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[kero42]

Hello, I've been lurking in this forum for a few months now and have made this account to ask something.

I suppose i should start with the context:
My dwarf fortress suddenly stopped working a while ago, and after much frustration and many redownloads, i am finally able to play again. I lost all my previous saves, so i generated a new world. it was pockect sized (or just small, i've forgotten), low civs, sites, history, lowest setting savagery and no. of large beasts, medium(-to-low) mineral occurance. i looked at the world map and decided to embark on a small good island near the lower-left corner. i embarked, mainly masons, some fisherdwarves, carpenters, etc. After arriving and checking out my starting seven for interesting deities in the relashonship screen, as i always do, i began to survay my surroundings. it was a medium-sized hill, with a smal strip of ocean at the edge of the screen. So far, nothing paticularly notable. then i examined the beach;
(Im not sure if theses images will come up, i cant seem to get this working using the screenshots i took . any advice? Also, i apologise if you cant understand the graphic pack, but i have problems with eye strain and the vanilla ASCII gives me a horrible headache . )


(if you cant see these images, its a black/grey beach, which when examined with the K key, says obsidian/obsidian pebbles, and a picture of the next Z-level down, showing a damp obsadian wall.)
So is this a glitch, or is this normal in the newest versions?(the only moddification to the game i made was to, using the lazy newb pack, change pop cap to 30, and I turned off aquifier.)

Ps: my key board S, N, and T keys sometimes dont work, so sorry for any typos.

[Varnifane]

An obsidian beach isn't any more abnormal than anything else in DF.

Congrats.

[kero42]

Thanks for the reply, i was worried my game was glitched or something. ive never gotten something weird like this before. Ill probably not be able to make much use of this resource, which is a shame, but oh well. thx again

Edit: Though does anyone know how i can upload images properly? just thought I'd ask here instead of start another thread.

[Loud Whispers]

Use a website like imgur or imageshack

[kero42]

Thanks. I'll Try to remmber that next time.

[Laserhead]

There are beaches not unlike that in Hawaii. Obsidian doesn't really form grains and pebbles but other igneous extrusive rocks such as basalt can form black sand beaches where a lava flow hits the shore.

[Lich180]

There are beaches not unlike that in Hawaii. Obsidian doesn't really form grains and pebbles but other igneous extrusive rocks such as basalt can form black sand beaches where a lava flow hits the shore.

Or Iwo Jima

[Sprin]

A good chunk of my forts make pimped out obcidien swords for trade.

[thiosk]

I've never actually encountered obsidian, even around the magma sea...

So I'm jealous.

[orbcontrolled]

I've never actually encountered obsidian, even around the magma sea...

Obsidian used to be a bit more accessible when thick rings of it surrounded magma tubes. Nowadays the only real way to get any is to produce it manually.
Now that I think about it, that is really kind of weird that it doesn't occur naturally in and around the magma sea.

[kaijyuu]

I occasionally find obsidian layers in igneous extrusive stone.

[misko27]

I've never actually encountered obsidian, even around the magma sea...

Obsidian used to be a bit more accessible when thick rings of it surrounded magma tubes. Nowadays the only real way to get any is to produce it manually.
Now that I think about it, that is really kind of weird that it doesn't occur naturally in and around the magma sea.

I never seem to encounter it either, only appearing on my map when I made it myself to access the candy under the magma.

[Loud Whispers]

You can always farm your own. I never seem to be able to get competent enough in the use of pumps to do so though