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[noodle0117]

And my fortress is only 1 1/2 years old with no permanent military or specially designed traps whatsoever. The wiki says that hell will arrive, but I'm not really sure how it actually happens.
Do the demons creep in from the cave I dug out?
Or do they start spawning from the sides of the map?
When will they come?
How well would an unarmored 10 man squad of novice-adept trained axe/speardwarves fare off against a demon?
Would like some wisdom from the community please on whether I should go to last save or take the chance and continue.

[Osmosis Jones]

Did you actually dig through the blue stuff? Also, spoilers.

[noodle0117]

I struck it, but didn't mine any out yet.

[Double A]

There's a chance you won't have any demons to mess with, but if you do you get an announcement.

[coinich]

I was under the impression that only one tube actually held an entrance to HFS, but if you happened to dig through that tube, then HFS would strike.  Save first, but its fairly safe to dig through if you're smart.

[Osmosis Jones]

Then you're safe. When you get a little pop-up with a message... well let's just say you'll know it when you see it, that's when you should worry. No, "We have struck adamantine! Praise the miners!" is not the message to which I refer.

Damn double ninja'd.

[Kanddak]

If you don't know yet, you have nothing to worry about.
And when you find out, it will already be too late.

[Double A]

Wouldn't it be hilarious if you dug straight down into the HFS, so they had a staircase right into your base?

[rodya_mirov]

Wouldn't it be hilarious if you dug straight down into the HFS, so they had a staircase right into your base?

Been there ....

[noodle0117]

would it still be ok if I sealed up the hell fortress with a wall assuming I dug too deep?

[Sphalerite]

would it still be ok if I sealed up the hell fortress with a wall assuming I dug too deep?

If you don't mind a massive, permanent loss of FPS due to the inhabitants trying to path out every moment for the entire rest of history.  That alone makes breaching hell a game-over condition for me.

[clc02]

I second sphalerite's post.  It's supposed to be a game over condition, the game refers to first finding it as end1 and seeing it to end2.  Sure it's possible to kill the entire demon population (And you should try) but 10 unarmored recruits had me laughing