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[nagromo]

I'm in a valley in the middle of the mountains. The valley has a river and is stuffed with trees, and the cliffs raise pretty high on either side. It's a great starting location; the only dangerous thing is Unicorns, which have kept a distance, and some really annoying batmen from the chasm that keep interrupting tasks. I dug deep and found a few large gold deposits, and there's iron and limestone everywhere, with decent smatterings of platinum and copper. The only things that would make it better are a magma river or coal.

[Sean Mirrsen]

About that last map I mentioned. A thought struck me - is a fortress REALLY limited to the 31 levels as we know? Because my map is like 131 levels. If it's ever possible, I'm building a stair to the topmost plateau, and then I'll take an adventurer for a dive. Seeing as a jump from 5 levels is fatal....  from 102 levels, the maximum distance straight down, the adventurer will be pulverized with utmost brutality.

[thijs]

how did you find those human settlements if been looking for 30 min or so and still non

[Akael]

I started in a place that looked good, forests on a high cliff where I started, loam for farming, and swarms of chasm creatures from the incredibly deep chasm about a stone's throw from the entrance to my fortress.

They're no match for doors, however. I also managed to make a quantum ramp matrix that connects to the top of the mountain where I started and the bottom of the cliff. Building my fortress proper in the z-center of this dwarven portal machination, I feel pretty set in this fortress.

[huhu]

I dug around until I found a temperate, forested, thick in greenery type place with calm surroundings. I'm already missing the cute widdly elephants or anything, really...

[Dwemeri]

Hehe, I decided to abandon my Mordor-like starting location with nothing else then a volcano + rocks, rocks and some more rocks as far as the eye can see.

Instead, I did a complete 180 and found myslef on top of a hill overlooking a freezing landscape with (surprisingly) many trees. There is also a river which is frozen ATM, some sand on the first 2 levels, then comes rocks and on the lowest level of my narrow shaft mine I found some microcline(?)and other expensive and exotic ores. Not many critters below ground, but above there is an abundance of deer and, unfortunately, wolf. Luckily the first thing I did was to build straight down and then cover the entrance with walls and a drawbridge. On this complex I also have 2 stone towers, all 4 levels high from where my lone marksdwarf takes pot-shots at anyone crazy enough to come close to my mighty fort.

Only casualty so far has been a foolish hunter who decided to go hunting wolves... good news was that my marksdwarf took him out from his tower about 5 minutes later, and i butchered and served the wolf with plump helmets. Now my dwarves have been partying for the last week, and I can't make them stop. Guess you have to take the good with the bad...

[schm0]

quote:Originally posted by darknight:
<STRONG>Compared to what some are saying, I struck it lucky with my first fort.

I picked an area of forested hills. What I got was low hills, wall to wall trees, groundhogs and reeses for animals, and a Y-shaped river full of trout and salmon. I put my fort in a hill in the southeast, that is protected on two sides by the river. And there was a very nice narrow gap in the hill, that goes back in a few squares, and that is where I put my entrance. A very defensible spot! And theres a nice cherry on top. Where the streams meet, there is a good size lake that sits down in a canyon. And where the north stream meets the lake, there is a 6 or 7 story waterfall into the lake.

I saw some nice ore deposits in the canyon walls. So once my basic fort is squared away, I'll be tunneling over to the lake. I'm thinking mine out the ore, then build a great retirement home where the ore was, then grab a fishing pole and retire!</STRONG>

Got some pictures of the main levels (and the waterfall!!!) ?? I'd love to see 'em. Sounds very nice.

[Lightning4]

I had to abandon my steel paradise since my dwarves got picked off one by one by stingrays.

My new fortress is such a peaceful location. A temperate coniferious forest, bordering a cold badland. I found a huge reserve of microcline deep below so now I can make things and pass them off as adamantine \
Lots of red sand too. Shame red sand doesn't make different colored glass or something, if that's possible in real life. I want red glass.
The nearby brook is frozen during the wiinter... and it has no evil fish in it whatsoever. The most dangerous creature I've seen so far is a leopard and that got taken out by a brand new hunter. Bunch of camels here too. I might start a camel ranch or something.
Sadly ore isn't as prevalent. Only stuff I've found is magnetite.

[Dwemeri]

quote: I found a huge reserve of microcline deep below so now I can make things and pass them off as adamantine \

I too found a gigantic (at least 15x15 big) microcline collection on the second lowest level of my mine shaft. Still got digging to do and it seeems to pop up more and more the further in I dig and I already have 78 units of it. Now to start making stuff out of it. Too bad that I've almost finished my above gorund fortress out of ordinary dull stone, I would've prefered a cyan coloured castle instead of a gray and boring one.

[THLawrence]

quote:Originally posted by Lightning4:
<STRONG>
Sadly ore isn't as prevalent. Only stuff I've found is magnetite.</STRONG>

Magnetite is good. It may be very common and appear in massive chunks but it makes iron. The equivalent of what you just said is:
Sadly ore isn't as prevalent. Only stuff I've found is hematite.

Given the large number of new flux reagents (Limestone alternative) there is a very good chance that you will have your steel fortress back. You may have to import the charcoal but thats it.

[Alfador]

quote:Originally posted by Sean Mirrsen:
<STRONG>About that last map I mentioned. A thought struck me - is a fortress REALLY limited to the 31 levels as we know? Because my map is like 131 levels. If it's ever possible, I'm building a stair to the topmost plateau, and then I'll take an adventurer for a dive. Seeing as a jump from 5 levels is fatal....  from 102 levels, the maximum distance straight down, the adventurer will be pulverized with utmost brutality.</STRONG>

Above a certain height, it shouldn't do anything more spectacular by increasing it any more: there's this thing called terminal velocity, which is, despite the name, far greater than the speed at which you will die if you hit something.

[Eiba]

Lava pit between black sand and a thick jungle at the foot of a magnetite mountain.

I could make a clear glass palace with a single dwarf, or an iron one with two. The obvious course of action of course is to use both and make a modern-style skyscraper... in the middle of an untamed jungle...

[Tubal_Cain]

At the source of a brook, in a temperate woodland that is stair stepped with cliffs.    In case anyone is curious, brooks source from a delta looking thing and at the beginning of each branch is a tile labeled River Source.

[Sean Mirrsen]

Alfador: Terminal velocity derives from, among other things, air resistance. Since Toady didn't code air in at all, except for arbitrary wind, I think terminal velocity here is a lot different from the real world.  

[Bluefire]

I've started in an ideal position for a thriving fortress, as I see it. A cold forest with some layers of sand to farm on right from the start, as well as a lava vent for metal working operations.
BTW, does lava pumping work the same way as water pumping just with lava proof materials, or is there another method for doing that?