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Author Topic: Glacier Life is Still Impossible  (Read 5099 times)

Hobbie

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Re: Glacier Life is Still Impossible
« Reply #60 on: April 07, 2010, 11:14:51 pm »

What, were they set to wrestle? Because I've had trouble getting armed dwarves to fight, and I figured out the new military screens pretty well.

That didn't stop a beastie from running around inside my fort while my worthless militia ran in circles. Benny Hill music was involved.

Sounds familiar. I told an axedwarf to chop up some buzzards that were looting from my fort, he started strangling the buggers. I realized he was waiting for an axe that someone else was holding.
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Sowelu

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Re: Glacier Life is Still Impossible
« Reply #61 on: April 08, 2010, 01:22:00 am »

Important:  Just because oceans are frozen at surface level, doesn't mean they won't flood all the caverns on the way down.  This may be a bug, but...it's bad.

(This may mean "Never embark with ocean tiles anymore"...)
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Iban

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Re: Glacier Life is Still Impossible
« Reply #62 on: April 08, 2010, 01:27:38 am »

since when do oceans freeze

all the way down?
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Re: Glacier Life is Still Impossible
« Reply #63 on: April 08, 2010, 01:44:53 am »

since when do oceans freeze

They do.
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Re: Glacier Life is Still Impossible
« Reply #64 on: April 08, 2010, 03:15:33 am »

Looks like this wasn't actually an ocean problem so much as it was an aquifer that went down more than it should have, on the border between an ocean and other stuff.  So beware of aquifers that are fairly deep, that border a region that is considerably higher than them.

Other than that, the glacier/ocean would have been fine, and it may not be a problem in all cases at all.
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Re: Glacier Life is Still Impossible
« Reply #65 on: April 08, 2010, 05:22:41 am »

Just started out on a vulcano sticking out of a frozen sea.
An instant cave in killed my wagon.

The Silly thing is, the upper 6 levels of the magmapipe are just that: a magmapipe contained within a single tile thick tube of obsidian.

Feeling morose, my miner started to dig into the exposed obsidian and was promptly encased in ice.
Suicide seems more difficult than I imagined. ;)
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Re: Glacier Life is Still Impossible
« Reply #66 on: April 09, 2010, 10:33:41 am »

If you guys remember that desolate, worthless cave with troglodytes, I sealed that off with a door, totally forbid passage, and then kept digging deeper. It's worked until now.

Some jackass beast guy thinks it's OK to show up, literally, 3 minutes after my squad was hacked to death by goblins and I was still trying to contain the tantrum spiral. So, I shrug off "Bufilo" and begin reassigning nobles, building statues, engraving floors, when SUDDENLY.

Urist McTantrum has destroyed a sylvite door.

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Re: Glacier Life is Still Impossible
« Reply #67 on: April 09, 2010, 10:50:19 am »

Yeah. There are tons of forgotten beasts in the new caverns, each unique. I would advise a stone wall to seal off caverns if you don't think you can handle what lies within.
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