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Messages - Crashmaster

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Insufficient water pressure?
« on: July 27, 2012, 05:23:14 pm »
for natural flow I've used water channels that drop a level every ten tiles - this still flows poorly though. A solution for you would be to channel a spot in the brook to set up a water wheel and a screw pump to pump the water into your supply channel - this can be built into a little pump house to keep it safe from building destroyers. This will ensure good 'pressurized' flow through your water system as long as there is water under the pump. Make sure you have the ability to drain any place you send water to.
pumps can remove most of the water from a river so you might not need to make a dam. The simplest dam building plans involve re-directing the river with pumps anyways.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Best way to train armor and dodge skills?
« on: July 27, 2012, 05:12:14 pm »
are you certain they are wooden 'training' spears and not wooden spears?

498
DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Clowns and stone fall traps
« on: July 26, 2012, 04:38:13 pm »
ceiling fall traps work much better.

499
DF Gameplay Questions / Re: What's the best way to make marksdwarfs pick up more bolts?
« on: July 26, 2012, 04:37:25 pm »
Sending them to a station somewhere was working for me (31.25) as well as having them patrol a route with one stop where they can see the targets and another at a bolt stockpile where they can not see any targets.

As well it is important to make sure they are assigned ammo, and fresh ammo as well (31.25). Occasionally I have to clear all squad ammo assignments and re-assign.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: [Poll] Minecarts: Have they changed the game for the better?
« on: July 25, 2012, 05:18:09 pm »
there is no requirement to use them and their non-use does not detract from gameplay, so more available options in a complex simulation game would make things better I say.

501
DF Gameplay Questions / Re: What's so damn special about Obsidian?
« on: July 25, 2012, 05:08:17 pm »
yes, the quantities, uniform colour magma-proof rock of infinite supply. My current mega-project tower has over 20k obsidian in it, at least 80% of which was farmed.

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Most massive screw you to elves you have done
« on: July 24, 2012, 11:56:00 pm »
There's an elf princess corpse preserved as a trophy under glass in the leadership suits' waterfall lobby. Stealing, killing, waging war, carpentry; all the basics really. Plans are in the works to pave the surface in obsidian to prevent future tree growth.

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Ecologically sound tree removal methods?
« on: July 24, 2012, 12:01:39 pm »
does magma and/ or fire destroy living trees now?

Quote from: Quietust on July 24, 2012, 04:16:42 pm
No...

...With the amount of misinfomation that gets spread around these forums, I have to be harsh or it'll just get worse.

thanks

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Water, pressure plates, and Floodgates
« on: July 23, 2012, 05:10:05 pm »
try a single-tile raising drawbridge, functionally the same as a floodgate but operates in opposite states when contrlled but a lever or pressure plate (ie; hooked to the same trigger device a drawbridge will be up (closed) when the floodgate is down (open).

Downside; 1xn sized raising drawbridges are difficult to visually determine if they are open or closed.

have FUN

505
DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Megaproject: Cast Sandwich Tower
« on: July 21, 2012, 12:33:31 am »
couldn't you also just cast a nice cube and carve the pyramid out digging out the space in the walls into which water is pumped afterwards to freeze from the top down?

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: How to leave embark area?
« on: July 20, 2012, 12:20:04 pm »
A smaller embark area in a smaler world, genned with fewer z-levels/ caverns would make a lot of difference in the long run as well. Probably more so then all else besides unit numbers.

507
DF General Discussion / Re: Amazing Discovery!!!
« on: July 15, 2012, 11:14:20 pm »
yeah but he just spams deadly dust attacks and gets the party killed anyways.

508
DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: How to kill migrants?
« on: July 14, 2012, 12:06:25 am »
children will rush to deconstruct constructed walls, floors, ect., especially floors over tall cliff edges...

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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: What aspect of DF have you NOT tried yet?
« on: July 13, 2012, 04:59:38 pm »
never bee kept,
never webbed traps,
never completed a mega-project...


yet,
6005th floodgate installed last night

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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Tunneling up?
« on: July 13, 2012, 04:55:26 pm »
(build) a (C)onstructed (u)p stair in the dining room and you will be able to (d)esignate a (j)down stair in the bottom of the water source that a dwarf will be able to dig up into.


This seems like it is going to let most of the water in all at once though... do post results.

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