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A cavern fortress would rock. Spend the first two years consolidating in the upper fort, then breach the caverns, recruit an army of miners and move everything down, the upper fort can be converted to a maze of traps and storage for tradegoods. poo poo, build towers in the caverns! Edit: I don't know the world gen parameters for this LP, but I normaly leave cavern openness between 90 and 100 and tunnels between 0 and 10. This ensures huge open caverns with lots of arable ground. Demiurge4 fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Jun 24, 2012 |
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We should build a temple to Ugath on the far side of the river. Or just wall the whole thing off and divert a portion of the river through steel wallgrates to form a lake we can siphon inside to build wells. gently caress the undead.
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Jun 24, 2012 20:31
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Star Guarded posted:As someone who has barely played DF2012, are the disease clouds randomized like forgotten beast syndromes? Lovin' the updates. It's a pretty cool mechanic. Most of the clouds I've witnesses myself engulf a living creature and turn it into an undead monster when the dust touches it. This dust spreads, so when it kills a dwarf, that dwarf will rise as a husk. But it doesn't have to kill, if it lands a hit it'll get dust on your dwarves and turn them even if its brought down. They're loving deadly. I'm sure we'll see Bronzestabbed die horribly when a migrant wave emerges right on top of a cloud, forcing an overseer to wall off and never recieve another migrant.
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Jun 25, 2012 21:11
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Shukaro posted:A neat way to deal with contaminants like husk-dusk or forgotten beast extracts is with waterfalls above shallow water channels. The water will wash all the nasty stuff off of anything that passes through it, and it will even give your dwarves happy thoughts. A waterfall in the entrance tunnel could be a thing. Pump water in from the river, bring it up a z-level and let it drop onto grates and then feed into a lake in the caves that drains off the edge of the map.
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Jun 25, 2012 21:21
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Shorter Than Some posted:Yeah but the problem is it doesn't just rule out dusk husks but all other syndromes as well. Would it be too spoilerish for Leperflesh to tell us whether he has tested the cloud for dust husks or not? Also are all clouds from the same evil region the same? Someone did mention that its possible for migrants to show up through the caverns. So I suppose if its a husk cloud the fort could be walled off. This means no more caravans though so everything has to be produced in-house.
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Jun 26, 2012 10:16
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I just realised we're still only into Hematite (April). The quality of the updates made me think a lot more time had passed for some reason. I'm always terrible at using time properly, the first migrant wave just sits and does fuckall while I muck about with arming two soldiers in some kind or armour and steel weapons. What I should be doing is put a pick or an axe in every new arrivals hand and get those fuckers to work. Future planning is not my strongest trait.
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Jun 26, 2012 21:41
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Boing posted:Hematite is the first month of Summer so technically it's more like June There's 12 months in a DF year, and Hematite is the fourth. Therefore April 
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Jun 26, 2012 21:55
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Internet Kraken posted:Not sure how spoilery some might consider this, so better safe than sorry; Undead are loving bastards, but as long as they die outside of the evil area to the north they won't resurrect if the dwarves can off the necromancer. Of course getting him through an army of undead is another matter entirely 
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Jul 1, 2012 10:20
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Colon V posted:I think, now that there's a year of "ordinary activities", the next overseer can skim. No need to give an account of every item ordered, but future overseers should at least know the general information about what's being done. I'm sure there will be plenty of opportunity to focus on fighting zombies and Elves.
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Jul 3, 2012 09:39
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Pickled Tink posted:I honestly don't get the hate for elves. maybe it is just that my forts don't tend to use enormous amounts of wood, but I often sell them shiny mechanisms for berries to make interesting wines, for cloth, in some cases for over a hundred wood, and for the great animals they bring pre-tamed. Because of elves, one of my fortresses was guarded by several dozen GIANT DESERT SCORPIONS. And Bears. And Giant Lions. Elves are prissy, stuck up bitches who will whine about you selling them stuff in a wooden bin. Also they use lovely wooden everything and are easy to kill.
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Jul 3, 2012 10:03
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Pozzo posted:I agree, they get a bum rap. I enjoy the incredibly elaborate pump-a-thon method. Not everyone knows how to work that arcane mechanism, that is an aquifer pump rack. I've tried loving around with it a few times but nope, can't do it so I also remove aquifers. I spend my time building elaborate defences, huge workshops and gold statues, while trying to stave off destruction for as long as possible. Creating value like a possessed Dwarf.
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Jul 5, 2012 11:26
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I poo poo Trains  Why was the militia so expanded before proper armour could be prepared? Trains only had greaves on! 
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Jul 22, 2012 16:02
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That was epic, now craft more armour and weapons!  At least we'll be able to equip the now smaller militia better.
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Aug 8, 2012 19:46
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I don't care how awful that helmet it, designate for the militia commander, permanently. 
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Aug 10, 2012 12:34
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