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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: above ground fortress
« on: July 15, 2011, 03:49:21 pm »
Yesterday I managed to completely deforest the entire heavily-forested starting location just in building five two-storey wooden buildings. I thought it would be neat to have each person's accommodation above their work-place. This isn't the best idea, as work-shop noise keeps Dwarfs awake.
I kept building vertically with each migrant wave, so eventually I had a huge shanty town with bridges spanning different levels (a bit like Megaton in Fallout 3).
What killed it all in the end was greed: because I'd deforested the map, and new trees were spawning too slow for my needs, and I was determined at first to only use wood, I dug down to the underground caves and started harvesting the underground trees. Then a Forgotten Beast came and killed 35 of my dwarfs, and another dozen or so killed each other in lawless abandon.
I kept building vertically with each migrant wave, so eventually I had a huge shanty town with bridges spanning different levels (a bit like Megaton in Fallout 3).
What killed it all in the end was greed: because I'd deforested the map, and new trees were spawning too slow for my needs, and I was determined at first to only use wood, I dug down to the underground caves and started harvesting the underground trees. Then a Forgotten Beast came and killed 35 of my dwarfs, and another dozen or so killed each other in lawless abandon.