Dwarf Fortress > DF Modding
Under ground trade routes
timmah612:
Im sure it has been asked a million times, but could someone make a mod for subterranean trade routes? like i seal off the fort ripping up the surface with obstacles and walls then guide my merchants in through some tunnels, Like replace surface roads with underground tunnels, i picture it like the deep roads from dragon age where the tunnels connected the entire civilization across an entire continent really deep under ground., requirements like the walls being engraved and the floors paved all the way to the depot would kind of make sense, preventing merchants from wandering in deep in the cavern layers that connect to the borders of the map. I rambled a bit here but i always found it a little weird that the race that specializes in tunneling and underground fortresses cant make a few roads under the earth. and again, sorry if this is a horse that has already been beaten to death.
vjmdhzgr:
I don't believe it's possible to mod in, but it seems like something Toady might add eventually given that in world generation fortresses dwarves have huge underground tunnel networks connecting almost every underground based settlement in their civ. The mountainhomes site type can even only be accessed through these tunnels, so probably during the army arc or some other arc about interacting with the rest of the world, maybe when having surrounding hill dwarf sites get added in. Once they get added they'll probably be pretty labor intensive to make. You'd need miners to mine what would quite likely be a very long distance to the mountainhomes and maybe soldiers to guard them in case they break the caverns. Anyway though, you're talking about modding this, which sadly isn't possible. Caravans can leave through the caverns though, so it seems like it might be possible with DFhack, but I've asked before and the answer was no.
AceSV:
If you're in Fortress Mode, you can build your Trade Depot in a cavern and (dwarf) merchants will enter through the caverns instead of overland.
vjmdhzgr:
--- Quote from: AceSV on March 04, 2015, 08:58:46 pm ---If you're in Fortress Mode, you can build your Trade Depot in a cavern and (dwarf) merchants will enter through the caverns instead of overland.
--- End quote ---
Really? Is that actually true? Have you done it? I so want to do this now I was told that that wouldn't happen, but if it can then that's fantastic.
milo christiansen:
It wasn't that way in 34.11, I have no idea about 40.x, but I doubt it.
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