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[RocheLimit]

LeopardLens, Fortress of Forgotten Beasts and Wealth

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Mingkilcerol, or LeopardLens, is a Fortress Defense, Large Address Aware, 40.24 Fort that I began back in May of 2015 with the purpose of capturing or killing all forgotten beasts, and documenting as much of the process as possible.  Secondary goals included conquering the circus, building a castle on the surface, maximizing artifact creation, and accumulating as much wealth as I could.

Now it is early 2018.  The fort is nearly 3 real-time years old, has been in single-digit FPS for over a year, and has hit a patch of instability where progress was measured in in-game days.  These chain crashes started as I attempted a 5th generation of artifacts and began building above the sky's limit using infinitesky.  No combination of work-arounds helped... in fact, I had to migrate the fort to another df folder with a slightly different dfhack used for Armok Vision images; it wouldn't even work in the original folder.  In the end I decided to both rewind the fort to year 465 and, as the future of the fort is cloudy, spend some time getting this all uploaded and posted.  Which I am glad I did because I had no idea how much I'd managed to collect over the years.

Edit: I just realized that the spoiler tags may show nothing at all for a while as the images can take quite a while to load.  They're there; just have to wait a bit.  Though maybe I should go through and edit some of them to be external links to cut down on the load time...

Edit 2: Went through and swapped out the larger animated gifs (FB Battle Royal, Obsidianizing the Surface, Descent, Aquarium 2D, Aquarium View, & Filling of Cavern 3) with direct links.  It should help with the load time.  Also, here is a link to the rather unorganized album most of the images and gifs are pulled from (https://imgur.com/a/DcX9g), for those interested.

Beware of Spoilers ahead

Stats
Fortress Year – 215
Earliest Image Date – 5/13/2015
Current FPS – 1

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https://i.imgur.com/FwWv0e1.png

Dead – 28,912
Max Pop – 239
Current Pop – 194
Generations – 4
Artifacts – 353
Artifact Wealth – 637,831,600
Total Wealth – 2,002,823,883
Exported Wealth – 18,364,883

Programs Used - Irfanview, Paint, Gimp, GifCam

Historical Population

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https://i.imgur.com/6IAf7JH.png

Spreadsheet

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Open Office required
Tracks artifacts, sieges, forgotten beasts,
megabeasts, value, clowns, deaths, population,
military, design, decorations, and random info. 
Definitely worth a look, in my opinion.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1NgBb7Vrpnv_JJ_0WhaadjvDAsE—hRjB
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=76736517355839943116

Current
Status Screen

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https://i.imgur.com/chndKNA.png

Unit List

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Fort Images
Main Fort Levels, 2D

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Above Ground

Below Ground

Below Ground HFS

Entire Fort... in Ascii, short descriptions
(link to external album, 155 images)

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https://imgur.com/a/EBEv9

Armok Vision

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Historical: Late Year 266

Historical: Early Year 279

Historical: Late Year 338

Obsidianizing the Surface, pre-Arena Tower

Above Ground Fort

Dragon Breeding Room

Arena Tower

First Caravan after 100+ Years

Main Level Dining Room

Current Royal Quarters

Descent

https://i.imgur.com/bZQ8Q87.gif

HFS – Overall

HFS – Old Bastion

HFS – Old Bastion Gate

HFS – Road

Paving the Surface in Obsidian

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https://i.imgur.com/64eo8D5.gif

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Album Link
https://imgur.com/a/BCuD8

The Filling of Cavern 3

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https://i.imgur.com/Saq6rdm.gif

Aquarium

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HFS – Aquarium Design

HFS – Aquarium 2D


https://i.imgur.com/dXr9TTK.gif

HFS – Aquarium Hall

HFS – Aquarium

HFS – Aquarium View

https://i.imgur.com/PedGpFD.gif

Helpful Artists

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Kul the Fatal Abysses, by UristMcGuennor
on Reddit, 2015-10-27.

Two swordmaster brothers conversing, by Devilingo of Reddit
Based on the image here https://i.imgur.com/gZXFV5Q.png, I once found
two brothers talking after a Jotunar attack.  One was fond of the talk.
The other, was not.
The fondness the two siblings have for each other is
really captured in their expressions.

Artifacts
Artifacts, Overview

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Artifacts, All 353

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Artifacts, Most Valuable

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Artifacts, Detailed List

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Sieges
Overview

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Complete Siege List, Invaders & Defenders

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Invader Kill Lists, searched from the Dead List

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Greater Badgerman Kills

Ferric Elf Kills

Frog Man Kills

White Tigerman Kills

War Wolf Kills

Goblin Kills

Great Fiend Spider Kills


Jotunar not shown as their attacks were made
up of multiple different species... see spreadsheet.[/left

Best Warrior
Teresa Ruledpicks the Mortification of Playing
Swords-dwarf with 2059 kills and full Artifact Armor. 
Gave her eternal life after kill 2000.

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Wields ToneSwallow artifact adamantine
two-handed sword: 1869 kills

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& The Natural Gills artifact
adamantine shield: 29 kills

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Of course, the rest of her squad
weren't slouches either

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Forgotten Beast Info
Counter

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Forgotten Beasts Incursions by the Year

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Forgotten Beasts Incursion Graphs

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Current Residing FB List

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Forgotten Beast Reclaim Battle Royal
I once tried to retire/reclaim to gain some precious fps. 
I had forgotten upon reclaim all caged entities are uncaged...
I had stored 157 Forgotten Beasts, 6 ettin, 4 cyclopes, 4 weres
(2 skinks, 1 civet, 1 tortoise, all non-transformed) 3 giants,
2 bronze colossi, 2 minotaurs, and 1 titan in a single room.  3 minutes long.

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https://i.imgur.com/MyO5BK5.gif

In another portion of the fort, I had stored other forgotten beasts,
bronze colossi, and various megabeasts.  All in cages yet to be built.
Seems the dragons were  still holding their own by the time I checked
on them.

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Obviously I did not go through with the retire/reclaim attempt. 
And now with the current numbers of caged enemies, any reclaim
would be three times as crazy.

Animal Training & Herds
Every animal that I could catch was bred
and trained, minus the handful of Giant Cave Spiders
I caught.  Some never showed up (like Cave Bats) while
vermin were both hard to catch and hard to get rid of.

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Currently, the fort boasts herds of the following
animals for food, moods, and decorations.

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The dragons and cave dragons are at most 160 years old. 
Breeding pairs were hard to find.

I was most excited when word came we had become
expert gremlin trainers.  Not that they are every really
tame...

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Embark's Surrounding Area
Using a copy of the original world, I did a fresh embark
over the original location... at 14x14 (16x16 kept crashing
on me).  I took screen-shots, used irfanview's ability to
batch 'trim', and then pieced the images together into
a single high-res shot.  I then located the ponds that
were in my 3x3 embark and overlaid a more current
high-res shot of the fort on it.  Sadly, uploading lost
much of the resolution for some reason.  Still cool
to see the surrounding area, like how there are hills
North and East of the embark, and a stream to the
South.

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https://i.imgur.com/rAyN00u.jpg  (10,752 x 10,752 image)

Also, years after the caravans stopped coming, I sent
out an adventurer in a copy of the save.  The following
link is to an album devoted to her travels.  I could have
sworn I sent out a second adventurer later, but could find
no record of such an endeavor.  Probably delerium.

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https://imgur.com/a/QYOQH

The Hamlet Next Door
These guys are one overworld map tile to the East, a hamlet
of The Empires of Aquamarine named AdmiredCarried. 
We do much trade with the humans of this civilization;
the dwarfs welcome their law-givers' yearly visits.

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The Dark Fortress Down the Street
And here is FellStench, the nearby capital of the goblin
civilization The Poison of Despair.  Despite their proximity,
goblins have not invaded in nearly 200 years.  In the current
year of the fort, only trolls and the Capybara monster,
Asmrar Quakewhip itself, still live in Fellstench.

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Research Shows an massive decline in goblins from 250 to 270

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Coins
A few years into the fort, I took up having the dwarfs forge
a single stack of coins to mark each year.  Eventually I
settled on copper for normal years, silver for those ending in 5,
gold for 10's, platinum for 50, and adamantine for 100.

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All Log Entries (~100 entries each, 4700 total entries)

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01 https://imgur.com/a/e5OPY (250-255) Aquifer Breach, Main Fort Setup, Finding Caverns, Flooring Surface
02 https://imgur.com/a/mo5V0 (255-263) Trap Halls, Titan Gate
03 https://imgur.com/a/vET8d (263-269) Magma Pump Stack, Armok Vision, Walling Cavern 1 Began
04 https://imgur.com/a/ppT78 (269-276) Cavern 1 Walled, Cavern 1 Filled with Magma, Cavern 2 Begun, Controlled Cave-Ins
05 https://imgur.com/a/Uz2ng (276-280) Controlled Burn, Candy, Obsidianizing, Finished Surface Floor, Cavern 2 Magma Fill, Cavern 3 begun
06 https://imgur.com/a/EGoJt (280-284) Impromptu Web Trap C3, Cavern 3 Obsidianizing, Magma Cleanup, Expert Gremlin Trainers
07 https://imgur.com/a/j9cCX (284-289) C3 Progress, Mood #100
08 https://imgur.com/a/zmmcE (289-294) C2 Fishing, C3 Silk Farm, Execution Room, Rock Climbing Dwarf
09 https://imgur.com/a/fqSKq (294-297) Hole in C3 Walls, C3 Adamantine, Bolt Problem, Invader Climbs Keep, Enchanted Blades & Teresa
10 https://imgur.com/a/0NlMf (297-301) Dragon Breeding Pair, 13z Fall, Suicidal Crundles, Stone Gathering
11 https://imgur.com/a/Qym47 (301-305) Dragon Breeding
12 https://imgur.com/a/Mm7wo (305-311) Candy Obsidianizing, Generational Artifacts, Child Care
13 https://imgur.com/a/pg9EU (311-316) Child Care Closed, Adamantine Spire Sealing, Stone Cleared Away
14 https://imgur.com/a/Grwtt (316-320) Trap Hall Expansion, Cavern 3 Filling, HFS Trap, HFS Opened, Bastion Dug Out
15 https://imgur.com/a/i7jMT (320-324) Clown Car Remnants, Bastion Rescue, Beach-head in Circus, Clown Captured, HFS Construction Begun
16 https://imgur.com/a/RDTSR (324-328) Crundle Pitting Fun, HFS Pipe, HFS Bastion
17 https://imgur.com/a/nTjto (328-333) Glass Tower begun, HFS Bastion nears completion
18 https://imgur.com/a/nDEmJ (333-339) Surface Floor Removal Begins, Surface Stairs dug, Historical Goblin Research
19 https://imgur.com/a/SenCM (339-343) Surface Mining, Pond Tactics
20 https://imgur.com/a/PZZRa (343-348) Fighting Platform, Skywalks, Surface Flooding
21 https://imgur.com/a/2CrRG (348-351) Diplomat Release, Surface Solidification Begun
22 https://imgur.com/a/BzB01 (351-356) Surface Now Obsidian, Stuck Siege
23 https://imgur.com/a/DMlhK (356-359) Adventurer Investigation, Cavern Cage Trap Platform, Odd Magma Flooding at Pump Stack Base
24 https://imgur.com/a/Fpx8J (359-363) Trap Hall Expansion, Artifact 200, Fighting Platform Expansion for Dragons, Pretty World Map
25 https://imgur.com/a/0DTF8 (363-367) Arena Tower, Skywalk Removal
26 https://imgur.com/a/4wXHK (367-372) Bed Decorating, Ideas, Circus Remodel, Megabeast Breeding Rooms, Soap
27 https://imgur.com/a/btvXI (372-376) Kangaroo Rebellion, Trap Hall Expansion, FB 500
28 https://imgur.com/a/qQJZS (376-380) Circus Cleanup, Eerie Pit Filling
29 https://imgur.com/a/acjBk (380-386) Circus Cast Walls, Queen Bloody Ankol
30 https://imgur.com/a/v7Hdi (386-390) Circus Work
31 https://imgur.com/a/XmDr3 (390-395) Hamlet & Dark Fortress Scouted, Artifact 250, FB 600, Circus Work
32 https://imgur.com/a/hB0xI (395-401) Circus Work
33 https://imgur.com/a/ehuiM (401-406) 200 Failed FB Entrances, 10 thousand invaders killed
34 https://imgur.com/a/bMntC (406-412) Pipe Remodel
35 https://imgur.com/a/1ObMY (412-417) Diplomat Void Rescue Attempt, new JapaMala-compiled version of DF for Armok Vision
36 https://imgur.com/a/BUlhO (417-420) Gold Road, Pipe Extension
37 https://imgur.com/a/1nw6o (420-423) Eerie Pit Filling
38 https://imgur.com/a/zUsVw (423-426) DismissMerchant script works, Caravan
39 https://imgur.com/a/owgVL (426-429) New axe dwarf squad, Artifact 300, Pipework
40 https://imgur.com/a/8clnD (429-432) Aquarium Design, Merir Letterquest (ettin) arrives, creation of UnitRetrieval script, massive fight against units lost to the void
41 https://imgur.com/a/mjKhs (432-434) Continued Fight against the void-lost, 200-failed-entry FB recovered, Merir's training begins
42 https://imgur.com/a/p4fgh (434-441) Merir Training, Aquarium work, Tallow Removal, bone decorating, Caged Skeleton's History
43 https://imgur.com/a/c0u4d (441-448) Aquarium Casting Completes, Pipe Deconstruction
44 https://imgur.com/a/uER7T (448-452) Architect Training, Aquarium Decorations, InfiniteSky test, FB 853 (final one)
45 https://imgur.com/a/juTln (452-457) Decorations, Aquarium Water, Eerie Pit Shenanigans, Artifact 325
46 https://imgur.com/a/1j6kE (457-462) Aquarium Filling Once More, Aquarium Hall Designed
47 https://imgur.com/a/OYJEM (462-466) Caverns Draining, Uploading Log Commences, Python Required to Upload in order
48 – Not uploaded yet, but here's a preview: crash, crash, crash, maybe... crash.  Reloaded back to 465 from 469.

[They Got Leader]

This is absolutely amazing. That is all I can say about it. I am absolutely astonished with the detail you have taken when dealing with records.

Pray tell, how did you manage to CAPTURE the Forgotten Beasts?

[RocheLimit]

For those that do not shoot web or have the body of a spider, webbed cage traps will do the trick.  I used a small silk farm above the cage traps and used a retracting bridge to drop the web onto the cages.  I started with a Giant Cave Spider before upgrading to Sath the Cavern of Nights, a webbing forgotten beast.

For web immune beasties, I use 1 by X tunnels containing a door that leads to your fort and can be lever-sealed by drawbridges at either end.  While the FB munches on the door, you have time to seal it in.  Simple to setup, if somewhat risky if you don't have many dwarfs to pull levers, and can be built quickly anywhere you have a FB problem.

Overall Design, Log Entry 116

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Web Loading Process, Log Entry 122

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Finish Trap Hall, Log Entry 125

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[They Got Leader]

How extremely fascinating. Thank you for the contribution to Dwarf Fortress! As I said, your recordkeeping is of the highest quality.

[Dainz]

I'm deeply impressed with this fort and your records. I hope i don't need 3 years to read through it all! Thanks for posting this awesome fort!