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AtomicPaperclip

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Gahhhhhhh
« on: June 27, 2009, 09:39:00 pm »
I just found out the hard way that cave-ins travel through NATURAL floors, as well as constructed ones :'(

Half my fort just traveled down 6 z levels, killing two dwarves and making my five remaining dwarves very unhappy due to losing their friends, cats, choking on dust, and being knocked out by a cave-in
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Re: Gahhhhhhh
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2009, 01:06:08 pm »
I think everyone's found this out the hard way at least once. =P

Hell, happened to me yesterday when I told my dwarves to ramp out a large area, forgetting that I had done some digwork on the level above.

Fortunately it only fell through the side rooms of my tower instead of the center. Had to rebuild some of my nobles' quarters but falling through five or six z-levels of side rooms and hitting some ground I have yet to clear out isn't nearly as bad as falling through eighty levels of heavily-populated tower.
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Re: Gahhhhhhh
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2009, 01:32:50 pm »
Yep, I've been there  ::)
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« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2009, 02:56:53 pm »
Same here. I collapsed a hill for fun (not that FUN, though that's how it ended). But I didn't noticed it was above my fortress until it was too late.

Things died.

Including my brand-new dungeon master whose tomb I'd just finished.

I abandoned the fortress after that because I didn't feel like dealing with all the corpses and injured dwarves and dogs and kitten.

Plus, it ruined my workshops and food supply.

And there was a giant freakin' hole in the roof. Dwarves don't live in fortresses that have giant freakin' holes in the roof.


For some reason, I'm amused at making floors collapse. My dwarves...not so much.
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« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2009, 03:05:12 pm »
A cave in killed my baron's consort once. The bastard kept ordering things I didn't have. I gave the crippled miner a legendary tomb and dumped him into it with another cave in while he was still alive. Being crippled he didn't last long.
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« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2009, 03:18:56 pm »
Been there, Been there worse even. Once lost virtually all of the fortress like that. I namely used grates to built the walls at the corners of my glass walkway spanning a river, obviously i forgot grates don't hold the walls so as soon as the one was build it plummeted through the river flooding everything beneath it.
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Re: Gahhhhhhh
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2009, 03:44:22 pm »
I did this today, but it only took out 2 dwarves. Had to revert the save due to unrelated happenings.
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Re: Gahhhhhhh
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2009, 04:33:31 pm »
Quote from: Untelligent on June 28, 2009, 01:06:08 pm
I think everyone's found this out the hard way at least once. =P

Nope, never.

I've even TRIED!!!! to make a cave in happen.... nope it refused and i even checked the init file...
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« Reply #8 on: June 28, 2009, 04:58:39 pm »
The floor your trying to collpase has to be COMPLETELY unsupported-not even one tile connecting it to the wall/solid ground can remain.
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Re: Gahhhhhhh
« Reply #9 on: June 28, 2009, 05:00:28 pm »
I did, it was completely separated from the ceiling and walls, nothing below it either
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Quote from: Efun on June 19, 2009, 07:02:52 pm
Military dorfs are the busiest if their partner is also in the military, Military children are my forts future, also its hilariously tragic when a mother carrying her child into battle gets hit, and the baby dies....
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« Reply #10 on: June 28, 2009, 05:04:34 pm »
Was there open space in all the tiles next to it?
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148. There is no Gnomish Deathgrip, and even if there was, it wouldn't involve tongs.
171. My character's dying words are not allowed to be "Hastur, Hastur, Hastur"
218. No matter my alignment, organizing halfling pit fights is a violation.
231. I am not allowed to do anything that would make a Sith Lord cry.
240. Any character with more than three skills specializing in chainsaw is vetoed.

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Re: Gahhhhhhh
« Reply #11 on: June 28, 2009, 05:06:39 pm »
yes, but it is in the past, let us no longer speak of it.
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Quote from: Gergination on June 19, 2009, 07:10:02 pm
Quote from: Efun on June 19, 2009, 07:02:52 pm
Military dorfs are the busiest if their partner is also in the military, Military children are my forts future, also its hilariously tragic when a mother carrying her child into battle gets hit, and the baby dies....
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Re: Gahhhhhhh
« Reply #12 on: June 28, 2009, 11:23:12 pm »
I accidentally designated the 4 walls that were linked to the shore for my over the ocean fort and everyone died. It was beautiful. The death and destruction bit at least.
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Re: Gahhhhhhh
« Reply #13 on: June 29, 2009, 04:23:22 pm »
If there were multiplayer DF, you just know this would be the ultimate aim.

To send a massive floor crashing down through their fort.
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Re: Gahhhhhhh
« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2009, 05:46:37 pm »
Quote from: Leafsnail on June 29, 2009, 04:23:22 pm
If there were multiplayer DF, you just know this would be the ultimate aim.

To send a massive floor crashing down through their fort.

Or one tile

on one dwarf

with lots of friends
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