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[Vercingetorix]

Welp, got mauled by a black bear.  He's the master of that island now...

[Flying Carcass]

My dwarves finally managed to regain control of the city (1 section at a time) and the goblins have temporarily withdrawn. Now to begin the rebuilding effort, and hopefully I'll get some migrants soon. Of course, I managed to get rid of that accursed bridge and flood some areas so they'll never be useable again.

Heh, at one point during the goblin occupation they were parading around the town square while I had mason commandos secretly constructing pathways to allow me to secure the highground in the town.

[Greiger]

Spoiler: Deep secret stuff (click to show/hide)

 Welp, my fortress found the magma sea.  Looks like I won't be digging down any farther.  This semi molten rock actually appears undiggable so I can't keep exploring downward in my hunt for a metal better than copper. (Gasp! undiggable rock? in MY Dwarf Fortress?  More likely than you think.)  I did decide to set up the magma workshops while I was there though.  Dig into the ceiling above some molten rock and then channel down into it where I wanted my workshops.  Same kinda thing I did a hundred times before, safely in 40d.

Wrong.  The moment I dig the channel downward some magma bubbles up out of the hole.  It doesn't continue flooding though.  Seems like just a small bubble of magma pops out of the hole and covers the area near it now and then.  Not enough to actually flood anything, but enough to make working down there a bad idea and give me a really good scare.  My roly poly miners were actually standing in 1/7 for quite some time though, and while the red caste is immune to the heat from magma, the green caste(which they are) have normal temperature values.  I guess all that fat insulated them from the heat.

Fortunately The previous cavern has a magma pipe just barely sticking out of it., so I locate it at my z-level and puncture the side of it to source some workshops.  That works normally, no surprises this time. and woo! I spotted some adamantine up in the cave above the pipe!  This will be a good day!

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@Architect Huh so I guess the magma sea does that behavior too then?  or maybe I was just too close to the pipe when I started digging my channels.  Oh well.  I was thinking Toady implemented eruptions and I was a split second away from walling off the mining shaft from the rest of the fortress.  That would be what you would actually expect to happen when you dig into the mantle.

 

[The Architect]

Grieger: Get creative digging down through old spoiler material.
Tip 2: What you are describing is the way Toady has magma pipes set to refill. A little magma is occasionally added to the top wherever it is exposed. In your situation, it just evaporates before more is added. Normally it floats around on top of the old magma and the pipe gradually refills.

[Tarran]

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This will be a good day!

Ha. Ha ha. Right. And I'm a whale that can type without destroying this computer. If your fortress doesn't die, your FPS will.

I recommend you test my idea about exploring the adamantine with fortifications if you value your fort. That won't save your FPS though.

[Greiger]

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Well I have dealt with SoF and the other demons before  I actually managed to handle the spirits alot more often than I handled the weaker guys.  Though I don't think the current state the military is in I could deal with them now.

Worse comes to worst I'll just stick a few wood supports holding up blocks and litter the floor with cage traps.  I never tried that before, but I hear it works well.

Nevermind, I just noticed they don't appear to exist in the raws anymore.  I think I'll just use fortifications then.

[Tarran]

Spoiler: Nothing important. move along. (click to show/hide)

Or better, rig up a cave-in that, in a single pull, will drop a block of (natural) stone and block the only acsess to your fort. Never can be too careful, since there are more demons then vermin in this version. Let alone the fact that there are more then 3 types of demons now.

[Flying Carcass]

Ack! The kobolds ambushed the fort and unlocked the doors, allowing a subsequent goblin ambush to attack the base from below. My dwarves tried to fend them off, but did not figure out how to equip weapons and armor in time and were massacred. Game over. 

[Shiv]

Elves came, set off goblin ambush, so I send out dwarves to defend the elves (I needed the logs...), Dwarves go out the back way, and then a puppy sets off another ambush in the front way.  I close the front gates and flood that region.   By this time the elves are all but dead, and fleeing into the hills.  My dwarves are bumbling their way towards the goblins, and I'm going through the dead pack animals picking over the remains as to what I need (still would've preferred trading so as to get rid of a bunch of useless crap I have).  Dwarves finally catch up, body parts go flying (seriously, all the dwarves and goblins seemed to mass onto one tile and every now and then a body part would just shoot out), a bit from both sides.  Final tally: 4 dwarves (2 military, 2 civilians), 12 goblins, and 5 elves.  Now I have a long stream of haulers going back and forth to my fort receiving the spoils of war.

It was a good day.  There's just so much blood being tracked into my fort and around the hill sides now.  I doubt I'll get migrants anytime soon.

[Ardenn]

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The leader of the local Goblin civ is a forgotten beast. It just sieged me. For several seasons.

It was rather unexpected.

[Geti]

Ardenn, that is beyond awesome. What kind of clown was it?

[buckets]

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"You have found a magma pool"

"You have found a great magma sea"

"You have discovered an expansive cavern deep underground"

Expansive? It's more than 35 z levels high, and I haven't even finished exploring it.

[stormyseasons]

was just minding my own business, digging down to look for accessible magma before trying the magma free smelting operation.

broke through to the first cavern layer, 10 z levels down per worldgen instructions, look around - perfect, an exposed magma pipe right next to my staircase! Look left, look right - wonderful, lots of cave spider silk, not a single GCS silk web around. Plenty of water - possibly even a permanent water source for my fortress. A single giant toad...no problem...

I instruct the dwarves to build a single staircase down. They do so. one of my weavers bolts for the cavern to gather spider silk - the giant toad takes offense - chases him up into the fortress proper - wanders around spooking dwarves - and provokes my woodcutter and miners into dealing with it. Cue several pages of combat where the effectiveness of copper weapons in woodcutters and miners' hands is demonstrated on a Giant Toad who doesn't manage to bite anyone through their clothing. Lots of 'xxx has been broken/shattered/cut open by copper pick/axe' Dead giant toad is carted off to refuse stockpile and main up/down stairway is painted in giant toad vomit and blood.

[random51]

Looks like somebody else wants my embark site! Spoilertagging these images just in case.

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[Ardenn]

Geti:

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Also, the trolls they brought along all have jobs. And yes, the troll hunter was shooting a crossbow at my dwarves.

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Actually, they haven't even left yet, I had just been assuming they would. Might be because of the beast leader there. If they hang around much longer theyll end up in the river when it thaws for the summer. I knew digging my fort into a frozen waterfall on a frozen river was a good idea...

And for fucks sake, my second cavern is 64 z-levels tall. If there isnt any more I cant see...