![]() Generally I do what was mentioned and make a hallway where I put all my storage and workshops, use the nile river farming method after digging a bit of the river bed out, then dig until I hit the obsidian next to the magma. I always rush and have my furnaces up by the end of the first summer. How do people actually accomplish the magma rush? What do you skip in your quest for magma furnaces that my anal-retentive tendencies force me to do first? Either make them a nice little trap-infested nook in between the magma supply channel and outer wall, or widening my entrance to 3-wide and bringing them over my drawbridge into the "keep" so to speak (just left of the refuse pit, probably). I left enough space to do something nifty with the trade depot if I really really need to. Once I build a statue garden to attract idlers, and get some underground forests growing so I don't have to go out for wood, that part of the corridor should become a virtual graveyard. My only real bottleneck is right where the entrance corridor (2 wide) goes past the fortifications, over a bridge, and then turns south. Some space still available for heck only knows what. Northwest, military area with jail, barracks and armory. And the large room that's all stockpile is for finished goods (and gems at this point since I haven't built a nook for a jeweler). Everybody has some local storage so they don't have to roam for material. The dining hall makes for a natural focal point of the fortress, since everydwarf will come there on a regular basis. Grown food leaves the "top" of the stack as seeds, comes in one level down as things-needing-to-be-processed, moves to the middle as things-that-can-be-eaten, and the southernmost block is for drinks. A (too large) area for animals, with the tanner's and butcher's workshops. Note that my population cap is set to 50 more dwarves, bigger layout! If I had more than 50 dwarves, I would probably be thinking more of a "ring" network instead of a "backbone" network. Here's my current fortress, since it seems to be a pretty effecient design thus relevant to the thread.
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