it!
Arguably I should have tried to figure out what the image was first.
I discovered last night that using the z menu and simply forbidding all the stones except the one I want really smoothed things out.
Then the reality that I was attempting to build a floor out of 40000 granite blocks hit me, and I chickened out. I'm having the dwarves pull back up the thousands of floor tiles they already used, and I'll just let tower caps grow if I ever hit the caverns. In a 200 by 200 cistern that is 7 z levels high I should have enough room for them.
You can build roads if you don't want to build anything on top of them. Saves blocks, and goes a lot faster, as well.
Still, if you want to build and not have tower cap problems, it's easier to just not build in the caverns.You can work the edges of the caverns to rearrange them all into ramps up into your carefully-sculpted gardens of stone just above the proper caverns you've had entirely walled off.
Dig out an area, as small as 6x5. Then create and overlap all of the rooms.If you overlap rooms, the value of each is decreased by 75%, usually making that a bad plan. (Walls can be shared without penalty.)
He's a king, don't skimp - 1 of each room, do it right. You can place diff rooms above/below each other to create a multi-level "apartment", but remember that you can't designate a single room across z-levels.
I am unhappy with my fortress and complaining.
I play on the smallest map to increase my fps for any tiny frame I get. I want to make my fortress high populated wealthy save and much more things that are not FUN. Now my population is about 100 dwarfs with 15 children and I barely keep them alive. The alcohol production is very close to waterdrinking and even if I planned to build short routes dwarfs seem to be running all the time for drinks and food. Now I have my first tantrums and I am not sure why or what had been missing to inject the maximal happiness into dwarf bodies. As I don't have a particularly question, but my own unhappiness, here's my fort in screens and shotted. Maybe someone can give me some tips how to improve the productivity of Cloisterportal.
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I am happy about every mayor minor mistake or undwarfiness you can show me. Oink
I'm kinda worried about the miasma this might cause...
http://imgur.com/N3Xm0NU
They're just converting the energy from the glowing pits that keeps the HFS from collapsing under its own weight to matter.
No violation of physics involved at all.
Is that how it works?
Somehow I always thought of it as the metal getting some horrible dwarf-based mold on it, and as dwarves continue to handle it, more and more of the nasty stuff gets incorporated into the metal, causing the metal to seem to multiply in volume, when in reality you probably shouldn't use that for anything that's going to come into contact with food.
I once had a barrel of freaking dwarven wine that cost nearly 400 urists just because the barrel had some gems on it. In fact they do the same thing with flour, sugar, sand, and even seeds. I don't want fancy barrels and bags, I want the contents of it you thieving magpies.
A different question would be is there anyone who doesn't use prepared meals/battlefield junk to buy everything? Cause it seems like everyone and thier cat just uses prepared meals because they're stupidly valuable (and rendering your crafters vestigial to your workforce.)
After lots of experiments with fortress designs, including standart layered design (finished goods warehouse level, production level, raw materials level, housing level, ...), above ground designs (small circle fort with moat, skyscrapper housing/production), experiments with various starting conditions and sites, I've come up with several thoughts:Eh...that depends. If you're worried about FPS, then the best thing isn't 1x1 bedrooms, but the massively overlapping exploit bedroom. If you're not...then, well, I personally can whip out 3x4 lavishly decorated and engraved bedrooms for everyone in the space of a year or two. (by lavishly decorated, I mean I put an expensive, highly decorated rope from the caravans, a chair, a table, and a food and drink stockpile, so that tantruming dwarves can be put into the most lavish timeout ever, where they can eat proper meals and everything.
- First you don't know where to put all these useless drunks, then there's never enough of them /li]
- Rooms and furniture take too much space and efforts
All your efforts to make centralized short-travel frotress will not stop dwarfs from doing something but s/omething you need them to doQuote
My fortress is a highly compact fortress with a maximum of 30 travel distance for 70% of jobs, and an average distance of about 8 from within those jobs. I could do even better by carving out a staircase cube, but do not wish to rearrange my fortress at this time. (There's not much I can do about the wood-hauling or stone-hauling distances, which probably make up 30% of the jobs).
They also do what I want them to do. To get dwarves to do what you want them to do, there are two tricks: never assign more jobs on repeat than you have dwarves/2, and get Dwarf Therapist. (divide your Dwarves by 2 because some of them will always be needed for hauling, sleeping, drinking, eating, or other non-workshop tasks such as hauling.)
Just a quick poll, am I the only guy who feels compelled to buy, if I can, all the food, booze and animals from the caravan? In case something happens?I don't...but I dofeel compelled to buy all the cheese, sugar, and flour. It makes for particularly valuable meals if I need to be exploity (which is almost always), without requiring the extensive infrastructure/prep time that normally goes into making those things. (an extensive herd of milkable animals...is nowhere near the top of my to-do list.) I also buy all the animals for their fat, which is used to make soap.
Just wondering.
I'm aware. I've tried to use it before, but the FPS hit I took from so many dwarves trying to path through all the mining areas, and not just the miners/stone haulers, has previously made such forts non-viable, so when the trees became multi tile (and thus viable as a fuel source for mass steel production), I switched over to the surface.I once had about 12-16 masonry workshops going non-stop making rock blocks for a small megaproject in a community fort-I only had a year to do it in.
I might get as many as 9 wood furnaces in my current fort, but I doubt I'll actually need more than 7. (Steel armor for the whole fort is going to take up lots of carbon, especially if I insist on it being masterwork...)
You can melt steel weaponry with just magma. Sure, it's not perfectly efficient, but if you're feeling exploity, combining a bolt splitter or excess leggings with melting should keep you into steel.
