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Ookpik

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What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« on: May 24, 2009, 09:34:08 pm »
I like playing on resource-rich maps, which means that I always end up with way, way, WAY, WAAAAY more stuff than I need.  This has got me thinking about exquisite ideas for waste and excess.

What's the most decadent thing you've done in a DF game?  Clearcut old-growth forest so you could get enough ashes to make constructions out of soap?  Built an entire fortress out of nickel silver or feather tree?

I'll go first:  In my current fortress, I've started trading with the humans for artifact-quality metal toys to melt down for slag.  I don't even make anything out of it (I have enough iron as it is).  I just don't want anyone else to have it.
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Re: What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2009, 09:45:07 pm »
By artifact quality, you mean masterwork, right?  I'm pretty sure artifacts can't be traded to you from any traders...
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Re: What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2009, 10:22:06 pm »
Um, how about consuming all available resources for the sole benefit of one dwarf?
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Re: What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2009, 10:51:09 pm »
I dumped a noble in a hole, dropped my ENTIRE stockpile of rough, cut, and large gems, gold bars, and crowns in alongside him and LET him starve to death.
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Re: What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2009, 11:39:34 pm »
Anyone ever consider building an adamantium house? It protects your little piggies from wolverines.  ;D

And it fetches for a decent value too.
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Re: What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2009, 11:52:00 pm »
Soap fortress.

I had so much of the stuff some of my dorfs made soap artifacts. Like a soap warhammer.

... why.
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Re: What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2009, 03:57:19 am »
Quote from: That Zero Guy on May 24, 2009, 11:52:00 pm
Soap fortress.

I had so much of the stuff some of my dorfs made soap artifacts. Like a soap warhammer.

... why.
that's not so bad. you can actually cleanse elven filth with it. copperblazes, i think, is the winner when it comes to decadence. i usually get bored with a fortress before anything fancy starts going on.
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Re: What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2009, 08:41:01 am »
All my forts have some decadent goal. i always import precious gems with every caravan incase i want to make something stupidly valuable.
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Re: What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« Reply #8 on: May 25, 2009, 09:56:10 am »
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What's the most decadent thing you've done?

Letting the elves live?
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Re: What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« Reply #9 on: May 25, 2009, 09:58:20 am »
Hmm mines not a big thing but I had an awsome map with pretty much anything you could ask for, awsome seiges (every gob on a beak dog) and tons of iron. I was making everything I could out of iron. Speaking of that save I never finished it, need to go back and do that.
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Re: What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« Reply #10 on: May 25, 2009, 10:18:27 am »
Replacing the soil in the surface level of my fort with stone walls.

Accumulating 500-odd bars of iron and 300 of steel.
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« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2009, 11:08:24 am »
bauxite block fortress 55x75 and 4 floors high, all walls floors, roofing. I was aiming for 10 floors but it took so long for just the first 2 that i decided it was aiming a bit high.
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Re: What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2009, 11:22:14 am »
 Clear-cutting a forest to burn it all to make pearlash for masterwork clear glass windows to put in a multi-level villa for my warrior king. Also, making the entrance to said villa out of gold blocks.
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Re: What's the most decadent thing you've done?
« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2009, 12:44:47 pm »
Most decadent thing?

I decided that the trader/manager/mayor I named after myself needs several adamantine statues encrusted with all available gems, studded with all available metals and decorated with all other possible things (bone, tec.) in his dining room, as well as valuable metal furniture in all his other rooms.

He got all these things, shining things that would make a king weep because of their wastefulness.

Did I mention that he's blind?
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« Reply #14 on: May 25, 2009, 12:56:18 pm »
Quote from: Gothmog on May 25, 2009, 12:44:47 pm
Most decadent thing?

I decided that the trader/manager/mayor I named after myself needs several adamantine statues encrusted with all available gems, studded with all available metals and decorated with all other possible things (bone, tec.) in his dining room, as well as valuable metal furniture in all his other rooms.

He got all these things, shining things that would make a king weep because of their wastefulness.

Did I mention that he's blind?

But he can feel and taste them, and the quality.
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The *large serrated steel disk* strikes the Raven in the head, tearing apart the muscle, shattering the skull, and tearing apart the brain!
A tendon in the skull has been torn!
The Raven has been knocked unconcious!

Elves do it in trees. Humans do it in wooden structures. Dwarves? Dwarves do it underground. With magma.
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