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Spud

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Freezing cold map and no fire!
« on: January 20, 2007, 09:16:00 am »
Okay, heres the deal. Freezing cold tundra map. No plants or trees. No wildlife. So, i figure ill make some crafts and wait for the human traders to come and buy lots of food.

NOPE! I cant build roads on the ice!

So i figured, i would build a fire, seeing as it was recently implemented, and melt the ice.

NOPE! no fire in sight, and no obvious way to make it.

SO does this mean im going to make it through the winter.

NOPE!

Anyone got any ideas?

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Re: Freezing cold map and no fire!
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2007, 09:26:00 am »
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NOPE! I cant build roads on the ice!

Did you try building bridges?  :)
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Spud

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Re: Freezing cold map and no fire!
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2007, 09:34:00 am »
!!! thats ingenious!!!

Still, i should bve able to build fire to melt ice n stuff.  :o

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Re: Freezing cold map and no fire!
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2007, 01:27:00 pm »
you can punch holes in the ice with a catapult, but then you get water.

maybe you can make a fire after you harves a few towercaps for lumber, and haul them out.

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Slartibartfast

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Re: Freezing cold map and no fire!
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2007, 01:50:00 pm »
What were to happen if a channel full of magma were adjacent to a stockpile of wood?
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Re: Freezing cold map and no fire!
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2007, 03:00:00 pm »
I haven't yet played the newest version so here is my question: how can one start fire?  ;)
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Re: Freezing cold map and no fire!
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2007, 03:55:00 pm »
Seigers supposedly start campfires, but I don't know if they do on glacier maps. Your best bet will probably be to channel magma onto something that burns. Since wood is going to precious, I'd suggest using pigtail or silk ropes, since you can build them anywhere.
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Fieari

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Re: Freezing cold map and no fire!
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2007, 06:23:00 pm »
Well, I think you can still use "g" to make fire in adventure mode, but I don't know about fortress mode.  Lava sounds like it would set things on fire though... anyone with a world-nuking system set up able to tell us if the trees catch on fire now when you use it?
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Re: Freezing cold map and no fire!
« Reply #8 on: January 20, 2007, 07:27:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Fieari:
<STRONG>Well, I think you can still use "g" to make fire in adventure mode, but I don't know about fortress mode.  Lava sounds like it would set things on fire though... anyone with a world-nuking system set up able to tell us if the trees catch on fire now when you use it?</STRONG>

I think trees have caught fire for a while back now, actually...

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Re: Freezing cold map and no fire!
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2007, 06:30:00 pm »
Magma turns everything it lands on into ash anyway, right? so just use it to sweep the ice clean.
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Gakidou

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Re: Freezing cold map and no fire!
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2007, 07:38:00 pm »
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Originally posted by Zaratustra:
<STRONG>Magma turns everything it lands on into ash anyway, right? so just use it to sweep the ice clean.</STRONG>

Pretty sure that it turns water and ice into steam; once you're done you'll end up water. (Eventually maybe the fluid sources will be limited in content, but for now a river can never be completely drained; glaciers count as river for the purposes of game mechanics. It would be nice if some sections of the ice would not cover water thus making melting provide a potential source of useful land, although outside land is pretty useless as it is.)

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