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Dwarf Fortress => DF Adventure Mode Discussion => Topic started by: krige on October 30, 2006, 03:14:00 am

Title: How does adventure mode handle abandoned fortresses?
Post by: krige on October 30, 2006, 03:14:00 am

I got to my old outpost and it's divided into descend/ascend sections in no obvious pattern. Why is it so?

Title: Re: How does adventure mode handle abandoned fortresses?
Post by: Mechanoid on October 30, 2006, 04:16:00 am

It's supposed to be that the further right on the map you go in Fortress mode, the 'deeper' you mine into the mountain. Realistically, floods would extend all the way to the right of the map and collide with the lava river in a great ball of steam if this were true in fortress mode, so fortress mode doesn't utilize the Z coordinate (up/down) like Adventure mode does; which is why adventure mode has up/down staircases.

Adventure mode uses the Z coordinate, while Fortress mode does not.

Title: Re: How does adventure mode handle abandoned fortresses?
Post by: krige on October 30, 2006, 09:14:00 am

Since there is no Z axis in fortress, is it assigned randomly for adventure mode then?