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Dwarf Fortress => DF Adventure Mode Discussion => Topic started by: Poobar on January 11, 2009, 11:20:25 am
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I found a tunnel leading off from the base of a dwarf fort in adventure mode- very straight, about 6 tiles wide. I thought- ooh! An underground road! ...and followed it.
It was very, very long. I ate/drank through all of my rations. I finally gave in when I was dehydrated and near death, and the road crossed a chasm (by means of 2 enourmous bridges). Not wanting my corpse to litter such a lovely pathway I threw myself in.
Has anyone else come across one of these? Do they actually lead anywhere? And, with the absence of fast travel underground, is it possible to follow one without dying?
I'm assuming it was a road, of course- not paved, but very straight and wide- always wide enough for a caravan- with ramps to go up/down levels.
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It's an option in the entity file
Civilizations can build:
bridges
roads
tunnels
or, combinations thereof. If a civ can build tunnels, then they will build them between their cities, but only in mountainous areas, far as I can tell. And of course only during worldgen. Also - tunnels are kind of messed up right now. SOmetimes you get to your destination, and the stairs up are converted to a mysterious hole.
or you find that the pathing for the tunnel accidentally burst through into a river... that one's scary.
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Actually, one traveled strait into a magma pipe. I noticed this first with my adventurer when my FPS began to suffer, and later when I was sprinting away from a 7 foot wall of firey doom.
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Thats hillarious. I don't even consider that a bug. I mean, heck /we/ make mistakes. Stands to reason the real dwarves would mess a few things up too.
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I don't think we've ever accidentally dug a tunnel through an active volcano, though.
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It's great fun.
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Actually, one traveled strait into a magma pipe. I noticed this first with my adventurer when my FPS began to suffer, and later when I was sprinting away from a 7 foot wall of firey doom.
Makes me wonder what I can do with the volcanism settings of up to five hundred.
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Actually, one traveled strait into a magma pipe. I noticed this first with my adventurer when my FPS began to suffer, and later when I was sprinting away from a 7 foot wall of firey doom.
Makes me wonder what I can do with the volcanism settings of up to five hundred.
Watch the never-ending flow of world rejects.
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my adventurer survived the flooding of the entire tunel (he was at a low point, if I recall) by standing where the staircase SHOULD have been (thus technically being "inside" the dwarven fortress above).. and retiring.
When I picked him up again I rationalised it by telling myself the dwarves fished him out, with amnesia no less. (did you know that your adventurer forgets the revealed map when he retires?)
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To survive as long as possible, you should bring several filled waterskins, a full set of water coverings and large amounts of meat raided from towns and caves. In addition to these supplies, you should train up your speed.
To increase your speed without sacrificing the amount of meat and water you can carry, put a lot of the meat in a container and throw it forward while in the tunnel. When you find it, take what you need and throw it forward again.
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Which would be really tedious, but would train throwing. Carefull not to chuck it into a chasm.
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Wow. That's how I carry my backpack.
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What really needs to be done is a method to fast track these underground traveling sections.
Traveling outside the Travel screen takes FOREVER!!!
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I started a dwarven adventurer at an empty goblin fortress my civilization had apparently conquered and left alone. I explored all three towers and found nothing of interest but some stairways leading down. I'd heard of underground tunnels before, and how dangerously long they were, but for some reason I went in anyway, knowing it would probably be suicidal. Boy, did I regret that. Once I found the right way (which took a little while because all the towers were connected underground, which I thought was kinda neat), I walked, ate, drank, walked some more, ate, drank, walked even more, ate, drank-oh, wait, scratch that. My canteen was dried up, and I was only saved from certain dehydration when I reached a point where the tunnel had breached the outside of a mountain, allowing me to exit and Travel far, far away.
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Sounds just like good times to me.
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i first saw the tunnel thing when i embarked on a goblin fort in a much older version of DF just to see what it looked like. i was impressed by the tunnel, but also by the fact there was some kind of gold plated temple stuck right in the middle of it, and how there was only one actual goblin, and the rest of the population were elves. i may actually still have the savegame on my old pc. there was a river high in the hills above the fort, and i thought that after i blocked the tunnel up, flooding all the elves out would be a very dwarvenly thing to do, but i never got around to it.
EDIT: i also think it would be great if you could embark inside a tunnel, using site finder to make sure its near a water source. that would be great.