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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / My Fort Just Went To Hell... Literally... [SPOILERS]
« on: June 26, 2016, 07:27:56 pm »
So there I was, gazing down upon the beginnings of Timelashed, a worthy settlement. I had high hopes for this fort, and it seemed to be going places. With a budding silver industry and some efficient farms, I was confident that my dwarves would last the first winter. Then the game paused, and informed me that part of the surface had collapsed. Odd? I un-paused the game and the entire screen went black with smoke and dust. Then the next alert showed up: "Horrifying screams can be heard from below!"
Now this really puzzled me, because the deepest my dwarves had dug was z-level 9.
When the dust settled, I found my fledgling fort in ruins. Half of my dwarves had been crushed brutally in the collapse, including all of the children. The others were trapped in little pockets underground, with no way to dig themselves out. My only remaining miner was trapped in the meeting hall with a severed spine and no movement below his legs, slowly bleeding out from a gash on his forehead. (In other words, useless..) There would be no way for him to save his fellows, who were slowly dying of thirst. To make matters worse, the demons of hell had somehow made it onto the surface and were happily dismembering the remaining survivors and livestock.
Timelashed had literally fallen into hell in seconds.
My question is this: What in the Age of Mysteries just happened?
Now this really puzzled me, because the deepest my dwarves had dug was z-level 9.
When the dust settled, I found my fledgling fort in ruins. Half of my dwarves had been crushed brutally in the collapse, including all of the children. The others were trapped in little pockets underground, with no way to dig themselves out. My only remaining miner was trapped in the meeting hall with a severed spine and no movement below his legs, slowly bleeding out from a gash on his forehead. (In other words, useless..) There would be no way for him to save his fellows, who were slowly dying of thirst. To make matters worse, the demons of hell had somehow made it onto the surface and were happily dismembering the remaining survivors and livestock.
Timelashed had literally fallen into hell in seconds.
My question is this: What in the Age of Mysteries just happened?