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Author Topic: Why are there caverns with, wait......,64 Z-levels?  (Read 1142 times)

Child of Armok

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Why are there caverns with, wait......,64 Z-levels?
« on: May 12, 2012, 10:03:55 am »

I'am mining for the caverns when suddenly i see a cavern so deep couldn't see the bottem from the top.
Is this normal?
And how am i supposed to build a secure base with 64 Z-levels high walls?
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Re: Why are there caverns with, wait......,64 Z-levels?
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2012, 10:07:40 am »

Ridiculously tall caverns seem to be common in Island worlds; unfortunately, all worlds generated using "Create New World!" are island worlds.

If you instead use "Design New World with Advanced Parameters" and choose a REGION instead of an ISLAND (ideally a MEDIUM REGION or LARGE REGION), you will get worlds that are much shallower, sometimes less than 50 Z-levels between the surface and the magma sea.
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Re: Why are there caverns with, wait......,64 Z-levels?
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2012, 07:15:37 pm »

As in, you'd want to wall up the cavern? I guess you just need a lot of stone and patience lol. I'd be interested to see such a cavern!
« Last Edit: May 26, 2012, 11:49:06 pm by Viking »
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Re: Why are there caverns with, wait......,64 Z-levels?
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2012, 11:36:18 pm »

how am i supposed to build a secure base with 64 Z-levels high walls?

Several thousand pieces of stone/metal/soap should do the trick.
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