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arkraven

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Floating Fortress or "Boat"
« on: November 21, 2009, 03:32:44 pm »
Is it possible to build a floating fortress or a boat? I've been looking on the wiki and I can't fin anything on it.
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Re: Floating Fortress or "Boat"
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2009, 03:54:40 pm »
You'll find everything there is under "Cave-In"... if things are connected to solid ground, they stay up. And if they are not connected to solid ground (like a boat would), they fall down.
The only way to have something boat-like would be with a narrow connection to land or a pillar to the bottom of your lake/ocean. Note that floors, walls and supports do hold constructions up while bridges, grates and most other stuff don't. Or you could turn off cave-ins in the init if you don't consider that cheating.
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Re: Floating Fortress or "Boat"
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2009, 05:03:13 pm »
You could fake it with a sculpted anchor and chain to support the actual fortress.   :)
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Re: Floating Fortress or "Boat"
« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2009, 05:24:52 pm »
Quote from: slink on November 21, 2009, 05:03:13 pm
You could fake it with a sculpted anchor and chain to support the actual fortress.   :)

That'd be AWESOME. Then, you'd have to make the whole fortress on a boat. Wait. What about migrants/traders/sieges/ambushes? Don't you want to make all those ballista/catapults to work? I think that a boarding party would be awesome.
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Re: Floating Fortress or "Boat"
« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2009, 07:20:56 pm »
then just make two boats, connected by boarding planks(aka bridges) andhave seigers have to come through one to get to the second!
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Re: Floating Fortress or "Boat"
« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2009, 07:38:23 pm »
There. I keep wondering why no one mentioned Captain Karen, and crew of the ship Bellsmaw yet.

Arr, mateys! And I hope that this thread will turn into something similar ;)
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Re: Floating Fortress or "Boat"
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2009, 10:10:30 pm »
Don't forget that you can (h)ide built pillars, or that a floored tile filled with water usually looks the same as an open tile filled with water.  Between those you can do a pretty good job of making something appear to float.
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