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Broose

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How to DESTROY the map?
« on: July 08, 2009, 02:08:05 am »
I am looking at my most recent fortress. It is shame. Over 200 dwarves, and almost nobody is working. Stockpiles are almost non existent, tons of people have legendary social skills.

And so, I decided I want to destroy it all, quickly. I want everything to collapse, so I started making picks and assigned all the lazy peasants (oh GOD there were like 30) to mining. What would happen if I got rid of the bottom layer? I know I can't mine the edge tiles, so would it do anything?
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2009, 02:21:13 am »
 Alas, what would happen if you channeled out everything supporting the embark area is a giant block of soil, with your fortress collapsed together thanks to the pancaking effect. There are a few ways of destroying the bottom layer, but they are all somewhat hacking. The best method is collapsing ice onto the bottom layer and pouring magma on it: During a collapse it seems the floor under the collapse becomes the soil/stone type of whatever collapsed. And ice floors can be melted with magma. Then you could theoretically get rid of it all.

 But yes, mining out the bottom layer won't do anything unless you mine out the sides. And then you just a big block with a dead fortress somewhere near the top. Or you could mine it all out, and you would have a giant pit will a ton of dead things in it and a burning computer.
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2009, 02:29:48 am »
Quote from: Duke 2.0 on July 08, 2009, 02:21:13 am
Alas, what would happen if you channeled out everything supporting the embark area is a giant block of soil, with your fortress collapsed together thanks to the pancaking effect. There are a few ways of destroying the bottom layer, but they are all somewhat hacking. The best method is collapsing ice onto the bottom layer and pouring magma on it: During a collapse it seems the floor under the collapse becomes the soil/stone type of whatever collapsed. And ice floors can be melted with magma. Then you could theoretically get rid of it all.

 But yes, mining out the bottom layer won't do anything unless you mine out the sides. And then you just a big block with a dead fortress somewhere near the top. Or you could mine it all out, and you would have a giant pit will a ton of dead things in it and a burning computer.

Hm. I have no magma. I guess I will just collapse the main part of the fortress.
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I assume mining out that bottom layer of stone will collapse everything, that should be fine.
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #3 on: July 08, 2009, 02:58:35 am »
 Indeed, it should work fine. Also, not having the deathpit filled with magma takes away the glory of it all!

 Also, after playing all those mining games I'm hankering for DF magma to have bloom for some reason.
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2009, 03:20:35 am »
Well, that plan failed horribly. The goddamned brook...

Anyways, now I'm just going to make a large pit, bridge over it, and make it my meeting area.
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2009, 10:35:02 am »
Just find the top dozen or so dwarves with the most friends, and turn them into corpses. Then sit back and watch the tantrums.
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2009, 02:15:11 pm »
Quote from: Scarpa on July 08, 2009, 10:35:02 am
Just find the top dozen or so dwarves with the most friends, and turn them into corpses. Then sit back and watch the tantrums.

This.

For added fun, start a few tantrums, and then just try and stop your fortress from crumbling.

This will be especially fun with legendary social skills. Legendary stats + everybody being friends = death.
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2009, 02:49:53 pm »
Build a huge subterranean room, designate it as your meeting hall (disable all other meeting areas) and then redirect the brook into it.  Flush 'em.
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2009, 04:30:21 pm »
Turn your fortress into a tomb itself. Lock all the doors and use screw pumps and stuff to fill it with water.
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2009, 04:49:40 pm »
Step up weapon production.
Conscript 3/4ths of the fort.
Kill the rest.
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2009, 05:34:21 pm »
-Set your booze stockpile as a meeting place.

-Channel magma into said stockpile.

-Watch as all your !!dwarves!! slowly (but blissfully) die.
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2009, 08:18:52 pm »
build a high platform, 12-12 z levels high, set the top floor as a meeting area and remove the staircase supporting it

BOOM
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2009, 09:03:25 pm »
next siege you get...

Make the siegers your civ

make the existing 200+ dwarves the enemy civ

Go down in history!
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2009, 09:50:37 pm »
I fun but slow way to kill it off would be to lock up your fortress... stop food production... and then just wonder away and watch TV and stuff for a while. Go back to it in maybe about 20 min and it should either be dead or near-enough dead that its fun to watch the riots ;)
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Re: How to DESTROY the map?
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2009, 10:32:14 pm »
I... I'm not so sure what just happened. Someone was linking the lever to the meeting room bridge, and all of a sudden, it just dissapeared. Pulling the lever does nothing, I can't access it on the lever link menu, etc.

What the hell just happened?
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