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I accidently breached the caverns while strip mining and sealed it off since I don't want to mess with the caverns at all this fort. However, since I breached them of course FBs start to show up. Well one that showed up a few seasons ago is a giant titmouse. It is evidently a vermin because it keeps blinking in and out like vermin do...

So, after I noticed this I began to worry. The first thing is will that damn thing blink into my fort eventually? I assume it won't try to path into it via blinking but can it randomly blink in at some point?

Additionally, if that first concern is true will my military be able to attack the damn thing or do I need to breed an army of cats to take the damn thing out?

So, I have been trying for a few hours to gen a world with a world gen bridge across a major river, preferably with a canyon. However, all of the world gen roads and bridges are jacked up. Most just jut out over the river and miss the other side by about 3 tiles or if the land is not the same height the bridge goes as far as the opposite bank and stops and the road continues underneath it...

Soooo after hours of trying to find this specific set of circumstances I came across something awesome. The bridge that was generated was generated at the level of the water in the river. There are even ramps going down to the bridge and then back up. The road is perfectly formed otherwise but the damn bridge has blocked the flow of the river.

Now given this turn of events I think I might build a fort in the middle of the quickly draining river and then unblock the flow.

I think DF just got tired of me genning worlds but instead of just giving me what I wanted it gave me this gem. It's like finding a 20 in your pant pocket you didn't know you had when all you really wanted was a dollar for a soda.

Edit: Current update screenshot.


I've been wanting to build a megaproject based off the Eyrie since I completed Winterfell. I found a pretty awesome embark for it (which was really hard to do since I needed a really tall mountain right by really flat plains). I plan to do the gates of the moon, all of the way castles, and the Eyrie. Here is what I am starting with;


Here is an artists rendition of the Eyrie;

Is anyone else having problems with the advanced world gen? My game keeps crashing if I try and create a world using custom params. The normal world gen works fine as far as I can see.

This is in .19

Edit: Nevermind, I changed the value of Iron, gold, and silver temporarily to that of the metals I needed to look at. Thanks anyway.

Wasn't quite sure where to post this request, it seemed this would be the best place.

If anyone has a picture of what brass, bronze, and bismuth bronze look like as walls in stonesense I would greatly appreciate it.

I am currently running at a low 10 fps on my current megaproject and as such each season takes roughly 2 hours or so. I just put in requests with the dwarf caravan for brass, bronze, and bismuth bronze. I am going to make a bell tower complete with a bell but I don't know which of these metals will look better. Traditionally bells were made from bronze, sometimes iron or brass were used as well. Iron is out I know that is black in stonesense. If anyone can help me out that would be great, I currently have none of the mentioned metals or I would check it myself.

The reason I'd like to see it before hand is so I can plan the bell tower to match the color as I can build that while waiting for the metal.

Thanks in advance .

I am trying to make a bathhouse which cleans itself so I don't have to constantly use dfclean. Floor grates get gunk on them and if I leave a hole then the flowing water pushes the dwarves into the cistern.

So, my question is, if I make a diagonal outlit at the corners will the dwarves get pushed through this small slit? or baring that will dwarves get pushed through a fortification?

The fortification question stems from this comment on the wiki "Beware that submerged fortifications will not block the passage of aquatic (or amphibious) creatures"

Also, if anyone has a bath house design they could possibly share that would be apprieciated. I am trying to build a roman style bath house with mist. My plan is to have ramps going into the "tub" and two pumps on the east/west sides of the tub to create inflow and mist. All this would drain into my water reactor which powers the pumps.

It took forever to put the finishing touches on this project. Since my last update my fps dropped to a gruelling 5. Here is the finished Winterfell. There are alot of small buildings among to large ones so I included a shot from each angle. Also, I took the pictures with snow covering the whole map but stonesense doesn't really show it well at all.

First image from the kings gate.

Second from the kings gate.

First from the hunters gate.

Second from the hunters gate.

Edit: Decided to put a current zoomed out picture of progress in the first post so people don't have to jump through the thread if they don't want to.


After my last fort went up in a giant pillar of !!FUN!! I decided to pay homage to the great series that is A Song of Ice and Fire and design a fort based on Winterfell. If any of you have not read this series and like fantasy I would recommend you read it. As well, I think HBO is producing a series based off it called Thrones.

A couple of things. Winterfell in the books does not have a significant below ground portion (aside from the crypts) so nearly everything is done aboveground. To facilitate this I made a custom reaction which turns cloth into granite. I figure anyone building a castle would be purchasing stone or digging it themselves from another site so I trade for cloth to simulate this (since if I actually traded for granite this fort would take hundreds of in game years). Ironically this makes Elves my biggest stone suppliers.

I was going to build the foundation and show that but stonesense was not working until just couple days ago so this is a little past that stage. The great hall is nearly done and the glass gardens are completed. I also have several buildings partially constructed and the gods wood outlined.

The bottom left portion has the rookery, bell/maester's tower, kitchen, and brew house. The left middle is the glass gardens and great hall. The bottom foundation is going to be the great keep. The bottom right is the kennels, broken tower, armory, and guards hall. Middle right is the gods wood. Top right is the library tower and guest house, Top left is the smithy/craft hall. Out in the field is the inn and market square (I have to redo the inn, didnt realize stonesense used different skins for the brown wood).


Also, this is an artists rendition of Winterfell so you can get an idea of how Winterfell looks.


I plan to either turn off temp during winter after it snows or use dfweather to make it snow when I'm all done to get that winter look.