Castle/shelter ideas?

[Grizzly]

Anyone know of any existing threads for "show off your creations"? My base is pathetic, a square room above ground, then a few levels underground. I'd love to see some creations from other players so i can steal the design :)

[ReneMiner]

browse the screenshots http://steamcommunity.com/app/248390/screenshots/

You can not start to build huge castles instantly.

But a few tips for huge overground-castles:

Have the stockpile close to the door to keep the ways short if you carry stuff from ouside in. Good planning helps.

If your house becomes wide, place another stockpile close to the other door. I always check for the goblin-store which mostly is very close to my first base. So I build into the other direction and finally connect both stockpiles with some rail in the basement of the house.
Place crafting stations on bridges above the stockpile-floor so the crafted stuff gets collected really fast because it drops down to the rail or close to stockpiles.
And don't build elevators in your house- you would regret it.

PS. You can find a lot of my castles (often total-views) in screenshots in my profile.

[Grizzly]

Awesome, thanks for the tips. LOL about the elevators. Did that on my first play on sandbox mode.. wow i laughed for a good hour after it got too annoying to bear any longer then i moved them below the shelter into my mine shafts

[InPinkClover]

Originally posted by ReneMiner:

And don't build elevators in your house- you would regret it.

I'm just curious, what is the issue? I've always built elevators on each side of the stockpile and then more, all the way down to the bottom. I haven't regretted it, but maybe I'm missing something?

[ehyder]

This is an old thread -- the elevators were buggy for a long time. You had to go to extraordinary efforts to use them successfully.

[InPinkClover]

Ya, I knew it was an older thread, but that's about the time I did most of my playing. I was trying to remember what the issues were. :)

[tamorr]

Issues back then were, beyond the bugs, mainly waiting on the dwarves. Since they took even long to use the elevator, and sometimes were getting stuck in that state with hourglass. As well pathfinding a bit awkward with those things...

there were just plenty of problems that all added up back then. Apparently though most of them have been rectified or eased quite a bit. The waiting time being a heck of a lot better due to max height the elevator goes up/down.

So it is nice to see they have gotten lots of improvements. :)

[InPinkClover]

Ahhh yes. I always had elevators, but I do remember having to take them down to get my dwarves moving sometimes. And sometimes I couldn't get them down. I guess I'm stubborn because I kept using the elevators. When they worked, they made things so much faster. I should be to elevators pretty soon, if I don't restart the game (again)! Thanks for the reminder. :)

[Ssenkrad_II]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=613268657

Only base I use on all levels and difficulties... First thing you should buy with your gold is an elevator, this will allow you to avoid the waves entirely until you get your other defensive items going...