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Author Topic: Hello! My Fortress! is made of Chert! :D  (Read 1515 times)

raptorfangamer

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Re: Hello! My Fortress! is made of Chert! :D
« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2012, 11:13:59 am »

use the chert you have to build an EFF-YOU-ALL gauntlet on top of your fort, supported by a single lever, so when the dire siege, or the boredom comes, you will do something better than abandon
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Re: Hello! My Fortress! is made of Chert! :D
« Reply #16 on: January 25, 2012, 11:25:55 am »

Your layouts seem a little cramped, I may just be a symmetry freak but I find structured simple layouts are easier and more fun to work with. You should experiment with building above ground, it forces you to think about your architecture and helps you build space efficient structures.

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Re: Hello! My Fortress! is made of Chert! :D
« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2012, 02:23:04 pm »

Dig deeper.
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Re: Hello! My Fortress! is made of Chert! :D
« Reply #18 on: January 25, 2012, 03:06:12 pm »

I'd recommend learning about starting up a militia. Your last fort probably ended before you could even start on my monument, and a good militia can be a godsend for defensive breaches.

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Re: Hello! My Fortress! is made of Chert! :D
« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2012, 03:10:14 pm »

Agreed on the 3-D suggestions. It can be a little difficult for people to think in three dimensions because we're used to more-or-less two dimensions. Just remember that three z-levels down is a lot closer than twenty tiles to the north, for example.

Have you got access to Stonesense, or a similar utility? It really helps you see the 3-D, before you get used to seeing it in your head, yourself. Which, by the way, is a surprisingly easy thing to learn to do. After all, we did come from tree-climbing three-dimension-thinking ape-type creatures.

You ever gotten bored and looked up at the ceiling and pretended it was the floor, and pictured yourself walking around on it? It's the same kind of thing. Just learn to turn a 3-d structure around in your head, and you'll be good.
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Re: Hello! My Fortress! is made of Chert! :D
« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2012, 03:19:21 pm »

QUESTION! can we butcher elves? :D
You can mod the raws to do so. Also, you'll hear it on every forum ever, but double posting =/= a good thing.

Don't you dare touch a dead elf, you elf >:|

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Re: Hello! My Fortress! is made of Chert! :D
« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2012, 03:20:48 pm »

TOUCH THAT ELF, AND YOU ARE A FILTHY ELF!

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Re: Hello! My Fortress! is made of Chert! :D
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2012, 03:23:24 pm »

You should totally mod them to be able to eat elves. Due to elven culture, they find devouring the corpses of their kin to be far more respectable than letting them rot, or throwing them in magma.

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Re: Hello! My Fortress! is made of Chert! :D
« Reply #23 on: January 25, 2012, 06:37:41 pm »

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our beds may be too close from the workshops - dwarves will be upset by the noise.

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Noise:
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"Contrary to common belief based on earlier versions, Toady has stated that workshops do not currently produce any noise."
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