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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What got you into Dwarf Fortress?
« on: August 19, 2010, 09:35:26 pm »
Quote from: Naxza on August 19, 2010, 09:33:20 pm
I got a migraine a few days later, went home from school early, and spent the afternoon/evening learning how to dig staircases and such.
LOL, If i had a migraine it would be CAUSED by Dwarf Fortress!

seriously, you're just torturing your brain playing DF with migraine :O

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Plenty of iron/coal Too much of a good thing?
« on: August 19, 2010, 09:06:54 pm »
Quote from: Shurhaian on August 19, 2010, 08:32:16 pm
I am not yet a sufficiently good player of the game that I need to make it any harder on myself than I already have. :) I already have trouble dealing with even small ambushes - mostly because I try to push for a full steelworking industry, and it takes too long, rather than finding a suitable solution before that.
Learn some fun ideas for traps or make up your own ideas. cage traps are very efficient but ultimately rather boring.

my latest trap is one i got from the wiki.

I've built a spiral of walls, dug a 5 Z lvls deep spiral-shaped pit under the walkway of the spiral, and then covered the hole with bridges.
almost at the center of the spiral i left one tile un-channeled and placed a pressure plate linked to all those bridges.
in the center of the spiral is a chained animal (usually a kitten. that'll put them to some use at least)
at the bottom of the pit i have upright spears in a spiral =)

now when the goblins/kobold/whatever try to enter the fortress, they will suddenly hear a meow from inside the weird building and get that unstoppable urge of mutilating a kitten.
I actually found an ambush AFTER they had fallen down the pit. got a bloody surprise when i was gonna pick up the trash from the earlier spotted ambush when i found a few more unconcious goblins in there. "An ambush! Curse them!" turns out they had already been cursed =D

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What do you do when you find Adamantium?
« on: August 19, 2010, 08:55:32 pm »
Quote from: NW_Kohaku on August 19, 2010, 08:34:43 pm
Also, while this may be a bit nitpicky, it's "Adamantine", not "Adamantium".  The latter is what Wolverine has for bones.  The former is... well, it's basically aluminum crud in real life.
Yeah i know, I'm having a hard time adapting to this spelling. I always thought it was the same stuff anyway.
It has gotten me confused sometimes when searching the forums or the wiki for "adamantium" and not getting any hits :P

edit: oh maybe you meant the OP. Well looks like im not the only one with this problem =D

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What got you into Dwarf Fortress?
« on: August 19, 2010, 07:55:56 pm »
A friend of mine mentioned it and told me that you could do so many different things in it. I got hooked immediately and decided that i wanted to know how to play this game, no matter how hard it was.
thx to cptduck i didn't even fail my first fort, despite many goblin sieges =)

this was almost 2 years ago

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What do you do when you find Adamantium?
« on: August 19, 2010, 07:46:19 pm »
It feels a little like cheating, but you can just smooth the parts of the vein you are unsure of, and then carve fortifications in that part. that way you will see through the rock and see if there a hole behind it or just more rock.
It does indeed seem like the first top levels of the adamantium adamantine veins are solid so they can be mined all the way through.
I have a legendary armorsmith and a high master weaponsmith atm so my military is rather neat (when they dont randomly drop all their gear suddenly for some reason).
I actually found 2 veins the first time i breached a cave...

try to keep adamantium adamantine near your craftdwarf shop / forge.. it's always exciting when a moody dwarves pick adamantium adamantine as their main ingredient :P

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What do you do with your dead dwarfs?
« on: August 19, 2010, 07:32:04 pm »
I usually go with a large room with alot of pillars in it but seeing as my current fortress is named "Ultratomb" I feel inclined to do something better this time around :P

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Plenty of iron/coal Too much of a good thing?
« on: August 19, 2010, 07:20:06 pm »
Well after about 3 years in game time i began to ignore that adamantine strands were used for the hospital and i made gold bins to clear up the stockpiles. I get annoyed when the military uses something as useless as masterpiece steel weapons...
Very little platinum though but I don't bother too much :P

Water is a more scarce resource than adamantine atm...

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Naming Fortresses
« on: August 19, 2010, 05:00:31 pm »
for my current fortress i randomed the name a few times and came up with

"Ishemrakust"  "Ultratomb"

any goblins are welcome

edit: also I've built a pyramid over the entrance

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Sparring/drilling issue
« on: August 19, 2010, 02:24:22 pm »
I've tried a couple of different methods and finally i have a military worth mentioning. This time I only placed a few weapon racks, made a barrack room of it, and told them to train there. Most of the first dwarves now have legendary axedwarf and fighting. very poor armor user and dodging still though... but it's by far the best military I've had so far since 0.31 released.
Marksdwarves are still acting very wierd however. I did manage to get them training on an archery range (use only one target per room designation btw) but they keep dropping all their armor, crossbow, and quiver from time to time. I think mainly when they run out of bolts..

I don't know exactly why it worked this time around and not on other forts..

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Digging big pits
« on: August 19, 2010, 02:13:14 pm »
Quote from: Icarosaurvus on August 19, 2010, 01:37:55 pm
You could dig a pit with a way ou at the bottom (A.I. a tuinnel leading to a stair), then wall off the tunnel from the pit.
that would probably make it "unclean"

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Magma suggestions?
« on: August 19, 2010, 02:02:47 pm »
you should always use magma!!
Use Fortifications or fireproof grates to stop creatures from walking through your lava-channel

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Layering armor for uniforms
« on: August 19, 2010, 02:00:50 pm »
most of my dwarves complain about "equipment mismatch" when i tell them to wear both mail shirts and breastplates, because they do it in the wrong order...
I've stopped manufacturing mail shirts and caps for that reason.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Nicknames...
« on: August 19, 2010, 01:58:32 pm »
Yeah i know i can change the position of the nickname but i want it to replace the first name so that the nickname is the first thing I see. Also I have noticed that some dwarves loses their nickname without getting a new title.
I have also noticed a dwarf getting a new title/name WITHOUT losing his nickname...

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: The DF2010 Little Questions Thread
« on: August 18, 2010, 07:16:48 pm »
How do i dump/move clothes that are owned by a dwarf but is just lying on the floor somewhere?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: How do you destroy floors?
« on: August 17, 2010, 08:48:55 am »
Also, seal the butcher's room with doors to stop the miasma from spreading...

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