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Author Topic: On the Construction of the First True Skyfort (Cave-ins ON)  (Read 32133 times)

Dwarf4Explosives

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Re: On the Construction of the First True Skyfort (Cave-ins ON)
« Reply #45 on: December 25, 2013, 12:38:34 pm »

That was with no cave-ins on. This was with cave-ins on.
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And yet another bit of proof that RNG is toying with us. We do 1984, it does animal farm
...why do your hydras have two more heads than mine? 
Does that mean male hydras... oh god dammit.

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Re: On the Construction of the First True Skyfort (Cave-ins ON)
« Reply #46 on: December 25, 2013, 01:09:44 pm »

That was with no cave-ins on. This was with cave-ins on.
So it is. I thought the sky-support thing was well known; in any case, I wonder how it took this long for someone to take the plunge and make it happen. Congratulations itg!

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Re: On the Construction of the First True Skyfort (Cave-ins ON)
« Reply #47 on: December 25, 2013, 04:17:30 pm »

That was with no cave-ins on. This was with cave-ins on.
So it is. I thought the sky-support thing was well known; in any case, I wonder how it took this long for someone to take the plunge and make it happen. Congratulations itg!

Thanks! To my knowledge, the community has been aware of the basics of sky support for a long time, but nobody thought to cast obsidian over the furniture and then dig stairs over it; that's what makes it possible to have a working fort with workshops and bedrooms rather than just a "surveillance platform" of supports and floors. Also, I discovered that sky support can be used to engineer some surprising cave-ins, including collapsing semi-molten rock into the HFS.

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Re: On the Construction of the First True Skyfort (Cave-ins ON)
« Reply #48 on: March 25, 2014, 02:41:52 am »

Updated to include Urist da Vinci's explanation of sky support.
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