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Author Topic: First experience with HFS (spoilers)  (Read 806 times)

Lemunde

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First experience with HFS (spoilers)
« on: June 11, 2010, 10:09:29 am »
I'll start off by saying I've been playing DF for nearly two years and this is the first time I've come across...this.  Wow.  Just...wow.  All I wanted was a little adamantine.  It was a typical vein going down into magma so I figured it couldn't possibly lead to anything bad, being so narrow.  Boy was I wrong.  I uncovered an eerie cavern and no sooner had I unpaused than hordes of...I don't even know what showed up and started pouring into my fort.

And they didn't waste any time destroying EVERYTHING!  I timed it.  Four minutes.  That's how long it took from the time I opened up the eerie cavern over 150 levels down to the time I got the game over message.  I didn't even have a military started yet so I knew I was pretty much screwed.  I tried walling off the area as soon as I found it but they were way too fast for that to ever work.

I suppose the only way to avoid this in the future is to either not dig so deep or check to see if adamantine veins are capped at the ends.  I managed to export images of the fort just before the attack started so I'll probably upload the map to the map archive later.
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TheyTarget

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Re: First experience with HFS (spoilers)
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2010, 11:36:59 am »
Whys it called HFS. Also my fort fell faster. First time I pierced it. I was actually massively in my infancy. I started on a glacier, and wanted to go 100% in the caverns I had a nice place set up. And stuck a nice rich adamantine vein immediately. I dug down, wealth going up like crazy, then bam. Lasted maybe a minute before everything was gone and dead.
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This is a platinum warhammer. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. it menaces with spikes of platinum.
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Re: First experience with HFS (spoilers)
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2010, 11:38:34 am »
HFS=hidden fun stuff. the game says "losing is fun!" on the instructions page.
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Lemunde

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Re: First experience with HFS (spoilers)
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2010, 12:17:30 pm »
I heard it called "happy fun stuff" before and that's what I think of every time I see it.  Has pretty much the same meaning.  The eerie cavern looks like it would be fun to explore but good luck ever getting down there.
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Re: First experience with HFS (spoilers)
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2010, 01:07:39 pm »
Its the endgame challenge. Build a military powerful enough, line your dwarves up in formation, and then breach hell.

Defeat hell itself in glorious hand to hand combat.
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