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Russell.s

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A novel releasing of the HFS?
« on: September 10, 2012, 10:48:59 pm »

Hello! There be spoilers in this post.

I was surveying a nice looking site (flat terrifying glacier) and decided to dig down and find the caverns. My dwarf somehow managed to dig directly into the HFS, and not through an candy spire. He just channeled straight through the semi-molten rock, which I didn't think was possible.

Here is the channel he dug:


The next level down, with "magma flow" in the centre:


Here he channeled through the semi molten rock


Finally ending up in the familiar circus:


When he hit the ground he was instantly kicked to death by an Iron Porcupine, but he had no injuries from channeling through the "magma flow" or through the semi-molten rock.
Is this normal, or some strange bug?
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #1 on: September 11, 2012, 01:02:22 am »

Is temperature off?
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #2 on: September 11, 2012, 01:08:40 am »

If temperature was off, sounds like a mild bug.
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2012, 01:10:32 am »

Yeah, you can channel through SMR if you haven't revealed the tile underneath.

Incidentally it's much easier to go UP through SMR, as you can dig upward stairways through it until you hit a revealed tile (or regular rock).
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2012, 02:31:30 am »

Yeah, you can channel through SMR if you haven't revealed the tile underneath.

Incidentally it's much easier to go UP through SMR, as you can dig upward stairways through it until you hit a revealed tile (or regular rock).

This sounds exactly like what happened. When I tried to channel through a revealed tile of SMR it wouldn't let me. Thanks for the explanation!
And yes, temperature was on.
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2012, 08:03:23 am »


Incidentally it's much easier to go UP through SMR, as you can dig upward stairways through it until you hit a revealed tile (or regular rock).

Another reason to make sure the HFS never gets hold of a copper pick.
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2012, 08:05:25 am »

I thought this thread was about a demon writing a book without first being released from hell.

"Damn slade gets boring after a while seriously it would be really nice if someone broke that big ol' shiny hollow tube overhead so I could fly out THE NOVEL"
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #7 on: September 11, 2012, 09:32:30 am »

And then the demon could write an essay about the novel. And then an essay about the essay about the novel. Books are fun.
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #8 on: September 11, 2012, 11:51:13 am »

And then the demon could write an essay about the novel. And then an essay about the essay about the novel. Books are fun.

I want start your day with it must have been can the novel save the world.
« Last Edit: September 12, 2012, 10:16:47 pm by MadocComadrin »
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« Reply #9 on: September 11, 2012, 03:24:16 pm »

I want to see book with title "We don't need [BODY_PART] where we're going"...
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #10 on: September 11, 2012, 03:47:26 pm »

That would lead to oddly appropriate book titles like "We don't need brains where we're going."
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #11 on: September 11, 2012, 06:43:22 pm »

"We don't need Third finger, left hand where we're going."

Or,

"We don't need Liver where we're going."
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #12 on: September 11, 2012, 07:13:41 pm »

Combined with Genesis mod for +hilarity+.

You know what I mean.
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #13 on: September 11, 2012, 07:35:33 pm »


Incidentally it's much easier to go UP through SMR, as you can dig upward stairways through it until you hit a revealed tile (or regular rock).

Another reason to make sure the HFS never gets hold of a copper pick.

Uhh... sorry about that. Let's just hope the Spirit of Snow clowns don't reverse engineer the one poor Urist left down there!
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Re: A novel releasing of the HFS?
« Reply #14 on: September 11, 2012, 08:09:41 pm »

I thought this thread was about a demon writing a book without first being released from hell.

"Damn slade gets boring after a while seriously it would be really nice if someone broke that big ol' shiny hollow tube overhead so I could fly out THE NOVEL"
Same thing.
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