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white_darkness

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Would it be dwarf enough?
« on: March 12, 2009, 09:10:19 am »
As a project to gradually terraform a mountainous region via tower-caps into a stepped pyramid that has a soil layer as the surface in the center with water running down the sides and bringing the rest of the map to lowest non-mountain surface point?  Maybe tossing in a few artificial lakes?
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Zaranthan

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Re: Would it be dwarf enough?
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2009, 09:23:39 am »
Sounds like a good show.
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praguepride

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Re: Would it be dwarf enough?
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2009, 09:42:27 am »
Sounds really complicated...of course it's dwarf enough :D
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Man, dwarves are such a**holes!

Quote from: Pilsu on March 12, 2009, 04:36:48 am
Even automatic genocide would be a better approach

white_darkness

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Re: Would it be dwarf enough?
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2009, 09:53:02 am »
I figured I could utilize that tower-cap quirk of turning the muddy stone to soil and gradually carve my way down from the center.

Considering I've got 80-something z-levels of mostly rock, with a tiny patch of soil to start with, this is going to take a long time.

A general idea of what the map looks like so far:

RRRRRRSSS
RRRRRRFRR
RRRRRRRRR
RRRRRRRRR
RRRRRRRRR
RRRRRRRRR
RRRRRRRRR

R= rock
S= soil layer
F= Fortress

I guess I've just got to find the center of the map now and come up with some sort of construction to stick on the top.
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white_darkness

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Re: Would it be dwarf enough?
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2009, 04:17:26 pm »
Well, this is certainly taking it's sweet time, mostly because I have next to no wood and have to hoard every little scrap I get.

At least I finally found the lone water source on the map, though the cave river starts a good 40 z-levels up from the surface and the magma pipe is on the other side of the map and yet again goes up a good 40 z-levels or so.

At least I'm up to ten miners now after 2 years, and will hopefully have a tower cap farm going soon.

Plus I've got 10 levels of excavations roughed in already.
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