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However, I off-set each level's stairs, as dwarves can reportedly fall down them, and will plummet all the way to the bottom. As you can imagine, a legendary armourer falling 10 floors is rather painful, for both the player and dwarf.
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Originally posted by Captain Mayday:
<STRONG>That would be cheating.</STRONG>
That murky pools don't refill when it rains/in the "wet season" is rather an unimplimented feature, and water.exe compensating for it's absence.
You can't honestly tell me that the ponds on my map were supposed to evaporate in the first year and never refill.
Now, sure, if you use it as an unlimited source of water, that's cheating. Running it once every spring, of even just so you can fill an underground cistern and never use it again? Not so much.
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Originally posted by Misterstone:
<STRONG>If it said there was a brook there and you didn't find it, it could be possible that there is a cave river or something around there. Are you in a mountain? If you see (small) cave spiders, you know that there is a river about. It might be too early to give up!</STRONG>
It almost sounds like he didn't place his selection area over a brook tile in the local map, and just assumed it'd be there because the biome said there was a brook. :?:
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Originally posted by ShunterAlhena:
<STRONG>I did last time and suddenly thirty unharmed bloodthirsty bowmen swarmed down a hill where I didn't see them. It was a massacre. Losing is fun, tho.</STRONG>
Were they sneaking, or did you just overlook them? 'cause if it's the second you can always use the unit list to find hostiles.
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Originally posted by Lyrax:
<STRONG>Declare war on humans and elves, confiscating all property they bring to your fortress.
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Aye - if the gobbo's aren't up to the task, pissing off the apes or elves should do it.
Might take a while, tho, depending on how profitable past trade relations have been for them.
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Originally posted by MindSnap:
<STRONG>On the wiki it says that seige weapons can't shoot through Z-levels. Is this true?</STRONG>
I too would like to know this - be a shame if the ballista towers I've spent the last few game years building went to waste, but not so bad as delaying the discovery until I need those defences.
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Originally posted by DJ:
<STRONG>It's way too far. Next time start your magma workshops operation closer to the vent.</STRONG>
Eh, it's not that far - some of mine have been almost as long. Remember, magma flow time is only a one-time cost, unlike hauling and the ilk, and you can do something else while you wait.
The path is, however, longer than it has to be - by only running it up as far as you had to, you would have made it almost 20% shorter.
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Originally posted by John Johnston:
<STRONG>Could you wall it inside? I mean, not just close the doors and lock them, but brick the entrance up as you leave?</STRONG>
I don't think pathing has anything to do with it - they're just teleported around.
Has anyone tested the lead/gold/etc. bins?
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Originally posted by Tahin:
<STRONG>If you have a legendary engraver</STRONG>
And they don't take too-too-long to train, either.
Problem is destroying their masterful engravings will send them berserk, and mining out a tile next to one can sometimes have the same effect(or atleast it used to), so you'll want to plan ahead befor you let high-level engravers get to work.
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Originally posted by Derakon:
<STRONG>The wiki has more to say on flux, but suffice to say, you either have flux in spades (as it makes up entire layers of the mountain) or you don't have it at all. You may well have to just settle for iron.</STRONG>
Actually, I thought I was flux-less until stumbling across a large deposit ten levels down in my current fort.
I recently goofed my booze stockpile - I think I had wood or something selected when I zoned it - and it wouldn't take booze even after I used Q to properly adjust it's settings. I had to erase it and rezone a new booze stockpile in it's place.
Bigger problem is when they come to the surface and start wandering around harassing your dwarves - sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. A ditch or wall will contain them, however, if you don't want to risk casualties, especially if it's early game or there are alot of them.
