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I LOVE this !! Awesome ! 

How do you  manage the colors of your mosaic ?
I remember I searched the net once, but didn't find anything accurate enough, even on the DFwiki.

Thanks for the compliment! I colour my mosaics simply by selection. You think of what colours you need, you find the corresponding materials in the game I.e. gold for yellow, or orthoclase, there's tons of different shades of gray, then there's engraved stone which is a very light kind of silver... etc. Then you find the most workable material in your fortress to facilitate the colour and you build away! If you don't have the colour, you can always look into trading for blocks.

Much like the rest of the Dwarf Fortress it's also a bit of trial and error, toss a ton of things against a wall and see what sticks. I usually tear down parts of my mosaics to rework them.

Happy building!

I sooo want to send my envoy to visit your awesome fort and I would bring full wagons of booze as a gift . It's a real piece of art and you should send this pics to Toady. This fort is ballistic and can't wait to see more of it.

Hehe, thanks! Seeing as building takes priority over setting up proper agriculture and massive booze industry, I -do- rely on buying out booze caravans to keep my fortress afloat, actually. A while back I dipped under 1000 drink, a true cause for panic!

This makes me envision of this statue as taking off w/ a rocket booster for kinetic impact with a neighboring goblin dark tower. Maybe to the tune of Flight of the Valkyries.

It's not a bird, it's not a plane, it's your impending doom in the form of a large copper monument, woe unto the greenskin menace! I doubt I have the technical skill to even blast off minor objects, though one can dream...

Update time! Thanks for the kind words, there's no better motivation to make Prophetmirrored bigger and better!

Due to work on the lower levels I finally had the Mica I needed to finish up the throne of the statue; I also removed the scaffolding from the head, so there won't be anymore up-down staircases showing behind the helmet slits!



As a fun little aside; whilst finishing up the top of the helmet and crown, there was a meeting between the mayor and liaison on the top of the statue (they were stuck due to a mistaken building block). It was thus that Prophetmirrored was declared a barony on top of the statue!

Here's a stonesense screenshot of the upper area; I've also started work on a protruding double barracks above the main fortifications.

A screenshot of the entrance; the central circular area houses the staircase to the 'main' fortress and is three z-levels high. I might knock out some more of the ceiling if I feel like it.

Time to descend into the main fortress, via our gradual obsidian-gold staircase!

This leads us into the 7 z-level great hall, made out of obsidian blocks and golden statues. 64 Golden statues, to be exact. The dwarves really enjoyed that hauling job from the forges.

In due time I'll knock out the ceiling to replace it with floors for a more uniform look. While I'm at it I might try my hand at a ceiling mosaic. I'll also hollow out some parts of the wall for taverns with terraces overlooking the main hall. When I get down to plumbing I think it's going to have four waterfalls too.

Here's a view of the main layer and the designation of the housing areas! After nine years of blood and toil, 80% of my population will finally have rooms.
Afterwards I decided the housing area also needed an extra Z level or two, so those levels are going to get some attention later too.

BONUS: As for special goings-on in the fortress itself, things have been rather quiet, bar the occasional goblin siege that my military dispose of surprisingly well. Turns out however that our human friends aren't getting along with our long-eared treehugging pests.

The toil continues!

I remember a friend of mine had a settlement in his world with the name "Creamyholes"
Now this caused enough laughter, but upon looking through the artifact page, a necromancer had written a book "Can Creamyholes save the world?"
Hilarity ensued.

As for my own fortress, a military squad was randomly named "The Romantic Standards" - not that funny, but I still liked it.
I also had a fortress once with the name "The halls of fishes" which I found pretty hilarious, only to discover later on that lungfish had infested my hallways, making the name funnily correct.