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The tale goes on.

Mechanisms of the hell-breaking machine appeared to be not magma-safe. All hell broke loose, the dragon was hit by shockwave, clowns tore her apart while she was unconscious. Sad.

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Army of clowns rushed through magma and caves:

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Another army rushed straight to the fort's entry. 1610 bronze dildos met them:

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The same time dwarves started up the power plant:

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Later it raised power output to 23700, pumps use just 5343 out of it.

Clowns arriving:

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They shall not pass:

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New gladiators arrived to the arena:

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It's funny!

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The end is somewhat predictable:

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Clowns breed as fuck:

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That was unfortunate fate for the dragon.


When you said 1610 dildoes, I expected dildoes to move horizontally, not vertically


Your arena...Is going to be clown breeding ground.

Tho even without breeding, their innumerable numbers and double elephant's body size mean that automatic clown slay, retrieve, butcher facility will have substantial food and bone production power.

[bloop_bleep]

A demon of snow swimming through magma.
Of course.

Yes to giant clown breeding ground.

How about you bait them into another room with an artifact building surrounded by adamantine upright spikes? They will all gather into the squares exactly two away from the building, so that's where you should build the spikes. This compact formation will accelerate breeding and whenever you want to harvest some clowns, you just repeatedly pull the lever connected to the spikes. You then remove the corpses using water to push them into an airlock, to later be butchered by dwarves.

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~ = water source
█ = wall
| = upright spike
@ = artifact building
- = bridge
$ = corpse stockpile
# = dwarf access
& = demon access

   █~█
   █~█
 ███-███
 █|||||█
██|   |█
&&| @ |█
██|   |█
 █|||||█
 █-----█
 █$$$$$█
 █-----█
 █#####█
Link a separate lever up to every bridge, as well as one to every spike. DON'T FORGET TO PLACE NOTES.


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Oh, you don't want breeding due fps. Better keep your facility turned off/inaccessible when not in use, so that they'll go off-map. Albeit gotta love how the water will qsp the results.

The moment I realized I could quickly kill every beast that enters the map with a funnel, scary dogs and harmless-to-dwarves syndrome trap I also realized it's too powerful to use.

A demon of snow swimming through magma.
Of course.

I adore this quote. In fact, I think I might cage-trap it.

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How about you bait them into another room with an artifact building surrounded by adamantine upright spikes?

Great idea, thank you! Perhaps I'll make something like this in next fort.

Well, the story goes on. Clowns breed as fuck:

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One sneaked into pump stack:

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Not for long:

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Goblin crossbow-woman named Aslot somehow managed to get in the inner part of arena, behind the fortifications:

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Now she's just a spectator:

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Severely beaten forgotten beats roams in caves. Clowns have no mercy:

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Elven diplomat arrived, human law-giver arrived, the gentlemen had a chat:

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Suddenly clowns left caves and gathered in the arena, almost all of them:

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They move strangely, they may be dancing. It seems that they have complicated social life:

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Goblin woman Aslot got mixed emotions about them:

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Huh. Hole in your pumpstack? That might be a problem sometime.

I'd guess Aslot was thrown through fortifications by a charge.

That's novel way to train armor user. Kinda resembling the spitting, which I know some use to train companions in adventure mode.

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Poor goblin Aslot got haggard:

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Then she started to throw tantrum, I didn't know goblins can do it too:

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I decided to try to conquer hell. 20 elite marsdwarves fight surprisingly good:

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Sweet smell of victory:

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Construction began:

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One more clown emerged from magma sea. He's got some supernatural powers, he seems to hypnotize people:

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Despite the thirst dwarves can't leave, they are hypnotised:

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A tree grew up inside the magma-pumping tower:

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The circus never stops:

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Oh yeah, confined sentients can break stuff when tantruming even if they're not buildingdestroyers. Beware of having nearby vital bridges.


Nice job by marksdwarves, surprisingly good indeed. I assume the rest of car prevents new stuff from coming.


I've seen hypnotisizing as well, but with coyotes. Procedurals tend to be more able to attack.


Oh my. You placed your magma forges right on top of magma sea. And I assume your haulers not legendary combatants.

That's 1 meatshield and lot of arrows.

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Oh my. You placed your magma forges right on top of magma sea.

No, it's an isolated basin, like this:

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Edit: typo.

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Then how did the fun get in?

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The pumps need access to the sea.

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Dwarven hell-outpost slowly grows:

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The shark got approximately one half of final size. It's time to start mounting magma-spitting system:

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Dwarves started to build bottom of magma reservoire inside the shark:

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New clown comes, this time he looks like a theropod dinosaur. He's calm and peaceful, he sits at the door and meditates on something:

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Eventually he got agressive, markdvarwes had to intervene, they killed him.

The hell-outpost reached the edge of the map. Another clown visited:

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In Armok Vision he's much bigger:

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Time for photos has come. This is how the shark looks from southeastern corner of the embark:

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This is the whole embark from bird's view:

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These are magma-spitting hatches:

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This is the inside of shark's belly:

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 You can pull magma through floor grates.


Not sure what you're making down there yet.


The shark reminds me of chocolate easter eggs now. Hollow within.


Therapod Fiend - truly, being calm and ignored by dwarves. Unusual behaviour for a dinosaur. Was he born on-site?

*reads below*

Ah, I guess all things end.


Nice screenshot visiting clown. Multi-story with open halls is pretty neat.


I recall your previous fort has some beautiful views down straight down the side. Maybe take a picture of something like that?


Hm. Have you thought about a tree inside that belly?
Not possible naturally, but...It feels fitting.

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You can pull magma through floor grates.

I didn't know that. Thank you.

Hm. Have you thought about a tree inside that belly?
Not possible naturally, but...It feels fitting.

Yes, good idea, I'll try. Not sure if there's enough time though, let's see.

OK, let's continue the story.

This is what merchants see when they enter the embark:

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This is what they see when they get to the surface out of tunnels:

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Another clown invasion:

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Even ghosts rise up to defend the motherland:

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It's the same girl that stands in razed workshop in previous photo, few seconds before her death. It's her heroic ghost.

Clowns managed to partially destroy the pump stack:

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Goblin woman Aslot who attended circus for 19 years, eventually got crazy:

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Dwarves keep on mounting reservoire for magma in the shark:

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Magma crabs invaded hell:

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Elven merchants tried to leave the site through hell. Idiots:

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The merchant views are excellent. I like them more than previous ground views.



Something all tilesets and lot of graphics set suffer from is the uniform appearance of the procedurals. I don't know if one can change that in stonesense.

Do ghosts look lik live units in stonesense?



Oh dear. So much magma from broken pumpstack. That's going to be annoying to fix.



Alsot continues to become more of a superweapon. Get her to topple a statue as well for even bigger bonuses?

Would be cool if she could eventually kill the clown car.



Reservoire from dwarven point of view feels like you're on a ship.  Very nice.

Hm, it'd make magma spitting kind of useless, but you could also surround the shark by an aquarium.



Q: How do elven merchants escape hell after leaving through there?
A: They don't.