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[Insert_Gnome_Here]

Rampartstern: Underwater Fortress

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The land? But that's where ELVES live!

I'm in the process of building a fort under a temperate ocean

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, where I can build during winter. The aquifer has proven troublesome but I currently have a self-sustaining underground area.



Once I have acess to rock and have built a tower to the water's surface, I will update.

[TheFlame52]

PTW

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

I doubt I will update before next weekend.

[Skullsploder]

All I can say is:

Doors.
Doors EVERYWHERE.

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

You don't need too many doors; only to block the outside off. Also, doors stop the drainage of water upon unretire/reclaim (which happens a *lot*)

[Urist Arrhenius]

Ptw

[Terff]

oh dear that looks scary,  yet something I really want to try now.  I'm always up for some sort of !!FUN!!.

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

Does the embarking over water allowing trader contact mechanic still apply to 40.xx ?

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

Well I've got a tower to the surface, but all the ocean keeps draining away and getting refilled, which does awful things to FPS. (could be aquifer related)

If I figure out MKV25, I will do that. EDIT: Got it working: http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-12427-rampartstern

[Terff]

If you don't mind me asking, how did you manage to embark in an ocean?  Did you use DFhack embark anywhere?

[Insert_Gnome_Here]

Just Embark utility (standalone)

[Meisterdieb]

How do your dwarves survive? Don't the drown?
Are you really embarking ON the ocean or on the beach?

[Thisfox]

How do your dwarves survive? Don't the drown?
Are you really embarking ON the ocean or on the beach?

I believe he embarked on a frozen ocean, and dug down through the ice, established a... hahaha. A beachhead, as it were, (pun intentional) then when the ocean unfroze for the other three months of the year, he just lived in the stone bit of the fort until the ice came back. Clever.

[Chief10]

ptw

[anewaname]

It is late winter and you have arrived at your destination. Cue the movie classic submarine klaxons and the dwarven expedition leader shouting "Dive! Dive!" as the dwarves grab picks and start digging downward. Because these are dwarven submariners and they will build their submarine from stone.