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[nemppu1111]

is it there page where i can read about patch big change?

[LSTAR]

You might want to try HERE for daily updates from Toady, HERE for discussion on the next version or HERE for what remains to be implemented in the new version.

Also: If you see any spelling or grammatical errors in your post, you can fix them by clicking the "Edit" button (the one like a pencil and paper above your posts).

[Cerej]

Step 1:  Generate a new world.
Step 2:  Backup said world.
Step 3:  Mod dwarves to super-godhood.
Step 4:  Use a dwarven adventurer to discover a towers type ruin.
Step 5:  Reinstall dwarf fortress.
Step 6:  Implant previous world.
Step 7:  Settle a fortress at the ruin.
Step 8:  Horrible, horrible death.

[ReWolf31]

1: begin fortress, horribly naive...
2: everybody DIES
3: begin fortress, slightly less naive...
3: NEARLY EVERYBODY DIES BUT ITS A BIT SILLY JESUS CHRIST ITS A LION GET IN TEH FORT
4: Begin new fortress
5: have Awesome Idea™
6: abandon fortress to follow up Awesome Idea™
7: Awesome Idea™ is not so awesome in practise
8: EVERYBODY DIES
9: Have Awesome Idea™
10: Awesome Idea™ is not so awesome in practise
11: EVERYBODY DIES
12: Have Awesome Idea™
13: Awesome Idea™ is not so awesome in practise
14: EVERYBODY DIES
15: Have Awesome idea™
...
continue until Awesome Idea™ actaully turns out to be awesome in practise
...
n: PROFIT!!

[LSTAR]

I'm going to build me a Bio-Tower! Yes! A 15 Z-Level tall, 5 Z-Level deep tower! A  free standing structure containing all dwarven industry, agriculture and population centres that, when finished, will be closed off allowing dwarves to live their lives out inside a stony sky-scraper!
With possibly multiple towers connected by bridges, fortifications for repelling boarders and underground mines and forests!

[CautionToTheWind]

This thread is pure torture. Toady, I can't wait!!

[Lightning4]

quote:Originally posted by Asehujiko:
<STRONG>

Make diagonal iron ramps for pathways. Fill them with iron chains for aesthetics. And put a dragon on the top of the mountain. And don't forget the iron coffin with a legendary mason in it.

The hardest part will be the lava in the Molten Core because you need to drain it at exactly the same rate as they appear.</STRONG>

Yeah, the big question is for all of the lava is where it goes after it falls into its respective area. I'm assuming there might be an outlet somewhere for fluids on the map where you can send it off and it is never seen again. Recycling probably won't work. I'm doubting there's any method of pumping fluids artificially, so both dwarven fortresses would rely on a constantly flowing magma flow that applies constant pressure.

[Sparksol]

I did see a reference to a screw pump early in the Tragedy Mule cmv on this page. I don't know how automated it would be, or if it would work on magma, but it's something.

[MindSnap]

I'm planning on making a big tower in the middle of a plain with a 15-layer deep moat. Maybe with a bit of liquid or something so that invaders can't just dig to the bottom and undermine the tower. Then I plan to load my balistas (I'll have a tree-farm on the top floor) and own everything in sight... or something like that. A heavily trapped subterranean tunnel to the "moat" and a bridge would be another bonus.

I'll probably utilise the population-limiting feature to maintain a populatuon of 20-30 dwarves - it's more fun to watch things work well after a lot of work than to see everything inevitably fall apart because of population pressures. Plus, with a small number of dwarves to manage my fort could be aesthetically awesome. Maybe I'll make my tower out of some imported material. Adamantine Tower Of DEWM, anyone?

And as for for pumps, I thought that toady has done those already? Even for magma  

[Keilden]

quote:Originally posted by Bien:
<STRONG>

Then when they get annoying, collpase the fortress?</STRONG>

Who will then be my meatshield when the goblins show up?

[Nilocy]

Well, my ideas for a new fortress are either, digging out a massive pit near an ocean, or a river... not letting the water in, the building a load of towers/buildings and stuff, block them in. Make tunnels to each tower connecting them. Release the flood gates holding the water back, and there you go, dwarfs living underwater. My other idea is to dig out the whole mountai, store the stone underground, and make an above ground fortress with pyramids and massive tombs with traps and dead ends... y'know for the interesting-ness in adv. mode  

[Novocain]

1. Dig out the entire "basement" of the fort.
2. Suspend the roof with supports.
3. Attach all of the supports to lever on top of the fort.
4. Piss off every single group of traders.
5. Counteract five concurrent sieges by dropping an entire fortress on their armies.

[TheSpaceMan]

dig out/pump water turning the “main gate” in to a small tropical island, with huts and a downward stair leading to the underwater resort.

[Faces of Mu]

I agree with Zurai and ReWolf31 (but I won't infringe on ReWolf's trademark ideas!). As usual I'm going to die and die again. At some point I will probably carve a large cat face into the side of my mountain, and then let waterfalls cascade down from it's eyes. I might make three such faces, each facing out from the same head, with magma flowing from the other side face and ballistas shooting from the forward face. Then I'll post pictures from the 3dviewer thingy. Noice.

(but really I'm going struggle as I always do in keeping the fortress alive so that I won't have the time or resources to execute such plans - not until the 100th fortress at least!)

[Faces of Mu]

quote:Originally posted by mickel:
<STRONG>
I know what I'm going to do. First I'm going to carve/rewall the outside of the mountain into a massive pyramid, and then I'll cover said pyramid in green glass...    </STRONG>

By the way Mickel, this reminds me of Threshold (Sara Douglass). True? Or are glass pyramids an older lagacy?