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Urist McEngineer

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Two Adamantine spires.
« on: January 14, 2012, 07:58:26 am »
Hi there. I've been playing dwarf fortress for a while now. Still very much a noob I guess, never been deeper than the first cave, never made my own steel yet etc.

I Started a new embark today and I found 2 hollow Adamantine columns sticking out of the ground. Should I expect boatloads of limitless !!fun!! and try to make the best of it? Did anybody else encounter such things and how do I approach them? Some tips would be helpfull 'cause they're creaping me out to be honest.

Kind Regards,
Urist McEngineer.
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Re: Two Adamantine spires.
« Reply #1 on: January 14, 2012, 08:41:19 am »
I think you'll only get "limitless !fun!" if you climb that candy-cane all the way down. So for now you can just thank your luck for having adamantine so easily available.
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Urist McEngineer

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Re: Two Adamantine spires.
« Reply #2 on: January 14, 2012, 09:11:06 am »
I planned out a starting fortress and set first designations. And then I unpaused and got a horrible FPS drop till I had about 10 fps left. It's a shame..
Too bad the game can't run on multiple cores. I have an i7 but it's no good use for Dwarf Fortress.

I have a  clean save of it in case anyone with a higher clocking fewer or singe core processor wants to play it.
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Re: Two Adamantine spires.
« Reply #3 on: January 14, 2012, 10:30:38 am »
I'll give it a whorl. Have a link for download?
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Urist McEngineer

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Re: Two Adamantine spires.
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2012, 10:39:39 am »
Uploading to DFFD right now. Will post link when finished.
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Urist McEngineer

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Re: Two Adamantine spires.
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2012, 10:46:13 am »
http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5363

There you go. Hope it works out better for you.
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Re: Two Adamantine spires.
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2012, 02:57:05 pm »
I've had a normal embark sized map with FOUR adamantine spires. Most successful fort I've had, and I still can't connect the dots between having 140 adamantine clad Dorfs and success :P

Well, I don't want to spoil the !FUN!, so I won't tell you what happened later on until you've discovered yourself >:£
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Re: Two Adamantine spires.
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2012, 04:17:04 pm »
I have a theory on the FPS drop, but it might spoil the game if you knew.

If you don't know what the HFS is, do not read on.
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