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Quote from: doublestrafe on October 04, 2012, 10:04:35 pm

So I tweaked minimum volcanoes from 3 to 10. And that's pretty much it. The very first world I genned stuck a volcano right in my face throughout the whole generation process. In fact, the RNG is handing me everything I need on a silver platter.

Behold Minedclosed:

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That plateau is basically the only flat land until the bottom of the mountain, way to the south (I used a 5x3 embark because I was afraid there would be none at all). The slopes seriously cut into the tree numbers, but I should be able to free up the wood eventually: that yellow dirt inside the wall is pure unadulterated sand. I'm looking forward to making one big freakin' green glass fortress.

So far, the RNG has been showering me with gifts. I'm anxious to see what else it's going to shower me with...

i cant really decipher the ascii, but cant enemies get up the hillside over those slopes left and right, and just enter your fort over the slopes inside the walls?

Quote from: doublestrafe on October 04, 2012, 12:48:36 pm

Quote from: darkgloomie on October 04, 2012, 12:46:55 pm

Wow, somebody actually spent time on dorfs that wasn't an attempt to create a new way to maim dorfs?

No, this was an attempt to create new dwarves to maim.

They'll maim each other very nicely during the tantrum spiral that'll happen when even one of them kicks the bucket.

I had my first successful siege fought off - two at once, eight trolls, tons of hammergoblins, a couple master/lord rank goblins... and it was all thanks to my surprising stream of Great migrants. Seriously, I had Great everythings. One carpenter got to Legendary, and trading consisted of masterful spiked wooden balls. He made practically everything in the fort, and wood was abundant. So it was pretty funny when, to force goblins to walk over weapon traps over a pit of spikes by retracting the bridges, the legendary carpenter was on the bridges and fell onto the masterful spikes he himself had crafted. He dragged himself through the brass door of the spike pit, but it was too late. His neck had been punctured and he suffocated.

The fortress was later abandoned for FPS reasons - turns out my computer isn't invincible and actually can't handle a giant underground reservoir constantly being emptied into an aqueduct. It was worth it, though, to make prisoners constantly have to fight the water flow or else they'd get swept 40 z-levels into a flooded cavern pit.

Okay right, in the sucession fort of necrothreat, Aminer is casually mining out valuable gold. About 8 trogs show up and attack the guy. The result?


I imagine her as just skipping around, driving her pick into trogs when applicable. The survivers flee.