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[Malsqueek]

So, I know that you need to be careful digging out Adamantine, and I just hit four veins in my first winter.

So that I have an idea how careful I need to be (question in spoiler)

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Do the veins typically all extend from a "single point", outward like a spider web, or are some of them not connected to HFS?

I am also VERY upset that I will have stupid nobles rushing my place before useful people get here...

[Rowanas]

They meet, and you die. Fortunately with four veins it's quite easy to tell where the junction point is.

[Malsqueek]

I have about 7 veins that seem to be converging. at this point they are far enough apart that you could get one of those oval-shaped stone inclusions in between them. I figure I can pretty safely do the next level down, but not much after that...

The thing that really disappoints me is that I need to hurry up and get my defenses ready now, because of the MASSIVE increase in fortress wealth that I just incurred... I've still only got my original 7... 8P

[Stargrasper]

You might consider killing the nobles(or locking them in a room and forgetting about them) before they get a chance to go insane because you aren't giving them royal everything.  And for defense, channel out the front gate of your fortress, put in a retractable bridge and link it to a lever.  Retract the bridge if enemies show up and you're fine.  Makes a great very quick makeshift defense.  Just wait out sieges until they leave.  Goblins and elves tend to stick around for about a season, whereas humans stick around a lot longer, with some accounts keeping them for over a year.  Underground farming isn't a problem and you probably can get a secured water source without TOO much effort, assuming you have a brook or river.  This means that if necessary, you can stay hermetically sealed underground indefinitely.

[LegoLord]

Here's how it works: 

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There is one, multi-level vein.  If you notice, where one floors tiles of vein ends, one tile over and one tile down (or up) will have more tiles of the vein.

That out of the way: 

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There is the core.  This is where all the tendrils  of the vein spread out from.  The pit is normally there, though I have heard that on occasion someone would breach the pit from the side, and none of the pit walls or floors would be adamantine tiles.  This is rare, but it has happened, though I do not know whether this bug has been fixed, or even if it really is a bug.

Further: 

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there is normally a shaft leading from the very bottom z-level all the way to the bottom level of the pit.  Breaching this will breach the pit.

[GoneWacko]

That out of the way: 

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There is the core.  This is where all the tendrils  of the vein spread out from.  The pit is normally there, though I have heard that on occasion someone would breach the pit from the side, and none of the pit walls or floors would be adamantine tiles.  This is rare, but it has happened, though I do not know whether this bug has been fixed, or even if it really is a bug.

I can confirm that this is still the case. I'd never had any first hand experience with HFS, so yesterday I decided to embark on top of one with 7 miners and start digging.

When I encountered the vein I figured I could dig around it (that is, dig away at the normal rock but not mine out any of the adamantine), but even then I ended up breaching the chamber.

[AtomicPaperclip]

What does adamantine look like in 3d?

Does it look like a hand?

[Elliott_Thinas]

You might consider killing the nobles(or locking them in a room and forgetting about them) before they get a chance to go insane because you aren't giving them royal everything.  And for defense, channel out the front gate of your fortress, put in a retractable bridge and link it to a lever.  Retract the bridge if enemies show up and you're fine.  Makes a great very quick makeshift defense.  Just wait out sieges until they leave.  Goblins and elves tend to stick around for about a season, whereas humans stick around a lot longer, with some accounts keeping them for over a year.  Underground farming isn't a problem and you probably can get a secured water source without TOO much effort, assuming you have a brook or river.  This means that if necessary, you can stay hermetically sealed underground indefinitely.

Don't kill your nobles; when you have your adamantine you can make some quick adamantine furniture and bump room value. Meanwhile, as long as you give all of your nobles all the correct rooms and furniture, even if they are not correctly lavish, the nobles will not be wholy satisfied but they'll shouldn't go crazy. Anyways, it'll be a nice challenge anyways to keep your nobles happy even when you don't breach the HFS.

[Malsqueek]

Cool.. No Nobles.

Just 45 migrants in 2 seasons. 

[Smew]

Also, it's just 'noble', one king, who is easy to please IMO, I hardly consider him a noble anyway, seeing as how the only thing he wants is some nice rooms.
The real nobles are only trigger-able by population.