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Thanks again for another great video.  Eventually these will end, and that's sad.  I hope you start doing LPs of DF or another game at that point. 

First off, thanks again for the great videos.

One question that has constantly entered my mind when watching your videos is: "How do you safely build these water channels without causing your miners to drown?"  And in the magma video, you had started a small forging operation, but how did you crack into the magma pipe without flooding that room with magma?  It's just something that I don't understand.  Do you build some kind of doorway that can block the flow?  And if so, when you crack that final wall open, does the dwarf die?

Thanks!

Thanks for the new ones!  This rocks.  I'm happy to hear you're starting a new fortress in order to do more videos.  These are great.

Thanks guys.  I generally would like to keep up to date, but I was trying to use the same exact package as "Captain_duck" used in his DF video tutorials that he has been putting out recently.  And that was the most recent on the website he had linked to.

Thanks again to everyone.  I learned more than I asked, which is always a good thing.

Here is what my init.txt has in that section (I added the "GRID" stuff myself, per the tips in this thread):


[GRAPHICS:YES]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDX:1280]
[GRAPHICS_WINDOWEDY:800]
[GRAPHICS_FONT:Guybrush_square_16x16.bmp]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENX:1280]
[GRAPHICS_FULLSCREENY:800]
[GRAPHICS_FULLFONT:Guybrush_square_16x16.bmp]
[GRAPHICS_BLACK_SPACE:YES]
[GRID:80:50]
[FULLGRID:60:40]

However, things are unchanged when starting the game again.  I'm drawing a blank.

I'm not looking to increase the size of the tiles, or to increase the size of my window, but to increase the amount seen at a given time.  I can increase the window to say, 1280 wide by 800 tall, but the actual game is still the smallish rectangle in the center.  Is it possible to see more tiles at one time?

Also, is it possible to change how quickly the camera pans over when I move the cursor?  It seems to move the screen up too quickly when I am trying to designate areas for mining.  (Often I try to match up the sizes of rooms so they are symmetrical, and the camera jumps when I move just a few spaces, recentering on an area beyond where I can see the first room.)

Obviously these two questions are related.   Thanks!

So if there were another way down there he would walk around and go down there first, but if there were no other way (say I channeled this area out, and it's otherwise virgin soil/rock), he can build from a higher ledge, downward.  Right?

Thanks again.