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r3d5kull

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Finding "features"
« on: March 16, 2010, 05:41:08 pm »
Hey I have spent all of about an hour digging around looking for and underground river due to lack of water  at the surface. how do I make it so I can see the river without actually finding it?

PS I'm ok if you refer me to a different thread
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Re: Finding "features"
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2010, 07:23:44 pm »
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Re: Finding "features"
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2010, 10:02:26 pm »
If you do exploratory mining with gaps between shafts and you don't stumble on the underground river itself look for the typical vermin.  Olms and cave spiders will show up randomly in the region of the river.
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Re: Finding "features"
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2010, 10:46:24 pm »
Easiest way is to use Reveal, them kill the process so that you don't save the changes (or make a backup copy first, either way).

If you just want a hint on hidden features, you can see which embark tiles they are in by hitting D (assuming you have a depot built) - when you look underground, it's all red Ds, of course... except in the embark-tile-sized area with underground features.  They stay all black.  This should let you know which areas to look in.
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« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2010, 10:51:15 pm »
You know, before using external utilities, you could just make special features viewable on embark. There are options in both the init file and the worldgen parameters for this.

This way, you can see in which areas of the embark rectangle your features are in, making them easy to find once you're playing.
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Re: Finding "features"
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2010, 01:17:21 am »
stonesense seems to act like a "read only" version of a revealer for stuff like underground rivers and magama pipes or HFS
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Re: Finding "features"
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2010, 08:50:13 pm »
Quote from: deoxy on March 16, 2010, 10:46:24 pm
If you just want a hint on hidden features, you can see which embark tiles they are in by hitting D (assuming you have a depot built) - when you look underground, it's all red Ds, of course... except in the embark-tile-sized area with underground features.  They stay all black.  This should let you know which areas to look in.

Man, how am I going to resist the temptation to do that now?
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Re: Finding "features"
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2010, 08:58:29 pm »
Thanks everyone you helped a lot! I saved my Fortress with 7 people to spare... and they are the children of the original 7. I find it weird how they reproduce so quickly...
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Re: Finding "features"
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2010, 09:39:55 pm »
Visual Fortress works too.
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