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Brdn666

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Noobish Mistake
« on: July 03, 2008, 09:52:21 pm »
I was digging out a underground magma channel for my industry, and I dug into some bauxite. I didn't what it was at the time. I just thought I was a pretty red rock. So I continued to dig my channel in a large lake/reserve tank. I planned on the magma to melt everything in its path, making a nice, clean channel. I bet you can tell that the magma didn't melt the bauxite...
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Re: Noobish Mistake
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2008, 12:34:48 am »
If dwarves didn't die from lava and ensuing tantrum-punches you're not mistaking hard enough.
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Re: Noobish Mistake
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2008, 04:57:21 am »
This is a true test of OCD. If you now turn the magma into obsidian, dig it up and retreive the bauxite to "tidy" things up, then you know you have problems. :)
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Re: Noobish Mistake
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2008, 11:01:07 am »
There are a few logs and stones sitting unaccessable in aquafer water from my attempt to breach said layer. In Dwarf Fortress terms, that doesn't qualify as a mistake - a little sloppy, mayhaps, but if it wasn't lethal, it hasn't earned the right to be called a mistake.

Killing 5 out of my Starter Seven dwarves while breaching that aquafer via the cave-in method, however? That's a mistake.

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