Dwarf Fortress - Liquid Team Project - Page 23

On July 02 2012 19:36 KharadBanar wrote:
Drawbridge:



The drawbridge area is circled in red; it originally spanned the pit that you can still see.
The two arrows indicate the paths that the goblins were still able to take.

The lever marked at the bottom controlled the bridge; I worked out what it did by myself (I'm so proud )

The drawbridge would only have worked if we had had a real moat instead of the puny pit it was built over, but I didn't realise that at the time. I'm not too angry at whoever built it though, because the same person presumably also did really good work on the layout of our farms and our workshops, which were really stable the whole time.

Edit: Just went through the history of our Fortress in Legends mode:

This was the goblin attack that led to our doom.

On July 03 2012 06:26 Logo wrote:


I don't follow the picture. it looks to me like the pit was dug out, but the ramps never removed so you could just climb out and into the fortress.

But yeah it also needed to be wider on each side. (for reference an entrance like that should probably be a drawbridge that raises, not retracts, so you make a door/wall when it's up.

On July 03 2012 04:46 r.Evo wrote:
Haha. I made the moat but couldn't do the drawbridge/levers/remove ramps because of no architect back then. =D

On July 03 2012 07:08 Dfgj wrote:

Yeah that's what it is, it was channeled out but nobody cleared the ramps so it had no impact :<


Wait isn't ramp removal a mining task?

On July 03 2012 00:49 PassiveAce wrote:
Do you guys need a new one? why not just create a archive of fortress' in this thread :p
ofc I am not a player just a reader so I dont have any input, I just thought it would be cool to have one thread full of these amazing stories.