User:HebaruSan

Preferred Tileset	Kein for its blend of tradition and innovation
Playing Version	v0.28.181.40d16

I'm a programmer (personally and professionally). I like roguelikes (ascended one barbarian in Nethack) and try to work on them, but don't have anything impressive to show you.

Reasons for Playing Dwarf Fortress

• Open-endedness
• Watching my designs play out
• Appreciating its complexity and intricacy

Fortresses

Recalling memories of fortresses is fun. Here are some of mine.

Region 1 (Name lost to the mists of time)

Population	7 dwarves, probably; can't imagine this one getting immigrants

I believe I abandoned this fortress after getting a basic sense of how to play and an understanding of this fortress' non-viability, then started Region 2 in the same world.

Noteworthy Occurrences

• Took a while to figure out how to get my dwarves to do things. They idled while I learned keystrokes.
• Miner got stuck somehow after falling in a hole.
• Fortress layout was partly outdoors, partly wide-open non-defensible underground area.
• Ran out of trees. Then found a bunch more after discovering the existence of Z-levels!

Region 2, Ramul Xem, "Roughnessclasp"

Created wealth	452,441☼
Population	94 dwarves 156 animals
Deaths	18 dwarves 6 dogs
Artifacts	Cabinet Throne Leather vest Braies Ring Bracelet Leather skirt
Nobles	Dungeon Master (surface river)
Military	11 Marksdwarves

After running out of food due to not assigning crops to be grown, I set this fortress aside to start Region 3 rather than watch everyone chase rodents and starve. Later returned to it with more expertise, got food from a caravan, and managed a full recovery. Still have the in-progress save game, but stopped playing it after losing substantial progress (city walls) to a crash.

Features

• Captive-drowning chamber, extensively used
• Elaborate invader-drowning entrance, never tested
• Flat layout (most things on 2 Z-levels)
• Marksdwarf towers with archery targets and sleeping quarters underneath
• Passage dug under river
• Dug out and flooded an underground area with an above-ground river to allow underground fishing and to see if it counted as a tower-cap-enabling "underground river" (it doesn't)

Celebrities

• First legendary miner, Domas Dastotganad
• First legendary mason, Îton Momuzimik
• Pair of legendary bone carvers, Urist Inethnulral and Goden Sazirzatam

Noteworthy Occurrences

• Learned the wonders of cage traps
• Elven caravan stopped coming after one was lost to an ambush

Region 3, Sherikunib, "Perplexedrag"

Settled by	The Scholarly Salves
Created wealth	318,379☼
Population	71 dwarves 46 animals
Deaths	20 dwarves 7 dogs
Artifacts	Mace Barrel Mug Floodgate Spear
Nobles	Dungeon Master (surface river)
Military	8 Marksdwarves 1 Macedwarf

Celebrities

• Bomrek Thobdolush, Macedwarf and Captain of the guard

Features

• Thick forest, two aboveground rivers
• Flat layout, everything on 1 Z-level
• Very rigid grid of 7x7 rooms
  • 3x3 workshops in each corner
  • Attempted to site related shops and stockpiles near one another

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• First well with cistern
• Aboveground castle
  • Archer platforms atop walls
  • 3 ballistae
  • 2 catapults
  • 1 trade depot
  • Enclosed farm field
  • Drawbridge over channeled open-air refuse pit

Region 4, Stâkudîton Zustashizkilgostaban Bëmbul, "Machinehall"

Settled by	Truestrike the Courageous Loyal Rock-Band of Beards
Created wealth	3,359,388☼
Population	170 dwarves 480 animals
Deaths	25 dwarves 32 dogs
Artifacts	Piccolo 6 Bracelets 2 Mechanisms Toy axe Blowgun Leather shirt Harp Right gauntlet Animal trap Trousers Crossbow Idol Leather face veil Bed Left gauntlet
Nobles	Dungeon Master (surface river) Duchess Duke Consort Philosopher Tax Collector Hammerer King Consort Queen (deceased)
Military	2 Champions 14 Marksdwarves (3 Elite) 1 Speardwarf 1 Hammerdwarf 1 Axedwarf 1 Swordsdwarf 2 Macedwarves 11 Royal Guards

I got ambitious and carefully customized the fortress and party names before embark.

Machinehall was built in two phases:

1. Complex I: Single 32x32 room
   • Workshops along the walls
   • Stockpiles in the middle
   • Kinked entry passage with fortifications for marksdwarves
   • Housing in a spiral pattern one level down
     • Please forgive resemblance to onerous historical symbols; goal was merely to maximize density and minimize distance from doors to center.

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1. • Well and waterfall in one corner
2. Complex II: 17 15x15 levels, with a helix ramp in the center
   • Planned waterfall in the center of the ramp (never tested)
   • Each level dedicated to a specific industry or activity

Unfortunately, these phases are not close together, and the transition is taking a very long time. Currently most dwarves in Machinehall can be found walking in the long passage between them.

Queen Saga

Eventually, Machinehall grew enough to attract the interest of royalty. After an artifact mechanism was used in a drawbridge, Queen Lorbam Äkiltosid arrived and proclaimed her demands for the finest, most lavish accommodations imaginable. Plans for such were drawn up immediately, and work began. Not fast enough for Her Royal Highness, however; with each passing day, the indignity of her condition weighed upon the noble monarch, until finally one day it was all too much.

Lorbam Äkiltosid, Queen has gone stark raving mad!

She wandered aimlessly, overcome with despair. Where had she gone wrong? Surely road value is an excellent way to choose where to live! Eventually, the Queen threw herself into Machinehall Complex II's 17-level dry waterfall.

Lorbam Äkiltosid, Queen has died after colliding with an obstacle.

And her subjects mourned. Or at least I assume they will; the loss of the Queen prompted me to save my game (and not come back to it yet).

Other Events

• First Tax Collector mandated items made from unavailable materials.
  • Innocent craftdwarf was blamed, charged, and executed!
  • Some time later, the Tax Collector was found starved to death in his locked quarters.
• First production of glass and soap.
• Dug out most of bottom Z-level without finding magma pipe.

Celebrities

• Mayor Ïteb Zasurrïth
  • Legendary Record Keeper
  • Legendary Appraiser
  • Legendary Organizer
  • Undefeated in all elections since founding
  • Big fan of iron and doors
• First legendary mechanic, Bim Suvasbomrek
  • Decided she was Machinehall's de facto matron
  • Built her an office/dining/bedroom complex using her favorite materials
• First legendary stonecrafter, Ustuth Inethurol
  • Creator of many excellent native gold mugs
• Legendary Bone Carver, Led Tizötdodók
  • Creator of a continuous stream of masterpieces

Features

• Champions patrolling edges of map
• Wall around roughly 100x100 area above ground for safe forestry
• Museum containing artifacts and two captured megabeasts
• 5-target archery practice hall with captive-release area near targets
• Low-income housing district in sandy area to handle Dwarven economy
• Spiral wall entrance, never tested
  • Maximizes length of path per surface area occupied
  • Overlooked by fortified marksdwarf tower
• Pit under drawbridges, never tested
  • 26 tiles long
  • 9 Z-levels deep
• 'Bait' tunnels with war dogs, unsuccessful
• Exotic pet collection
  • Rhesus macaques
  • Groundhogs
  • Jaguar
  • Elk
  • One-humped Camel
  • Deer

Region 5, Rifotsazir, "Blockedbridge"

I used the site finder, with the only search parameter being the presence of a magma pipe, then carved the bottom Z-level into 5x10 chunks without finding one. However, I did eventually notice some Frogman bones in my stocks. Sure enough, these had sunk to the bottom of an undiscovered underground river.

Settled by	The Merchants of Closing
Created wealth	8,435,373☼
Population	214 dwarves 126 animals
Deaths	5 dwarves 7 dogs
Artifacts	Leather thong Tower-cap armor stand 3 Scepters Mace Chain mail Flute Red flash opal table Harp Door Bracelet Coffer Weapon Rack Earring Braies Chain Idol
Nobles	Dungeon Master (underground river) Duchess Duke Consort Philosopher Tax Collector Hammerer
Military	27 Champions