Bay 12 Games Forum

My tax collector is demanding that pig iron items be made....so...what the heck can I make out of pig iron that will satisfy him? There's nothing in the metalsmith's forge that can be made with it, I'm stumped....

Can anyone give me an idea of just what they were at requirements wise when they have attracted a king in previous fortresses? I have a duchy, my architectural value is a little over 1.2 million, I have a limestone rock road leading away from my fortress and I've made several offerings to the dwarven caravan (although that might not actually make any difference right now?). I've reached the population cap but have been assured that won't stop them from coming if the conditions are met.

Any orthogonal connection will support... north, south, east, west, up or down... but NOT diagonally.

You could have the whole thing hanging down from a single support, if you wanted to.

I'm planning to use a giant hammer as a defense against sieges... "The Hammer of Armok", with its single support released by pulling a lever. Directly underneath it will be an inlaid mosiac spelling out "Stand Here".

I would fill it with Magma if there was any on my map... there isn't, so I'm filling it with Rhesus Macaques.

That's perfect then, Thanks. Also, I think I have a new quote

The only problem I foresee, unless you build and then remove the layer(s) that would have connected the base to the ground, is actually constructing it.

You could send out bridges from a (temporary) scaffold to build a set of walls and access floors at an arbitrary Z-level, then build walls at the Z-1 from the bridge, and so on down to Z-n, 'm' levels above the ground, but it'd probably be easier to build from the ground, with endo-/exo-skeletal access infrastructure, linking to the edge support at your upper connection point, then 'retreat' down, removing whatever you don't want to remain, including the entire [edited-in-'cos-I-prematurely posted: "...unwanted ground-to-intended-posterior support structure".]

(Unless, and I might be wrong in thinking you can't, you can construct an up or up/down stairs on Z-1 while standing on some down-accessing other stairs on Z=0.  You can /dig/ them, but I don't think you can construct, the same way as you can construct a Z+1 down or up/down stairway from an up-accessing one.  Also possibly at issue, removing, the Z-1 stairwell items from the Z.)

I think I'm okay for construction, I'm putting a sprial staircase up the centre of the shaft as part of the design which is allowing me to build the tower portion without outside supports, once I get to the hammer heads I can build rows of flooring out from the tower and work them from the inside out, then just remove the old connecting walls where the bottom of the heads flare out from the shaft.

I'm in the middle of building a gigantic golden warhammer in my fortress' courtyard for the hell of it, and I was wondering if it's possible to support (hold up) built walls from above? Basically if I build several z levels of walls are they solidly connected or do they just sit on top of each other? Here is the basic design of the hammer, notice where the hammerheads flare out at the bottom -

  |----\ |----|  /----|
  |       -|----|-       |
  |        |----|         |
  |       -|----|-       |
  |----/ |----|  \----|  <----this level here
           |----|
           |----|
           |----|
           |----|
           |----|
           |----|
           |----|
           |----|
           |----|
           |----|

I know how I'd be able to build it, just have the entire layer fixed to the main structure, build the level above and then remove the connecting walls, but would it stay up? If not, is there anyway I  can go about making such a structure?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Build a god statue standing over your fort entrance. In his out stretched hand he has a thunderbolt, MADE OF PURE GOLD!!!

Have it so that the hand will let go of the the thunderbolt some how and crush your enemies when they invade

The walls surrounding my courtyard have towers on either side of the gateway, I could possibly have a colossus straddling the entryway, a foot planted on each tower. I suspect it may take a lot more gold though, perhaps test first with just a golden mcdonalds style arch over the entryway, would I be able to ramp this to create the curve? I'm figuring it isn't possible on built walls.

Build a skull using the gold.
Bonus points if you have magma falling from the eyes.

Also, turn the inside of the skull into an execution chamber.
Super bonus points if the executions are magma based.

That better be a whole lot of bonus points because there isn't any magma in the area. Little ambitious, but I like it, more of this.

...on what to do with a stockpile of 250-300 gold bars / blocks / ore that I haven't much use for, making a fair living off of steel and platinum, so I just want to use the gold to make something ridiculous and huge. My main idea is just a simple gold spire reaching up to the sky and capped with platinum built in the courtyard of my fortress as testimony to my dwarve's craftmanship, but it's a little vanilla, so I want to consider the unusual as well before I set my masons to work.