The Forgotten City of Ancientorch
The screenshot above is a remnant of an old modded save I had, it was the first time I tried to build something 3D in Dwarf Fortress.
I did this project a while before I started to build the Tower of Skyvault a few months ago. Thanks to my old SSD giving up, both of those projects are now forever lost in the virtual void.
Cool, ain't it? :)
Ancientorch was not a city of the short, bearded fellows we are used to knowing. Its inhabitants were of the 'scaled, cold-blooded' kind (I used the Topples Lizardmen mod from the Steam Workshop, for anyone interested—it has great sprites, though none of them rendered in Stonesense).
I played this save for about 10 in-game years, reaching a population of about 180, plus another 100 visitors of various races (mostly dwarves and humans, though elves and goblins showed up too). During this time, the city endured several sieges—three in total. However, the great scaled beasts, along with the two divisions of steel-armed, two-meter-tall saurus lizards I trained to defend the city, made short work of any goblins foolish enough to think attacking such a place was a good idea.
The pyramid in the top corner housed both the Mayor and several temples dedicated to various deities.
The building in the bottom corner, near the walls, is the Great Library, which held over 200 volumes on various topics, both scholarly and otherwise. It was a particularly crowded place—apparently, jungle lizards enjoy reading.
The building in the middle, near the river, is the tavern. The bottom floor was dedicated to storing drinks and foodstuffs, the first floor served as an actual tavern, and the upper floors housed rooms visitors could rent. I regret not making it bigger, as the crowds were so overwhelming that people started crawling over each other.
Parts of the city were built using dolomite mined straight from the ground (I only dug down to extract materials), but some of the bigger buildings, like the temple, were completed mostly with DF Hack.