Hi, I'm the guy who built a magma-spitting shark (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=165094.0) and a weird megakobold statue (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=169000.0).
So I started a new fort two months ago and now it's grown to a some kind of sharable condition. So I've started a new thread for the fort of Relicdips. If you read Russian you'd better read the full story in my main blog at https://vadim-proskurin.livejournal.com/tag/relicdips
My dwarves embarked in a freezing land named Full Frost, beside eternally frozen brooke named Roastedmagic:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/01/6a461e4c0a6a0be1b67f784a773be95d.png)
Embark's western part belongs to a different biome named Heroic Hill:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/01/d518e404fc17429cf84e3c05f5172e31.png)
Seven dwarves arrived. Strike the Earth!
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/01/9b84174b6d269fc2f2d3567b9cc53364.png)
Few weeks later surface snow got stained with something yellow:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/01/f82bc6136af58871b8a88c0aee1df8d0.png)
Lower caves are beautiful:
(https://i.imgur.com/SsZVfUP.png)
Middle caves have very high gothic-like ceilings, more than 20 z-levels. Giant bats fly high in the caves:
(https://i.imgur.com/J4g377w.png)
Next spring all the snow has become yellow:
(https://i.imgur.com/jvc77xj.png)
Kobolds arrived:
(https://i.imgur.com/yM03wca.png)
Human caravan arrived:
(https://i.imgur.com/WJ2AoeU.png)
Wild muskoxen graze on the surface:
(https://i.imgur.com/Ig309jP.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/Hq8pm5Y.png)
Magma crabs infested metallurgic factory, a taylor woman killed three with bare hands. She's got a 2 months old son, his name is Kogan:
(https://i.imgur.com/ruNYJ7A.gif)
Ogres spotted in lower caves:
(https://i.imgur.com/HNiXj42.png)
A stupid marksdwarf spotted one through a narrow diagonal slit, jumped through, attacked an ogre and immediately got killed. RIP, stupid woman.
First invaders arrived, 3 goblins and 2 dwarves thinking that they are goblins too. It looks a bit retarded:
(https://i.imgur.com/eyD2OiH.png)
They made it to the fort's entrance:
(https://i.imgur.com/7ZfNTyh.png)
Then got caught or killed by the traps.
Langur monkeys arrived, it's OK, they are totally normal arctic animals:
(https://i.imgur.com/fQ6YSPL.png)
The construction grows:
(https://i.imgur.com/YFxs62L.png)
Tavern opened and soon there are a lot of human and goblin visitors. They behave peacefully, recite poems, sing, dance, do rap with bagpipe accompanement etc:
(https://i.imgur.com/beKizb1.png)
In the temple people sing and dance for the deity of festivals:
(https://i.imgur.com/tdIN6bN.png)
Gorlak woman arrived, she's a poet, a normal poet girl, nothing to see here:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/01/8d520408bcfbc4509dfc8fad29c07aab.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/2YhGUQi.png)
The fort is 4 years old:
(https://i.imgur.com/5TOLiWR.png)
Surface has been covered by vomit, it's easy to see favourite routes of the dwarves:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/01/859a8c498e1c62d2dd772de9e42f2461.png)
Dwarves take a bath at the obsidian factory. Blood condenses on factory's walls, they are dirty as fuck:
https://i.imgur.com/fRaA82E.gifv
The fort is 5 years old:
(https://i.imgur.com/2LFJsHo.png)
Bartender nicknamed 'Tavern' got strange mood and created a wooden bracelet that she bestowed with her own name, it's weird as fuck:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/c26e37bcb6bbc63386f870dccc1a1903.png)
The fort is 6 years old:
(https://i.imgur.com/O8bEdvq.png)
Once dwarves sat in the library and discussed reproductive behavior of creatures. Then accident happened, just like when a highlander teenage boy first time hears jokes about his mother:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/05d09fa1be28a49bac45a6c335f4dc94.png)
One more shitty siege happened:
https://i.imgur.com/vKwfWbC.gifv
The fort is 7 years old:
(https://i.imgur.com/5QYBbjz.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/9593f5654b8edfde82c3a67ebf489204.png)
Gremlins spotted in caves:
(https://i.imgur.com/u3K1Lpu.png)
A teenage boy and a preteen girl killed a 1646-kg voracious cave crawler barehanded:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/e69a68b98ef76bfd700de10c74cc714e.png)
Human macewoman bashed to death 8 tonne bumblebee right in the air in single strike:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/e9270c266648db4c356ea4dbd759b9dc.png)
A giant rat somehow sneaked in fort's mines. The rat is by no means agressive, it's a pathetic frightened animal, overcome in terror almost all of the time. It hid in dark corridors for two years and then suddenly died in new unfinished trapline dedicated to make a shorter way to lower caves:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/ba69ae5e6a0e22bd3e6295750c186405.png)
Pathetic animal entered this dead end for no reason and died horribly. I suggest it was a suicide.
Dwarves make selfies with terrified crundles:
(https://i.imgur.com/Ra538xR.png)
Reachers spotted in caves. Fithy creatures. don't like them:
(https://i.imgur.com/vtPf68z.png)
All in all, dwarves take control over the caves, soldiers routed all agressive creatures, civilians gather webs and bones undisturbedly:
(https://i.imgur.com/BZNlXEa.png)
Eastern edge of the map has got a great gap 24 z-levels high:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/366d2001e7a37701882f7f6788cf98e6.png)
It should be walled out.
Creeping eyes spotted in caves, I like them, they're cute:
(https://i.imgur.com/J3qzAyD.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/747ddecac7acc5bf19d09df3094ffbdb.png)
Armok Vision depicts unconscious dwarves as painted on the floor, it's hillarious:
(https://i.imgur.com/12wRc1G.png)
A hungry head eating a naked woman in caves:
(https://i.imgur.com/6amu0mq.png)
The woman is naked because of brief lack of clothes, she's unconscious because of many non-threatening but painful bites. On the Russian DF imageboard (http://chuck.dfwk.ru/) someone told me that it was something like this:
(http://chuck.dfwk.ru/df/src/152093320729.jpg)
The fort is 9 years old:
(https://i.imgur.com/ptzkTWZ.png)
Human mercenary Rosmic killed second forgotten beast in a row. In the last moment of battle the beast broke ger arm so she drooped her silver mace and two books that she took to read between the fights: one about rain physics and another about patient examination:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/e0759e737d5801e2985dcc6c44cbbc53.png)
Pump stack reached the surface, it shall continue in the left foot of the statue. There are no wooden axles, only magma-safe obsidian gears, only hardcore:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/029025706355e517016293dcb2d5edde.png)
Soldiers of Relicdips usually slay all wild animals cught in cages. Once they slew 10 muskoxen at once, it was too much:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/8cbe37d71953803c22825cd599f25a57.png)
A dog walked through a stokpile, stumbled, fell on the floor, broke her ass and died:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/8a02ca4dfcea6af45c156c44af68b34b.png)
The fort is 10 years old:
(https://i.imgur.com/9gMJ2xY.png)
Goblin mercenaries fight goblin invaders bravely:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/0be6ae25d9a8bc9d7902de34db0a9e32.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/24f3db70527642dd0aad58daea3898e5.gif)
The view of the construction from downside. There's a dwarf on top, he's for scale there:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/c9adab1b790aaa0903ecc83afae839c4.png)
Caravan arrived, dwarves store bought items in stockpiles. Chief medical dwarf tramples an 18-years old innocent girl:
(https://i.imgur.com/9IFhJWM.png)
A pump half-covered by snow is beautiful:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/ac7b02a65a1732acb92eb2a61ff3874d.png)
Soldiers play badminton in caves:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/1b36e9500e432078ea888c21082397ff.png)
Interior of statue's left boot, camera looks up:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/ef0d21326d2eb9f93fb1a43eea40d4c7.png)
The place where the magma-pump stack crosses the surface:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/ac9d1b2c4928746dd873a08e008fee50.png)
Adamantine beach by the magma seaside:
(https://i.imgur.com/TOjF5dN.png)
Crundles get inside through an unwalled hole in the edge of the map:
(https://i.imgur.com/05eYPO5.png)
A ghost:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/77ee3f71b94933889fcfbd83af15dc12.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/02/fb05d1d8cc3ae0ecf5a7fab0893cf7ae.png)
Dwarves elected an old hysterical goblin lady as a mayor, she's very disturbed about all the goblin and troll mutilated bodies lying near weapon traps. After one siege she killed a man when throwing tantrum. This is the last photo where she's roaming free:
(https://i.imgur.com/FAOeg4P.png)
Then she was locked up in her own bedroom where she lives alone. Her mood changes regularly from tantrum to depression but she still lives because she doesn't need to eat and drink to survive because she's a goblin.
Dwarves started magma pumps, filled 25 z-levels of left foot and leg of the statue with magma:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/70e5d43932d8dbceea8e31390f01f1b9.png)
I decided to try to exploit a well-known bug of levitating floodgates:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/2d3169466bc31a5a02f9cae7d352739c.png)
Apparently Armok Vision does not depict opened floodgates as opened, they look closed regardless of real state. Stone Sense depicts closed floodgates as walls and opened ones as floors:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/a7ef708478b98765730c2939357478a9.png)
Dwarves dismantled all the constructions in the experimental zone, the floodgate hangs in the air:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/542b0f3d1fe11fbed830161f377c22e5.png)
Nine levitating floodgates look like a levitating trash container:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/a15dff2d6ce9a4db5b82f38ea140478f.png)
Then dwarves hang nine limestone gem windows in the air, it looks much better:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/5b88592cb0e2b4aa6618341768fa10b4.png)
Stone Sense shows windows very ugly:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/115489e55c5302d6263fcdde436503f3.png)
Glass gem windows look much better than stone gem windows:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/8d01ac46af50270fe7eb73acc8d78ed6.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/d3ce2e4aea4d6e429eb6c8ec9db1c113.png)
It's time to stop experimenting and start building:
(https://i.imgur.com/uyOsbsL.png)
So far it's just a foundation on which the levitating windows should be installed. The foundation consists of walls and ramps needed to access the walls:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/115bdbe916a35fbe7fed23f5753cc89a.png)
The look from beneath:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/56425cf6d584d088400fdd5ae25e7e17.png)
First windows installed:
(https://i.imgur.com/OMGaOHR.png)
A rare shot, I managed to get a nice photo of a jabberer. Those beasts are very hard to photograph, they're too big to fit to anything. It's a mystery how they exist in narrow cave corridors:
(https://i.imgur.com/pmtYErm.png)
The fort is 14 years old:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/30f488e5e6d8bb478078fe2ef095df54.png)
Another angle:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/582c29b458f8e0777fda05935da5a161.png)
Down there dwarves obsidianize edges of the magma sea:
(https://i.imgur.com/7PpzSfu.png)
The glass construction grows:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/787aa0d2c328c4d327566b0d7df4ed1e.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/b19eb14d669117ff3b5fb04967d4c329.png)
Do you remember 24 z-level high megahole in the eastern edge of the map? It's been walled out:
(https://i.imgur.com/e6bUxz2.png)
I wondered: is it possible for creatures to walk on a levitating surface? Dwarves dropped a puppy onto a flying window, unexpectedly he fell through the upper surface, now he stands on the lower surface, inside the window block:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/8bb3ae0bb080955b4a9964199e09b462.png)
Later dwarves built an obsidian floor nearby, the puppy made it through the sidewall and walked away.
A mercenary dwarf bit porcupine's head off just like Ozzy Osbourne did it to a pigeon:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/2e3430e3d82adf16e75462fc7c5868c4.png)
Next experiment, a dog has been dropped onto the flying window from a higher place:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/eb1f2bd89c9f8b49191fb9f88beec3ab.png)
This time he stands on top of the flying construction correctly. But he still can't walk until there's a normal floor nearby.
Main glass constructions grow slow but steady:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/e0a3ecc7ba6ae7c3444565c7a59c5ab3.png)
Goblin mercenary Amak Cegadocda showed a master-class of martial arts:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/9b78272edbc0b57888c6740b5e2b68ae.png)
He bit a weregilamonster in the head and then hacked this head off when it was still in his mouth. He's a great warrior.
Then he attacked a herd of wild muskoxen, he's like a chainsaw, he can hack muskox's body apart with a single strike:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/225f68e722a93c5b56d38147dd55c44e.png)
Dwarves dropped few buckets of water over flying windows and then, when water froze, dropped a puppy over it:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/166a57f85b83b4c44e22c04ac36376bd.png)
Then I noticed that the ice had touched a floor that dwarves built nearby during experiments. It broke levitation state of the ice and when dwarves dismantled this floor, the icy part of the construction collapsed:
(https://i.imgur.com/PEvVrjZ.png)
So now I know how to build flying islands in Dwarf Fortress. I suppose that this fort will be the fort of flying !!science!!.
The fort is 16 years old:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/898c43981533f4dad2b14a61780d5d25.png)
Another angle:
(https://i.imgur.com/4kNA7Gk.png)
Close view of half-contructed levitating glass leaf:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/444592fd9e31ad6ac62ad53fe880e1d8.png)
Dwarves dropped a bronze colossus on the flying glass. It was a bad idea because the colossus, even being helpless, horrifies dwarves as fuck:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/8794b7665aaf1e603cddc976699915a4.png)
Soldiers had to kill the monster. Then one of the slayers said:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/03/1787b1a95b1fe9e45c7c19253e835d87.png)
Two flying glass leaves completely finished:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/04/86ffca30cb2838df6939267991f47c2c.png)
I wondered: does living animals really have to hurt when dropped on the flying glass from high altitude? Can living animal really hurt itself striking the thing described by the game as open space? Sadly, the answer is yes:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/04/ce594082e3223e2a098dfe7801793f82.png)
Dwarves mount cages over flying glass leaves. Sometime somebody will pull appropriate trigger, all the prisoners will fall on the flying glass and they will become helpless living statues:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/04/d8a10c9c0155b17f8874cc31ed7dfa93.png)
Another siege, invaders move along permafrosted brook:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/04/76f8a4157a99beadc8213f3825961ac5.png)
Dwarves continue to obsidianize magma sea edges:
(https://i.imgur.com/KKNAuSu.png)
Out of interest what is your framerate like on a fort like this?
20-30 before opening gates of hell, 10-15 afterwards.
Suddenly Putin:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/04/43d9b452084cb635ba2442a41d62b379.png)
I found out that it's possible to pour magma into a flying glass cube:
(https://i.imgur.com/4DRXEyr.png)
In Armok Vision it looks like a plasma in magnetic trap, it's amazing.
Statue's walls are equipped with numerous floodgates connected to a single lever. When somebody pulls that lever, magma pours out. Dwarves performed a test:
(https://i.imgur.com/UmAwb0f.gif)
It was a lot of magma, approximately a quarter of all surface has been flooded:
(https://i.imgur.com/oxsebgx.png)
I decided to transform flying glass leaves into 3D-leaf-like tubs filled with magma. Dwarves began to build lower levels of the leaves:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/05/add4444a0cb3d34e6d4f2660c9e09b76.png)
Dwarves opened hell, magma started to drain through grates to bottomless pits. Do you remember that adamantine beach? Now it's on the second floor:
(https://i.imgur.com/KZkc0ro.png)
When magma level lowered it's been possible to widen the sink, now magma drains even faster:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/05/a3d786458f223bf8018c9f10bb3b84bd.png)
Magma sea cracked apart, crabs crawl between two parts:
(https://i.imgur.com/HYq8CXg.png)
Dwarves started to build magma feeder system for flying glass tubs:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/05/b180c3bd7d62157bde14b7a96f6f068f.png)
Those tubs slowly become similar to what I want, they got walls and partially bottoms:
(https://i.imgur.com/c9L2bf4.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/05/815b89f3b2fee01513c8dda141b956fa.png)
Miners dig adamantine with stairs to avoid collapse:
(https://i.imgur.com/lWsNAwL.png)
Water from obsidian factory covers the bottom of drained magma sea:
(https://i.imgur.com/HNINIZo.png)
Inside left leg of the statue 50 z-levels has been filled with magma:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/05/ec45a14a8a4dfd6a82da89c30e92e171.png)
Stone Sense depicts magma sea bottom still flooded with magma. Dwarves walk on magma just like Jesus walked on water:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/05/1e4afed252e888713cbf668830982227.png)
I found out that paved roads can fly, creatures can walk on flying paved roads and Armok Vision shows flying paved roads from any distance, just like walls and floors:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/05/3ffdbedaf6f1b982317e6564f51cb3e5.png)
The fort is 26 years old:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/06/b445e109cf7d9548836e7338cfcbdbe8.png)
Another angle:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/06/73d0c1dff1b469b8ee99700fa5149f55.png)
The system that should fill flying glass tubs with magma has been completed and loaded:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/06/3e5f90f62f5fd2fa99dc1957bd6d7270.png)
New project started. Dwarves are going to build an animated picture on the bottom of magma sea. Every pixel is a drawbridge. Then dwarves will flood it again with magma and then the picture will appear when drawbridges are raised and dive when drawbridges are lowered:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/06/5130d665df46d95f233fb18a88e913cc.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/06/7bf61adbf91b152216d43e7f267cc9c4.png)
Soldiers guard hell's gate against magma crabs. You can see unfinished demon-pipeline leading up to the demon-collector:
(https://i.imgur.com/ZLvcUtZ.png)
Dwarves finished demon-pipeline, opened hell's gate, demons rushed to the demon-collector. Behind fortifications on the left you see troll lady Ngoso, she attracts them here:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/06/5c3db0fcedeb60d5128f95741b7d8462.png)
She attracts demons not very good. Miners dug another demon-collector, it's a very long meandering tunnel with drawbridges on both ends. A legendary marksdarf Archer8 in strange mood needed a stone located in the farther end of the tunnel. She got it but when she hauled it all along the corridor she lost her mind, gone berserk. I had to close the demon-collector with her inside:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/06/305b85cab3ab51331318b83981e5a123.png)
She managed to kill one demon before got slain.
Flying windows around a flying paved road look nicely:
(https://i.imgur.com/dt70KK4.png)
First flying glass leaf has been finished, dwarves fill it with magma:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/06/9b74e0a9ebffbea27fa2a162573d3c03.png)
I found out that it should be done very slowly to avoid magma spilling out.
New construction started. In its early stage it looks like a flying tower all made of windows. Lower levels are made of obsidian gem windows, higher levels - of clear glass windows:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/2ac6eb4372e55645f5f2adc4b1530aeb.png)
Human diplomat watches beautiful Jeweler1:
(https://i.imgur.com/khlq2Da.png)
A crazy woman roams the graveyard:
(https://i.imgur.com/OIlKjGz.png)
She failed her strange mood.
Do you remember little boy Kogan whose mother slew three magma crabs barehanded? He's grown up to a handsome young glassmaker:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/ea1b5c91179b5abf3fc167327a9cd02f.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/f1743211d0617b1dbe9431fab2bae148.png)
You can see strange trenches on the surface, dwarves will fill them with magma later so they will shine.
Dwarves gained full control over the hell's gate, inserted in its lower end three grates and a locked hatch:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/9c8109986c116721dad0e3e94dc1af3c.png)
Flying tower of windows keeps on growing. The naked jeweler still walks and works naked:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/021a071011682a65ea9f0f3e8144d05d.png)
First time since 0.40.xx I've got normal-size siege, 120 goblins and 36 trolls:
(https://i.imgur.com/JTNU545.png)
First invaders at the gates:
(https://i.imgur.com/AVTaRwh.png)
Entering traps:
(https://i.imgur.com/E27Q7uC.png)
Then I had to close the entry because of weapon trap crash bug. Invaders turned their way to the ass of the statue, there's a temporary path inside the fort through the statue's ass:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/fe7966786fa43c601bcb92e18feece1c.png)
Dwarves tried to pour magma over them:
(https://i.imgur.com/rBg02gV.png)
It did not work:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/73868a4d288a043f0ebd3b8be3cbc12b.png)
Invaders still advancing:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/a51ef1d1f4a5c4d732f84442ef2d8021.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/06e9f6e04921e8ecbe887b4ba967c87f.png)
When enemies dissolved all over the map, soldiers counterattacked. It was a decisive victory:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/2ecde12345258628f322e230487d215b.png)
I got a bit confused with burrows so few civilians got outside including the nudist human jeweler:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/7572202c0f2add179de320a5daa32951.png)
Last survived invaders climbed the experimental constructions where dwarves test and debug tecniques for creating flying objects:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/dab73530bc2f91fdf28db0324e572022.png)
Logs have fallen through holes in lower cave's floor to the bottom of drained magma sea:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/c951ceef846977223be182a3a1a4f8cf.png)
Soldiers cleaned out the battlefield:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/b17a5f0eba9e420e40328ebc5b82e5c8.png)
The arrow shows the corpse of the last invader. Trousers nearby belonged to a dwarf, obviously he or she lost it running away from the enemies.
Dwarves gathered a lot of goblinite:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/abf780d14caa58f9c7dd5ca56b813094.png)
There's a lack of human clothes in the fort, most humans became nudist:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/3efd5ec17e8bfc6308ce9f267e4b607b.png)
I found out that when a bucket of water has been poured onto a paved road it creates mud not on the road but on the rock beneath:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/59f739ccdf22f7537fa83ddbdde18d39.png)
A human monster slayer name Mete Straliroled descended to hell and attacked a demon. Got slayed immediately but the demon got caught in the web spitted by another demon earlier so soldiers shot it easily. The nudist jeweler looted Mete's clothes, she looks very happy:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/deac2ce0deb2ac462e36c007779ebeb7.png)
Armok Vision doesn't show dead bodies but Mete's corpse is here, just at her feet. She reminds me Barbara Brylska:
(https://images1.graziamagazine.ru/upload/custom/d74/d74cd2b434aa9e9c3b8963635ce1dd40.jpg)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/e30256c4cd56c7ee40848367560bb205.png)
This is a group photo of defenders of the fort:
(https://i.imgur.com/KwMNm6D.png)
The dog stands on the hatch under which the hell begins. The goblin holding an axe is Amak Cegadocda, the best warrior of the fort, he has 117 frags, I wrote about him many times. The girl on the right is Risen Luslemthikut aka Archer15, she's 19 years old, she never grabs any weapons, she has become an elite wrestler instead. She killed 26 crundles barehanded. Once she dared attack a demon and survived:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/11ba34c409076b21e386321ee52d12b6.png)
Of course, she was not alone.
I found out that flying paved roads are immune to mud:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/81169cb866d3bc4d0cc9b601a91ef777.png)
It seems impossible to grow hanging gardens in Dwarf Fortress.
The fort is 32 years old:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/685a0a267cfb5f564a8cf8febb49f59a.png)
Another angle:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/ac9e0cdb30fe252efe0d5cfd6c53b77f.png)
I found out that a single hungry head can kill a poisonous slavering crane with lidless eyes, enormous shell and long and sparse brown feathers:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/c29a8a2d2079cbd3cb99d371536094c3.png)
Do you remember a soon-to-be-animated picture on the magma sea bottom? Miners dug out the ceiling above to make it a bit more beautiful:
(https://i.imgur.com/RtQI7Ho.png)
Wrestler girl Archer15 fell from the statue and somehow managed to grab statue's cloak and stop her falling:
(https://i.imgur.com/ANr678B.png)
Dwarves tried to rescue her but failed, she died anyway.
I found out that if dwarves build and dismantle a paved road over magma flows then magma flows miracolously transform to sand and undeground vegetation starts to grow on it:
(https://i.imgur.com/eOYDN9Z.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/fjGhA0j.png)
An elderly lady fell from the statue onto a flying leaf:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/98b2e2fa185080ba271010f8e16674b1.png)
She's been rescued.
The glass tower, camera looks down:
(https://i.imgur.com/tbGcMqg.png)
The pit that miners are digging over the animated picture, that pit has touched lower caves:
(https://i.imgur.com/DaVFEfW.png)
Another view, on the left you can see obsidian factory and upper demon-collector over it:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/07/6650a5498619889bbce59bdc992bb1b4.png)
The pillar leading through the ceiling is a water supply for obsidian factory.
The impulse generator for the animated picture got power supply:
(https://i.imgur.com/n62AT5J.png)
Armok Vision 0.19.1 finally able to show flying constructions almost correctly (magma inside still not shown when camera looks up):
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/08/5452888ec4acc8a92fa364f656b990d9.png)
Another angle:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/08/bb13896033c7c13d3f68e4a732056708.png)
Got an artefact named "The call of liberating", somehow it reminded me American invasion in Iraq:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/08/ed1632607ea0da9f2f1ad848e8968369.png)
A fire man somehow managed to enter fort's undeground, broke a pump and a hatch:
(https://i.imgur.com/eS2SPI6.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/7u21APM.png)
But from the inside it looks much better:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/08/8c906f6b9d2af8659785c9b38113a0b0.png)
There are a lot of cave moss grown up over the terraformed magma sea bottom:
(https://i.imgur.com/uNygX9a.png)
Also you see in this photo clear glass ramps that dwarves built to walk over the magma sea bottom easier.
The statue:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/08/5050c00bf558c182a249bc8b877b2486.png)
Terraformed magma sea bottom looks funny in Stone Sense:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/08/2f0357be152a21740d09e96d643227d6.png)
Dwarves filled a green glass flying cube with magma, apparently it looks very ugly:
(https://i.imgur.com/2ARh3Cx.png)
In the next experiment dwarves hung in the air various things around a flying road:
(https://i.imgur.com/LETknKo.png)
And then setup a troll over the road:
(https://i.imgur.com/OhhkcZz.png)
Eventually she destroyed or toppled everything except the vertical grate and the coffin. Then I noticed that the troll is visible from the caves and it makes it impossible to few dwarves to return to the fort and they started to starve. Soldiers arrived, somehow two unarmed archers appeared to stand over the flying road, I don't know how they managed to get there:
(https://i.imgur.com/PEgfFUS.png)
Miners tried to dig terraformed magma sea bottom with d+h. I found out that after such digging the sand transforms back to magma flows but one z-level lower some stone ramps have been created:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/08/c2242ae67047260517c4d82addbfbeb4.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/2ccqrR5.png)
It's time to test the animation. The first test doesn't involve magma, the impulse-generating minecart is being guided manually:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/09/f82153af4584214b219dffa1c892186f.gif)
It seemed to me that it's so messy because the dwarf pushing the minecart was pushing it too fast. I decided to flood this place with magma:
(https://i.imgur.com/qaFeTdy.png)
Then dwarves started it mechanically, using hydro power, it's still fucking messy:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/09/3c29f999172069b75d022fa63a88a296.gif)
Then I abandoned this project.
Dwarves started new above-groud constructuion, a great flying glass field where captured trolls and goblins will roam high in the sky. For now it's just a small fragment of temporaery obsidian bottom on which the glass roads are to be constructed:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/09/12788c70c6d31bce49220321a5b7990d.png)
Nude dwarwes walk down the hell:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/09/3e43616eeb98c755e08581c9ad6de6cd.png)
The glass tower lost temporary scuffolding, now it levitates beautifully:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/09/54853c14b6c0751bcce81d18924343b1.png)
Another angle:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/09/4621b1040c8ef91963bc8fac330eb845.png)
Time has come to flood 51-75th z-levels of the statue with magma. The view before:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/09/6ca4d058b09ca426744f00c957b6c196.png)
Magma pours from statue's crotch to right leg:
(https://i.imgur.com/CckklWP.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/t7cPrch.png)
Meanwhile 51-75 stories have been filled with magma:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/10/9694931db713bb2a71dda3fc97cb386e.png)
The fort is 47 years old:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/10/8563981f04c7e3e5b3f51ead8df795d5.png)
Camera located on the edge of the future flying deck for captured goblins and trolls. For now it's just a temporary foundation:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/10/bf93a4d99a178262e600e972bb86905e.png)
Magma glows in the night:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/10/f1a56d4140ab610b40c75cd72ebbdd7e.png)
Flying deck's foundation almost finished:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/10/5c183b10047526de6ceebba256db5955.png)
Muskoxen graze in the trenches:
(https://i.imgur.com/TXJhddk.png)
Naked dwarves wall out hell's edges:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/10/132c9822bf6110e7b4f53610950c7dfe.png)
I still don't understand why they're naked, there's a plenty of clothes in the fort.
The view of the flying glass tower from beneath:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/10/74161acf3d895381ded6d4899f613ddf.png)
I accidentally flooded the bottom of former magma sea with water:
(https://i.imgur.com/ihzRyi6.png)
Maybe later I'll create a full size watery sea in this place.
Old abandoned metallurgic factory has been briefly flooded with water:
(https://i.imgur.com/aWasrMG.png)
The fort is 50 years old:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/10/68290e9245d8a4e4df7bf249eddeacf1.png)
Half of hell's perimeter has been walled out:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/10/5a597081f023b395ad65f42093abe493.png)
There are two parallel walls so dwarves can walk between them safely:
(https://i.imgur.com/8ht6Qcv.png)
The view inside the statue from beneath its armpit:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/9808490da15a473676bd048766fb06c0.png)
Temporary foundation of levitating walking deck for captured goblins and trolls has been finished. Dwarves started to construct the platform itself, it consist of glass paved roads, some are green, some are clear. There should be a pattern of green and transparent pixels:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/618e2029628e4b7ebbd96c5581ee22f4.png)
I still have no idea why my dwarves are naked. There's a lot of variuous clothes in the fort, people just don't care.
The strange yellow things hanging in the air over the deck are golden statues of deities that citizens of Relicdips worship. Some statues are not very interesting, some other deserve to be mentioned. For example, there's a statue depicting the goddess of fame and hospitality Uk torturing a goblin:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/b74ee685e594ea8bbb44ea1fb096fe1e.png)
The same goddess impaled two trolls on wild carrots:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/a3719f83fcf70ce3c850f12e9aaaccc7.png)
The same goddess enslaving 100 crundles:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/1f762e48a228585f5db327f82e197866.png)
The god of crafts and metals Rith teaching dwarves to work in a forge:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/4370a15211695ada8f67fef8ddabd495.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/8facf67859f067d4ee696654b646322c.png)
Shosel Furcarnal, the deity of lust, hanging out with dwarves:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/f3c7f1f7638e2088d546261460a4bd04.png)
Shosel having fun with a dragon:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/7f98567af6757a8c7d0cb4594b3235fd.png)
Ushdish, the deity of freedom and dawn, having fun with a hemp plant:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/1c983cd3a2c47dac3ba2ca4dae2d9751.png)
Samam, the Ignited Ace, the deity of valor, war and fortresses, unleashes his wrath upon goblins and trolls:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/a71b469d4e796b1501d56b430e9ff16c.png)
Samam rapes a bronze colossus:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/d89caa9f748ae165ad3767acbbfe53e7.png)
Utost, the deity of jewels, minerals and mountains, beats demons with a pick:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/c94000468d38e5728a45887b03cff29d.png)
Utost refuses elves:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/f5e081ceead38d843a43384ad23d7860.png)
Dwarves installed cages with captives on the walking deck. I planned to move all the captives in single cage (marked with red arrow) one z-level higher but dwarves moved there a second guy and refused to continue, I have no idea why. They say they need an empty cage to move a creature from one cage to another. WTF?
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/3217cf656a786664e5922a8cde676c57.png)
I found out why so many of my dwarves look naked. It's a glitch in Armok Vision, the same dwarves look fully clothed either in main window after v+i or in Stone Sense:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/9a558db83c625d6cc662814128b08932.png)
It's the same place and the same time as in 6th picture of previous post.
Are those the start of arms I see?
That's how it is, poorly visible because of the cloak on shoulders:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/aae01716c4dd02e0d10240c0c8fb2eeb.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/c3093be1216a5d58956d92807b56af52.png)
And here she's impersonating Deep Throat final scene with three trolls:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/56f4e1adfbf4d48d42021eff35cc7d84.png)
Human diplomat arrived, visited for some reason the megapit dug out over the failed underground animation:
(https://i.imgur.com/0Y2nTMv.png)
He's just beneath the ceiling, Armok Vision depicts him naked because of a glitch.
I've wondered: can supports hang in the air just like roads and other stuff? The answer is yes but only pretty low, there must be at least diagonal connection between the support and an ordinary construction or rock mass:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/537e0122e3a98c22976e428bdba28028.png)
Those flying supports are fully functional, it's possible to build ordinary constructions over them:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/3cd995796d83fe71b82595775b9e55a5.png)
And to freeze ice over them with water in buckets, it's OK, nothing collapses:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/839e53db384756816a1c4355af75691d.png)
By the way, I found out that obsidian floor poured with freezing water becomes transparent.
Dwarves started to dismantle temporary foundation of the flying platform:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/b69a378bd827f64cc3da235e2544bdb1.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/09384fafc0e8667151dabaecaec3ea5a.png)
I found out that relation "be connected" between flying supports and ordinary constructions is transitive:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/e502f1f611f0d80237d1f54c9497ba34.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/3ebc3a7f3a15d01f01525af9ce03c994.png)
A very simple demon-catcher:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/12/20f32fada1dcffb648559a039061c446.png)
suprisingly attracted all the demons still inhabiting hell. Even more surprisingly the demons, instead of entering inside, crowded beneath the hatch on the right and seemingly got asleep. It seems that I've managed to exploit a bug in their nervous systems.
Dwarves buried them from beneath:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/12/fbcdd8c0d709b77281d92c598dd6f2ee.png)
The fort is 53 years old:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/975e347a2b11d63721131c3403fab568.png)
I found out that flying supports support each other not only vertically and diagonally but horizontally too:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/269c504ae0e46d7fb13060dcc69936b1.png)
The fort is 54 years old:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/99b8511b383c75223758f7d2db4f7acf.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/cf879314a6beec1e3d7b6cc8322f3289.png)
Dwarves hung all the cages containing captured goblins and trolls over the undone walking deck:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/1b366664531efba92a96f86bdfdec1c4.png)
Armok Vision depicts the cages as question marks.
I started new project. It should be a 17x17x17 ice cube demon-collector. Right now only half of obsidian foundation is ready:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/11/a55d47f58e9426a31578d7a15c5c81de.png)
The view from statue's armpit to the pump stack:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/12/6a916446534bfc0a0abbec70d6910a4f.png)
The posing dwarf is not really naked, it's a glitch.
In hell dwarves walled out the deepest z-level fully and the next z-level partially:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/12/9d4a59d53da6926b94d803d10b93ab4f.png)
Ice cube's bottom has been finished, dwarves are building the exoskeleton from which they're going to pour water inside:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/12/a61253c360290bd4469a660eee13230c.png)
The megapit over the failed underground animation keeps on growing:
(https://i.imgur.com/mu2zlL4.png)
Dwarves started to pour water into the ice cube. I found out that water freezes not when touching a solid surface as I thought before but right in the air, still falling. Finally it either glues to a construction or falls down as a solid ice thing breaking everything beneath, just like any other cave-in. I tried to fill whole cube from above but got just a few shelf-like shapes right under the top:
(https://i.imgur.com/MQV9GJK.png)
Also I found out that the ice in Armok Vision is very transparent, much more than the glass.
In hell naked (because the same glitch as before) dwarves keep on building walls, it looks like a strip-show:
(https://i.imgur.com/aulu5SR.png)
Dwarves change the strategy to build the ice cube. Now they try to freeze it out not from above but from below, like any other construction:
(https://i.imgur.com/fhDv8YK.png)
On the bottom of the cube dwarves installed some furniture, mainly armor stands that current mayor likes so much:
(https://i.imgur.com/MIYwigT.png)
I planned that those armor stands should become the bait for demons but suddenly a thought experiment clearly showed that even in freezing environments it's possible to ice to melt in the middle of a summer. Few dwarves rode the wave and fell down from the altitude of 87 or even 90 z-levels:
(https://i.imgur.com/YcwdKrY.png)
Fortunately I had a recent save so it didn't really happen. In the main thread of Relicdip's history dwarves evacuated from the danger zone, no-one got hurt. By the way, I found out that according to dwarven physics solid items fall significantly faster than liquid water. The waterfall is beautiful:
(https://i.imgur.com/6iJvDGR.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/swrg6eV.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/q2jCygQ.png)
On the surface the hell of a mess of ice, water, magma and obsidian is forming:
(https://i.imgur.com/uY4KfVb.png)
It grows:
(https://i.imgur.com/6Q0nu6q.png)
An icy wall grew up near the edge of the map:
(https://i.imgur.com/dSrMZnK.png)
One flying glass leaf, damaged by falling ice, is leaking. Big icy things hang in the air not falling, I have no idea what the fuck is going on:
(https://i.imgur.com/37Ezdkm.png)
In the end of July all the water froze, hanging icy things finally fell. Flying deck's obsidian foundation got transparent where ice has formed over it:
(https://i.imgur.com/cFDk0gi.png)
Miners tried to dig out the ice that has been formed over the flying deck. When they finished any stripe of ice, strange thing happened: the obsidian foundation beneath the entire stripe suddenly collapsed, obsidian blocks fell on the ground, ice boulders disappeared but the ground where the blocks fell over, got covered with ice:
(https://i.imgur.com/rMd65yG.png)
Dwarves built an outside mason workshop to make ice blocks, I didn't know that it's techically imposible:
(https://i.imgur.com/x8Kw0DI.png)
Miners also dug out the permafrosted brook. The mysterious virtually solid surface of the brook fell one z-level down, the brook became the underground one. Miners had to pierce its cover with many stairs:
(https://i.imgur.com/JVnK6D7.png)
Miners penetrated ice conglomerates with stairs:
(https://i.imgur.com/62zUGxi.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/12/215b1ac31133ed5b6c6cae863c87aaae.png)
Then I understood that it's very dangerous design, it's highly likely for dwarves working here to follow the fate of general Karbyshev. Dwarves try to pour water from higher altitude, it goes weirdly wrong:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/12/88e2f809a071dbbf4bd7273c4f320c37.png)
Apparently water poured into freezing air freezes after a random time interval, usually very short. Moreover, next summer this ice molt, the water dropped down, entered a layer of colder air and immediately froze again. Finally the statue got a pair of long icy handles growing out of its ass:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/12/dfce3a81700adbe4033b8800b77f31bd.png)
The statue has grown up to the shoulders. As the body gets thinner, construction workers more often get outside commuting to their workplaces:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/12/6ce06a22334daed647e09ce0ad816018.png)
Meanwhile dwarves secured the hell completely:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2018/12/a0c9e4dcf857a0a5444bea67f009a8ce.png)
Next goal is to cover all the bottomless pits with thick walls able to survive collapsing ceiling. I found out that bottomless pits look beautiful in Armok Vision:
(https://i.imgur.com/w3a9edG.png)
A miner suddenly started without a reason to train climbing right over a magma lake:
(https://i.imgur.com/KxMabhw.png)
He survived.
Another weregilamonster arrived. Stayed for a while at the gates of the fort then transformed into a pretty goblin lady:
(https://i.imgur.com/1nM7Txf.png)
Then she's been beaten to death with metal crossbows.
The statue has grown up to the lower part of the head:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/ef6ac5893cdea88993b54126ed67c846.png)
Muskoxen graze on the surface:
(https://i.imgur.com/6ws0dO5.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/c4451d99bb6fe5fad738c2a0fa64a26b.png)
Pumps got energised, magma started to flow. Do you remember the naked girl posing near the pumps? That's the same place:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/b1814551e7ce2dac2e767a8591fbb173.png)
Magma reached the enclosed pathway leading to the failed icecube:
(https://i.imgur.com/hDbdGtJ.png)
Finally filled all 100 z-levels:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/6b6f1abb7ce28ac597a6b3d48cc43710.png)
Dwarves tried to make an ice factory another way. They built a pump stack sending water to the surface, the mechanization leads right through the graveyard:
(https://i.imgur.com/hEUN0H7.png)
Then I found out that water freezes under clear sky immediately. It's impossible to create significant amounts of ice this way:
(https://i.imgur.com/WR1IKeU.png)
Miners dug a long ring-shaped tunnel around a decorative trench, filled it with water, got an icy wall:
(https://i.imgur.com/h6Zs21R.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/ANbZxo6.png)
Then I found out that it's incredibly dangerous to dig such a wall, there's a decent chance for a miner to get frozen into ice. So I tried another way. Miners dug out a pit 10x10x16 tiles:
(https://i.imgur.com/VmpF9h3.png)
Filled it with water:
(https://i.imgur.com/9B5ThqZ.png)
To be continued.
Have you needed to increase the map's vertical limit after you started?
Yes, "infiniteSky 100" in DFHack.
When the 10x10x16 pit had been filled with water, miners dug out all the soil over it, the water had frozen:
(https://i.imgur.com/xdxkVj8.png)
Then miners began to dig the ice out:
(https://i.imgur.com/qB4y9fX.png)
Ice cube construction resumed, dwarves dismantled obsidian floor tiles, constructed icy plates instead:
(https://i.imgur.com/lKmvp5V.png)
Miners dug very long, almost vertical tunnel from almost demon-kennel to the surface. Dwarves started to build an icy stairway from this place upward:
(https://i.imgur.com/yPzu05u.png)
The fort is 64 years old. The glass tower got ready to be filled with magma:
(https://i.imgur.com/JOcUZrB.png)
Another angle:
(https://i.imgur.com/NTs9oJ0.png)
I found out that ice boulders sometimes melt when builders haul them to the place of construction. Initially it was not very often but since magma fill 100 stories of the statue, it has become almost inevitable. But the icy stairway to heaven dwarves build with no problems:
(https://i.imgur.com/3RnJz3u.png)
The magmafiller device for the glass tower zoomed in:
(https://i.imgur.com/YFXJDEN.png)
Dwarves filled the glass tower with magma. I found out that pressurized magma siphons upward through the stairholes in the shoulders of the statue:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/0e0a76f9c386002f53b928a25005f696.png)
One more miner trains climbing over the magma lake, he crawls the megapit's ceiling like a fly. The photo is made from the ceiling of the upper demon-collector, there's a lot of underground trees over it:
(https://i.imgur.com/YzM2u2Q.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/2bf0a95a4580f3a2007a05eebd34a3bd.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/87d648b6a0de876d66d39f52f0cbbc3c.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/701bfccd64e2cc662d26f4a300428788.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/4c6a54f0c9faaf61c2481eefded04953.png)
It was very dangerous for dwarves:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/109f0d1b052031d35cdf642a1d59847c.png)
Fortunately, nobody got hurt.
The view of unfinished ice cube from unfinished flying platform:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/04c0f5feac3b309b0aeb14b1596b4fe8.png)
Spilled magma changed configuration of the icy-obsidian mess under statue's ass:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/6db724c1cec4ee49359c26bf65240f90.png)
Magma filled several decorative trenches:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/b0391b10ed51b9553aa2ee7535e677c8.png)
In the middle of 66th fort's summer the ice hanging under statue's ass partially molt and produced a hanging lake:
(https://i.imgur.com/tNpHDrh.png)
Then it dried away.
Dwarves partially dismantled the magma-filling system for the glass tower:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/c3302f8c3d77933513a6c9692c641575.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/87c20a716ab1db0ea718213ec5cb372a.png)
Thi icy tower reached 47 z-levels high:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/f1a25e5765d9295890abd29802a696d2.png)
One more muskoxen herd spotted on the surface:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/8a2465ab2596952f782bbca622f6cdee.png)
The icy tower reached the flying deck and turned around to avoid intersection:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/01/ad20654baec56dc769bc5e1ad39f505e.png)
Almost all bottomless hell pits have been covered with thick stone walls theoretically able to survive hell's ceiling collapsed:
(https://i.imgur.com/f59OTij.png)
Probably that won't happen in this fort though.
I found out that it's impossible to remove ice that is frozen over a paved road except dwarves first dismantle the road. And when dwarves dismantle everything around, the road loses its levitation state and collapses:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/9e02eef169ed3d4c3dbf5c3c28b8af65.png)
The fort is 68 years old:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/d747a99a5ad7ed1e25caaf615067cfe9.png)
The icy construction under statue's ass has been totally carved with stairwells again:
(https://i.imgur.com/IHwnuL3.png)
The megapit reached middle caves and partially discovered the main stair of the fortress:
(https://i.imgur.com/CNy9b8B.png)
The icy tower reached the icy cube, dwarves resumed constructing it:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/04436d815a9ea02789572d89051ecf1b.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/3d5141121cb740acf07c4977d486f5fe.png)
Yes, it's Darth Vaider:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/d3146f6f208b8c145f9beaf9c286a358.png)
It was easy to guess based on the Empire symbol, many times pictured everywhere around. And the glass tower filled with magma should symbolize a lightsaber levitating because the force.
The flying deck has been finished, now it's really flying:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/b5a17fcf1f7c9726715cc6ca3b47722e.png)
Somebody pulled the lever realeasing all the captured crreatures from their cages:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/ab56ef9553321304740ee67edaaab765.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/5bee83707ff1b7f767ad38540f341d6e.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/3f9f2a515cbcd24755892771e79296ba.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/9c735a99c00371c88af95b06c86acac9.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/9260fb60aff56000e07af7c0012e7150.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/d00e4bbb1b184fcfdf90493e438b9a24.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/4137e1682cafaca3aabc680ba4b74dc6.png)
Most probably, next post will be the last for the fort.
Recently freed goblins and trolls roam the flying deck, just like planned:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/4f1c1a2c886743cd9123044e2325cc1a.png)
Dwarven mother with a baby:
(https://i.imgur.com/w3thqHQ.png)
Somebody pulled the lever opening all the floodgates in the statue's skin. Magma flew out:
(https://i.imgur.com/t12PDC8.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/1q6Mzxi.png)
Stone Sense suddenly no more broken so I managed to film the process:
(https://i.imgur.com/DzGEFOd.gif)
Fort's entry got sealed with ice and obsidian:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/1ec80d16d45864bc5d000850c42f7fad.png)
Fields of flowers got covered by magma:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/1307e7235a6f9af8ce2472a6586f961e.png)
It's a song of fire, ice and obsidian:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/13c70089744988dd9c82ff360c39d28d.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/afgNrVu.png)
Zoomed out view:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/0257f6ae7a1d5471ca148fe80fc3905a.png)
Still to be continued.
Few assorted final pics:
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/b9ca93ae037151f2103a1bf1f4728282.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/1dbcff721421f31c082088a2554b3a25.png)
(https://s8.hostingkartinok.com/uploads/images/2019/02/3902476b6c9d3018482dbfe9b74c67da.png)
Four Stone Sense views in 4608x3600 resolution, links because picture size:
https://i.imgur.com/U9vy52T.png
https://i.imgur.com/E25LuUO.png
https://i.imgur.com/kerYDSl.png
https://i.imgur.com/sKR6R4y.png
That's all, thanks for watching.