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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Magma Drop

« on: November 29, 2008, 06:44:38 pm »

Hi, me again (with the crazy desert lava moat fortress)

Alright, I'm looking to expand my fortress but a part of the area I want to expand is looking to go 1 z level underneath my lava moat. essentially the lava is on z level -1 and I'm looking to dig out level -2. Might this pose a problem for me*? The rocks are already in a warmed up state and on the dig designation it's popping up as magma being nearby.

*Yes, magma flooding my fort IS a problem for me

DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Hostage Situation

« on: November 29, 2008, 09:03:46 am »

Alright, I've got a fey mooder here and the items she needs is wood and blocks. I've got a few of both but they aren't the right ones. Usually I wouldn't mind locker her in the room and letting her starve to death s a result of her insanity, but she's got a kid with her.

Is there any way this can be resolved "peacefully" (AKA let the mom starve in crazyness and tell the kid major lies his whole life). Or is the kid essentially gonna become another casualty of DF?

DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / What's in store?

« on: November 23, 2008, 06:10:16 pm »

Alright, after a bit of a haitus (Fallout 3, EndWar, to name a few), I've come back to DF.

I'm back on my old fort, which I had just completed the lava moat on a desert map (I had the third resident evil film in my head when I thuoght of the initial design, but that's gone to the won now). Now Right before I left to go play my other games I experienced my first siege of goblins. Now it was a smalL group and they got obliterated and routed by a leaving caravan (which then got nailed by the fire imp that had about 10 kills under it's belt by the time the two groups met, I gotta check to see if the goods are still on the map.)

ANYWAY.....

What I'm looking for is some intel on what I'll be facing in the future. Are there airborne assaults? Do they eventually get crossbowmen of their own (provoking a wall around the lava moat with arrow slits, they have those in the game, right?*)

I checked the past logs, but you try typing "siege" in the search bow and see what you find, quite a bit I assure you)

Well, I'm off to play my desert home, any info will be appreciated.

Monzill

*That's a bonus question if you can give me the correct name if it oes exist, or what the alternative is)

DF Gameplay Questions / Does lava evaporate?

« on: October 18, 2008, 03:58:09 pm »

I'm building a lava moat around my desert/mini mountain/start of a river* fortress. The fort itself is gonna be located in the desert portion with a significant lava moat as it's scheme (think RE: Extinction but instead of chainlink fence, lava and drawbridge). Now I've channeled out the entire area to be cordoned off and have a channel digging right into the lava, but after a healthy burst followed by a gradual slowdown as expected while lava regenerates, it's hardly moving at all.

I'm just trying to figure out if lava can evaporate if spread out thin enough. This would explain why I have the occasional sand spot with 1/7 lava spots around it. that get covered up from time to time.

*yes. I have a river in the area, the lava moat and the river end up only 8 tiles away at one point. It would be easy to make a water moat in a desert environment.

Why don't I?

I'll type it again:

((*awsome*LAVA*awsome*)) moat