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Johnny C:
i'm still deeply fond of the boatmurdered "kill it with lava" mechanism
Boro_Bandito:
It's certainly the most powerful thing I've seen, I would try for something much less catastrophic to the environment. More like, a giant outdoor enclosed courtyard made of solid magma-proof materials that can be filled and drained at will.
David_Dovey:
Man I actually kinda teared up at the end of the second Boatmurdered thread. Harrowing shit, my doggs.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 30 Aug 2010, 23:23 ---i'm still deeply fond of the boatmurdered "kill it with lava" mechanism
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Now that Dwarf Fortress has z axis and non-standard map layouts a boatmurdered system is much harder to implement. Like in the version of dwarf fortress Boatmurdered was played on, the whole map was flat and you always got, from left to right: Open space, cliff, underground river, chasm, magma, glowing pitz. (maybe sometimes you didn't get one or other of these features, I never played it, but from all the maps I've seen this looks likely). It was fairly easy to predict how lava was going to work in this case: just seal up the cliff face, get the lava over the river, sit back and wait. These days, not only is getting to the magma much more problematic (it looks like the magma sea is about 139 z-levels down on Gorgeconfined's map, probably meaning it's on the other side of 3 cavern layers and a 'clown college') but if you do just pump it to the surface you're likely to just get a big magma river running off the map. How magma reacts with water has also changed: magma hitting running water will now often get blocked up behind quick-forming obsidian dams.
Magma pits, moats and cisterns are still viable though, as is the incredibly fun Titan Minefield. (Fill a cistern with pressurised magma, topped off with several magma-proof floor hatches. When a Titan (or any other building destroying monster) comes through it will be all "OH HATCHES, I MUST BREAK THEM". Then it will stand over the top of the hatches and punch straight through them. ----------> :D)
Damnable Fiend:
Just tried making my first fortress outside the tutorial I read and...
I need to remember to give one of my dwarves building design next time hrm, that was a huge mess.
also I need to read up on the best way to train an army. still a bit confused about that.
a question, when you irrigate an area, does it stay irrigated for all time, or do you need to flood it every year or something?
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