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Quote from: Joshua IX on April 08, 2011, 07:11:48 pm

I will post some orders tomorrow :]

Why not... now?

Why do today what you can do tomorrow?
Oh wait.... 

For the summer, the doctor will be presenting these blueprints and doing all he can to have them executed.

Step 01 a
First we are going to expand our embark level corridor until we find ourselves where we MUST be.
us -> Up Stairs designation

Step 01 b
Then we will simply move up one level, dig some up/down stairs and designate document where we will need to channel.
xs -> Up/Down Stairs designation
Red Block -> Channel designation

Step 01 c
Once more moving up one level, we should now be outside. Let's conclude our stairs with a triple downstairs designation, and channel these red squares from my blueprints
ds -> Down Stairs designation
blue us -> Up Stairs construction
blue W -> Wall Construction (use wood)
Red Block -> Channel designation

Step 01 d
We will also need to construct some supporting architecture yet another level up.
blue ds -> Down Stairs construction
blue f -> floor construction
blue W -> Wall Construction
Edit: Walls should not be built again, they are the top of the walls from the level below.

Step 02
Now that the first phase is done, and only now, we need to dig right over the aquifer at embark level.
(Note to self: "I hope that our miners will be smart enought _NOT_ to trap themselves in the middle, hah!")
Red Square -> channel

Action!

With this the setup is done.
We now need a brave dwarf to deconstruct the supporting architecture for the outmost ring.
The down stair should be removed first, followed by the up stair and finally the wall, which will trigger the cave-in.
There should be enought distance to prevent the test subject to be dragged along with the cave-in.
Actually it should be pretty safe, according to what I've read while sneaking in the restricted library in the mountain home.

After the first ring is down, channel the middle part of it, then on the level down, channel a single track to match the second ring, and repeact the process.

This plan is good enough for 3 layers of aquifer.

Let it be done!

Doc Valrandir

I will be posting Doctor Valrandir blueprints and steps to pierce the aquifer.
They will be ready sometime today.

Great Update!

Doc Valrandir is pondering the aquifer situation.

I got a few question to our GM:
- Is there's any tame animals that we could all agree to butcher?
- Do we have
  - Threads
  - Cloths
  - dimple cups seeds
  - pigtail seeds
- How much of food and drinks are in stock?

Quote from: Valrandir on April 08, 2011, 08:48:22 am

Quote from: ignatzami on April 08, 2011, 08:42:39 am

Quote from: Urist_McArathos on April 07, 2011, 10:29:10 pm

Is this still a succession fort?

Yep, once I get the farm set up, and finish out the year I'll start taking requests. I've got about 6 months to go, and should be done today, or tomorrow. I want to make sure I leave the place better then I found it.

I ♥ you now.

Awww, I <3 you too! I take it you want the first spot?

no

Are the caverns already visible?
Then you could easily dig below a cavern with water without breaching it again, and setup a drain system to securly get some water away for a farm area.

Is there's any water in the caverns?

Marching for long days along with six other dwarves, a wooden wagon and some animals was not an easy feat for the good doctor.
It was quite some way from the ease he was used to, and all that was starting to take a toll on him.
Would he really make it all the way? What else could he do, turn away? No. They were already way too far for that.
And what would he do if he went back? No way. He wanted to go on.
Better be someone in a small settlement, then a nobody in the huge city.

He found escape and comfort by diving in his mind, imagining things and dreaming.
His favorite flight was making plans for our settlement clean fortress, and that he did!
Days after days he refined his plans, and how he would convince the group to follow them.
And how to achieve this? By giving them what they wanted, which is comfort, from his own point of view.

After scribbling his blueprints over a few nights of little sleep, here is what he wanted:

Legend

• A  -> Armor Stand
• R  -> Weapon Rack
• H  -> Coffer
• D  -> Door
• ds -> Downstairs
• us -> Upstairs
• xs -> Up/Down stairs
• B  -> Bed
• F  -> Cabinet
• T  -> Table
• C  -> Chair
• U  -> Statue

Preliminary draft

Detailed blueprints - wagon level

Detailed blueprints - wagon level +1 (downward)

Notes
- The first step will be to dig out the barrack and the food storage, then move all the food and drinks there for preservation.
- The second step will be to dig the farm and get someone to start planting.
- Then we let the miners dig the rest as they see fit. It should be mosly all in soil for digging will soon be done.
- Each floor of the bedroom tower have eight rooms, one layer will be enought at the start. We may need to expand upward rather then downward because of the aquifer.
- The bedrooms tower can be expanded in both vertical directions, by digging downward and building a tower upward using stoneblocks
- Humble noble rooms can follow this variation

There was one only about a day before they reached the site. Doc Valrandir used this precious time to make part of his plans with the other dwarves.
The two miners, Stiric and mipe9 seemed too passively to listen to the doctor urgings, but he feared they might end up ignoring it all when the times to strike the earth come. We shall see.
Stiric would also be much needed for all the masonry crafting required. There are many doors and other rock furniture to be built, and the higher the quality the better. Doc Valrandir even offered him to borrow his pick and do some of the mining, if the Stiric would rather focus on Masonry.
Yet another dwarf naming himself ‘Powder Building Designer’ knew some of the destination geology and argued that any rock furniture could have to wait because that there might be an aquifer in the way.


This is what Val will be doing
On this first season, Doc Valrandir will be overseing the realization of his blueprints, helping with whatever task is needed toward their completion.



OOC
What do you think of the blueprints for the initial design?