Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[madjoe5]

I have a great map here, (hfs, magma pipe, chasm, brook) and I also have the primative civ mod installed. The problem I have is that the magma pipe is directly in the way of my main entrance and most of the trading parties that come by walk RIGHT next to the pipe, alerting the fire imps. Then, they stupidly try to attack it/ run into magma for safety, which always gets them killed.

What would you do to stop the onslaught? What should I do to prevent future attacks, wildfires and trade parties winding up dead? My plan is either to drain the brook onto the pipe, but I've never done such a thing and might screw up badly. Alternatly, I might just build walls around it, which is kinda of costly, time consuming and builders are in danger.

[garfield751]

you could always post some marksdwarves around the pipe

[madjoe5]

With only 7 dwarves, a military doesn't seem in my range of possibility.

Now what I am afraid of is that my first wave of migrants will have to walk by the pipe and get themselves killed too...

[slink]

Under similar circumstances, I have opted for building a wall.  It is dangerous to the builders, as you say.  I never had the option of sealing the top with a brook.  If I did, I would probably try to dig a channel from the brook to the pipe, or alternatively (and more safely), a tunnel between the two with just the final channeling to be done as the final steps.  As long as the top of the brook is at the same level as the top of the pipe, you shouldn't get a flood.

Edit:  You can make the wall-building go much more quickly by making everyone a mason just for the length of time it takes to build the wall.  Also, making a stone stockpile somewhere close, but safe, will make it go more quickly than having every stone dragged from the depths.  Just be sure to build the corners last, so no one is trapped inside.

[madjoe5]

I tried to empty the brook onto it, but that didnt work, leaving the channel to be clogged by a single obsidian wall.

I might try to build a floor over it, using a pile of stones near by and a few marksdwarves to protect the builders. Is that possible, or very stupid/dangerous?

[Greyjoy]

Edited correction correction. Just floor over the problematic pipe.

You will almost certainly lose dwarves; stationing military dwarves will help. But from there, you can work something out at your leisure. Dwarves will die, but as long as they're mostly marksdwarves, or the posting is not at the edge of the magma pit, it will work out.

[silhouette]

>.> <.<
primitive civilisations mod?

[madjoe5]

Primative Civ Mod- http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=544, it adds 10 or so minor civs that occasionally show up to trade, most of them are of (animal)-man types

-Ive begun to cover it with a floor, and Im about a third of they way there with no dwarf deaths and 3 imp kills. I think this will work, but a few mason deaths seems inevidable, considering that these imps have had some extremely close shots, but missed.

[silhouette]

hehehe thank you.

[Karik]

I tried to empty the brook onto it, but that didnt work, leaving the channel to be clogged by a single obsidian wall.

I might try to build a floor over it, using a pile of stones near by and a few marksdwarves to protect the builders. Is that possible, or very stupid/dangerous?

Build an aquaduct from the brook to the magma (two walls with a space between, pump water into it) and that should do it, though not very effictively, will take time to spread and cap it all.  I ended up doing this, but I built a wall around the top and then made a pool over it

[SoulSkorpion]

I always seal surface lava using an aqueduct before I mess with it. I learned that after trying to pave over a volcano  - the fire imps murdered everyone and set the countryside on fire.

[Halceon]

Just kill the buggers and be done with it.

[madjoe5]

Just kill the buggers and be done with it.

Dont they respawn eventually?

[Derakon]

Not in the current version, no. They used to, back in the 2D days, and they will in the next version, but the 3D versions through the current version have not had respawning feature creatures.

[Mangled]

Tehe, feature creatures, I like that.
Does that apply to the HFS as well?