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Author Topic: Idea for World Gen Dwarf Fortress Sites  (Read 920 times)

mutant mell

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Idea for World Gen Dwarf Fortress Sites
« on: July 02, 2008, 10:58:50 pm »

Since we have tunnels going through the mountains going from Fortress to Fortress now, I think it would be cool for Dwarfs to build cities by digging a tunnel underneath a mountain, and completely underground, only accessible from the tunnels dug to it.  So, these cities would be rather impervious to attack, unless one of the outer fortresses fell.

A problem with this is how world gen would handle these sites; it would have to somehow recognize that the site in not attackable most of the time.

Anyways, I think it would be really cool to be wandering down a tunnel, find a branch, follow that branch, and find a completely hidden city of cave adapted, beer crazy dwarfs.
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Tahin

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Re: Idea for World Gen Dwarf Fortress Sites
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2008, 11:51:45 pm »

It couldn't be too difficult. It could just consider that to get to point B, one must pass through either point A or point C, as in the example below:

##C##
##|##
##B##
##|##
##A##

#=Mountain
|=Tunnel

This suggestion makes enough sense, but more than anyting I would like to be able to embark in a tunnel.
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Silverionmox

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Re: Idea for World Gen Dwarf Fortress Sites
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2008, 08:18:01 am »

Or along the cave river, if it is sufficiently horizontal :)
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