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MoonyTheHuman

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The Volcano Challange
« on: February 09, 2016, 10:52:42 pm »
 To Dorf Loverz
I have a intresting challange for you all: why not preform a one square embark on a volcano and see how far you get? bonus points if on a glacier or in a evil biome that resurrects. ill be doing this too, and ill be posting what happens, feel free topost what happens in yours here as well, also: armok bonus: no pickaxe c:
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Re: The Volcano Challange
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2016, 02:28:05 am »
Challenge
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Re: The Volcano Challange
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2016, 01:47:15 pm »
Starting on a volcano isn't a challenge (or a "challange").

The other things you mentioned (glacier, evil, reanimating evil, no pick) are challenges, but the volcano doesn't add to them.
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Re: The Volcano Challange
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2016, 01:52:42 pm »
Glacier + volcano sounds fun, if there is world-gen ready for it. 


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Re: The Volcano Challange
« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2016, 03:44:02 pm »
Quote from: greycat on February 10, 2016, 01:47:15 pm
The other things you mentioned (glacier, evil, reanimating evil, no pick) are challenges, but the volcano doesn't add to them.
It does add a bloody great hole to the middle of your embark. On a standard 1x1 your furthest point from the corners is about 24 tiles. On a volcano 1x1 that point is occupied by magma, so everything will spawn even more on top of you.

Once you get past those initial difficulties it seems more like an engineering or conceptual challenge. Do you work with your space limitations, or enforce your floor plans by draining the volcano?
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Re: The Volcano Challange
« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2016, 04:30:22 pm »
One other aspect that makes it a bit challenging is that you'll only get one biome, and the geology will be almost exclusively igneous. So you probably won't be seeing any iron ore, and possibly no flux stone.
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Re: The Volcano Challange
« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2016, 05:10:36 pm »
I have a world that generated a volcano on a glacier in an evil biome. Never had such !!FUN!! in the period of 5 minutes.

As for not adding challenge, I disagree, when UristMcPunch charges a zombie yeti, knocking the yeti into said volcano, just to have the yeti climb out, and set all the other Urists on fire. That in my book is a challenge.
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Re: The Volcano Challange
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2016, 05:25:02 pm »
Quote from: khearn on February 10, 2016, 04:30:22 pm
One other aspect that makes it a bit challenging is that you'll only get one biome, and the geology will be almost exclusively igneous. So you probably won't be seeing any iron ore, and possibly no flux stone.

You don't need much iron/steel when you have weaponized magma. One pump to rule them all.
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