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Real Life Dwarf Fortress?
« on: August 31, 2016, 09:45:26 am »
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Re: Real Life Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2016, 04:23:53 pm »
* se5a puts going there on his bucket list
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Re: Real Life Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2016, 04:30:35 pm »
Another real-life fortress: Some of the salt mines in the Polish mountains. They have churches and statues carved and engraved from solid salt! Look up 'Wieliczka'
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Re: Real Life Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #3 on: September 01, 2016, 01:09:08 pm »
Wow, Gwolfski!  That is really impressive.
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Re: Real Life Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #4 on: September 01, 2016, 08:29:57 pm »
There are actually a few underground cities http://listverse.com/2013/01/22/10-amazing-underground-cities/
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Re: Real Life Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2016, 09:22:31 pm »
Hmmph. Was expecting dwarves.
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Re: Real Life Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #6 on: September 09, 2016, 12:08:31 pm »
Quote from: Dozebôm Lolumzalìs on September 08, 2016, 09:22:31 pm
Hmmph. Was expecting dwarves.

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Re: Real Life Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #7 on: September 09, 2016, 12:25:12 pm »
sound like elves wanting to petition for dwarf citizenship
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Re: Real Life Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #8 on: September 10, 2016, 07:30:23 pm »
The 4,100-foot-long cliff-corridor was chiselled by 13 men with bare hands between the 1960s and 1970s.

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Re: Real Life Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2016, 05:50:07 am »
And yet people complain that peasants oneshotting them with punches in adventure mode is OP and unrealistic.
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