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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / A Spire of Fun
« on: February 22, 2011, 07:52:19 pm »
So, I hadn't played DF in a several months, and decided to download the newest version and give it a shot.
First world I genned, didn't find any sites I liked the look of. Second world, I found a decent site. Got my embark all prepared and hit the embark key, and DF crashed. I grumbled a bit, reloaded, and went to try to find that site again. Got to where I thought it was, set up my embark again, and hey, it worked.
And then I saw it.
An above-ground spire of bluemetal.
Unlike the massive one elsewhere, this one is only 12 zlevels high, and goes down 156 or so zlevels to the Fun Place. It is a tube, btw. Breaching it doesn't trigger the fun until you breach a good deal below the magma sea. Site has clay, brook, shallow and deep metal, flux, and plenty of trees and vegetation. Not sure of the surrounding civs, though.
And it is completely minable. No bugs in the game that I can see.
I offer up the save here. It has my dwarfs, no fort, and iirc, one tile of the spire mined out to show it can be mined.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, I used the Phoebus download instead of the standard game. This may or may not be relevant.
First world I genned, didn't find any sites I liked the look of. Second world, I found a decent site. Got my embark all prepared and hit the embark key, and DF crashed. I grumbled a bit, reloaded, and went to try to find that site again. Got to where I thought it was, set up my embark again, and hey, it worked.
And then I saw it.
An above-ground spire of bluemetal.
Unlike the massive one elsewhere, this one is only 12 zlevels high, and goes down 156 or so zlevels to the Fun Place. It is a tube, btw. Breaching it doesn't trigger the fun until you breach a good deal below the magma sea. Site has clay, brook, shallow and deep metal, flux, and plenty of trees and vegetation. Not sure of the surrounding civs, though.
And it is completely minable. No bugs in the game that I can see.
I offer up the save here. It has my dwarfs, no fort, and iirc, one tile of the spire mined out to show it can be mined.
EDIT: Forgot to mention, I used the Phoebus download instead of the standard game. This may or may not be relevant.