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[sonerohi]

If you tap the special metals near the death-pits, does it automatically start up the doom countdown? Or do you actually have to tap the hell pits for it to work?

[Duke 2.0]

 Alas, the doom countdown of the 2D version is gone. Now it seems when you strike the pits, a horde of demons come out and that's it.

[sonerohi]

Seriously?! So my embark-reclaim time plot diagram and all was for nought? The fears ungrounded, the anxiety disweaved? Oh thank the saints and the beards, Duke you're mah hero now.

[Duke 2.0]

 When you get hit with a couple-dozen Spirits of Fire, be sure to eat those words.

[sonerohi]

Nah, I wasn't greedy. For a fort that hit 5 units of addy before they built they're first farm, those 5 units are more than enough.

[Pilsu]

I bet the first tile you hit will reveal the pits 

What happens with HFS monsters when one reclaims anyway? The fort is filled with critters to my knowledge and any existing ones respawn, do demons pop back too?

[Skid]

As named creatures the demons just stay around until killed.  They don't respawn.

[dakarian]

Well, when you reclaim, the monsters just stay around.  When tentacle creature ate my fort, I went to reclaim it from them and had a hard fight to deal with.  Eventually won, but the few that remained were either too hurt to work, went insane, or both making any repair work impossible.  I eventually had to abandon and reclaim the fort AGAIN with a fresh group to get the place going again.  Good thing is that once the monsters were killed they didn't return.

Not 100% sure how the 'doom timer' worked, but if it's some delay between when the monsters are triggered and when they attack (with the game telling you about it) I would've been so grateful to have one.  As it was, the second the pit was opened and I saw what was inside I used that pause to try to desperately close the gap (what good it did).

[John Johnston]

Not 100% sure how the 'doom timer' worked.

It was pretty much "have you mined any adamantine? righty-ho I'll check my RNG... um, yep, you've lost"; at some point after mining adamantine the game ended Balrog style, no appeals.

[sonerohi]

But it is indeed gone now, yes?

[LegoLord]

But it is indeed gone now, yes?

Yep.  There is a chance that a mountain cave will spawn in a way that uncovers and even erodes some adamantine.  The timer. had to be removed.

[BurnedToast]

Not 100% sure how the 'doom timer' worked.

It was pretty much "have you mined any adamantine? righty-ho I'll check my RNG... um, yep, you've lost"; at some point after mining adamantine the game ended Balrog style, no appeals.

If I remember right, the game through out a random number from 1 to 100 once per season, and if your total mined squares of adamantine was higher then that you got the too deep message. So, if you only mined a small amount out you could often last a large number of years before you 'dug too deep'.

Unfortunately the game conspired against you. Adamantine used seperate skills to forge (unlike now) so you couldn't train a legendary weaponsmith on iron stuff and then expect him to churn out masterwork adamantine stuff. The king would also make digging mandates, forcing you to dig deeper and deeper till you hit the adamantine and once you hit it he would make adamantine mining mandates so you would have to keep mining it and thus eventually dig too deep.

I kind of miss 'too deeping' the fort, it provided an elegant and fitting way to end forts you were done with, rather then just abandoning them. Oh well.

[(name here)]

Also, you couldn't just ignore the king's mandates, because they came with huge punishments for missing them, according to the wiki.

[sonerohi]

Yes well keep in mind, this is the 3d, with no pits breached as of now. So don't stray very far away, lest ye hit the electric fence.

[Micro102]

so if caves can cut through adamite.....could something cut open a demon pit and let them loose on the world?