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Eneverforgets

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Conical mountains
« on: October 18, 2012, 09:34:36 am »
I embarked at a site with a volcano, and it happened to have two tall conical mountains right by the volcano.  It's fun to dig out and build bridges between mountains, etc.  My question is: is there a way to look for a site like this?  Because my experience with mountain biomes is that they usually don't look like this. 
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Descan

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Re: Conical mountains
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2012, 09:47:19 am »
The only way would be to press Tab on the embark screen and look for height-differences (one alternative view type) and absolute-height (another view type) that indicates twin mountains. They're a little hard to interpret, though~
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Eneverforgets

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Re: Conical mountains
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2012, 10:04:37 am »
Yeah, I'm not sure it has the resolution to really tell me that.
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Kumis

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Re: Conical mountains
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2012, 02:47:11 pm »
I do hope your fort is called Madonnadamned.
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Re: Conical mountains
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2012, 04:16:48 pm »
If I look for specific terrain shapes, what I do is look at the elevation numbers to get an estimate. Then I start an embark that is roughly 16x8 or half the possible embark size, (anything bigger crashes the game for me). Then I will scroll out, and take a gander at the terrain. Pick a place I like. Guess where it is at the embark map. Use DFhack's die command to close df fortress. Restart and try to guess where that really cool looking site was.

Dual mountains and canyons are just too much fun not to go looking for them once in a while.
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Re: Conical mountains
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2012, 04:56:08 pm »
I never dreamed of dual mountain, it sounds like a lot of fun to have a bridge or 2 connecting them 30 urists in the air.

One dream I have considered is having a valley embark, and building my own Hoover Dam.
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Re: Conical mountains
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2012, 07:55:15 pm »
I had a fort that was inside of two steep, conical mountains once. Inside of one mountain, I had a staircase that connected, from the bottom, a flattish area of embark with, at the top,  a long, narrow bridge that spanned to the other mountain. On the side of the other mountain, where my main fort was, I had carved out fortifications in the mountain side, allowing my archers to defend the bridge. I also used the Fortress Defense mod. So many invaders dodging bolts off the bridge and breaking their everything... Good times.
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