User:Gairabad

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.
• Mixture of up and down stairways prevent 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 for several reasons:

• • Its

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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

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