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By the holy swelling of Armok's Prostate, this is unfair!

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No, really - my miner's head was ripped off before he even started digging!

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OHMIGERD WHY OH WHY OH WHY

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Your sanity has crumbled to its end

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I'm a masochist.  This is the perfect spot for a new mountainhome!

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Total Members Voted: 0

Voting closed: November 16, 2013, 07:34:02 pm

[FireCrazy]

A bigger map would have been nice... I usually play on 8x8/6x6 size embarks.. Anyway, im on my 6th try and going fairly okay.

[Grimmash]

WanderingKid:  Here is the save.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=8150

I'm hoping I'm just doing something horribly wrong .

[puutuulion]

Grimmash:

I am at work and can't pull up the save file, but I believe there are not three aquifer layers.  If the level below you is not acting as a drain (i.e. if it's solid rock instead of aquifer,) you won't be able to outrun the water flow from that northern tile until a wall is built to help.  Don't dig out those spots first.  Dig 1 & 2 in the diagram below together, then wall them in order:

Second Layer z=-1
--1---
-X2-X-
-X--X-
------

Then wall them in reverse order:
--W---
-XW-X-
-X--X-
------

Then you can proceed with the other spots.  Do all of these one at a time, except for digging 3 and 4 which should both get dug before you start 3:
-1W35-
2XW4X6
-X--X-
------

[puutuulion]

If you need more help, here is the full build pattern (do 1-8, then a-g, all in order.  Every dig is one at a time except for 1+2, 5+6, b+c, and e+f)

Note that spot "a" actually replaces one of your stairs.


-3157-
4X26a8
gXf-Xd
-hebc-

[Grimmash]

Still no luck with the dig order posted above, even fastdwarfing it with DF hack.  I can designate teh wall in square one, but the dwarves refuse to start construction.  I'll flip my pump location to see if that works.  I'll continue to take stabs at this, but my turn came up for an MDF game, so I'm going to try and learn kobolds for a bit.

[WoobMonkey]

You will get cancellation spam.  Lots of it.

Just watch the pump-1 dig level; be ready for a lot of hitting q-s, over and over again.  If a dorf even touches the wall-to-be for a second, it counts towards finishing the construction. 

But yeah, they're gonna cancel.  And cancel again.  Especially when you have to dig out 2 tiles at once, to get into the corners.

Persevere, and you'll be rewarded with nice, solid rock.

[WoobMonkey]

Sorry for the double-post, but I'm bumping this so the judges will see it.

We're nearing the end of Sunday; what's your verdict, puutuulion and WanderingKid?

Are there any players left, who are either still going strong, or looking to try again?  If this thread is dead, no problem - we should still follow through with declaring the undead the official winners of this one! XD

[WanderingKid]

Hadn't realized there was a time limit on this one, I wasn't paying enough attention.  I'll try to go through the posts tomorrow unless someone pipes in with trying to continue.

[puutuulion]

I don't know if anyone's still active; I got pretty far and even got a metal industry going, but I kept getting tantrums/insanity and was getting huge migrant waves wiped out by undead, generating even more undead.

[WoobMonkey]

Well, as I see it, we can all start anew, and go for another week;

OR

we can wait for reports from those who haven't yet (lookin' at you, FireCrazy! );

OR

we can call this one a loss, and I'll start up a new challenge thread;

OR

we can use the brilliant idea(s) offered up by the poster below me.  Yeah, you.

Personally, I like the idea of doing a round of judging on what's been submitted, then everyone who hates their lives can giv'r another go!

[Grimmash]

I still have my save, just have not had time or the desire to try and click through cancellation spam.  SPent three nights on it already.

If you want to try a round two, I am game, but I won't be able to do much for a week at least.  I already have one save to handle over the holiday weekend.  And by handle I mean ignore, as I have no computer coming with me that can play DF in a reasonable way.

[4maskwolf]

I think we should vary it and use different mode etc. that make it harder. Like spawn of holistic.

[FireCrazy]

Meh, I given up if you want to know. (Never done a aquifer or evil biome before by the way)

[WoobMonkey]

Okay, then - pending first round results, we'll start over come Sunday.  Who's game?

[WanderingKid]

My personal winner for Round 1 is Woobmonkey, based on:

A) Screenshots are always good
B) Made me laugh while reading his latest fortress attempt
C) I can't vote for puutuulion, who seems to have gotten the farthest.