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[Vilien]

The only way to fix this fortress is by flooding the world with magma.

[WorkerDrone]

I like how you subtly gave me the Dwarf with the personality 'Quick to anger...'

Very clever of you...BUT FOOLISH.

Chaoticjosh has been propelled away by the force of the blow!

[Jackrabbit]

This is the fith time I've been a woman in a game. Ah well, I've gotten used to it.

[cowofdoom78963]

I have a contingency plan for the possible goblin threat also, but that will be substantially harder and more costly to erect

I got a contingency plan for those gobilns, its pretty easy to erect but can get pretty hard. You want me to show it to you?

[Heron TSG]

Supercooling your mattress and jamming it up against the fortifications isn't a plan.

[Jackrabbit]

Magma is a plan. It works like this

1. Magma
2. Magma
3. ? (what does the ? stand for? MAGMA)
4. Magma! also prophet.

[Broose]

Magma is a plan. It works like this

1. Magma
2. Magma
3. ? (what does the ? stand for? MAGMA)
4. Magma! also prophet.

Could use more magma, really.

EDIT: In a related note, I propose we make a self sufficient tower, and flood the rest of the map with magma. Problem solved.

[RAM]

The jade ship? The furious bust?
Can my profession be changed to Bonemason?

[JoshuaFH]

Sure thing Ram, in fact, last update, I accidentally said WD was making all our mechanisms, when it was really you, sorry!

With our newfound heat source, now it's time to find a way to harness it. I just realized I can't use the copper because I don't have an anvil to fashion metal into useful shapes. So I'm gonna have to make do with wood and hope for the best.

I've never actually built a fort on a glacier before, so this is my plan:

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1 z-level below this area is the magma. The red square is where I plan to channel open the ground and gain access to the magma. The green rectangle is where I plan to put the screwpump. The Large green square is where the magma will go, and the orange square is where I plan to put all my water.

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This picture is directly above the last picture, this z-level is entirely ice. The blue square is where all the ice will melt and the red square is where I plan to put the channel. Once melted, the water will follow the blue line and fall into the channel, into the orange area designated in the previous picture.

Constructing all this has taken some time, my food stocks have gotten even more miserable.

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No, I can't have my dwarves starve, I must perservere. I didn't want to have to do this but...

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Sorry horsie, sorry donkey, but you were free, and that makes you free food.

If I can't get these farms in time, I'll have to turn on my dogs, good thing I haven't assigned them to anybody yet.

Wait, oh no!

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Miasma, It's everywhere!  I don't have time to dig out a proper butchering area, so I'll just have to live through it.

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Alright, it took two months of work, and it's almost Autumn, but the water melting machine is almost done, all I have to do is make a channel to get the magma, and start pumping.

Workerdone has the least useful set of skills (gem cutting and bone carving) so he gets to be the pumper. If something catastrophically bad happens and the pumper ends up dead, then we won't be horribly impacted by it.

*a minute later*

Success!

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I didn't expect it to do that! Heck, I didn't even know that big cavern was there! Hmm, whenever I try to mine it out, the water just instantaneously freezes again. I didn't expect this, I expected the water would retain some of the heat I gave it, atleast enough to flow to the channel I made. I'm gonna have to contrive a way to get that water out, put it to use, or atleast null it out enough to get at the sweet sweet mud that's underneath it.

And Autumn hits, and I think we're gonna make it. Maybe.

[Heron TSG]

Ooh! try roofing it over and covering the roof with magma!

[JoshuaFH]

My plan is to dig a third tunnel, one z-level above the water pool, and then channel downwards so I can access the water pool from above. It's either that, or continue to repeatedly try mining out the water until the water supply is exhausted and I can walk in without being encapsulated in ice..

The problem with the second option is that even though I have mud, my drink reserve is dangerously low, so I'll have to hope that my plump helmets will grow and I can brew them before my dwarves die of thirst.

I'll need to work a bit more until I can manage a permanent water reservoir, will the ice boulders melt into water if dumped into the heated area?

If I don't rip off the caravan, there's a very real possibility they will be attacked by Raptors. In fact, I think that a hidden Raptor ambush is waiting just outside of the fortifications, but I'm too afraid to open up and find out.

[Heron TSG]

will the ice boulders melt into water if dumped into the heated area?

To my knowledge, yes.

If I don't rip off the caravan, there's a very real possibility they will be attacked by Raptors.

Thar be your excuse!

[Mephansteras]

Dumping ice boulders will *not* get you drinkable water. They just melt into puddles that need to be cleaned.

One way to get water (fairly) quickly is to collapse a section of ice into a rock area. The water will melt during the collapse.

[RavingManiac]

What kind of raptors are these anyways? Are they faster than normal dwarves? Do they have [AMBUSHPREDATOR]? Can they equip weapons and armor?

Posting the raws would be nice

[JoshuaFH]

Sure thing, I'll put the Raptor raw in the opening post.

I'll also get around to posting the entire mod to DFFD so those successioners can actually get off the ground!