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Author Topic: My new Volcano Fortress  (Read 4740 times)

AutomataKittay

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Re: My new Volcano Fortress
« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2012, 07:04:40 pm »

In a fortress a few versions ago, I'm sure I floored over the entire surface of the volcano, only to have a magma crab crawl out of the opening in a magma forge, burn my legendary weaponsmith a few new holes, then vanish back into it's hole.

Made me go back to coal for a bit...

:D :D

Yeah, I've had surprisingly little problem dealing with magma critters, probably because I hate how open tile of magma shines if I don't cover it with my workshop's impassable tile. That does helps a lot, since things will crawl or fall in through the uncovered tiles that shows.
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Lich180

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Re: My new Volcano Fortress
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2012, 09:23:00 pm »

Yeah, I did do that with a previous magma forge area, but that was directly over the magma sea. Had a magma crab crawl up and torch ALL my smiths and smelter workers, until a marksdwarf picking up a new boot came down and shot it.
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Tirion

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Re: My new Volcano Fortress
« Reply #17 on: November 19, 2012, 11:59:30 am »

Fire imps can be much worse.
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Re: My new Volcano Fortress
« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2012, 09:43:04 pm »

You inspired me. I'm gonna build my new volcano fortress just like yours!

Getting a good choice of volcano is easy... On advanced world gen parameters, I use large region, minimum volcanism, 17%. You get a volcano in every street corner. Then I look for a volcano with plenty of trees... and a stream.
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