Dwarf Fortress succession game - Rigothtizot

Getting my bearing has turned into a full blown tour. So, from the top...


The most prominent feature of the fortress is a small monument to Elven Diplomacy. It is constructed entirely out of Not Wood, one of the most Dwarven construction materials. The small underground section is the farming area.


The forest floor looks like the site of a bloody battle but upon closer inspection it turned out to be cherry blossom. This level shows the poorly defended entrance of Rigothtizot and the solution to the poorly defended entrance of Rigothtizot, a river. Defense can definitely be improved but a project involving a river may be out of the scope of year 2.

The ?? passage was meant to go to a danger room that never got dug out.

One level below the entrance is an unusual assortment of stockpiles. The gem stockpile is too large, the wood stockpile is too small and the furniture stockpile should not need to be that large. Apparently the furniture is not of entirely legitimate origins which would explain why it is down here, out of the way, where nobody will notice it. Crammed between these stockpiles is a mason hard at work alongside the hope of productivity from other dwarves.

While looking at the mounds of furniture I have come to a realization. Our "Glorious Leader" "TheSponge" hates doors. Either that or they completely bamboozle him. There are no doors in this stockpile and almost none in the rest of the fort. The only two doors are made of wood and are being humiliated with an utterly pointless existence in the corner of the future barracks.

Things will change now that I am in charge.


The second last floor contains an entirely appropriate amount of food as well as place for the more unsavory type of dwarf to ply their trade. It is there that the sense ends.

This floor contains, at least according to the designations, a dining room. I'll call this a proper dining room as soon as I call the mess upstairs a proper bedroom. The dwarves certainly aren't falling for it. Where do I even begin. There are no chairs. There are no tables (a wooden table is not a table). One of the walls is made of sand which is notoriously poor at holding engravings (and it is nonsense for sand to be this deep). The scenes and scents of food preparation nearby may well defeat the entire purpose of preparing food.


On the final floor of the fortress contains the punchline. Here we see a managers office. The office has no table. The chair is made of wood. I know managers of new forts have to put up with a lot but this is really a lot.


The stairs continue down a bunch more levels to terminate in the ceiling of a cavern. The cavern is barely worth talking about as it is full of slate and granite so had better mine somewhere else. There is some exposed copper though and a bit of water and mushrooms.

Wood is not very dwarfy. Smelters are a far better method of pissing off elves. And perhaps I like doors. Is a room really a room without a door? Doors are what differentiate the dwarfs from the goblins.


To accommodate our large amounts of wood and ore I have ordered the construction of extra smelters. The pile of furniture contains a decent number of anvils so we will soon be able to ramp up production. If only some migrants would show up to man our forges.

Some elves have arrived. I will discover what they would part with for some stone toys once the trader stops partying.

Also, I installed some doors.


Construction of the legendary dining room has commenced. The plan is to make it entirely out of Marble.

Well that was uneventful. The werebadger killed a few deer, turned into a human and ran away.

While every else was cowering in the food stockpile this dwarf snuck out, took 3 bits of wood and started a mysterious construction. I suppose a sufficiently impressive piece of work is acceptable, even if it is wood.

Also I noticed some weird workshop behaviour and subsequently discovered the job manager system. There is always some extra thing to discover under all the UI in DF.

Oh that messy furniture stockpile is why I wanted DFhack's "queue furniture to be built before it is available for placement" and "always make sure x units of item y are available". Both help to clean stockpiles clean!

I'm glad you start digging nice stuff rather than the current square rooms and stockpiles. Did I already mention I HATE seeing "stairs"? To me "stairs" are ladders (being able to go up and down for infinity on just one tile) and ramps are the REAL stairs (being diagonal and all that).

21st Felsite year 551


My solution to be bed shortage is corridors of moderately sized rooms near the main dining room. This area should hold 48 dwarves with room to for extension. As you can see I have produced enough marble chairs and tables to furnish a quarter of the dining room.



This is one level above the dining room, the area in the middle will hold food stockpiles for easy access.

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