Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Mrandom]

I dug for magma for my new fortress. The third cave layer is 150 layers under earth and -3 in altitude...Has anyone seen anything like this?



DFhack revealed the map. The magma is 10 more layers down, and no iron in the whole 160+ layers...

[Eldin00]

I've had embarks where the 3rd cavern was 150+ layers below my embark level a fair number of times. I started using advanced worldgen to base my embarks off the 'region' templates instead of the 'island' templates, in order to generally get the 3rd cavern and magma sea not so deep.

[Mrandom]

I've had embarks where the 3rd cavern was 150+ layers below my embark level a fair number of times. I started using advanced worldgen to base my embarks off the 'region' templates instead of the 'island' templates, in order to generally get the 3rd cavern and magma sea not so deep.

I thought the z-level settings in advanced worldgen restrains the layers between cavens with some randomness. I guess that was not totally right.

[Zarathustra30]

On my very first fortress, I found a deep pit (I think) that went from 10 levels below the fortress to 200 levels below the fortress. Odd thing was, it extended up from the first cavern layer, pushing everything down. I didn't realize what a find this was until everything was blood and vomit.

[Max™]

z levels between 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 change the depth between the surface and cavern 1, 2, 3, and hell.

Mininum and maximum elevation as well as elevation variance have a lot of influence on your embark depths though. You get an area which is flat and up at like 150 elevation with oceans not too far away, the map is gonna be pretty deep to accomodate the possibility of a cavern extending under both.

It's a freaking nightmare in adventurer mode, you ever tried to run down a 200~ z level ramp spiral?

It can get pretty cool at times. I saw this site and decided to create a river source/waterfall given the absurd elevation change.

Z+242:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Z+150 wagon level:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Z+133 bottom of the volcano:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Z+132 forges:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Z+129 absolute bottom (no hell on this map):

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I built the living area around the tube with fortifications and such for waterfall misting, which meant that my habit of assigning civilian uniforms which often include a crossbow turned it into a shooting gallery since the cavern was open to the surface from the start and stuff would try to fly up out of there periodically, probably to escape the bat man that had something like 100 kills on his spear:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I still chuckle at the hungry head with a bolt stuck in it's head... where else would it get stuck?

[Naryar]

Hey look, another Asâx.

And it's a batman !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3ID92BAYYQ

[Max™]

Yeah, he made a hell of a mess down there:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Pretty sure he's in that miasma somewhere, just soaking it in for some reason.

[Mrandom]

haha that's pretty cool. You should watch out if you carve out some large room behind the waterfall, cuz the bat might want to use it for his bat cave.

I wonder how did you get absolute bottom so close to wagon level? I haven't played with any volcano site tho.

And I have actually walked down some 200+ z level dark fortresses in adventurer mode in the map I got 150+ level deep cavern. Well, I thought that how deep the hell normally is.

[Beast Tamer]

There's a new version of DF Hack?