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RTiger

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Unusual Embarks
« on: August 15, 2011, 11:55:10 am »

Besides the Infamous spire maps, Has anyone found other types of unusual embarks?

My current map, a 4x4 embark, has 2 magma pipes!
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Re: Unusual Embarks
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2011, 01:14:39 pm »

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Re: Unusual Embarks
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2011, 02:29:44 pm »

I have one with a volcano in a lake. Cue a few minutes of massive lag and "cavern collapse" spam as water rushes in and forms an obsidian cap. Haven't used that embark yet, but it's in the "for future use" file ... if the next version doesn't come out before I'm done with my current fort.
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Re: Unusual Embarks
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2011, 07:22:16 pm »

I had an embark where I spawned on a narrow ledge overlooking a steep drop 40Zs into an evil lake.
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Re: Unusual Embarks
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2011, 09:06:24 pm »

Embark with a volcano. at least i thought its "1" volcano. Infact, its a 140 lvl deep hole in the mountain, down to the 3rd cavern, where the maga is on the same lvl as the cavernground. around it are 4! more "volcanos" with the same high then the one with the hole.
First thought: so far to my easy magma access.
"nd thought: WTF! the hole breached cavern lvl 1 and 2 without sealing them (same with lvl 3). On top of that, lvl 2 is an underwatercavern, that starts flooding lvl 3 (after finally capping the volcano). So lvl 2 is depletet to 1 z-level of Water, getting refilled by the mapedges, while lvl 3 gets flooded, while the water leaves the map at the mapedge, giving me a permanent 43 z-level waterfall around a ~20x20 hole. My FPS doesnt like it, so right now im trying to seal off the waterfall with pure manson-power and cave-ins while loosing 1 dorf each cave in.... because they cant follow orders   >:(
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Re: Unusual Embarks
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2011, 11:10:25 pm »

Embark with a volcano. at least i thought its "1" volcano. Infact, its a 140 lvl deep hole in the mountain, down to the 3rd cavern, where the maga is on the same lvl as the cavernground. around it are 4! more "volcanos" with the same high then the one with the hole.
First thought: so far to my easy magma access.
"nd thought: WTF! the hole breached cavern lvl 1 and 2 without sealing them (same with lvl 3). On top of that, lvl 2 is an underwatercavern, that starts flooding lvl 3 (after finally capping the volcano). So lvl 2 is depletet to 1 z-level of Water, getting refilled by the mapedges, while lvl 3 gets flooded, while the water leaves the map at the mapedge, giving me a permanent 43 z-level waterfall around a ~20x20 hole. My FPS doesnt like it, so right now im trying to seal off the waterfall with pure manson-power and cave-ins while loosing 1 dorf each cave in.... because they cant follow orders   >:(

Manson-power?! Well, I suppose I'd expect the Dwarves to block a waterfall with a wall of horrifically brutalized corpses.
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Re: Unusual Embarks
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2011, 11:57:20 pm »

Most interesting thing I've had at embark was in Genesis mod.  My civ got lucky and I could bring along Dragon Raptors.  From what I gather from the descriptions, they are feathered T-Rexes.  And they can be trained for war  :o
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Re: Unusual Embarks
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2011, 12:11:29 am »

i remember embarking on an almost completely square caldera once, was like 20 something z's high as i recall.
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