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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Screw Pumps & Infinite Water Disasters
« on: November 04, 2008, 12:36:44 am »
This is not true, at least not in 40d. 

Of course, with any liquid project, it's a very smart move to ensure that you have an off switch.  Just in case.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Pressurizing magma?
« on: November 03, 2008, 11:26:23 am »
Yes, screw pumps pressurize magma to their level, so your trap could be:

Code: [Select]

 sP XXX___X
~XX       X
XXXXXXXXXXX

Where sP is the screw pump, ~ is your source, and _ are your hatches (or whatnot).

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: No more of your crafts of MURDER! Oh, except those!
« on: November 03, 2008, 12:12:50 am »
Quote from: Narmio on November 02, 2008, 11:59:03 pm
the elves' bone ban.

In .40d, the only thing I've seen the elves get annoyed by is wood.  Not bone, not leather, not slaughtering animals in the butchery right next to the trade depot...just the fact that I happen to have dumped all those things into a wooden bin for convenience.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Pitting Creatures
« on: November 02, 2008, 10:32:24 pm »
Quote from: Raelyf on November 02, 2008, 09:54:07 pm
So I'm fairly new to DF and I'm having some trouble pitting creatures. I've currently got a huge stockpile of goblins after the latest seige, and I've built myself a pit to throw them into. My problem is, every time I designate a creature to be thrown into the pit - they run as soon as my dwarves goes to get them out of the cage.

Goblin thieves and kobold snatchers will run.  Goblin (and human and elven, etc) troops will allow themselves to be pitted.  So much for military training.

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Somewhat unrelated, I accidently caught a bronze collosus in my cage traps (so much for the epic battle I was expecting..)

Cage traps are great for making arena fights and whatnot, but they do make defense too easy.

Personally, I'm going through a "trial by combat" phase, where once I think one of my champions is buff enough, I put him in the arena against nasties (I haven't gotten any megabeasts yet with this map); if he dies, obviously unworthy, if he lives, he becomes part of the "ruling caste".

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Increased Difficulty Parameters
« on: November 02, 2008, 08:31:45 pm »
IIRC, setting either good or evil to 0 negates both.  Instead, try something very lopsided in evil's favor, but with some good still present.


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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Freezing Water
« on: November 02, 2008, 08:27:27 pm »
Since you want this for indoor waterfalls only, you shouldn't have to worry about ice.  Just ensure that once it's let inside, the water doesn't travel through any areas that have been exposed to the sun.  That is, to answer your original questions, yes, you can divert water underground and then run it in a loop, no, it won't work if part of that loop is on the surface.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Cleaning Off Snow
« on: November 02, 2008, 08:26:21 pm »
For future reference, I think the easiest answer would be "build an exterior shell first, then build the tower inside of it"

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Freezing Water
« on: November 02, 2008, 01:48:29 pm »
I've got no firsthand experience with freezing water into ice, but if it works like water+magma=obsidian, then it destroys anything in that square -- constructed floors, fortifications, stairs, etc.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Did you know - Screw Pumps actually exist in real life?
« on: November 02, 2008, 10:56:09 am »
Quote from: Neoskel on August 10, 2008, 12:17:46 am
Sorry, but the response to the thread title is: Well, duh.

It's not the kind of thing you make up.

Where's the wikipedia article for having levers control things with absolutely no physical connection between them at all?

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Cheats for Newbies
« on: November 02, 2008, 10:52:04 am »
Um. 

Farm + Plump Helmets + dwarf with at least a few points in farming = More food than you'll ever need

I think the only time I ever hit starvation was when I tried "turning on every job for every dwarf".  Combination of nobody farming and the planters having no skill meaning a lot of crops that didn't get started.

Honestly, I would imagine that having to kill the monsters upon reclamation would be much harder than farming.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Magma Pipe Refilling Question
« on: November 01, 2008, 11:28:52 pm »
Quote from: LegoLord on November 01, 2008, 11:08:38 pm
Quote from: Magua on November 01, 2008, 10:58:24 pm
No, but uncaged ones can burn wooden barrels and bins.
Actually that's not true.  I have two forts that have been around for at least 7 game years each.  Each one also has a booze stockpile right next the magma pipe.  I haven't had a single explosion.

I refer you to creature_subterranean.txt, where fire snakes not only have [IMMOLATE], but also [FIXED_TEMP:14000] (hotter than magma, that).

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Pearls.
« on: November 01, 2008, 11:04:36 pm »
I now have a signature.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Effectiveness of the "liaison meetings"
« on: November 01, 2008, 11:02:21 pm »
I highly doubt supply/demand has anything to do with it.  Civ access to things definitely restricts what they will bring (curse you, bauxite-less Mountainhome!), but my dwarf civ, Armor bless their souls, consistently brings overpriced steel toys, after 20 years of never buying one, the elves still show up asking me if I want bows and arrows, the humans are happy to sell me large clothing, etc.

It seems that each race has a "set" of things it'll offer, and then what the civ has access to affects the specifics (type, etc) of what those things are. 

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Magma Pipe Refilling Question
« on: November 01, 2008, 10:58:24 pm »
No, but uncaged ones can burn wooden barrels and bins.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Circular tower
« on: November 01, 2008, 10:57:20 pm »
I want to build one.  A large one.  But, my god, designating the constructions is horrifying.

I want to believe that someone has some AutoHotKey script, or some other mechanism for doing this easily.  Please tell me this is true!

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