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InsanityPrelude

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Volcanic glacier
« on: March 25, 2009, 07:41:48 pm »
How can that even exist?

Because my latest gen'd world has a volcano in a glacier region. Should I expect massive flooding and doom if I embark there?
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Re: Volcanic glacier
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2009, 07:51:18 pm »
Should be fine. Unless it erupts... then the obsidian would floooow.
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Re: Volcanic glacier
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2009, 08:02:44 pm »
The volcano's always surrounded by a thick layer of obsidian, so its heat won't come close to the ice unless you interfere.
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Re: Volcanic glacier
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2009, 08:24:31 pm »
It all melted the ice, then exploded into steam, turning into obsidian.  Before you got there.
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Re: Volcanic glacier
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2009, 08:30:07 pm »
Alright, embarked. Trying to figure out how I want to lay this out (especially since I'm not quite sure where the aquifer is, just that there is one.)

Also a bit annoyed that my trade depot melted as soon as I built it. A jet and ice trade depot sounded awesome. :(
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Re: Volcanic glacier
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2009, 12:01:43 am »
Two years in, so far so good, although the fort nearly starved to death before I got the farm up and running. I managed to kill my original two miners in a cave-in though while trying to make an area to farm outdoor plants... oops.

No sign of goblins or orcs yet. :(
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Re: Volcanic glacier
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2009, 03:20:46 am »
Glacier + magma pipe is awesome. One of my most successful fortresses was located on a glacier with easy access to magma: I thawed out a nearby brook and two large (lake-sized) ponds.

I... sort of miss that fort :|
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Re: Volcanic glacier
« Reply #7 on: March 26, 2009, 05:00:15 am »
gief seed for that world, i want a volcano glacier
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Re: Volcanic glacier
« Reply #8 on: March 26, 2009, 10:47:00 am »
There are tons of glaciers with magma. Just gen a world and look around the glaciers; there's almost always several magma vents/pipes per large glacial area.
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Re: Volcanic glacier
« Reply #9 on: March 26, 2009, 01:28:07 pm »
That's normal? Huh. I learned something today.

Here's the seed anyway. I can't guarantee it'll gen the same without the mineral mod (also, the history seed'll still get different results since I have new races and megabeasts in there), but the temperature settings I used do tend to produce some nice glaciers.

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My location's in the far upper left corner of the map. It took a couple years for elven and human caravans to arrive.
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Re: Volcanic glacier
« Reply #10 on: March 26, 2009, 04:50:52 pm »
Volcanic glaciers are actually very common.


Here's one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Redoubt_(Alaska)

Though it did just recently assplode.
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Re: Volcanic glacier
« Reply #11 on: March 26, 2009, 07:55:08 pm »
Was going to say, I thought volcanoes and glaciers went together like California and earthquakes.

or volcanoes and geysers...
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