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[cog disso]

Holy crap, I just discovered more jewels in one dig than I have ever had in my entire time playing. Includes diamonds, no less. Fucking insane.

I was at Disneyland this last week, rode through the Snow White ride, and there's a scene where you ride through the mine, and all I could think was "You have struck violet sespartine!"







Horrible when DF and reality start to mesh.

[slothen]

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mayor just made a 2.6 million dwarfbuck raw adamatine mechanism.  I was going to put it in his room to tell him how awesome he is, but he was possessed, so its gonna go somewhere else.  Perhaps the BEST WELL EVER.

For this you also need a masterful rope encrusted with every gem known to dwarfkind, and a platinum (I will assume not adamantine) block. Also - artifact bucket?

You'd also have to have masterful engravings all around this one hell of a well.

OH! HEY! It could literally be a HellWell, if the masterful engravings are in the adamantine deposit and you arrange for water down below.

All we need to do is flood the Circus and construct a well right above the Circus Crew.

I'm pretty sure, now that I think on it, that a Hellwell is the most expensive piece of real-estate possible in DF. (can you make adamantine ropes? or are they chains.)

It can be either. The question is: Rope, or chain?

Rope. Made out of adamantine cloth with images sewn into it, if possible.

EDIT: ...hopefully images of what used to be at the bottom of the well.

dang, I may actually try this.  I have a legendary weaver and clothier, that would make for a badass adamantine rope.  The engravings would have to wait until some awesome stuff happens at my fortress, my current dining room is filled with images of buzzards (my civ's emblem, funny i keep shooting them when they harass my masons.  20 z-level fall and splat)  and some lame elf taming alligators.  If only I had a high skilled architect too.  Sadly the hell-well would only be temporary, as once my cliffside green-glass fortress is finished, the mechanism/well will become one of the centerpieces of my fort.

[Flaede]

If you're building a well that drops down the adamantine tube, I am assuming you will have entertaining things to engrave before long.

[slothen]

I don't plan on breaking through until I've gotten a lot more done on this fort.  I did on a copy of the region, and the tube I was digging down (highest z level of it was at the level of the magma sea    ) was not the tube the hfs spawn under.  They just sat in the hollow tube instead of coming to kill me, and I had to specifically break into the other one to get them to come to my fort.  I killed quite a few with my small military, but most of them felt like chasing crundles around level 3.  They certainly didn't behave like murderous demons, although one threw a dwarf at a wall so hard he blew apart.  I didn't even stick around to see the fun because it was late at the time.

As for the hell well, I'll be building it just for the purposes of seeing how big a room value I can get.  I assume the only way to do this is to compare my architecture score pre and post construction?  and yeah I'll be building it with a block of pure adamantine metal, although i have raw plat blocks on hand.

[Styledatol]

Started playing again, finally got the time...
Built a fort on what seems like an endless supply of magnetite and bismuth (I hope the amount of metals/coal found in a layer will get reduced, this is ridiculously overpowered), so I'm working mostly on forging steel and iron; which is my lone export. Starting working on a network of catacombs to house the dead (think Diablo), will probably fill it with traps, living creatures, and treasures. Going to seal in one dwarf to act as a caretaker.
One of the immigrants claimed a workshop as soon as she appeared on the map, to be honest I'm not sure I want to know what she's working on...


Good god, this game still creeps me out at times.

[cog disso]

Violent Sespartine, the most dangerous of semiprecious gemstones.

[Blood-Dwarf]

my current fortress is a huge pile of chaos. migrants and caravans get murdered by ambushing goblins, my dwarfs are safely walled inside but i had a little trouble digging out my new farms making bedrooms and a big dining hall and somehow booze and food ran out. some dwarfs died before i could get a well going one of them was a legendary miner. my second legendary miner got killed for an artifact spear now all is full of miasma and tantruming dwarfs i'm sure some will go berserk and stark raving mad.
but i hope i can somehow get this place going again

[Pukako]

Actually, forgot name of fortress - without engravings, I can't find it.

Anyway, starting a Crundle collection.  Expedition leader and legendary miner gets moody, needs silk. Nope, none traded due to low goods prices due to my best gem setter and stonecrafter is one of my 7 originals - I have masterful fish dissectors (3 of them) but migrants who make tradable goods, no.

So to get the silk, I dig down (set 20 levels) and strike caverns about 5 levels down.  One pondgrabber and a small legion of crundles down there.  Let the webgatherer do his stuff and then mine the staircase with cage traps after one of the wanders up 15 levels and into the dining room.  Crashing a party, and 3 miners all go nasty on it - still finding crundle body parts in the dining room.

911 at last count, and more all the time.  I'm making metal traps in lots of 20, and they go fast.  Also had Impressively Large Giant Human who wandered into a cage trap at my gate (I forgot to raise the drawbridge) so he's the odd one out, apart from the goblin thief.

Currently trying to swap food for a tame giant desert scorpion from the elves.  I'll tether it to a rope at the front gate....

[Serio]

My baron is on a killing spree:

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And it's unlikely to stop any time soon. In case of a siege, I guess I'll just send him out to negotiate. I'm sure he can reach an agreement with the attackers.

EDIT: Up to seventeen kills now.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

Artifact Alligator Bone mace. As soon as I crafted it, a buzzard swarm came and is murdering my FPS.

[AltF8]

My baron is on a killing spree:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And it's unlikely to stop any time soon. In case of a siege, I guess I'll just send him out to negotiate. I'm sure he can reach an agreement with the attackers.

EDIT: Up to seventeen kills now.

I have this image in my mind of him walking outside, casually firing a crossbow bolt into the leader's forehead, then calmly stating: "Anyone else want to negotiate?"

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

Well.
I've constructed a vault for the legendary mace. The area where it lays also has the mace engraved on it.

[Serio]

My baron is on a killing spree:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And it's unlikely to stop any time soon. In case of a siege, I guess I'll just send him out to negotiate. I'm sure he can reach an agreement with the attackers.

EDIT: Up to seventeen kills now.

I have this image in my mind of him walking outside, casually firing a crossbow bolt into the leader's forehead, then calmly stating: "Anyone else want to negotiate?"

I think he'd sooner fling his axe than use a crossbow, but yes, that's how I imagine it'd go as well.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

The Forest Titan Usa has come! A huge blob composed of snow. It has two narrow tails, and has an austere look to it!
"Serious blob is serious!"

[Styledatol]

An Elven caravan came to trade, a few moments later a goblin ambush appeared and turned the Elves into mush. Killed them all, lost a war dog and a jeweler.

On the bright side... I got two war jaguars now, and that child who held my shop hostage got what she wanted now, the result: Elf bone crossbow.