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Drako365

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Re: Archcrystal: 374 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #450 on: December 03, 2017, 08:38:34 pm »

Inspirational. I'd PTW if I only knew how (I normally just lurk the forums.)
One thought, once all the construction is done, push the pop cap back down and focus on megabeast breeding. The extra dwarves will die off slowly...

Oh, and since you've got the mother of all towers anyways, how about sacrificing goblins/elves to Armok by dropping them from the top?
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Re: Archcrystal: 374 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #451 on: December 03, 2017, 10:31:04 pm »

Inspirational. I'd PTW if I only knew how (I normally just lurk the forums.)
One thought, once all the construction is done, push the pop cap back down and focus on megabeast breeding. The extra dwarves will die off slowly...

Oh, and since you've got the mother of all towers anyways, how about sacrificing goblins/elves to Armok by dropping them from the top?

You've essentially already PTW'd by posting here. PTWing means posting in a thread so you can check for updates using the "Show new replies to your posts" utility.
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Re: Archcrystal: 374 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #452 on: December 11, 2017, 03:56:32 pm »

This is amazing. Thank you.
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Re: Archcrystal: 374 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #453 on: December 11, 2017, 04:44:36 pm »

Thanks! Glad you're enjoying it.

Also, just for fun, I'm giving this a shot in 44.02 after a successful raid. 8)





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Re: Archcrystal: 374 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #454 on: December 11, 2017, 07:40:08 pm »

Necromancers in a clear glass fort in hell. What's next? Domesticating demons?
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Re: Archcrystal: 374 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #455 on: December 11, 2017, 07:44:30 pm »

Wellllll, he has the demons, the demon corpses, the necromantic abilities, and the tower in Hell itself.

Do it, do it now.
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Re: Archcrystal: 374 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #456 on: December 11, 2017, 08:18:03 pm »

Necromancers in a clear glass fort in hell. What's next? Domesticating demons?

Not sure if demons can be domesticated, but if they can, you still need webbed cage traps to catch them (except for those that are webbing) and they'd probably still be hostile to your fort afterwards.
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Re: Archcrystal: 374 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #457 on: December 11, 2017, 08:25:51 pm »

You can farm them, but you can't domesticate them. You need to catch a variety with both genders and no sentience in webbed cage traps. Then you can release them in an enclosure, let them breed, and occasionally open a gate and catch/kill a few.

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Re: Archcrystal: 374 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #458 on: December 11, 2017, 09:22:38 pm »

Well there’s hundreds of demon bodies at the front entrance for them to play with.

The only thing I’m worried about is making them drink booze in the tavern so they don’t slow down
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Re: Archcrystal: 374 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #459 on: December 12, 2017, 04:18:32 am »

Inspirational. I'd PTW if I only knew how (I normally just lurk the forums.)
One thought, once all the construction is done, push the pop cap back down and focus on megabeast breeding. The extra dwarves will die off slowly...

Oh, and since you've got the mother of all towers anyways, how about sacrificing goblins/elves to Armok by dropping them from the top?

clicking on "Show new replies to your posts'' is how to PTW.

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Re: Archcrystal: 374 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #460 on: December 24, 2017, 10:12:33 pm »

By the almighty beard of Armok this is amazing!!! Unfortunately my Communist fort is probably never going to be as amazing as the King of HFS' but it's still just. Wow. Truly deserving of the HoL!
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Re: Archcrystal: 374 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #461 on: January 02, 2018, 08:23:59 pm »

You can farm them, but you can't domesticate them. You need to catch a variety with both genders and no sentience in webbed cage traps. Then you can release them in an enclosure, let them breed, and occasionally open a gate and catch/kill a few.

You could technically domestic them by setting the necessary flags in DFHack ... now I have an urge to build a fortress that can capture the majority of the clown car and war-train demons.
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Re: Archcrystal: 401 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #462 on: January 05, 2018, 03:59:23 pm »

A quick update as the fortress passes 400 years with some pictures to show the various states of construction. I’m still running Archcrystal in 43.05 as I’m waiting for a further iteration of 44.XX. I had ran a cloned save in 44 to steal the necromancer books and turned half the fort into Necromancers for fun, but problems with drinking booze and animating dead sieges started to come up so I went back to 43.05.

I’ve run into an amusingly unique problem in Archcrystal:

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That’s a well deconstructing. I couldn’t figure out why until I looked at the pieces and found what was missing. After 400 years the bucket disintegrated from wear. Now some of the workshops and such that use wooden materials like barrels are deconstructing. Just an inconvenience, but I thought it was funny when I figured out why it was happening. The spore tree beds have about 20 years or so left on them, and then I’ll have to rebuild all of the bedrooms.

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The top layer of hell is all done, just need a few more prisoners to fill the cells.

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The second layer below it is half finished, but I need more statues and things to fill it still.

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The tree farm needs to be flooded again soon as the mud comes off every time they cut down a tree. I’ve also stopped using the farms as we can get enough by gathering plants in there as well. I’ve also started flooring each level of the glass tower which will all be tombs for the dwarves of Archcrystal all the way down.

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The population keeps fairly consistent as dwarves die off new ones are born in the following years as there’s enough married couples to recycle the numbers.

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I’m building a secret library for Fath here on the bottom layer of Hell in the middle of that eerie glowing pit. When I update the fortress to 44 I’ll steal the necromancer book again and store it there just for Fath and maybe a few of his disciples to read so he can have a cultish inner circle of Necromancers.
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Re: Archcrystal: 401 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #463 on: January 05, 2018, 05:27:24 pm »

Holy shit.... 401 years... You sir are the dorfiest of the dorfs. I salute you

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Re: Archcrystal: 401 years in a fortress [SPOILERS]
« Reply #464 on: January 05, 2018, 10:23:51 pm »

After 400 years the bucket disintegrated from wear.
Never in the history of Dwarf Fortress has anyone else ever had this problem.

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