#surface building

This is an affront to common sense; Observe the giant ball made of logs. Even so, this has solved the accommodation issues so all the dwarves (and humans) have their own rooms.

So, This Happened, NOW WITH SURFACE KOBOLDS!

I have retired the successful older fortress because SURFACE KOBOLDS.

I noticed while making the last one, that you can put buildings on floors in the modern version, and that means easy surface building!  Behold some of the first screenshots of my castle!

It’s working!  The castle is much bigger than this now, and I only go underground to mine and farm.  In theory, there is nothing to stop anyone from building elevated farms and pumping water up to muddy the floors, and relying only on surface crops.  Maybe later I will add that to an upper floor and abandon underground farming.  I’ll think about it.

I made a priority of walling the castle off ENTIRELY, and if I have to expand on ground level, I add the new exterior, THEN open it up to the interior and do interior building.  It works:  An undead siege stood around scratching their heads.

Blocks.  It takes SO MANY BLOCKS to do this, especially if you like a consistent aesthetic theme.  I couldn’t do it if it weren’t for making wooden blocks for floors, 4 blocks per log.