This design is for a subterranean "high rise" with a central waterfall from a surface stream. The fortress is adjacent to a volcano and a neighboring construct houses the magma furnace/workshops. Future updates will include the surface castle & trade depot, as well as a more detailed gatehouse leading to the cavern system.

Version 1.0 includes: 16 main fortress DIG templates and 7 volcano annex DIG templates.

Future versions will include two additional DIG designs, multi--level DIG templates dramatically reducing the difficulty in using the templates, BUILD and PLACE templates.

Warning - there is copious use of negative space and you will need to manually constrain your miners to avoid disaster. Restrict your initial outpost dwarves to a smaller area, then build a single stairwell all the way down. From there, manually permit access to specific areas; for example build the Great Hall first even though it is many floors down. If you use the map "as is" your miners will dig themselves down into oblivion, exhausting themselves to the point they become trapped and you experience Diggor Mortis.

PROTIP: Re-designate the vast Channel areas to Dig first - then re-channel from the center out. This prevents the miners from digging downwards & collapsing stone debris on top of themselves.

NOTES: The project started from a REDDIT discussion on fortress design.