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Dwarf Fortress => DF Adventure Mode Discussion => Topic started by: 20,000leeks on October 19, 2006, 01:16:00 am

Title: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: 20,000leeks on October 19, 2006, 01:16:00 am: Maybe this is a stupid question and the answer is glaringly obvious, but...
Every time I descend into a system of Caves, I just *cannot* get back out again. I don't mean I die at the hands of the inhabitants (although that does happen a lot), I mean I cannot find a way to leave the caves. Once I starved to death after killing all the evil denizens - with, of course, the help of my faithful spear-fodder - because I simply couldn't find a way out. There's that grey upwards pointing triangle, but apparently that doesn't count as stairs up, and looking at it reveals that apparently it's not noteworthy. Can someone help me out here?
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: ChicoBlue on October 19, 2006, 01:21:00 am: If you want to leave a cave, find that grey arrow that points upwards, and there should be a kind of whiteish block above it. Walk upward, and you should be able to get out.
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: Capntastic on October 19, 2006, 01:22:00 am: Yeah just imagine those triangles as a hole you can climb up or down through.
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: 20,000leeks on October 19, 2006, 01:28:00 am: Huh. That does make a certain kind of sense. Thanks for the help :D
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: Captain Mayday on October 19, 2006, 01:30:00 am: Although they can frequently be obscured by corpses, or by fog of war which notes where someone previously was.
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: 20,000leeks on October 19, 2006, 01:52:00 am: ...and apparently leather pants are far more deadly than I would have thought. I managed to destroy four zombies simply by throwing a set of leather pants that I'd wrested from an evil peasant.
...this game is like a fountain of humorous amusement.
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: Toady One on October 19, 2006, 01:58:00 am: I wonder if it matters what kind of animal the pants were made out of... like... the bear leather pants are like GRRRR and the cheetah leather pants are like zzoooooommmm and stuff. It's like powerups and stats and stuff. You're like a druid sorta, but the animal is dead.
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: 20,000leeks on October 19, 2006, 02:09:00 am: From memory, they were... badger leather? Does that sound right? I guess badgers don't like the undead. For some reason, the pants were *much* more effective than just throwing rocks. I guess zombies have a phobia of pants?
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: Ancient_Sleeping_Dude_Rei on October 19, 2006, 04:03:00 am: Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger...
ZOMBIE ZOMBIE!!!
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: Gakidou on October 19, 2006, 04:15:00 am: quote:
Originally posted by Toady One:
I wonder if it matters what kind of animal the pants were made out of... like... the bear leather pants are like GRRRR and the cheetah leather pants are like zzoooooommmm and stuff. It's like powerups and stats and stuff. You're like a druid sorta, but the animal is dead.
I love the way Toady asks these questions, as if he doesn't know the answer. (Although, the game is so massive that forgetting game mechanics would be understandable...)
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: skeightmachine on October 19, 2006, 01:50:00 pm: Toady, does the animal type of leather affect its attributes in any way?
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: Toady One on October 19, 2006, 02:37:00 pm: Just the price. And if it's made out of dragon I don't think it burns.
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: Rondol on October 19, 2006, 10:41:00 pm: But stuff doesn't burn... yet... does it?
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: skeightmachine on October 20, 2006, 10:40:00 am: Hehe. Toady makes it sound like things do burn, but things from dragons dont. Ive never faced a dragon before so Im not sure if my clothes will be burned up or not.
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: Foggy on October 22, 2006, 07:05:00 pm: quote:
Originally posted by skeightmachine:
Hehe. Toady makes it sound like things do burn, but things from dragons dont. Ive never faced a dragon before so Im not sure if my clothes will be burned up or not.
The last time I faced a dragon, I don't think it mattered whether my pants were fireproof or not.
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: Plasma on October 23, 2006, 04:56:00 pm: quote:
Originally posted by Foggy:

The last time I faced a dragon, I don't think it mattered whether my pants were fireproof or not.

Yeah. By that time, they were already so soaked that even the fire had no effect.
Title: Re: How, exactly, do Caves work?
Post by: Aristharus on October 28, 2006, 04:46:00 pm: Oh my god.. I finally got access to the internet after a month, decided to read a topic or two of these, and I'm already pretty much rolling on the floor laughing.. You guys are great, I can't believe how I made it through the month without internet access.
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