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DF Gameplay Questions / Building in Water?
« on: November 13, 2019, 05:56:49 pm »
Is there a way to build in water?  Outside of waiting for the water to freeze and then digging down to the bottom of the water/ice during the winter?  (And I am specifically talking about the ocean with 7/7 depth.)

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DF Gameplay Questions / World Creation Query
« on: September 24, 2019, 08:27:20 am »
So, I was re-re-re....reading Boatmurdered last night and the bug for some DF bit me again.  Downloaded the game, set up my world gen with a custom setup I like and it will render away 500 years while I'm out working today. 

I want to find an embark site with a specific topography and needed some insight as to what to look for while browsing around.  I hope someone can help.

I want an elevated area...but I want mountain PEAKS with valleys between then.  High enough that I can make elevated roads between the peaks. 

My issue seems to be I just am not sure what landmarks to look for.  I did a couple of quick world gens this morning to browse.  I looked at the elevation map and found areas with 0-3 and then points with 5-6, but those didn't work there were actually NO super elevated peaks poking up anywhere. 

So, thanks in advance for any guidance.

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DF Gameplay Questions / World Gen Question
« on: October 12, 2018, 06:46:47 pm »
What would I edit in order to get more wide open caverns instead of the manic confused ones that generate regularly?  I'm looking for something that would be easier to build in and not miss one little square that opens you up to a Forgotten Beast (yeah I get fun! but still, the question remains...lol).

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DF Gameplay Questions / Falling Down Stairs?
« on: October 12, 2018, 06:44:11 pm »
Is falling down stairs something new (relatively new) in the game?  I was using up/down stairs as scaffolding; fully supported from below by other stairs and then deconstructing enmasse one level at a time.  I lost three dwarves to falls.  Really freaked me out because I don't recall falling on a stairwell being a thing before.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Digging a "cavern"
« on: September 05, 2018, 12:16:07 pm »
I'm contemplating a project for my next fortress and I'm testing something now.  What I want to do is dig a vast "cavern" inside the mountain and then have halls going off the "solid" wall section to the edges of the cavern.  I want to use ramps on the edge walls as access points up and down so just the vast chasm in the central part.  I'm trying to channel one z-level at a time, working down but unless I do one line at a time...

cccccccccc - channel
fffffffffffff
fffffffffffff - floor
ffffffffffff1hhhhh - hall/access point

then when I get to the point marked "1" this is the last square holding up the floor (if I channel the exterior areas only) and the floor collapses.  But even though my miner is standing in the hall area, he still usually falls one z-level.  No injuries yet in my testing but there's got to be a better way.  Right? 

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DF Gameplay Questions / Vampire Question
« on: September 04, 2018, 12:37:05 pm »
So I've never been good about finding vampires.  I had a migration wave come in recently and had one dwarf that stood out with 84 kills.  However, none of his stats were very high.  His highest score was a 5 as a poet. 

Now I've had a dwarf die, drained of all blood.  The weird thing is, the dwarf I suspected no longer appears in my game or in Therapist.  Never knew them to "disappear" from the game before.

Any advise or ideas?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Driftwood question
« on: August 25, 2018, 06:01:55 pm »
So I did a search and it appears driftwood is unusable in the game.  However, it's blocking me from building a wall and I can't smooth it to destroy it like a boulder.  Any suggestions?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Family Heirloom Artifacts
« on: August 25, 2018, 05:38:28 pm »
So I'm noticing that all my artifacts are being "claimed" as family heirlooms by the creator.  None of them are going to my artifact stockpiles to give good moodlets.  Can I fix this somehow?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Stacking armor...still works?
« on: August 23, 2018, 05:57:00 pm »
Does stacking armor still work in the newest version? 

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DF Gameplay Questions / Game Crash
« on: August 13, 2018, 04:43:15 pm »
I finish my setup with my dwarfs, their skills and the items I'm bringing; I hit e to embark.  I get the start paragraph to "Strike the Earth".  I've hit ENTER and the game shuts down.  I've tried ESC, same result.  Has something changed to actually get the game to kick off?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Fortress Mode with abandoned fortresses
« on: August 13, 2018, 03:35:06 pm »
Is there a way to generate already abandoned fortresses that you can then go to in Fortress Mode?  I saw a DF YouTube series where it appears the YT'er has done that but I'm unaware of how to generate, let alone find this as an option or find the abandoned locale ingame.  Thanks in advance for any guidance.

To clarify, he did not build the fortress and then abandon it and restart to reclaim the fortress.  The fortress was "pre-abandoned" in his world gen. 

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DF Community Games & Stories / Rimworld Beta 18 Youtube series
« on: November 30, 2017, 05:29:08 pm »
I've started my new Beta 18 save recently.  You can check the playlist for it here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT4br4Wo65uZ68tbzx8P_ONv94DYnFt5w
Episode 3 went up today.

(PS: I hope it's ok to post this here.  Wasn't sure but didn't see anything against it.  If it's not OK, let me know.)

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DF Gameplay Questions / Clay Collection
« on: October 30, 2017, 01:55:36 pm »
I've got a kiln set up with a clay job.  I've set two separate clay collection zones but it doesn't appear as if they are saving as a zone and I continue to get a job cancel notice for not having a clay zone set up.  Is this broken currently (it's not something I normally use) or is there a trick to get it to work?

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DF General Discussion / YouTube recommendations
« on: August 12, 2017, 09:51:25 pm »
 Hey guys looking for a new YouTube channel to watch dwarf fortress let's plays wanted to see who you guys recommended.

 There were three guys that I have been watching for a long time, Quill18, dastastic and Marcus Aurelius.  Sadly, Marcus just announced he is shutting down his channel after four years. Quill does not do many DF plays.  I found a few channels but unfortunately they appear to be extremely young you tubers that drop F bombs every other word. While the word itself doesn't bother me I really don't need to hear that 500 times an episode when I'm trying to watch stuff.

So any good "more on the mature side"  channels that you could recommend?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Auto mine command (possibly DF Hack)
« on: May 28, 2017, 10:58:47 am »
Back playing after a layoff, I recall there was a command to enter (similar to alt-w for workshop commands) that would target an entire vein for automining.  I can't recall it, does anyone have that information please.

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