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"After six years of hard, unremitting labour in the accursed sun, the overseer's project started to take shape."

Off to a good start, time to get to work on the rest of the fortress! I figured I'd post a thread for the progress on my latest passion project; Prophetmirrored. I wanted to push my boundaries in terms of dwarfy architecture and decided to kick off with a proper gigantic statue. The build took approximately six years dwarf time (three afternoons real life time) and isn't fully finished as is, there's still plenty of work to be done on the finer edges of the statue's throne. Not to mention I haven't really gotten around to building the actual fortress. I still plan to terraform the region quite a bit and hope to post a bit of an account of the fort's progress for those interested. Although I love Armok Vision to bits, it sadly doesn't render all the colours yet and drags things a bit out of shape vertically, so here's a stonesense screenshot as well!

The statue itself is 31 z-levels high, 19 wide and 23 long. The armour is made out of copper blocks (due to lack of tin and bronze), the boots and finery on the armour are made of obsidian, the beard of Gneiss and Silver blocks and the throne of out of Mica. No cheats or hacks were used in the construction, with the exception of autodump to move some rocks out of my fortress rooms while I was building to reduce clutter in 3D viewers. A mere five dwarves perished on construction, ironically enough on the removal of the stair pillars used to construct the statue rather than the actual labour of building. Nothing like a baptism of blood to please Armok, I reckon.

Here's a few 3D progress screenshots during the 31-layer build;


I hope to post more as the actual fortress is built underneath!