I like the pictures, a lot. Even if they are made in paint, it's a neat gimick that nobody else has picked up on, and I suggest you continue with it. Also, I loved the line about the hands, smoothing thingy.I like Heffa's pictures a lot too, and I think that they go well with the "graphics" of DF. Unfortunately the lazy bastard took a vacation from this update.
>Zombie Goats
>Zombie Goasts
>Zombie GoatsJust praise all the Gods in every heaven that it isn't "zombie goatse".
>Zombie Goasts
I like it. I hope you keep updating this for a while; I think this thread has a lot of potential. I wonder what it will be that will finally send you down into the spiral of losing... hm.Probably when the wooden pumps fall apart :D
Oh, also, I enjoyed the title.
I like it. I hope you keep updating this for a while; I think this thread has a lot of potential. I wonder what it will be that will finally send you down into the spiral of losing... hm.Probably when the wooden pumps fall apart :D
Oh, also, I enjoyed the title.
Or at this rate, I'll die from lack of iron. I've never failed so completely in finding hematite. I chose a gigantic embarking area because I know how hard it can be to find quality ores in igneous extrusive layers, but seriously, it's been two years soon and I haven't even found copper!
Thanks for the comments anyway, it's a thin line trying to write like this without it becoming just rude and pointless, but I'll keep updating until I run out of steam.
Great story :DOh yeah, nice pic. Damnit I wish the soldiers of Catbaldness looked like that :D Well, putting your life in the hands of a turtle shell can never be wrong, right? Oh, on the subject:
I couldn't stop myself doing a quick (fan) drawing of what I originally imagined Kogan, in armour, guarding the fort. (Before I realised the truth).
Here it is and I hope you like:
I like the layout you have for your fortress. It's compact, and... cozy. Yes. Cozy.Sure thing, I don't know where I could upload the save though, but if you have a gmail address or something else that accepts 10+ MiB-files, PM me with it. Oh, and please let me know if you can unpack .7z-files, they have the best compression as far as I know so I prefer them.
Do you think you could upload a save for me to toy around with? I've never embarked on a glacier before, and I'd like to be able to mess around with ice, magma, etc. without having to build up a fortress.
Also... is combinedhells the name of the cave? I saw that Kogan had a kill of a zombie troll in a place with that name, but I've never seen a dwarf with a kill from somewhere besides my fortress.
http://dffd.wimbli.com/index.php is the de facto site where all of the DF saves/mods/what-have-you are uploaded. You could check that out. http://rapidshare.com is another upload site you could use. If neither of those work, my email isI registered at the file depot, as far as I know, only the region5 folder is needed right? Well, here you go:
Majoras_NO_SPAM_Mask618(at)gmail.com
Remove the _NO_SPAM_ and change the (at) to the proper symbol.
Thanks for taking the trouble to do so. Also, yeah, I can unpack .7z. I can unpack just about anything; I run Linux. If I can't unpack it, it's just a sudo yum install away.
Once again, Heffa decided that education, sleeping patterns and women are more important than making pictures for me
Then a goblin raid came. And those badasses had cross bows.Speak of the devil...
Melt the entire damn glacier! Flood the world, or preferably, build some walls and only flood a small portion of the nearby world so that you have lots of water but it won't get away easily!The problem with pumping magma is that when trying to fill a large area, too much of the magma evaporates before it gets up to even 2/7, to the point where you actually empty the top layer of the pipe and everything has evaporated. If I could, I'd turn the entire fucking glacier into an obsidian lake... By the way, is that icelandic in your signature?
Yes, it's Icelandic. And I suggest pumping the magma up from the lowest part of the pipe.The biggest problem there is that machinery seems to freeze. When I tried building a windmill, it did produce 20 units of power, but no machinery I attached to it worked. The windmill said "frozen here" and the gear assemblies said "frozen elsewhere". If I were to pump from the lowest level, that would require 15 dwarves actually managing to pump simultaneously :D
Waterwheels, mayhaps? Set up a perpetual motion machine with some water, it fits Cog's crazy schemes after all.Good idea! I've played through winter already, but I'll play around a bit with it, thanks for the advice.
Yes, it's Icelandic. And I suggest pumping the magma up from the lowest part of the pipe.The biggest problem there is that machinery seems to freeze. When I tried building a windmill, it did produce 20 units of power, but no machinery I attached to it worked. The windmill said "frozen here" and the gear assemblies said "frozen elsewhere". If I were to pump from the lowest level, that would require 15 dwarves actually managing to pump simultaneously :D
Just thought that I'd pop in to say that I approve of this thread most thoroughly. Nice illustrations, they really do add a lot to the story.Don't want to be rude, but I'd like to know as well, seeing how occupied I was trying to show my dwarves how to find the hot light in the darkness.
Also, Boksi: you see any Frungy matches lately? I missed the championships.
On-topic: I'm still waiting for your first siege. I wonder how well that will go. Also... is your bridge hooked up to a lever, or can you not seal your fortress? Personally, I don't make my fortress seal-able anymore, as it's not nearly as Fun.Yes, the bridge is hooked up to a lever in the dining room. I rarely seal off my fortresses neither, it's just in extreme cases, otherwise I like to see how much Fun my soldiers can take :)
Did you read my bit about the windmills? =/Oh yeah, sorry, I forgot to reply. When I read Boksi's suggestion, I'd already played this update, and when I read yours, I'd already played half a year working on different designs that I was quite happy with. Thanks for the suggestion, but even if I got windmills working, they would simply take too much wood, since one can only power a pump and two gear assemblies by itself. I need to pump magma from the depths to get enough. Perpetual motion devices are of course very gamey, but until Toady allows the dwarves to simply take a bucket of snow and put it next to the forge, I'm willing to bend the rules a bit.
MOAR! FUCK REASONING! WE'RE DWARVES!
MOAR! FUCK REASONING! WE'RE DWARVES!
Heeeeey.
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That's the guy with bad breath and horrible skin that Cog used to beat with a ruler back in physics class. Bloody teacher's pet. No vision!
Cog: Who is this Euclid fellow, and why does he keep trying to contradict me?
Fantastic illustration in this update. Try to keep him\her on the team.Unfortunately, the lad who made that picture is a professional cartoonist, and I don't know how much time he has to waste. Unlike me and Heffa who live solely on leeching off the Swedish government.
I never squeek. EVER. People are staring at my like I'm crazy. Course, the too loud laughter AFTER the squeek isn't helping.This is a good thing!
I'll explain so long as nobody else continues to divert us from praising the fellow whose thread this is.
I responded to his saying FUCK REASONING because I am called Reasonableman, and it seemed like it may have been an insult directed at me. Possibly. I then covered the fact that my entire post was a single word with meaningless filler.
this is absolutely fucking hilarious. why does all the best DF stories take place in a glacier?*ahem*
this is absolutely fucking hilarious. why does all the best DF stories take place in a glacier?I disagree. I say that many good, current and previous stories do take place in a glacier, but all of them? Nay. Nay, I say. There are legends that we dwarves have, and we shall not forget them, lest we take in the new and leave out the old. What say ye? Why not just live among nature then, while we're at it? Maybe then you'll appreciate our stories, our ancestry! You sir, disgust me.
Presumably she's going to destroy gravity next.It can be done! Someone managed to make ice blocks float up, but I forget the thread.
Hmm. Theoretically an infinite-water system might be possible, if you can take a reservoir filled to 7/7 water and pump out a small amount of water into a shallow pool outside where it will freeze. A single 7/7 tile can provide water for several shallower tiles, all of which (I believe) will freeze into solid walls of ice, each one being capable of producing a 7/7 tile of water when melted.
SUCK IT LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS
this is absolutely fucking hilarious. why does all the best DF stories take place in a glacier?*ahem*
Boatmurdered did not.
However, I do know of two exceptional stories that do take place on a glacier: Nist Akath, and this.
Hmm. Theoretically an infinite-water system might be possible, if you can take a reservoir filled to 7/7 water and pump out a small amount of water into a shallow pool outside where it will freeze. A single 7/7 tile can provide water for several shallower tiles, all of which (I believe) will freeze into solid walls of ice, each one being capable of producing a 7/7 tile of water when melted.Yeah, I thought about that, but I haven't got any bauxite for mechanisms and very little iron/steel for elaborate magma projects. Besides, I've played about a year from the last update and it's still alternating at 6/7 and 7/7, so I'd say I'm fine for a few years :)
SUCK IT LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS
I'm not a nitpicker at all. I'm practically the opposite. I build rooms into preexisting structures all the time, usually accidentally. My fort is sprawling and inferiorly built, and I don't nitpick about anything.
Except that you can make prismatic blades out of chert and flint, not just obsidian!!
NOT JUST OBSIDIIIAAAAANNNNNNNN!!!!!
AUGH
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"And John Freeman felt sorry for them because they couldn't live here anymore because they were zombie goasts so he blew up the house and they were at peace"