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[Vester]

I think that it would be interesting if with every world that was generated, it could be either round or flat.

But Toady would probably have to overhaul the world generator to make the edges match up.

And there would probably be a bizarre bug causing the oceans to empty out into blue hell everytime you generate a flat one.

[Axe27]

I suppose you could feed the fortress with all the air-drowned whales.

[Phantom]

I still don't know what the frick would happen if you fall off the world edge...
Fall into counter strike?

[Itnetlolor]

I think when you fall into the fissure of the edge of the world, you end up in the land of Myst.

[EvilTwin]

listen to Thetis, a seatroll who used to live on a flat world and fell down...

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‘At first I fell,’ said Tethis, ‘but falling isn’t so bad, you know. It’s only the landing that hurts, and there was nothing below me. As I fell I saw the world spin off into space until it was lost against the stars.’

‘What happened next?’ said Twoflower breathlessly, glancing towards the misty universe.

‘I froze solid,’ said Tethis simply. ‘Fortunately it is something my race can survive. But I thawed out occasionally when I passed near other worlds. There was one, I think it was the one with what I thought was this strange ring of mountains around it that turned out to be the biggest dragon you could ever imagine, covered in snow and glaciers and holding its tail in its mouth - well, I came within a few leagues of that, I shot over the landscape like a comet, in fact, and then I was off again. Then there was a time I woke up and there was your world coming at me like a custard pie thrown by the Creator and, well, I landed in the sea not far from the Circumfence widdershins of Krull.

you see, falling from the edge of the world brings you to the famous Discworld (the link takes its time to load since it's the whole book on one page...).

If you survive the freezing.

[Sordid]

YES! Megaproject: Build the Potent Voyager and send a dwarven expedition to explore outer space!

[EvilTwin]

ohhhhh, imagine! the SGSP could be put to some use, also our dwarves would venture to kill alien-gobbos... yay!!! (let's see how those elves can still love their trees when they're all dried up since there is no water on mars and the like. muahaha)

EDIT: i think i should call my blinded cheesemaker "Rincewind". it fits him.

[Lord Dakoth]

Ha, yes! Dwarven spaceships!

The first one would have to be called the D.S. (Dwarf Ship) Urist. Or maybe the Urist McShip.

[Phantom]

The HMS D.C. (Dwarven Cheese)

[Lord Dakoth]

The HMS D.C. (Dwarven Cheese)

HMS stands for Her Majesty's Ship, and applies only to UK ships.
Unless I missed a memo, DF is not UK. Hence the acronym "D.S."

[Akett]

Why not have it be Armok's Space Ship or A.S.S.?

[Duke 2.0]

 I think Toady said somewhere the currently generated worlds are merely slices of worlds, not entire ones themselves. Through the round worlds and flat worlds discussion is not out of the question for later when entire worlds do come, note the current ones are not applicable.

[GenericOverusedName]

I personally like to think that the world of DF occurs in a Klein bottle.

[Servu]

I think Toady said somewhere the currently generated worlds are merely slices of worlds, not entire ones themselves. Through the round worlds and flat worlds discussion is not out of the question for later when entire worlds do come, note the current ones are not applicable.

Might this mean, that if you wander to the side of an existing world, like the ones used in the curren version, the world generator would just continue the area from the edge and make a new world next to the old one? Thus making the world grid just a part of an even larger grid like the actual play areas are a part of the world grid. If all the worlds would be just generated from the existing seed by continuing to calculate the world creation algorithms over the map edge, we could get pretty much infinite areas until our hard drives are full, or the old worlds are just forgotten as we go and then regenerated from the old seed.

However, I dont know how civilizations could be adjusted be to this.

[Sensei]

No, I think it would eventually make you go in a circle. Well, or you fall off the edge.

As it is, just try to think up a lore explanation. Here's some examples:
-The world is cursed, binding all mortal things within invisible walls
-As you reach the edge, a spiritual force makes even men of impervious willpower choose to go back, for any number of reasons they think to be their own
-Your adventurer cannot exit the region due to stringent immigration law
-There is a conspicuous mountain ring around the world, too large to cross (seeing as water freezes)
-The Adventure Package you are subscribed to charges a crazy per-minute amount for long-distance adventuring
-That's the I-67. Why would you leave the renaissance fair?