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Dolohov

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A fortress divided
« on: September 13, 2008, 01:08:56 pm »
I've got a scenario I'm not sure how to deal with.  I've got a reasonably long-running fortress on one side of the map, mostly near the surface.  I'm desperately short of fuel, and have mostly stopped producing glass and metal items.  However, I recently found a tiny patch of magma on the bottom Z-level a fair ways away from my fortress.  I've moved a lot of my stocks of metal bars and sand bags down there, but my dwarves are still making very long walks to a from -- I've built a very nice dining hall right there, and keep it stocked with food and drink, and I've made bedrooms for all the dwarves who will be working down there, but I still find that whenever a task is assigned, the dwarf in question is up in the main fortress.

What would you do in this scenario?  I'd hate to move my entire fortress this far underground; that'd be a lot of re-engineering, and I'm not sure what to do with my farms at the surface.
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Axe27

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Re: A fortress divided
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2008, 01:13:26 pm »
Quote from: Dolohov on September 13, 2008, 01:08:56 pm
, and I'm not sure what to do with my farms at the surface.

WEELLLL.

You could build a glass roof over a channeled out area to have an underground farm that can support above ground plants.
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Quote from: Fishbulb on January 17, 2010, 10:31:01 am
And thus did the dream of dwarven antigravity fade away, not with a massive explosion or a flood of magma, but with a whimper.

I'm going to be depressed all day now.

Jisaan

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Re: A fortress divided
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2008, 01:22:26 pm »
You could try pumping the lava to a more convenient spot.
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Derakon

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Re: A fortress divided
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2008, 01:35:39 pm »
Glass roof, stone roof, doesn't matter - once a square becomes lighted, it stays lighted.

What I would actually recommend doing is bringing the magma to you, instead of the other way around. Assuming that you have a magma pipe, and not a pool (pools have a limited quantity of magma), you can eventually get magma anywhere you want on the map. It just might take a few months to get there, is all. Even if you do have a pool, you might have enough; it depends on how big the pool is and how far away it is.
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THLawrence

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Re: A fortress divided
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2008, 04:41:30 pm »
Post a map on the archive so we can better understand your situation. Remember to use Points of Interest.
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Omniarch

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Re: A fortress divided
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2008, 05:59:09 pm »
You could seal off the magma area and then just dump food and drink in through a channel and reclaim it once it hits the ground... I think liquor barrels will survive a 1 z-level fall.
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Dolohov

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Re: A fortress divided
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2008, 08:14:05 pm »
It's a magma pool, not a pipe, sadly.  Still, if I'm careful and pump in stages, I might be able to move it to a more useful location.  I'll look into uploading the map when I get a chance.
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