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[tonnot98]

How dangerous does this FB sound?

I want to know before I invite it for fun inside.


It cannot path into my fort, and solid stone is blocking it.

I have not been able to test it's dust, and I've seen it flying around the caverns.

I finally found it, but on the third cavern level instead of the 2nd where he was originally. His "deadly dust" was called "Boiling Extract" in the combat logs, and I can only assume that it was melting the dwarves almost instantly. I lost my champion and quite a few weapon masters before he fell to a lucky headshot.

[pisskop]

Hey, what's emotional shock do?  Is that any different than 'mortally afraid'?

[Bearskie]

Say, I've just had my first dragon attack, and I managed to trap him behind some fortifications eventually (hoping to UNLEASH DRAGONFIRE upon my enemies).

Unfortunately, right now the entire countryside is on !!FIRE!!, which is worrying me enough to order my dwarves to stay in the fort. Will I have to just wait out the fire, or is it safe enough to just let my dwarves do their outside business without bringing a whole barrel of fun back to my fortress?

[Larix]

Dwarfs are awful at fire safety. If there's a wildfire around, beards will only avoid currently-burning tiles, so when the fire spreads, it can spread right onto them, turning Urist McHerbalist into ‼Smokey the Dwarf‼ . Fortress parts in soil are also quite susceptible when the caverns have been breached - cavern vegetation burns nicely.

[Bearskie]

That answers one of my questions; I was gonna ask why my dwarves decided to avoid going through my main entrance and instead take the long 400-odd steps to a different entrance, but I guess they're too terrified of the burning refuse pile next to it that they dare not use the main gates.

[tonnot98]

How many megabeasts is the "Very High" megabeast setting? I wish to make a world with much more than that, and I need to know how much it actually is.

[pisskop]

Gen a very short world with it and ex(p)ort it.  worldgen paramiters should tell you.  my guess  offhand is 200 or its size dependent

[ptb_ptb]

How have weapons changed in DF2014? (Briefly)

[Telgin]

Whips (and maybe scourges), bows and crossbows were all made less deadly.  I'm not sure what the precise differences are for whips, but armor actually helps against bows and crossbows now.

I don't think anything else has significantly changed.

[greycat]

It's been almost two seasons, and fire is still razing the hills of Nourishedfloors. Any ETA on when will it finally die out? Quarantine is turning into more than a minor hassle right now.

Usually a fire spreads until every grass- or moss-covered tile on the entire Z-level has been burnt, unless there are large physical barriers to stop the spread of the fire.

[Nikow]

It's been almost two seasons, and fire is still razing the hills of Nourishedfloors. Any ETA on when will it finally die out? Quarantine is turning into more than a minor hassle right now.

Usually a fire spreads until every grass- or moss-covered tile on the entire Z-level has been burnt, unless there are large physical barriers to stop the spread of the fire.

Or water?

[pisskop]

Does anybody know why dwarves wont typically start wars?  They defend quite well, but usually arent aggressors themselves.  Elves have no issue doing such things . . .

[Garath]

It's been almost two seasons, and fire is still razing the hills of Nourishedfloors. Any ETA on when will it finally die out? Quarantine is turning into more than a minor hassle right now.

Usually a fire spreads until every grass- or moss-covered tile on the entire Z-level has been burnt, unless there are large physical barriers to stop the spread of the fire.

Or water?

a river is a physical barrier, dunno about rain. You can make dirt roads to stamp down the grass so the fire won't spread

[CatKate]

Hey guys,

one question concerning aquifers:

I am currently playing a map with aquifers and different biomes. Last four or five days (oh my god ...) I spent with digging through eight layers of aquifer using the double slit. "Near" the biome borders the aquifer is fluctuating horribly, I am encountering water virtually everywhere - enough to make me stop that fortress. And I also have struck the caverns, and all this with my dwarfs settling into two layers of sand so far. I guess I will start a new one.

My question:
I guess these fluctuating aquifers are a result of the biomes meeting - or can I encounter these in a single-biome aquifer map, too? Guess this would rule the aquifers out for now ...

Second question:
Is there a way to safely dig up to an aquifer (without actually piercing it)? Since stairs won't reveal the tile one z-level above I don't get no "damp" warning this way ...

[Edit] Oh, and third question:
How does an quifer behave if an aquifer biome meets an no-aquifer biome? Will it simply stop? Or also fluctuate wildly?

Thanks for your help!
Cheers,
Cat

[pisskop]

1: aquifers an vary in depth based on ground level and what comprises them.  These all can hold aquifers, and will do so throughout their whole level.  If they go all the way to the magma sea and one tile holds the aquifer, than the aquifer goes all the way to the magma sea.

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sandy clay loam
silty clay loam
loam
sandy loam
silt loam
loamy sand
silt
sand
yellow sand
white sand
black sand
red sand
peat
pelagic clay
calcareous ooze
siliceous ooze
sandstone
conglomerate
puddingstone

So it does vary a bit, and is further complicated by height (what is considered '0 zlevel') and by veins of gems and ore.  Ores and gems may not carry the aquifer, meaning with a big enough cluster of them you can dig through them.

This page should help some
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Aquifer

And AFA seeing the aquife 'above'.  Nope.  Its a blind guess, so be sure to secure all tunnels, lest your fort flood.