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[jaxy15]

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When mining out a deep vein of iron ore near my volcano, i find the magmasea and within the sea, some nice bluemetal. as it is in the sea what is visible is unobtainable. I mine above it, and there is none to be seen. So its there, just submerged in magma. Totally. Ideas? 

Are you sure that's a vein, and not a pillar leading to !!FUN!!?

[MonkeyHead]

There is a hollow core, wihtout doubt, but plenty of sticky out bits. I am thinking of how to access them... but cant think of a method.

[FuzzyZergling]

Make a pond zone at least two levels above, so dwarves will dump water down on the magma.
This will cast obsidian that you can mine through when you get a 3x3 chunk.

[Raptor_a22]

Migrants arrive!
I flip over to Dwarf Therapist and see what they do...
Lye making, glassmaking, small animal dissection, peasant, peasant.

New militia made!
I take a look where the migrants arrive...
I notice that theyre on the wrong side of a 10z level drop to my resident river

I get my carpenter to build a 3wide bridge (trader prep)
About 40 badgers arrive
Melbil has cancelled contrction, interrupted by badger!

*facepalm*

Luckily the badgers all moved off and stopped chasing him, theyre currently stuck on the other side of the river because it was winter and everything was frozen, and now its spring.

[Sutremaine]

I noticed that I had a bunch of criminals on my Justice screen with outstanding sentences for trade violation, probably due to the noble in question changing their mind after I was finished trading. Since the sentences were all less than a month and getting released from prison gives an insane mood boost, I appointed a dwarf that definitely wasn't on the list -- one of the four-named military dwarves.

Turns out I didn't have enough chains to go round.

Just about finished a 116 level pump stack when I read that marble isn't magma-safe like I thought, and I have marble blocks in some pumps near the bottom. Sigh.

Little bit old, but that doesn't matter so long as the magma never shares a tile with the pump stack. It's only wood that's a no-no for magma pumping, and even then you can normally pump a little before the pump fails.

[The Steel face palm]

After having 19 captured giant badgers released right next to my town, I moved to the other side of my river. At that moment I got 3 goblin ambushes. On my side of the river.

[Frelock]

As always, when starting a new fort, I go through several "founder candidate groups" and abort game if they don't have the stats it takes to be a founder.  Eventually after about an hours worth of looking at dwarf profile screens I get a good group; a very good doctor, a good military leader, and a good organizer/architect/leader.  There's also a decent farmer and cook among the others.  So I go through the tedious task of filling out items and pets and so forth.  Finally I embark.  Then I realize something...all my dwarves are dark gray.  I had completely forgotten to give them the relevant skills.  I now embark on a site that took half a day to find and prep for with 7 peasants.  *Facepalm*

I'm going with this fort anyhow, just means that the founders will literally have to skill up from nothing to be legendary.

[FrisianDude]

I just flooded my hospital because I wanted to have a secondary well active. Luckily the only patient, my ex-expedition leader, survived (though he was flushed out of the room while in traction at the far end of the room) I removed the traction bench too because he'd been in traction for four months without anything happening; he's back to mining now.

[MaximumZero]

As always, when starting a new fort, I go through several "founder candidate groups" and abort game if they don't have the stats it takes to be a founder.  Eventually after about an hours worth of looking at dwarf profile screens I get a good group; a very good doctor, a good military leader, and a good organizer/architect/leader.  There's also a decent farmer and cook among the others.  So I go through the tedious task of filling out items and pets and so forth.  Finally I embark.  Then I realize something...all my dwarves are dark gray.  I had completely forgotten to give them the relevant skills.  I now embark on a site that took half a day to find and prep for with 7 peasants.  *Facepalm*

I'm going with this fort anyhow, just means that the founders will literally have to skill up from nothing to be legendary.

You should check out Runesmith. Embark with anyone and then change their stats in game.

[Frelock]

You should check out Runesmith. Embark with anyone and then change their stats in game.

I'm a compulsive gambler.  Hitting the right stats at random is all part of the fun for me.

[MaximumZero]

You could still do the same thing, but with likes and dislikes.

[Proxiee]

>embark on a mountain

>3x3 spot that can only fit the wagon

>everyone else falls off the mountain and dies

what...wat?

Also, embarking on a "volcano spot" with no red volcano marker on the map. So I set out on the highest zlevel spot to find a 5000+ z level spiral of candy! Encased in 30x30 big block of hard magma that you cant dig through! When I revealed the map, HFS was just sad. It was 1 tile big. the rest was hard magma. I tried to stonesense it, but it caused my computer to blue screen D: And the fps, oh god, it had to have been at least 10 without even digging or running water. I just kept getting the message "Cave has collapsed"

[Yoink]

GodDAMNIT.

Just spent ages setting up heaps of workshops to make crystal glass for my megalomaniac expedition leader.
Then I look at the wiki to find out what "Rock Crystals" includes. *facepalm*
Is there any utility that would let me replace their love of crystal glass with an obtainable glass?!

[darkflagrance]

Just make a cheat reaction that does it. Make your "forge pewter alloy" reaction spit out crystal glass for free instead.

[lanceleoghauni]

"GWAFAFAFAFA Everything is going according to plan, the magma reactor's been laid out, I've begun to ready the heart machine for building as well, and now all I need to do is start making the power/magma/water layers and pipes. Wait... what am I forgetting..."

V V V V V V V V V V 

"OH SHI-"