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[MuseOD]

Let's make Rapture.
That is to say, a fortress on the seabed. All underwater rooves MUST be made out of glass. Booze must be modded to give a random ability (plasmids!)
soldiers must be armored in bronze and carry modified curly spikes (the ones used in pump stacks) (BIG DADDIES!). Pressure-plates and caged monsters will suffice for security cameras. Magma isn't necessary, however kudos if you put it in. Extra points for modding human female children to be Little Sisters, and using them as pets for your soldiers, arming then with daggers.  Whoever dares , wins.

[Schizotek]

I once made a city on the sea bed using obsidian casting. Glass sounds a "BIT" harder, tho. Good luck to anyone whoa attempts.

[King DZA]

I did plan on building an underwater city sometime in the future. Not sure how closely it would resemble Rapture, however.

[MuseOD]

@King DZA
but if it did, OH LORD WOULD IT BE AMAZING. I can just imagine. A platoon of ten big daddies with their giant screws and bronze armor stabbing the fuck out of some drowning goblins.

A dwarf breathes fire after drinking a plasmid, booze explosion.

Little Sister stabbing a goblin to death after her big daddy died.

 

[flieroflight]

i did half make a rapture city, drain the ocean, grren glass, bronze and brass with handy floodgates

[rridgway]

Hmm, I suppose a roof of some kind could be made if/when the ocean is frozen, then once the proper roof is made, the outer roof is then mined/ unconstructed out.

Are there any ocean-going building destroyers?

[Vanaheimer]

Hmm, I suppose a roof of some kind could be made if/when the ocean is frozen, then once the proper roof is made, the outer roof is then mined/ unconstructed out.

Are there any ocean-going building destroyers?

Not sure about vanilla, but I believe there are several in LFR, maybe Masterwork.

[caddybear]

Well obsidian is glass, is it not?

[Loud Whispers]

It's a lot easier to dig out your city, place everything down then direct a river into the basin. Though nothing' stopping you from going full on ocean raeghe.

[OcelotTango]

It seems much harder than it would be before you consider that it's pretty easy to drain the whole ocean into the caverns, and build a temporary wall to build inside. When done, re-drain, deconstruct the wall, and get to work.
Also green glass is not only easy, but perfect for this project.
Now that there are conditional syndromes, and mine carts are being added, this might be entirely viable.

[MuseOD]

oh yeah. also: a subway system.

[Urist Da Vinci]

I made a rapture expy city in 40d by casting an obsidian caisson into the ocean, and then collapsing it into the sea floor after construction was complete. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisson_(engineering)

[Leafsnail]

Waiting for the ocean to freeze then mining out the parts you want to build glass in (then draining the ocean that's within the glass bubble once it's completed) sounds like the funnest way to approach this challenge.  I don't think you'd be able to do it in one go though... try over several winters.

[Minority]

I made a rapture expy city in 40d by casting an obsidian caisson into the ocean, and then collapsing it into the sea floor after construction was complete. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caisson_(engineering)

How exactly does collapsing cast obsidian work? I know that anything constructed breaks apart as it falls, but 'natural' walls don't. Does it keep shape with corridors and things? or do you have to make it solid, drop it to the bottom and mine out the inside?

[SRD]

Just... like... do it in a freezing biome...

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