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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Nist Akath. Brethren of the Tundra
« on: February 18, 2009, 05:16:16 am »
Ahh, i'm seeing double! triple!!
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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Last Dwarves in the world. Ulogeshud[Community Fortress]
« on: February 14, 2009, 07:19:06 am »
Hump.
Wait...
Wait...
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Tantrum Spirals: The good, the bad, the ugly
« on: February 13, 2009, 07:13:21 am »
No rooms. This seems to be the biggest key to it. The happy thoughts from their own bed are usually enough to tip the balance for me.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Really bad defense design
« on: February 08, 2009, 08:48:32 pm »
And, goblins that were on the bridge when you raised it would also be dropped right into the heart of your fort...
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Your best artifact ever
« on: February 08, 2009, 06:44:24 am »
Yeah. problem was that aluminum isn't really good for use a blade, its too ductile, and while its strength to weight ratio is high, its also very light: you'd need a greater volume for an equivalent amount of strength of steel (still true today)
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Best Murals
« on: February 08, 2009, 06:42:02 am »
They couldn't fly back when they made those...
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: sooo... does magma melt rock doors?
« on: February 08, 2009, 05:30:05 am »
Yes, but magma doesn't self ignite things that are a few meters away from it. The wonderful fact that air has a low thermal conductivity and circulate helps with that. Or, well, at least with lava.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Interesting things when attempting to build underwater fortresses
« on: February 07, 2009, 05:43:58 am »
Correct.
Now that i think of it, there's a series of maps on the DFMA where someone has done this (collapsing sheets of obsidian in at a time, i think). i'll try dig it up.
Edit: here it is
http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-3664-blockaderhyming
Now that i think of it, there's a series of maps on the DFMA where someone has done this (collapsing sheets of obsidian in at a time, i think). i'll try dig it up.
Edit: here it is
http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-3664-blockaderhyming
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: legendary armorer
« on: February 07, 2009, 04:33:10 am »
Can't say i've ever seen a dwarf wear more than a set of plate+chain jacket. Will have to do more experimenting now 
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Interesting things when attempting to build underwater fortresses
« on: February 07, 2009, 01:50:46 am »
Yes, i have a couple of techniques that i've always thought of for constructing underwater forts.
One of them is to drop "sheets" of magma down all at once. Do this by creating a holding chamber the same size as the area you want to create the obsidian on, with walls around a floor made of bridges. hook all bridges to a level, and pull all at once. Hopefully you have a falling sheet of lava (though i don't think this'll work).
The other method i was thinking of was simply casting the entire block (x*y*z tiles) above the ocean, removing the constructions, connecting it to a support and then dropping it into place.
One of them is to drop "sheets" of magma down all at once. Do this by creating a holding chamber the same size as the area you want to create the obsidian on, with walls around a floor made of bridges. hook all bridges to a level, and pull all at once. Hopefully you have a falling sheet of lava (though i don't think this'll work).
The other method i was thinking of was simply casting the entire block (x*y*z tiles) above the ocean, removing the constructions, connecting it to a support and then dropping it into place.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: The Perfect Starting Seven
« on: February 06, 2009, 11:09:49 pm »
In my latest fort i've gone with a different approach: trying to get every dwarf to have a single profession, and starting from the begging.
So, i had every single dwarf a Armour user/shield user/novice weapon user and as well as those:
1 proficient mechanic
1 proficient Building designer
1 proficient grower
1 proficient cook
1 proficient brewer
1 proficient stonecrafter
1 proficient carpenter
Mad the carpenter chop wood and the building designer do masonry until a replacement migrant came.
I never start without a proficient mechanic, because i find that they are slow to train, and it is really really useful having a dedicated one, since i always find myself doing a lot of water projects.
I got lucky with this fort though, migrant armoursmith and weaponsmith both went fey during the second year.
So, i had every single dwarf a Armour user/shield user/novice weapon user and as well as those:
1 proficient mechanic
1 proficient Building designer
1 proficient grower
1 proficient cook
1 proficient brewer
1 proficient stonecrafter
1 proficient carpenter
Mad the carpenter chop wood and the building designer do masonry until a replacement migrant came.
I never start without a proficient mechanic, because i find that they are slow to train, and it is really really useful having a dedicated one, since i always find myself doing a lot of water projects.
I got lucky with this fort though, migrant armoursmith and weaponsmith both went fey during the second year.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Best Murals
« on: February 06, 2009, 10:43:54 pm »
Not my map, but this is one that struck me when i saw it ages ago, and i remembered it reading this thread.
http://mkv25.net/dfma/poi-7740-mapchamber
Edit, wait, no... That's not the map i remember, that's just one i found searching for map in POI titles.
This is the map i remember
http://mkv25.net/dfma/poi-5348-greatmap
http://mkv25.net/dfma/poi-7740-mapchamber
Edit, wait, no... That's not the map i remember, that's just one i found searching for map in POI titles.
This is the map i remember
http://mkv25.net/dfma/poi-5348-greatmap
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Will DF ever be as dangerous as the 2d era?
« on: February 06, 2009, 05:48:17 am »
Skeletal mountain goats. Those are bad enough, but then there's the skeletal giant eagle over the hill. At least it was a moutain/badlands biome so there was no need to go outside anyway.
Then there was this time i started on a terrifying or something desert, that had just a few trees. Sent my woodcutter out to cut wood, with both the dogs trained and following him. get the message "war dog has been struck down", zoom over and a nightwing has just killed it and is killing the second. got my dwarf out of there pronto, and locked down my fort straight away.
Then there was this time i started on a terrifying or something desert, that had just a few trees. Sent my woodcutter out to cut wood, with both the dogs trained and following him. get the message "war dog has been struck down", zoom over and a nightwing has just killed it and is killing the second. got my dwarf out of there pronto, and locked down my fort straight away.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: I'm not impressed.
« on: February 06, 2009, 05:41:28 am »triplets
Woah! never had any Dwarven twins/triplets ever!
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Your favourite WATER feature?
« on: February 06, 2009, 05:38:19 am »The flows don't have any notion of velocity per se, so no. Fountains will just kind of burble outwards. Water flowing sideways MIGHT go further out than one tile, but only if there's so much of it that it can't all fit in the first tile. It certainly won't form a nice parabolic waterfall.
I've found that it actually does, though that might just be due to a surge of the pumps starting up, and i only found this horizontally, not vertically.