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Mrhappyface

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How do you make your obsidian?
« on: April 19, 2012, 05:50:18 pm »
How do you make your obsidian farm?
My design isn't the most practical, or even productive, but I just like the psychological effect.

The entrance way to the temple:
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The Hall of Sacrifices, lined with platinum statues
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The Pit of Offerings, in which the sacrifice is violently dismembered and then drained out of
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The Chalice itself:
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The Drainage Hatch at the bottom
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The Catacombs in which the Chalice drains into to honor the dwarven dead with the blood and gore of their enemies.
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The bloody water runs down this tunnel through a brass grate and into a hole.

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Where it goes to this:

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Forged from the blood of my enemies and the blood of the earth, they create an unholy mineral blessed by Armok himself.
I then use the obsidian for booze pots and the pavement.
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Re: How do you make your obsidian?
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2012, 07:22:25 pm »
This is a temple to Armok, Dwarven God of Blood. All craftsdwarfship is of the highest quality. It is encrusted with platinum statues and brass thrones and encrusted with fallen Dwarf enemies. It menaces with spikes of magma.
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Re: How do you make your obsidian?
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2012, 07:40:37 pm »
i am extraordinarily impressed.
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Re: How do you make your obsidian?
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2012, 08:36:20 pm »
Impressive.
Not he most efficient way but stylish as hell
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Re: How do you make your obsidian?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2012, 08:43:14 pm »
I love it.

It's the inverted pyramid and obsidian casting with flair that does it.

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Re: How do you make your obsidian?
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2012, 08:54:57 pm »
Sweet Daughter of Armok, I've never SEEN such a grand display!
Two Marble Banded Socks to you, my friend!
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Re: How do you make your obsidian?
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2012, 09:02:58 pm »
And here I was pouring water on random pools of magma or capping magma pipes.

Never a finer temple to Armok!
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Re: How do you make your obsidian?
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2012, 09:04:00 pm »
I will sacrifice three cats now.

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Re: How do you make your obsidian?
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2012, 09:16:59 pm »
Copypasta!

:p I do believe that's word for word the post I saw you do last week, you just copy pasted, didn't you ;)

Just as impressive, love the blood water of the enemies makes the obsidian :D
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Re: How do you make your obsidian?
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2012, 09:03:49 am »
Any other designs? I want to see someone else's obsidian generator.
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Re: How do you make your obsidian?
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2012, 09:24:04 am »
Quote from: rtg593 on April 19, 2012, 09:16:59 pm
Copypasta!

:p I do believe that's word for word the post I saw you do last week, you just copy pasted, didn't you ;)

Just as impressive, love the blood water of the enemies makes the obsidian :D

Thanks goodness someone else called it.

I thought I was going mad for a moment there
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Re: How do you make your obsidian?
« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2012, 05:24:09 pm »
Anyone else has any other interesting/efficient obsidian makers other than the checkerboard?
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Re: How do you make your obsidian?
« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2012, 06:21:57 pm »
Quote from: Mrhappyface on April 20, 2012, 05:24:09 pm
Anyone else has any other interesting/efficient obsidian makers other than the checkerboard?

The most interesting one I'm aware of is the Magma Piston
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