The Trash Lair

I've made a lot of forts, the more I play, the more..Interesting I try to make them. I'm a big believer of it's easier to make an aethetic fort function, then a functional fort aesthetic. I try to pick a theme for my forts, then try to build around that. Here are some of (in my opinon) my best work!

Civillization - The Door of Cats

Fort - PostScratches

Group - The Keeper of Cats

Symbol - A Cat striking a menacing pose.

Symbol Name - The Cat of Fear

I think Post Scratches was my first real attempt at a themed fort and one of my longest up untill when I made it. This cat shaped room was the queens room, It had a built in waterfall mist generater, her tomb, bedroom, dining room, and throne room. This was the first time I really saw just how much you could do with dwarf fortress. Keupo's forts had been a huge insperation for a long time, and this was my first attempt at trying to make a fort I was really truely proud of. I think this fort ended up lasting about 13 years and died from either fps death or I did pretty much everything I set out to do.

Some key events from this fort include but are not limited too -

A vampire
A hydra wiping out like 150 dwarves so only 25 remained and like half of those were children nad useless
A metal titan
A large collection of big and small cats
Becoming the mountian home

Pond turtle Fort

I was starting to get burn out on my Evil fort of Evil but didn't want to give up on a fort because I was bored for once. So, I started a challenge of a mini fort! I can only spend 3 streams (about 12 hours) in the fort and I have to make it look like the animal person civ I'm playing as. (A wonderful mod by Ryna is how I'm able to play as a civ other then dwarves.)

The embark for this one was a 1x1 and only 1 z-level deep.

Squid Fort

The dwarf fortress sub reddit absolutly fucking loved this one. It was a bitch to build because I couldn't figure out why the squid men weren't happy, by the end of it 4 of them were dead from in fighting.

The more I look at it, the more I go OH NO THERE IS A PROBLEM DON'T LOOK AT IT.

A 1x3 embark and 1 z-level. Yes I realise it has more legs then its ment too, dont worry about it.

Civillization - The Epitome of Necromancers

Fort - The House of The Dead

Group - MurderGhost

Symbol - An image of a dwarf and a cloak. The cloak is hiding the dwarf.

Symbol Name - Death

This cunt of a fort, was both my longst running fort and my first ever mega build. A suspended pure obsidian tower in the center of a ravine. It should have died an fps death from 2 massive waterfalls and more forgotten beasts then you could poke a stick at, but I kept pushing it past it's limit with the help of DFHack.

Emu Fort

As an Australian, this emu was very difficult for me. Because as you know, Australia lost 2 wars to emus.

Other then that I don't really have anything exciting to say about it. Just that my biggest challenge was making it read emu and not flamingo.

A 1x2 embark and 1 z-level. I probably used the most colours for this one, But it was done the fastest.

Spider Fort

I bit off a little more then I could chew with this one. Waaaay to big, I had to go overtime a little bit with the streams to make sure that it was finished. I nearly had the same issue here as I did with the squid fort with the infighting. But then I realised that the mod made it so some civs were straight up carnivors or herbivors. The jumping spider men only eat meat. Once I figured that out, I had a happy little fort of 22 spiders.

A 2x2 embark and 1 z-level. The biggest animal fort so far.

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