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Author Topic: How do i keep the stuff safe after fortress abandonning?  (Read 1243 times)

nekoexmachina

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How do i keep the stuff safe after fortress abandonning?
« on: April 19, 2010, 03:09:24 pm »

Subj. I mean, of course, not ALL the stuff, the huge plan is to forge some really cool weapons&armors (best to have an artifacts of course :))  to use them later in adventure mod.
Is that just matter of luck? Or if i place my stuff in lever-only opening chamber (someway, floodgate, or cave-in, or something) it will be safe?
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Re: How do i keep the stuff safe after fortress abandonning?
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2010, 03:12:40 pm »

Put them in leaden bins. Or other bins made from a really heavy material. It's said that they will scatter less when abandoning. Another thing I've heard is that items that are in the depot upon abandonment will remain there. I've never tried any of these methods. I've just read about people applying them.
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Re: How do i keep the stuff safe after fortress abandonning?
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2010, 03:17:26 pm »

Putting stuff behind locked doors will not work, but putting as many objects as possible in a lead bin should work, try putting some lead hammers with your artifact sword to make the bin heavier.
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Re: How do i keep the stuff safe after fortress abandonning?
« Reply #3 on: April 19, 2010, 03:59:45 pm »

I've had great success storing adamantine items in gold bins before abandoning.
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Re: How do i keep the stuff safe after fortress abandonning?
« Reply #4 on: April 19, 2010, 04:24:21 pm »

make alot of what you want xD
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Re: How do i keep the stuff safe after fortress abandonning?
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2010, 04:28:33 pm »

Wall it in, and use a cave-in to open it. It's really the only way to keep stuff truly safe.
That <redacted> warhammer will be worth it.
And yeah, do we still use spoilers for <redacted> or is it just the material name?
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Re: How do i keep the stuff safe after fortress abandonning?
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2010, 04:31:10 pm »

I'm pretty sure stuff that gets dumped in a river or otherwise made inaccessible stays where it is. A couple of my fortresses have been set up so that if the situation became untenable, I could flood the corridors and leave everything in place for the reclaim party, but I never managed to test these.
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Re: How do i keep the stuff safe after fortress abandonning?
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2010, 04:31:42 pm »

I've had great success storing adamantine items in gold bins before abandoning.

I had an adamantine mail shirt(all by itself) in a lead bin. It didn't move an inch.

I also had 4 adamantine weapons(two shortswords, two battleaxes) in another lead bin that didn't move.
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