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ChocolateBeard

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Surviving in a frozen area?
« on: January 20, 2011, 11:41:13 am »
(First topic I'm making here, besides from the introduction one :) )

So I just started out an expedition and chose an area that was covered in snow. I've never tried this out before, and I soon realized that I have no idea how to survive in such an area. All water's frozen around the year, and the ground is covered in snow. So basically there's no way to make a farm, or am I wrong?

That's basically it, without farms I'm not sure if I'm skilled enough to keep my dwarves alive and happy. Halp Plix ;)
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Re: Surviving in a frozen area?
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2011, 11:44:52 am »
Dig until you find a cavern, there's plenty mud own there. Or use magma to melt the ice.
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Re: Surviving in a frozen area?
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2011, 11:45:22 am »
Dig until you hit the caverns or you can try hauling mined ice into your base (I've never gotten this to work).
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Re: Surviving in a frozen area?
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2011, 11:50:11 am »
Ah, thanks for the quick answers. I've never played so far that I managed to find magma though (yes, I'm a magma-virgin. *cries*). Gonna try to find caverns
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Re: Surviving in a frozen area?
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2011, 11:52:28 am »
If you have no aquifer (which are rather easy to get through in a freezing biome), your only chance are the caverns. Dig down fast and if you worry about cavern wildlife carve a fortification into a wall that connects to a cavern lake. Make sure you have a lever operated door or floodgate (clear the area of rock that could block the floodgate) behind this fortification in case the diagonals you dug out for depressurizing don't work.
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Re: Surviving in a frozen area?
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2011, 12:10:24 pm »
Once you have had magma, you never go back...
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