Finally, we have the winner of the first round: Radipon and his total score of . . huh?
EXCUSE ME? You mean I actually have to COUNT the statues like I PROMISED?? Hold on. . .
(after like 20 minutes of grumbling)
. . . his
total score of 341 statues!Radipon, though the winner, cared not for the conditions of his dwarfs. With zombies literally clawing their way out of the trees, he chose to set up an open-air labor camp with no doors, walls, or guards to speak of.
Those farms aren't even constructed, they are just present to convince the new migrants that, "Yes, we do eat food here! Haha, why would you think otherwise?
*stares at starving dwarving children hunting for cockroaches*".
A single staircase was dug straight to the magma, with any encountered veins being dug and hauled to the bottom. There, surrounded on three sides by the deadly magma sea, the statues were produced in great numbers, and erected right next to the smithy.
The dwarves also slept here, though if you were given a choice between working more and trying to sleep with the sounds of metalworking, quenching, and the god-forsaken heat, would you not work yourself to exhaustion too? There is almost nothing to spare in this fortress, all activity is directed towards the one goal of constructing these statues. And, well, it worked! Radipon's final submission was the clear winner, though I will never forgive you for not having a bookkeeper.