Infrastructure

Infrastructure has always been important for dwarves. It helps with getting faster to the places they want to mine, being able to storage things or light up dark and forgotten caverns.

### Storage

It's important for dwarves to be able to store the gold and other items they mine or find in the deep mines.

#### Stone Chest

Stone Chests are simple storage containers that can be used by dwarves to put items into. These chests are cheap to build, and there is no need to unlock knowledge to get access to it. This is the earliest method of storage. If dwarves need more storage to put their items in they can look to build a Storage.

### Dwarven defence

Dwarves will use everything they can to be able to defend their Mountainhome. One of the ways they defend their home is by building defences.

#### Brickwall Door

Brickwall Doors are used as a defence structure against monsters. Dwarves can go through without any problem, but the door will block monsters from going through.

### Transportation

The dwarves have developed many means to excavate the cave and remain mobile in the tunnels. From filling up pathways with bricks to mechanized means of transportation, all their ways of transportation and movement is being improved with a proper infrastructural web.

#### Small Scaffold Stair

Small Scaffold Stairs are an easy-to-use infrastructure method for getting access to higher or lower places in the mountain. These staircases can be build without the need for any knowledge, and are really cheap to build.

#### Stone Stairway

Stone Stairways are staircases that are more expensive to build and slower for dwarves to ascend on than Small Scaffold Stairs, but they are more visually pleasing.

#### Elevators

Elevators are a big part of a fast transportation system in your mine. An elevator is made by connecting two or more Elevator Stations with Long Elevator Rail or Elevator Rail. Elevator Platforms need to be boarded by dwarves to be able to use the elevator. An elevator does need to be build on the background layer of the mine, and cannot be in front of other buildings, empty spaces or lairs.

#### Railways

Railways are the other big part of a fast transportation system. A railways can be build be connecting two or more Railway Stations with Long Railway or Railway. Dwarves can ride carts on the railways. In contrary to elevators, railways do not need to be build on the background layer of the mine. Railways can be build in front of other buildings, empty spaces and lairs.

#### Bridges

Dwarves can build bridges as a way to get over gaps that are too big to jump over. There are multiple types of bridges to choose from and they all have a width of 4 tiles.

* Small Wooden Walk Bridges are rather cheap and have a simplistic design. This is your typical wooden bridge;
* Small Stone Bridges are stone bridges that cost 2 ingots to build;
* Small Stone Walk Bridges are stone bridges that cost 2 Granite Slabs to build;
* Stone Bridges are stone bridges that cost more but have a railing (only for visuals) and are more visually pleasing.

### Mechanized mining

As dwarves are getting more settled in their new mine they can start looking to use more mechanized mining structures. These mining structures are able to mine ore without the need for assistance of a dwarf, the only thing it needs is fuel. Mechanized mining is about 20 times slower than a dwarf mining an ore, but it extracts 10 times as much ore per tile.

#### Cog Drill

Cog Drills are the first drills that dwarves get access to through the knowledge tree. These drills go up and down to mine the ore. Building Cog Drills is the first step to creating an automated mining industry.

#### Crusher Drill

Crusher Drills are drills that go from left to right, and are generally seen as an upgrade over the Cog Drills. These drills can be unlocked further in the knowledge tree than the Cog Drills, but have more drill power. Which causes lower drill times, in other words, more ore!

### Light sources

To stop monsters from appearing dwarves will light up their homes and other buildings. But besides rooms there are other ways to light up the mine, other sources of light. These light sources are part of the infrastructure and can easily be placed further down the mine and to stop monsters from spawning, even when far away from the populated area.

#### Lantern Post

Lantern Posts are structures that light up dark places, and stop monsters from spawning. Lantern Posts can be build early game without the need for any unlocked knowledge. You just need a Lantern and 1 Lumber to be able to build it. But beware, lumber can be very scarce in the beginning of a new game.

#### Brazier

Braziers serve the same purpose as Lantern Posts. They can, however, be seen as a upgrade over the Lantern Posts, as they are cheaper and have a slightly larger vision range. It's required to have unlocked the Complex Stonemasonry knowledge to be able to build Braziers.