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derekiv

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[Spoilers!] Tube Height
« on: April 08, 2010, 10:24:37 am »
Anyone know if how high the hell tubes extend is set?
Mine ends at level 2, +3 above the magma sea.
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Urist McCyrilin

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Re: [Spoilers!] Tube Height
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2010, 10:32:58 am »
Mine runs upto twelve z levels above the sea.
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Re: [Spoilers!] Tube Height
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2010, 10:42:54 am »
It's random.  The tube can start as high as 1 Z-level below the first level of Adamantine, and as low as 1 Z-level above Hell.  That's part of the Fun, though when it's really high up, a lot of the challenge is killed since you can just seal the tube off before the demons ever get high enough up to hurt you.
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Re: [Spoilers!] Tube Height
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2010, 02:14:33 pm »
Quote from: SkyRender on April 08, 2010, 10:42:54 am
.... since you can just seal the tube off before the demons ever get high enough up to hurt you.


Tell that to my 31 dead dwarfs..... 

I hit the tube with my first scratch at the top of the pillar, and the miner was cooked before be could run away.  Some of those beasties are quick!
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Re: [Spoilers!] Tube Height
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2010, 03:30:08 pm »
The new burrows gives a great opportunity to try to tackle it head on.

Wait until you have a large number of military dwarves with good equipment, such as iron or steel plate and swords/axes. Assign them a burrow right next to the tube you want to breach. Then breach it. You can have 30-40 well armed, trained, and ready dwarves standing next to the breach as the FUN comes flooding out.
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Re: [Spoilers!] Tube Height
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2010, 03:46:27 pm »
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Re: [Spoilers!] Tube Height
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2010, 03:47:27 pm »
Quote from: Hyndis on April 08, 2010, 03:30:08 pm
The new burrows gives a great opportunity to try to tackle it head on.

Wait until you have a large number of military dwarves with good equipment, such as iron or steel plate and swords/axes. Assign them a burrow right next to the tube you want to breach. Then breach it. You can have 30-40 well armed, trained, and ready dwarves standing next to the breach as the FUN comes flooding out.
Well, from what I had heard, fun is much funnier than ever before and even in 40d lots of trained dwarves had fun when digging too deep.
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Re: [Spoilers!] Tube Height
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2010, 04:12:56 pm »
I didn't realize toady had sorted out flying creature pathing...

I scratched the tube thinking flying creatures would take time to notice but seconds later my miner was torn to bits.

All the doors and barriers I'd placed as delay tactics didn't even slow them down enough for me to build a wall and my entire fort was eviscerated.
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