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Author Topic: What happens if I fill a magma tube higher than its normal height?  (Read 2003 times)

betamax

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Re: What happens if I fill a magma tube higher than its normal height?
« Reply #15 on: September 19, 2009, 04:55:15 am »

that'd mean no more caravans... or going outside. And all sieges would end instantly.

Doesn't sound like much fun. Well, aside from watching ASCII-represented spites burn to death.
You're not thinking Dwarfy enough. Build roads over the magma, controlling the means of all entrance and egress yourself! I'm not sure if caravans/invaders/immigrants will spawn on map-edge points that aren't the original ground level, but if not, you can always rush to the edge before the magma gets there, wall an area off and have ramps up to the roads on top of the magma.
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Re: What happens if I fill a magma tube higher than its normal height?
« Reply #16 on: September 19, 2009, 12:20:37 pm »

quickly before it fills everything build some walls to the edge of the map so that you have one easily controlled entrance a-la snaketributes (http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=39701.0).
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Just try it! Its not like you die IRL if Urist McMiner falls into magma.

dragnar

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Re: What happens if I fill a magma tube higher than its normal height?
« Reply #17 on: September 19, 2009, 07:44:50 pm »

but... you can't build walls to the edge of the map, can you?
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Re: What happens if I fill a magma tube higher than its normal height?
« Reply #18 on: September 19, 2009, 10:12:54 pm »

but... you can't build walls to the edge of the map, can you?

You can build Bridges and raise them.

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Re: What happens if I fill a magma tube higher than its normal height?
« Reply #19 on: September 19, 2009, 11:30:58 pm »

well that would have made my current fortress much easier to build. :(
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Re: What happens if I fill a magma tube higher than its normal height?
« Reply #20 on: September 19, 2009, 11:46:25 pm »

wait til it fills to the highest Z-level, savescum and then visit it in adventurer mode.
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