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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Needing a genocide tool please!
« on: April 12, 2011, 05:46:49 am »
Error, insufficient use of Magma.
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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Towersoared - Chronicles of Construction (Community)
« on: April 10, 2011, 08:55:44 am »
Like that stops a dwarf. 
Since all the tower mining is done, we can swap Triaxx out of his secondary mining profession. Maybe to Masonry? Or just make him no longer a sword dwarf so he charges in with his pick.
And can we make sure that the bottom floor, the one sitting on the Magma is made out of a magma-safe material? I know that we know that Constructions are Magma-Safe, but I don't think the Dwarves know.
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Journal of Triaxx:
Curses and Blast. I missed the fighting today because someone has moved my equipment. Perhaps I should have just rushed up with my Pick? Perhaps not. Anyway, the mighty Derm ensured I wasn't needed. Maybe he'll let me tag along when next he goes exploring in the cavern.
Since all the tower mining is done, we can swap Triaxx out of his secondary mining profession. Maybe to Masonry? Or just make him no longer a sword dwarf so he charges in with his pick.
And can we make sure that the bottom floor, the one sitting on the Magma is made out of a magma-safe material? I know that we know that Constructions are Magma-Safe, but I don't think the Dwarves know.
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Journal of Triaxx:
Curses and Blast. I missed the fighting today because someone has moved my equipment. Perhaps I should have just rushed up with my Pick? Perhaps not. Anyway, the mighty Derm ensured I wasn't needed. Maybe he'll let me tag along when next he goes exploring in the cavern.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Getting rid of stagnant water in buckets?
« on: April 09, 2011, 02:32:36 pm »
Utopia. Definitely, because the other useless things includes nobles.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Science question: Waterwheels, Flow and Freezing.
« on: April 09, 2011, 02:31:22 pm »
Sometimes Aquifers Have flow, some times they don't. Depending on how shallow your aquifer is, you might be able to Channel pump, and flow.
Essentially you dig up from below around the aquifer, until you're above it, then channel into it, and set up two or three screw pumps. These pump into a reservoir that's not over the aquifer, and then have it slowly drain through hatches, using repeaters to open/close them to let it through, down a long U shaft to drain back into the Aquifer/Off the Map. The latter helps if you've got caverns, you can just cut a stair well down into open space, and let them drain out that way. Plus it kills all the cavern monsters except FB's.
Essentially you dig up from below around the aquifer, until you're above it, then channel into it, and set up two or three screw pumps. These pump into a reservoir that's not over the aquifer, and then have it slowly drain through hatches, using repeaters to open/close them to let it through, down a long U shaft to drain back into the Aquifer/Off the Map. The latter helps if you've got caverns, you can just cut a stair well down into open space, and let them drain out that way. Plus it kills all the cavern monsters except FB's.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Wow, my first siege...
« on: April 09, 2011, 02:22:18 pm »
Don't forget to build pill boxes, and archery towers. A pair of pill boxes with an overlapping field of fire across a trap filled passage-way minces gobbos.
As so:
And naturally you can make it longer as it's needed. Do it that way though and your floor tile has to be a staircase.
Archer towers on the other hand, should be built one level off the ground, with a set of ramps two tiles out, and a trapped floor on the inside. With a wall protected stair case to reach the upper level.
Thus anything that closes in where the archers can't get them gets shredded by traps.
As so:
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wwwtttwww
wfFtttFfw
wwwtttwww
w=wall
f=floor
t=trapped tile
F=FortificationAnd naturally you can make it longer as it's needed. Do it that way though and your floor tile has to be a staircase.
Archer towers on the other hand, should be built one level off the ground, with a set of ramps two tiles out, and a trapped floor on the inside. With a wall protected stair case to reach the upper level.
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Ground Floor:
RRRRRRRRR
RWTTTTTWR
RTTWWWTTR
RTTWJWTTR
RTTWWWTTR
RWTTTTTWR
RRRRRRRRR
J=Up/Down stair
R=Ramp
T=Traps
W=WallThus anything that closes in where the archers can't get them gets shredded by traps.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Getting rid of stagnant water in buckets?
« on: April 09, 2011, 10:17:01 am »
I just build thousands of buckets via a tree farming operation. Oversize atom smashers work day and night deleting buckets of water and other useless things.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Get your Raynard fractal apartment macro here
« on: April 09, 2011, 10:14:10 am »
Missing Magma? Not at all. See those four projections off the main room? Slap in some floor grates and walls, and you can have both Magma and Water falls. Two of each.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Science question: Waterwheels, Flow and Freezing.
« on: April 09, 2011, 10:12:21 am »
Unless the tiles freeze because they're exposed to air, it shouldn't be a problem.
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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: Towersoared - Chronicles of Construction (Community)
« on: April 09, 2011, 06:18:06 am »
Journal of Triaxx:
I think I'm going to need more beds. As crazy as that noble upstairs has been acting, I think there's going to be a run on hiding places. Oh wait, no there isn't. *yanks door lever*
I think I'm going to need more beds. As crazy as that noble upstairs has been acting, I think there's going to be a run on hiding places. Oh wait, no there isn't. *yanks door lever*
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Recreating Vault 11
« on: April 08, 2011, 05:09:48 pm »
Arnok demands New Reno! But does not object if you neglect to include Julius.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Megaproject Idea + Question
« on: April 08, 2011, 05:08:28 pm »
If it's a problem, then you haven't build tall enough.
Constructed Up/Down stairs will support things. I have a hole I punched into the aquifer layers, that hangs in space because I didn't collapse both levels properly. It's currently filling my moat. Via two sets of three pumps.
Constructed Up/Down stairs will support things. I have a hole I punched into the aquifer layers, that hangs in space because I didn't collapse both levels properly. It's currently filling my moat. Via two sets of three pumps.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Creature Population Limits
« on: April 08, 2011, 05:06:01 pm »
War Badgers vs. Demons? This demands !!Science!!
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: Danger Room, what went wrong?
« on: April 08, 2011, 05:00:58 pm »
It would if you linked it to a lever. And ordered the Dwarf to pull the lever. (Confine to burrow in Danger room for best effect.)
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: How many dwarves does it take to install a lightbulb?
« on: April 07, 2011, 06:29:07 pm »
3
One to mandate the light bulb. One to construct the light bulb. And one to realize that the first two are idiots because we haven't INVENTED lightbulbs yet.
One to mandate the light bulb. One to construct the light bulb. And one to realize that the first two are idiots because we haven't INVENTED lightbulbs yet.
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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: A New Way to Kill Useless Dwarves
« on: April 07, 2011, 06:14:48 pm »
Only helps if you dropped him off into the HFS through the adamantine spire.