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Quote from: Patchy on December 15, 2010, 11:37:57 am

Mine them out and throw a wall up. But I guess it depends on if you're looking for symmetry in color as well as shape.

I can only dp this on rooms I'm not planning on engraving- the mismatched black and white background colors drive me nuts.

It does me too, and its one of the reasons I don't do much engraving. I'll only engrave dining rooms and noble quarters, and half the time since minerals are so abundant they give my dining rooms a rainbow colored feel I'll tear out all the walls and replace them with platinum or gold block walls. The only forts nowadays that I'll have a major engraving industry going on are the ones where I do a lot of obsidian casting.

Looks awesome. I tried to do something similiar awhile back, but ended up scrapping it as I was constantly running out of room for it in places and having to redesign it. Really should have picked a 3x3 embark to try mine on instead of a 2x2. That would probably look good as a giant surface tower/castle too like Bladeshoots.

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-8328-bladeshoots

Yup, I love statues. Line halls, roads, whatever with them. Put them in dining rooms, dwarves rooms, stockpile rooms whereever I can fit them. Place them atop my forts battlements and the keep roof too. I build my walls 2 or 3 thick just so I can leave little niches in them to put a statue as well.

Though I usually wait till I've killed a year or 2's worth of ambushes/sieges to start making them, gotta give the masons and forge workers something to use for their motiff. That and I want to give them a chance to hit legendary first with other projects.

I love them. Once you know how to utilise them, they extremely handy to have. The first thing I taught myself back in 40d after I figured out how to do my food and booze industries was how to breach and use aquifers. Why? Well it was because of all the fear and general hatred of the things I saw on the forums, so I decided it was gonna be my first challenge. My very first aquifer pierce was using the pump method on a 2z-level aquifer on an isolated island. I'd later go on to learn how to cave-in and freeze my way through them as well, though the cave-in is my preferred method now. Well anyways a dozen or so flooded forts later, I think I'm fairly proficient with them.

You can do things like a very quick underground treefarm, farmzone, and even really easy drowning traps.

And some other things given a flat embark, a soil layer aquifer is always 1 z-lvl + its drainage level except in sand deserts where it can potentially be 2 z-lvls + its drainage. If you have 2 soil layers marked as aquifer, it'll be those those 2 z-lvls of aquifer + the drainage below the 2nd one. The aquifer will never appear in the top 2 soil layers. Sandstone, and conglomerate are the only stone layer aquifers with puddingstone the only mineral aquifer. Due to the nature of rock layers which sandstone and conglomerate are, they can be some 3 to 7 z lvls thick meaning 3 to 7 z-lvls of aquifer + the drainage lvl at the bottom. Conglomerate is just a pain, but sandstone is actually fairly easy to use the dig through mineral method on in 31x. Since large clusters appear everywhere right now, and all the large clusters that can appear in sandstone are non-aquiferous, which means if you line your shaft up with the center of a 48x48 embark tile you'll likely be able to dig straight through the bauxite, magnetite, kaolinite, etc clusters of sandstone and be totally dry. Conglomerate doesn't work that way though because of the puddingstone which appears in it with quite a bit of frequency.

Actually it takes 2 bucket fulls to make an ice wall. The first bucket makes an icefloor and the 2nd makes a wall.

Also when filling the buckets, if the dwarf is standing in a freezing tile, the water will be frozen. If he is standing in a non-freezing tile the water will be liquid when he finishes filling the bucket. But once in the bucket, the bucket insulates the water from the freezing effects of winter. You can observe this behavior for yourself simply by going to a tundra with an aquifer. Dig a channel in the aquifer but leave the roof over it. Now dig out the roof on 1 side of the aquifer channel and leave the roof over the other side. Set up a water-source zone on 1 side to test and then delete the source and put a new one on the other side to test that. I did this by accident once and it took me like a season and a half to track down why my dwarves were making the expansion to my ice-keep so slowly.

I can't remember the fortress I saw there horizontals pump stacks in but it's on DFMA somewhere.

This might be the one you are talking about. The "magma teleporter" that Hyndis made in his fort Axeglided.

http://mkv25.net/dfma/poi-25980-magmateleporter

Ok, tried it. Apparently dwarves with maxage of 1:1 will still somehow get married and give birth in their short little lives. Though I couldn't find any dwarves that were listed as parents oddly enough in legends mode. Most actually died single, though there was quite a few who still managed to get married before dieing. And the civ history showed all the positions changing hands every year as each dwarf died of old age. So, they were indeed limited to only 1 year of life.

The fact that none of the entries for all the dwarves that I looked through showed any children makes me think something else is afoot. Like maybe the world gen is genning new dwarves if the last dwarf in the civ dies of old age? Anyways, guess the maxage trick from 40d doesnt work anymore heh.