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(Semi-)Megabeast

LEAVE TEH DORFS ALONE!!!11

[pisskop]

my treebranch is your competition?

I assumed somebody would get rocks together and make some mechanisms!

also tables and chairs.  Waaay behind on that.

[10ebbor10]

We got visitors btw. Check the large map, bottom right. Some other skeletal thingies.

As for magma channel, a few questions. If we pick a scale were DF magma is one and real Magma is five, where does this things Magma score?
1: All the same, but cools down
2: Heat spreads much further than DF, causing things to melt/ catch on fire
3: Different flow rate
4: Releases poisonous gasses
5: Different cooling times form different rocks.

If we can't do the magma thing, I think we should construct a pallisade from dirt(surely we dug up enough from our base) and wooden poles, with a small watchtower for good measure. Secure the lamas as well.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Go with the magma-channel plan! It has two people backing it, twice the number backing the next most popular plan!

Whatever kind of plan is better than magma channel. It is like a gigantic sign saying "here come dorfs".

A volcano with a spot of cleared snow and some earthen fortifications also point pretty clearly to dwarves.

[pisskop]

why can't all the fortifications and traps be mostly inside?

...and a not-glowing wall of dirt and wood could even be a nest for an giant giant eagle if done correctly.

[10ebbor10]

why can't all the fortifications and traps be mostly inside?

...and a not-glowing wall of dirt and wood could even be a nest for an giant giant eagle if done correctly.

Because of the Lama's. And we want to have a heightened to allow us to protect the merchants a bit.

[PlutoniumApe]

I assumed somebody would get rocks together and make some mechanisms!
also tables and chairs.  Waaay behind on that.

We got visitors btw. Check the large map, bottom right. Some other skeletal thingies.

As for magma channel, a few questions. If we pick a scale were DF magma is one and real Magma is five, where does this things Magma score?
1: All the same, but cools down
2: Heat spreads much further than DF, causing things to melt/ catch on fire
3: Different flow rate
4: Releases poisonous gasses
5: Different cooling times form different rocks.

If we can't do the magma thing, I think we should construct a pallisade from dirt(surely we dug up enough from our base) and wooden poles, with a small watchtower for good measure. Secure the lamas as well.

I like the way you two think.
From your list I'd say 1 1/2.
I want you to be able to work with it, but I also saw the Magma on Ice video

If you want to puncture the magmapipe just tell me where
But also keep in mind that once you do there's no turning back 

Edit: And always feel free to doodle on the overview map if you have specific plans for something!

[Donuts]

Dariush, how did you get that avatar? Is it me getting magma'd?

[10ebbor10]

Well, if we seal ourselve totally in it'll take alot of Fun and fun out of it.  I' d hate that.

But for magma canals... in DF it would work, how ever my opinion is if we did this RL to an active volcano w/magma turning into lava it would depend on consistency of lava.  Really depends on how you roll the dice.

[Donuts]

Well, if we seal ourselve totally in it'll take alot of Fun and fun out of it.  I' d hate that.

But for magma canals... in DF it would work, how ever my opinion is if we did this RL to an active volcano w/magma turning into lava it would depend on consistency of lava.  Really depends on how you roll the dice.

Oh.... xD

[Dariush]

PA wouldn't murder all of us just because we used magma in a wrong way, would he? ...WOULD HE?!

[10ebbor10]

PA wouldn't murder all of us just because we used magma in a wrong way, would he? ...WOULD HE?!

He might kill one or two of you, and lock the others out/ in the fortress.

Or maybe he remembers magma isn't an insta kill weapon, and you only get horrible burn wounds. Or maybe the magma cools down after a few days and you just have some sharp pieces of obsidian to protect you.

For now, I propose a simple ditch, pallisade combination. Later we can fill the ditch with magma.

[Dariush]

If it cools down, we'll be able to just dig it out and fill again.

BTW, PA, would you allow something like automated mining machines?

[10ebbor10]

If it cools down, we'll be able to just dig it out and fill again.

BTW, PA, would you allow something like automated mining machines?

Problem is that there will be a cooldown time were the lava is hard enough to walk on, but there a still liquid parts on the inside preventing you from mining it away.

[Dariush]

Hm. In that case maybe we should some magma-safe rods down into the magma (leaving a bit sticking out), so that those liquid parts would transfer their heat to it, which would disperse the heat through the exposed part?

Also, stop giving PA ideas about the best way to fuck us over already.

[10ebbor10]

Hm. In that case maybe we should some magma-safe rods down into the magma (leaving a bit sticking out), so that those liquid parts would transfer their heat to it, which would disperse the heat through the exposed part?

Also, stop giving PA ideas about the best way to fuck us over already.

What, I haven't even told him about lavabombs*, pyroclastic waves** and stuff. Or about magma bubbles(or whatever they are called). Basically this is something that happens in older volcanos, where a bunch of hot gas gets trapped under a layer of semimolten lava/magma, forming some kind  of bubble. When they burst they spray fire and magma to their surroundings.

*During an eruption, volcanos sometimes eject globs of magma, which then cool on the outside(Ie hard shell with magma on the inside), resulting in a magma powered schrapnel bomb.
**You should know this one

Terminology is not correct. At all