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Let's put it in the suggestion boards: add "midi player" in DF =).
I like Arcanum music very much and play DF without music because hearing of the same fragment for monthes kills my brain. THanks for the content =).

heck no, MIDI (the file format as used for playing music on PCs) was finally slain with the closing of GeoCities only about a year ago.

The only way to test that theory is to Atom-Smash Planepacked and see what happens.

This is both the most frightening and exciting proposal I have ever heard.

My girlfriend calls it "Gnome Digger."

Which admittedly would make a pretty cool mod, where you have Gnomes whose tools can't dig through rock and other Gnomish nonsense.

If it passes through any saltwater aquifer layer it goes back to salty, no matter what.

Lots of disinformation in here.

First off, the HFS will always appear in the LOCAL map IF that sector in the REGION map is represented by a mountain. SOMETIMES holds true for volcano tiles where the only mountain tiles ARE the volcano.

And to put it right about the last two posts: Reveal.exe screws up your game, most notably with magma forges becoming bugged or something. However, KILLING THE PROCESS IS SAFE. Ever wondered what that "current" folder is in the save folder? It's the "running" save file that is up to date as the game moves. When you save, it copies the whole thing over the proper "regionX" folder, so if you kill the process nothing gets saved over your file and thus everything is FINE.

Coins would be nice if they (a) had a benefit over running coinless economies and (b) were handled in a decent way by the dwarves, such that they have a wallet, they only move coins from wallet to coffer(s) when they happen to visit their room for sleep/break/idle, and then maybe there could be a vault room-designation made from a container, and have the fort bookkeeper and haulers handle the accounts.

My biggest turnoff is the insanity of resource/barrel/bin management once your fort starts getting bigger. It slowly starts taking up more and more time so that I'm getting less done and the in-game time passes much more slowly.

Alright, I'm on my second year of a one-item embark (axe) and recently started digging once I traded for a pick. I've got a nice chunky chalk layer full of iron and fuel. Problem is that the magma is on the complete other side of the map, on the other side of my carp-infested river, and probably 3 Z-levels down from the surface.

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-5837-dragonbridge

Now, I could do what I always do, which is build a loooooong tunnel a few layers below the top of the magma and wait half a year for it to trickle to my underground forges, but not this time. This time I want my forges on the surface. Seeing as the path the magma needs to take runs along the river, powering any pumps needed is no problem. I also have plenty of bauxite as I have chalk as my first layer.

Never worked with moving magma before like this. I'm assuming pumps still pressurize magma? I'm thinking of cracking into the side of magma pipe a layer or two below its full point, building a pump tower to raise it to a z-level above the surface, and building a nice long magma aqueduct that ends with a floodgate, which empties into a nice wide pool for my smelters and forges, but I'm sure someone else has a simpler or cooler idea. So, who's got some good ideas?