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[Tenderroast]

pssst. It was me.

Mainly the PMs were to keep from flooding the thread with theories of what you could do 

[WanderingKid]

pssst. It was me.

Mainly the PMs were to keep from flooding the thread with theories of what you could do 

LOL. This thread has found itself a design for safe multilevel aquifer piercing, a discussion of FB traps, and who knows what else in forgetting offhand. Flood away!

[enizer]

Hmm, magnetite? that shows up in blobs, not veins, if I remember correctly
122k cassiterite
14k magnetite?
I would guess that means that ALL the "deep metal", through all caverns, is cassiterite, and the magnetite is probably your "shallow metal", existing only above the first cavern

I'm not 100% sure on that, but that is what I would do in looking for it.
In any case, magnetite blobs are not that easy to find by accident.
You may need to make exploratory tunnels, or dig up and down in the center of any magnetite blob you have found so far, I usually see magnetite on 2-3 z levels in the blobs it appears in.
It's never just a one layer blob unless it's replaced by a blob of something else, like a blob of microcline..

And one more thought, if the lava in the OMG were to level out to 4/7 everywhere, instead of moving between 3/7 and 4/7, would that not reduce liquid calculations, because with everything at the same amount, it wont be calculating where it balances out to?
Of course that could be a pain to try without a little DFhack, but still.. FPS

Interesting idea with the walls in the tree farm, I wouldn't have thought of that, and it looks like that's going to work

both fun and educational as always

[WanderingKid]

FurnaceClans 27 is up.  I get the OMG back and the tree farm is finally flooded out.

http://youtu.be/7PxoV6i8284

@enizer:
RE: Magnetite Blobs: I've dug out all the ones I have found, and I use vein digging, which will get multiple Z's involved.  There's probably a lot more but I am also leary of FPS death, so it'll happen slowly.

For balancing out the magma, I'd need a pretty significant system to pull it off without cheating.  The 3/4 flow isn't too bad, honestly.

[Tenderroast]

I have an idea to take care of your "dude hiding under the wall" problem. Upright weapons trap. Just checked the wiki, all traps (including levers, and upright weapons) are ignored by building destroyers.

You have plenty of goblinite, to smelt for iron and steel, to make the spears, and the the mechanisms.

[WanderingKid]

I like that one Tenderroast.  I think I just got overfocused on the initial design that I wasn't even thinking of that.

I'd initially built the bottom of the magma chutes on the side with Impulse Ramps to deal with any cart that might fall off the route when it hit something, but that doesn't seem to be happening at all.  Next time I take the system completely down for maintenance (there's a few horse corpses and the like that keep getting plowed over) I'll swap the ramps out for spikes and hook it to a pressure plate or two on the OMG runner.

[Tenderroast]

all you really need is 2 sets of spikes. Under your anti flyer walls. The B-52 system works great for the rest. Unless of course, you just want to fully automate it, so you can go lazy mode. Because lazy mode is always fun 

[WanderingKid]

all you really need is 2 sets of spikes. Under your anti flyer walls. The B-52 system works great for the rest. Unless of course, you just want to fully automate it, so you can go lazy mode. Because lazy mode is always fun 

Yeah, but I like lazy, particularly with a low # of dwarves.

[WanderingKid]

I went from no materials to probably 4 episodes worth in a single evening's play session.  Good grief.  This will take a bit to edit into something coherent.

Teaser: At the end of last night's session I may have just seen the beginning of the tantrum spiral that will take FC out.  Partially my fault, partially an 'oh my god, you bastards, you killed Kenny' kind of thing.  However, you'll have to enjoy that tease, there's plenty more science that Glados I did in the meanwhile to discuss.

[WoobMonkey]

*WoobMonkey cancels have life: busy refreshing YouTube top-page.*

[WanderingKid]

Stop refreshing, it's here:   

http://youtu.be/cbL5xibivYU

One of them anyway.  General Fortress review as we've moved forward with certain digs and tree farms and the like, and a review of how I'm building the ice walls against the edge of the world.

[WoobMonkey]

Not uploading in HD anymore?  Gotta ask, because it's very hard to read anything on screen in 360p.

[WanderingKid]

You got there while it was still processing.  Try again.

It initializes in 360, then it processes the upper levels of the HD.

[WoobMonkey]

Gotcha.  Guess I'll just have to look at it again later.  Oh, the torture!

[WanderingKid]

Gotcha.  Guess I'll just have to look at it again later.  Oh, the torture!

Just fired it up.  1080 is active.

Edit: That's very odd, this does look a little rough still. It's using the same export settings I did for 20-27, so I'm not sure what's going on here.

Um, give it an hour.  YouTube may be having some conniptions in the background.  I usually let them upload in the morning and then release at night, so the pre-process they insist on may not be complete for a while.

Edit 2: Alright, that still looks... a bit blurry to me.  Let me know if it's too much, I'll re-export it and try again.  Not sure what the hell is going on here.