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Messages - Nilus

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Well I haven't quite gotten there yet, I've just moved food inside!

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Title pretty much says it all.
Due to human error, Two of my three legendary miners died in a cavern collapse and the third miner/mayor is misserable.
I've already had one tantrum from the clerk and I don't want more but it's gonna take a while to prepare burial chambers, could I just crush the corpse under a drawbridge?
It would make bad thoughts from the body rotting technically wrong, would it work?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: The tale of Asmel "Kobold slayer" Nishlisat
« on: September 24, 2008, 10:37:06 am »
Awesome story. Very strange that i was playing this very song on guitar just before reading the thread  :o.

It's a sign form the gods! We must now put underpants on our heads and run around in a berserk rage.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / The tale of Asmel "Kobold slayer" Nishlisat
« on: September 24, 2008, 08:39:10 am »


Thread music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zecVqgZSIxM



In a distant world, far far away, a new bastion of dwarven might was established in the glory of Armok to serve as home for the dwarves that later came to inhabit it.
In the year of 204 after the reforming of might which shaped the world, one year after the creation of the city of Towerroasted, the citizens who had grown accustomed to the peaceful lives in the great city had their lives turned upside down.
At mid day, the seventh of malachite, screams are heard from the brook, the alarm is sound! "Quickly, inside everyone!" they yelled. Frightful of what might lurk below, all obeyed and rushed for the gates.

A quick ensemble of engravers and peasants where established to defend the great city, against overwhelming odds they selflessly rushed out to the brook to save those who where behind.
What they found was a massacre, several bodies, mutilated beyond recognition lay on the ground in an unholy mess, Urist tried to hold back his plump helmet biscuit lunch.
"Split up!" said captain Asmel and the men obeyed, the soldiers split into groups of two and searched the hillside for whoever, or whatever did this.

Not long after, screams where heard from the wagon and the men rushed to aid but it was too late, Tosid Istbarkivish was surrounded by vile creatures, no larger than the dwarves themselves but the citizen stood no chance. Watching in horror, the men are frozen in place. Asmel sees, on a hill close to the helpless citizen, a vile vermin wielding a bow is firing at the defenseless citizen, Asmel's hate grew and in a fierce battlecry, louder then the roar of a bear, he ran for the vile creature. The short humanoid turned and was horrified at the furious dwarf running at him, he fires his bow but Asmel dodges the arrows with in his fury. In the last few feet, Asmel pounds the ground with booming thunder and jumps higher than a tree! landing on the vile vermin and engaging in gruesome battle.

In the pile of bloody gore and guts, Asmel "Kobold Slayer" Nishlisat emerged victorious.
The companions of the vile vermin turned from the bloody, still breathing body of the citizen and with fear unlike anything known to them before, they ran faster than their small legs could carry them.

The dead where given ceremonies fit for gods while Asmel was knighted by the baron and given the official title of Kobold Slayer. Let it be known far and wide of Asmel's bravery and fearlessness.

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Bring in a Dragon. Lock the room.

Made me laugh, hard.

Personally, I just build a drowning chamber or something like that.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: The most epic battle ever witnessed...
« on: September 18, 2008, 12:49:58 am »
Glorious.
*tear*

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Map Hunting
« on: September 18, 2008, 12:45:52 am »
There's an incredibly simple solution to finding the most epic spot of them all.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Just settle for what you find and use your imagination to create what you want.

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wow, I never could've guessed that!

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: turn ice into water?
« on: September 05, 2008, 08:56:24 am »
If you collapse Ice several levels it should thaw.
Also, keep the water for farm irrigation and drinks for the wounded only to conserve it.
Or if you have magma, run magma under Ice to make the ground warm.
Or use tile edit to make your own water.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Great start location
« on: September 03, 2008, 12:20:05 pm »
What is HFS?

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I guess I should have explained this.

The waterwheels will be in a 7 tile wide 50 tile long river of sorts which flows off into a cistern and then pumped off back to the waterfall which fuels the river.
I plan on making the waterwheels at the very end of the river where the water level will be from 1-4 if everything works as I planned.
Will this work or will the water level be to low for the wheels to work?

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Or do they have to be one level above the water?
And what level of water (1-7) is required for water wheels to work above or on the level of the water?

Also while I'm at it, would this work? (Side view)

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Title says it all.
I need to know before I embark.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Strange ambush
« on: August 05, 2008, 09:10:43 pm »
Babysnatched dwarves from world gen are accompanying goblins to attempt to kick your ass.

I see...
Makes sense.

I always believed goblins ate babies though.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Strange ambush
« on: August 05, 2008, 08:52:46 pm »
So I was minding my business when suddenly I got a very odd message, "A dwarf has sprung from ambush!" and the camera focused to my cage traps, there was a few goblin wrestlers standing around and a swordsdwarf in one of the cages.

Wait, what the hell?
Can someone explain this?
I dealt with the ambush and the swordsdwarf is in my animal stockpile inside a nice copper cage but I'm clueless as to what just happened.

Also, when my dwarfs ran outside to collect all the loot I had another goblin ambush but there was a hostile hammerdwarf among em, I kicked his ass and all but what the hell is going on here?

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