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Finding your old fortress
« on: July 14, 2009, 07:10:22 am »
Do I actually have to find it in game to get there?

Is there a quick way to just go to the fortress?

The reason why I ask is 'cos I left a LOT of adamantium goodies lying around.
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2009, 11:39:57 am »
In adventurer mode you can do a search for it as a site (shift Q), and then (T)ravel there quite happily.
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2009, 12:08:51 pm »
could we perhaps have this map?

Pretty please? Some of us are unlucky in fortress mode and never seem to get around to forging admant weapons.
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2009, 02:34:14 pm »
ask at near by town for info on the local area
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2009, 07:33:59 pm »
Quote from: piecewise on July 14, 2009, 12:08:51 pm
could we perhaps have this map?

Pretty please? Some of us are unlucky in fortress mode and never seem to get around to forging admant weapons.

It's a cheat site, I added:

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to the reaction_standard, and then embarked with Weaponsmiths, Armorsmiths, and a furnace operator (which was unnecessary). Then I just forged one of every single piece of adamantium equipment. I'm thinking about forging trap components like serrated discs and huge axes, for more hilarious unconventional weapons.

Before I did this though, I copied my vanilla fortress folder so I didn't have to redownload anything if it went wrong (for any reason)
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2009, 12:12:42 am »
The play now option will make you appear at a random player made fortress.  But you don't get to choose skills.

If you want skills however you need to find it in adventure mode.  Just bringing up the reclaim select a site thing can help you with remembering what the nearby map terrain looks like.  Spawn at the nearest dwarf civilization and either go by what you recognize of the map to find it, or bug dwarves asking about the area til one eventually mentions it.  Once it's mentioned you can use the "Q" key and use the zoom to site function to give you the exact location of the fortress.  Follow that and yer there.
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2009, 02:03:34 pm »
Quote from: Rowanas on July 14, 2009, 11:39:57 am
In adventurer mode you can do a search for it as a site (shift Q), and then (T)ravel there quite happily.
This. It's really easy.
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2009, 04:09:53 am »
@ dorfstep

Thank you fine sir,now I can smith in tundra and desert.Always wanted that.
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #8 on: July 16, 2009, 09:13:54 pm »
What I really would find awesome, would be a world that had been passed around, player to player, populated with many dwarven fortresses. That would be just awesome to explore in adventure mode :D
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2009, 12:41:01 am »
World of traps and attractions. Do a search every once in a while.

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...Maybe?

I don't know, its a POSSIBILITY perhaps? That you could do one little search?
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2009, 02:45:13 am »
Quote from: Volatar on July 16, 2009, 09:13:54 pm
What I really would find awesome, would be a world that had been passed around, player to player, populated with many dwarven fortresses. That would be just awesome to explore in adventure mode :D

http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=25429.0
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2009, 11:11:05 am »
Quote from: tomas1297 on July 17, 2009, 02:45:13 am
http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=25429.0

Thank you, this looks awesome  :D

Though I will admit I forgot that I could have searched, I just now tried searching and only found several other threads of the same idea, many people chorusing "yes! that would be awesome!", and then nothing.

For actually finding the real deal, I thank you  :)
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2009, 05:07:32 pm »
It's still active. People are taking their turns as we speak.
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Re: Finding your old fortress
« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2009, 11:56:15 am »
Im surprised of how well its doing.I remember it from my early stalking days.
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