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[Safe-Keeper]

Only in the Dwarf Fortress forum could a discussion on meteors focus more on the "w00t free iron!" part and not on the "omg sweeeet fireballs from the sky!" part .

[SirHoneyBadger]

If volcanoes can cause Fortress death right after embark (and we all know that it can...) then so should meteors, occasionally.

Losing Reclaiming is Fun!!!

[Eric Blank]

I've loved this idea since it appeared in some other thread. of course I also loved the suggestion that they could have monsters appear near them.

Having one fall in-game would be awesome, but the maximum size and radius of the damage should be limited by embark size so that the game doesn't have to deal with modifying the surroundings outside your fortress/you don't have to deal with "oh look, the usually round crater stops abruptly at the edge of this abandoned fortress my adventurer is in."

It would also be sweet if the massive ones had cool effects beyond the crater/subsequent fun, even off map. "Urist mcAstrologist has seen a massive fireball erupt far to the east" "a wall of fire streaks across the Eastern lands toward your fortress!" *wall of super-magma-temperature flames that get into every exposed area passes* "horrible beasts have arrived from the East!" (several months later)

all in good time...

[Ilmoran]

It would also be sweet if the massive ones had cool effects beyond the crater/subsequent fun, even off map. "Urist mcAstrologist has seen a massive fireball erupt far to the east" "a wall of fire streaks across the Eastern lands toward your fortress!" *wall of super-magma-temperature flames that get into every exposed area passes* "horrible beasts have arrived from the East!" (several months later)

Heh, if you want to talk about massive effects from meteorites hitting: Religions should occasionally spring up after a particularly brilliant meteorite.

[thepet]

It would also be sweet if the massive ones had cool effects beyond the crater/subsequent fun, even off map. "Urist mcAstrologist has seen a massive fireball erupt far to the east" "a wall of fire streaks across the Eastern lands toward your fortress!" *wall of super-magma-temperature flames that get into every exposed area passes* "horrible beasts have arrived from the East!" (several months later)

Heh, if you want to talk about massive effects from meteorites hitting: Religions should occasionally spring up after a particularly brilliant meteorite.

Haha...

Urist McDwarf develops an aversion to Fishing because he attributes fishing to ARMOK'S FIERY WRAITH FROM ABOVE

[SirHoneyBadger]

Happens in every religion, really: The Vikings had the Asgard and the Jotun. DF has Armok and the carp.

[thepet]

Happens in every religion, really: The Vikings had the Asgard and the Jotun. DF has Armok and the carp.

Am I the only one who now wants to see a Jotun vs a Carp in the battle arena?

[SirHoneyBadger]

I don't think I would, just because it would be so one-sided, in favor of the carp.

[darkflagrance]

The Wonderment mod from 40d had already modded in "Meteoric Iron"

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=40229.0

[thepet]

The Wonderment mod from 40d had already modded in "Meteoric Iron"

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=40229.0

Nice, so it does.  It seems that it created weapons/armor just below steel, is pretty rare, and is well received by the people who play the mod.  Flipping through the posts there, people are saying that it was a nice early metal to start out with if you can, before you get your steel mill cranking.

So it seems an idea of meteoric iron that is better than normal iron could really be handy.

Only thing it's missing is the DOOOOOOM of Armok's fiery wraith from above during worldgen/possibly in game.

[Hungry]

see also breccia for meteorite effects.

[Starver]

I'd suggest that meteoric iron should be be found in relatively rare clusters of gem-like size, in surface soils or very rarely as significant layer of low-density speckling across an area (1x1 base units?) accompanying a landscape depression of a degree inversely related to length of time between worldgen event and the fortress/adventure start date.

Also, this also made me think of fulgurites.  Not seen them mentioned, anywhere, but I haven't encyclopaedically read the forums I'm willing I bet they have.

[edited: because my sentences just wandered off and didn't go the way it started.  I didn't even close the original opening paranthesis!]

[Acanthus117]

I like this idea.

ACANTHUS LENDS HIS SUPPORT

[Vulkanis]

What if meteors would create a new type of regional crater tile you could settle on, it would have all the minerals exposed and cave creatures would be wandering outside of their caverns, new type of sinister tile awesomness.

[ISGC]

what if meteors had forgotten (alien) beasts inside them?
I think caves are best left to kobolds.