Bay 12 Games Forum

The idea of this is to post pictures/ stories about THE lever.

Here's a pic, of my newly built magma flooding device.



First pulled, coincidentally, right as the elven caravan arrived.

What parameter should I change in Advanced World Gen to create a shallow world? With something like 25 zs between the surface and the magma sea.

Thanks

You want a moat? I'll give you a moat. Mission: build a fort surrounded COMPLETELY by water.
Status: Complete.

I have created a fort, balanced upon one support, linked to a lever. On all sides it is covered in water.  The catch? There are two levers. One drains the doom moat, the other drops the entire fortress.

No matter how many times I gen and regen, I can never seem to get A Joyous Wilds on an ocean. Ideally, it would have a fair amount of beasts, metals, and some flux, but the important thing is really a Joyous Wilds coast. Thanks in advance.

What is the most expensive fort you've had?

My current best is doing pretty well: Nearly 25 Million DB

Currently having a few magma mishaps... But that is to be expected.

Many people don't use danger rooms on the grounds that they train too fast. I have made a way to make them slightly less exploity: namely, make pits on either side. This still trains faster than non-danger room training, while still not creating instant super-soldiers.


 l+l
l./.l
 l+l
 l+l
key: l is a wall, + is the floor, / is the upright spike, and . is the pit.

To increase the injury of your dwarves, you can put all sorts of fun things at the bottom of the pits, in addition to adjusting the height of pit. Because even a drop of 1 z will stun a dwarf, you can make use of weapon traps at the bottom, or even combine it with a swimming pool. This also slows down training speed. Your dwarves will have to walk back up to the training room. You can adjust the length of the passage back up for ideal training speed. This design still trains up to adequate or so quite fast; the higher level a dodger any given dwarf is, the more often it jumps into a pit.

List of reasons to use this
1. Decreasing skill gains
2. Can put the 'Danger' in danger room
3. Is far faster than normal training
4. Gives player high degree of control over the process

My dream is to create an open-air room above my entrance. The floor will be covered in hatches (over grates). Through use of burrows, I shall get my dwarves to go there periodically to vomit. When the seige comes, a pull of a lever and vomit on their heads. How do I encourage cave adaption?

I will commence work sometime this weekend.