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Revision as of 01:54, 29 November 2008

I have spent a lot of time creating and discarding fortress designs. Here I will share my hard-earned knowledge.

Workshop Structure

A standard fortress workshop floor looks like this:

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Advantages:

  • Excellent mobility. Workshop users have good access to fourteen adjacent workshops (four on their own floor, and five on each of the floors above and below them.)
  • Excellent stockpile access. Simply designate stockpiles right on top of the stairway tiles.
  • A mixture of up and down stairways prevents deadly ten-story falls.

Things to watch for:

  • Workshops also have moderately good access to twelve more workshops that are diagonally adjacent. Although walking diagonally takes just as long as walking in the four cardinal directions, I try to avoid diagonal relationships (e.g. making a fishery diagonally adjacent to a kitchen) for several reasons:
  • Since diagonal travel is often the most efficient way to cross the fortress, having regular diagonal trips between two workshops puts extra pressure on a traffic area that's already in high demand.
  • There's no convenient stockpile space right between the two workshops.
  • Certain items experience wear when dwarves traffic over them. Thus you might not want to use stairway stockpiles for items you suspect to be in this category.


Advanced Workshop Structure

A butcher's workshop produces miasma with great frequency. You should consider walling it off and allowing access through doors only to prevent miasma spread.

There are a bunch more workshops that can benefit from being "lockable". This will allow you to make sure that a dwarf uses a particular material or decorates a particular item.

Useful for specifying materials:

  • Mason
  • Mechanic
  • Stone Crafter
  • Bone Carver
  • Leather Works
  • Clothier

Useful for specifying items to be decorated:

  • Jeweler
  • Bone Carver
  • Leather Works
  • Clothier

The solution to all both of these aberrant workshop classes is the same:

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Note that you will have to place hatch covers over the four inner stairways if you want to achieve full isolation. For the upward stairway, you will have to go to the level above to place the hatch cover.

Kennels and siege workshops require a 5x5 area, and thus they cannot fit in the standard 3x3 zone. The above plan works well for them with very little modification:

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Efficient Hauling

Let's say you are digging far away from your fortress and come across a vein of bituminous coal. What's the most efficient way of capitalizing on the fuel?

The first thing that comes to mind is to haul the coal from the vein directly to the smelter. With each haul, your dwarves are bringing approximately 3 coke worth of fuel back to the fortress. However, there is a more efficient way:

  • Build a smelter near the coal vein.
  • Smelt all the coal into coke.
  • Set up a fairly large custom stockpile nearby that accepts coke only. Make sure you have lots of bins.
  • Set up another 1-2 tile custom stockpile near a workshop you need fuel for. Make it just like the last one, only its only holds bins with at least 10 blocks in them.
  • Set up another fairly large custom stockpile near a workshop you need fuel for. Make it just like the last one, but with no minimum requirement.
  • Set up the first stockpile to feed into the second stockpile.
  • Set up the second stockpile to feed into the third stockpile.

If you set things up properly, the setup should function like this:

- Coke accumulates in stockpile #1 until a bin becomes full. - Since the bin is full, a dwarf moves it to stockpile #2. - Since stockpile #2 feeds into stockpile #3, the dwarf who moved the bin to stockpile #2 should move it to stockpile #3 immediately after he reaches stockpile #2.

This gives you an effective hauling capacity of 10 coke per haul, which is more than triple what you would get with the standard method. The only caveat is that you must have strong item haulers. If your haulers aren't strong enough, you could consider making the maximum bin capacity be less than ten in stockpile #1, and lower the minimum requirement in stockpile #2 accordingly.

Deepcolumn

Overview	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1					Fishing
Row 2	Trade Enter				
Row 3					Wood Sources
Row 4					
Row 5					

Level 0	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1	W. Craft	Grass	Sunshine	Rope Reed	Fishery
Row 2	Grass	Windmill	Blade Weed	Rope Reed	Food
Row 3	Sunshine	Grass	Windmill	Rope Reed	Sunshine
Row 4	Brew	Food	Blade Weed	Food	Brew
Row 5	W. Craft	Brew	Food	Brew	W. Craft

Level -1	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1	G. Furnace	Cave Wheat	Still	Plump H.	Kitchen
Row 2	Cave Wheat	Mill	Pig Dimple	F. Workshop	Plump H.
Row 3	Still	Sweet Pod	Mill	Pig Dimple	Still
Row 4	Sweet Pod	F. Workshop	Kitchen	F. Workshop	Q. Bush	
Row 5	G. Furnace	Sweet Pod	Still	Q. Bush	G. Furnace	

Level -2	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1	G. Furnace	Jeweler	Jeweler	Stone Craft	Ashery
Row 2	Stone Craft	Kitchen	Dyer's Shop	Jeweler	Jeweler
Row 3	Jeweler	Clothier	Loom	G. Furnace	G. Furnace
Row 4	Jeweler	Clothier	Clothier	Kiln	G. Furnace
Row 5	G. Furnace	Clothier	Clothier	G. Furnace	Ashery

Level -3	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1	Bone Bolts	Kitchen	Soaper	Ashery	W. Furnace
Row 2	Butcher	Butcher	Crossbow	W. Craft	Carpenter
Row 3	Butcher	Butcher	Bone Bolts	G. Furnace	Carpenter
Row 4	Tanner	Leather	Leather	G. Furnace	Carpenter
Row 5	Leather	Leather	Leather	Ashery	W. Furnace

Level -4	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1	Skull Totems				
Row 2	Trade Enter	Trade Depot	Trade Depot	Trade Depot	
Row 3	Pumps	Trade Depot	Trade Depot	Trade Depot	
Row 4		Trade Depot	Trade Depot	Trade Depot	
Row 5					

Level -5	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1		Water Feed	Mason	Mason	
Row 2	Bone Carver	Bone Carver	Mason	Mason	Water Feed
Row 3	Bone Carver	Bone Carver	Ditch	Stone Craft	Stone Craft
Row 4	Water Feed	Mason	Mason	Stone Craft	Stone Craft
Row 5		Mason	Mason	Water Feed	

Level -6	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1		Water Feed	Jeweler	Jeweler	
Row 2	Mechanic	Mechanic	Jeweler	Jeweler	Water Feed
Row 3	Mechanic	Mechanic	Ditch	Kennels	Kennels
Row 4	Water Feed	Jeweler	Jeweler	Kennels	Kennels
Row 5		Jeweler	Jeweler	Water Feed	

Level -7	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1		Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	
Row 2	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall
Row 3	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall
Row 4	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall
Row 5		Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	

Level -8	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1		Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	
Row 2	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall
Row 3	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall
Row 4	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall
Row 5		Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	

Level -9	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1		Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	
Row 2	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall
Row 3	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall
Row 4	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall
Row 5		Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	

Level -10	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1		Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	
Row 2	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall
Row 3	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall
Row 4	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall
Row 5		Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	Meeting Hall	

Level -11	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1		Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	
Row 2	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 3	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 4	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 5		Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	

Level -12	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1		Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	
Row 2	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 3	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 4	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 5		Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	

Level -13	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1		Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	
Row 2	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 3	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 4	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 5		Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	

Level -14	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1		Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	
Row 2	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 3	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 4	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 5		Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	

Level -15	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1		Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	
Row 2	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 3	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 4	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 5		Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	

Level -16	Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4	Column 5
Row 1		Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	
Row 2	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 3	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 4	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms
Row 5		Bedrooms	Bedrooms	Bedrooms