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My personal impression is summed up in the line, "Wagon toppled by Ugithrash, Shade Banshee." It's beautiful.

Doesn't add anything to the 'feast on the flesh of your foes' discussion, but I've noticed that if you embark on a site that already has, say, goblins on it, then any of them that die (perhaps due to inexplicable building collapse, who can say?) can then happily be chopped up and cooked.

It's something, at least.

Random fellow requesting a few minor creature additions:
1. Platypi.
2. Platypimen, preferably playable.
3. Giant Platypi, which are either trainable and/or cattle equivilents.
4. Miniture Platypi -- probably a cat equivilent, so folks can make them pets.
5. Platypus Demon. A firebreathing Giant Platypus, probably with exaggerated poison spurs or something.
6. Flying Platypi. Platypi with wings. Possibly a giant variaty akin to Giant Eagles, just poisonous or something.

Thanks in advance for any/all designed.

Presented by relatively silly pathfinding.

[The setup]
Wanted to play with fiah, so I hunted up some volcano seeds, and chose one described as a "Steel Glacier" on the wiki.  It does, indeed, have the makings for steel and a decently deep magma vent buried a few levels under the surface, so all was good.

[The beginning]
I play with uberdwarves, terribly modded critters of vast and ridiculous power, so things proceded quite quickly -- I burrowed my way down about six levels, set up a meeting area to get my muskox outta' the snow, set up some basic workshops and storage areas, and got to work cautiously mining and channeling my way into the obsidian, in search of joyous fire.

[The end]
Well, I found it, when my two miners channeled out the ground its friend (or perhaps bitter enemy, considering...) was standing on, more or less at the same time.  They were the first to die, drowning (well, broiling, I guess...) under about seven levels of lava.

Killcount: 2. Double kill!

I ellipsis'd momentarily, then shrugged -- I had brought the anvil along, and there was exposed fire, so hey... I could make more picks, and viola; more miners.  I plopped the magma forge on top of the exposed lava/magma, not really understanding that (as far as I know) the exposed stuff needs to be, well, directly in the center of the forge... I figured that anywhere under the green would do, and, well... my metalsmith suffered shortly.  As he trundled up to build the forge, he promptly jumped right into the open channel while aiming to clear the site of rocks, following his brethren to a fiery death.

Killcount: 3.

But all was not finished.  I figured it was a fluke, ordered some walls to be built around part of the exposed magma in hope of getting the idiots to stop jumping right into the open hellpit, and switched my trader over to metalsmithing.

Guess what?  Didn't work.  The trader promptly tossed itself into the flaming doom-drop, along with the farmer, who had apparently gone to help move stuff outta' the way... or something.

Killcount: 5. Double kill! You're on a roll!

So now I'm left with a mason and a carpenter, some muskox, and a camel (Two-humped.).  I could probably still manage from this point, though -- I've got excess wood, and there was some coal etc. dug up while the miners were still alive, so I could get myself another pick.  If it wasn't for the fact the fellows didn't have to eat, though... well, they'd probably be dead.  As it is, I'm probably abandoning and regenerating the map, so I can try again, heh... after I build a few ice sculptures, at least.

The most amusing thing about the whole thing, to me?  My uberdwarves are immune to fire.  Hohoho.

Moral of the story?  Well, when you're looking for lava, never dig two-wide channels, and, if you can avoid it, make sure that you've only got one miner active, as they like to ignore if people are sitting on the land they're about to drop into the earth's flaming embrace.

Toss meh in, iffin' yeh'd be so kind.

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Name: Frumple (random last name)
Nickname: Slickwalls
Preferred Job: Engraver/Architect/Swimmer (Secondly, general gopher (Thirdly, speardwarf.).)

Bioblurb__
Sure, it's more or less impossible (in the current version), but Frumple doesn't care: He wants to carve masterpieces in the bottom of lakes, and to hell with the laws of physics and fluid dynamics.  His mother always said he'd die young, but his father swore he'd manage to build himself a nice bridge, first.  Strike the Carp!

EEEEEE

Enjoying the story thus far.  Keep it up, yeh?

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Originally posted by Hellzon:
<STRONG>Challenge: Find a way to give the tunnel a glass roof.     </STRONG>

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This actually wouldn't be too bad, I don't think... just put the tunnel two/three levels below the water, channel off its roof, then floor the level above with glass and flood the place.  Of course, getting the glass would be the challenge, I suppose...

[ November 05, 2007: Message edited by: Frumple ]

*sheepish* Rock probably isn't the best word to use, I guess -- I have ran into colored (Blue and yellow, thus far) diggable stuff, and you can make green/red glass, and I can only guess there's other stuff too... building materials in general would have been a better way of putting it...

Both a brook and a volcano? And most of the kobolds in an enclosed space? Methinks the villians may soon curse their lack of swimming lessons...

On the flip side, the resulting flood would probably clean the place up right nicely, eh?