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[Gaulgath]

... or maybe Crysis on max settings.

Well, let's not get completely ridiculous now.

[folo4]

we're getting off-topic, so let's get back to what Dwarf Fortress can be, eh?

For one, islands is still bloody impractical; there's no way trade can commence, and even the dreaded/beloved goblin sieges won't be able to reach islands.

Though, fishing would be alot easier now that we have the BIGGEST body of water in all dwarven worlds...

[Zemat]

In theory you could have now a small island on the same location as a continental beach. Allowing both traders and sieges to reach you.

[SirPenguin]

I seem to recall someone saying if you built bridges between landmasses, then traders could reach you. I guess if a chain of islands was grouped close enough together, you could make a whole bunch of bridges and go from there.

[folo4]

BRIDGES!?


this ain't modern world; the bridges would be pretty small in length.

chain of islands is rare enough as it is.

[Duke 2.0]

 Ha, these are Dwarves! They laughed at Elucid! They defy most laws of modern physics. A simple bridge won't stop them.

 And with the new editor, small chains of islands won't be hard to make. Heck, Toady suggested smoothing makes them more common.

[Zemat]

Actually you don't even need to make bridges. If you start a fortress in a beach square that borders an island and a continent, then abandon without building anything, it automatically marks the island as connected to the land when before that it wasn't. You could then build fortresses in the island squares which reach all civs on the continent. This is more of a bug than a feature but I imagine it's difficult to detect if two land masses have been recently connected by a fortress bridge without performing an exhaustive path finding.

[Frobozz]

Who needs a bridge? Just dig deep enough and you can build a tunnel under the ocean. From what I've seen the ocean doesn't go all the way down.

[Tamren]

Logically if you went far enough out you would hit the continental shelf and run into undersea !*LUDICROUS*! cliffs of 1000 or more.

[folo4]

oh great

next thing we know, there's a subrace of dwarves called abyss-dwellers who, instead of digging hills and getting mauled by Giant Cave Spiders, they dig DEEP UNDASEA hills and chat about giant squids.

soon, great war will emerge between the land dwarves and the sea dwarves.Then it's Disney plot to the rescue.

[Zemat]

Logically if you went far enough out you would hit the continental shelf and run into undersea !*LUDICROUS*! cliffs of 1000 or more.

And find R'lyeh and awake Cthulu :F

[Sunday]

Presumably you can still trade with dwarves on the island and get immigrants.

Would they spawn over the water?  Cause that would be funny.

Probably not, though.

[IndonesiaWarMinister]

Dwarves can fly
But only the NPC, much like the [firebreath] tag.
So that explain the Caravan and Immigrant.

OR:

They come from the abbys dwarves, not from the mountain dwarves. That's conclude: We must KILL them!

[Asehujiko]

The abyss dwarves gave me the idea of vertical maps. 32x128x768 vertical cliffsides anyone? That way we can hurl things off the balcony and make them go insane/starve before they hit the bottom and watching the gibs bounce up for 100+ tiles is plain awesome.

It roughly requires the memory of a nearly flat 3x16 map which is not much higher then the default.

[Alfador]

I rescued some sites that had fallen into the ocean after the cliff smoothing.

Erosion!