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[Urist mc.miner]

I heard somebody say [well...write]that if you discover adimantine your doomed why?does lava flow from where the adimantine was?

[ungulateman]

No.

There's demons underneath the adamantine. They'll swarm into your fortress and kill everything. they're easily the toughest enemies in thegame, and come in a huge variety of sometimes-unkillable forms.

[Psieye]

Ever since the 2D version, when you start mining the adamantine (not just discovering it), you begin the descent to Game Over. In 40d, the Game Over wasn't automatic and you instead got some superFun trying to kill everything. Players figured out ways of beating the superFun and if they did that was it, the superFun didn't come back. Now in DF2010,

Spoiler: in case you want to experience it firsthand (click to show/hide)

you get a much more sizeable initial rush and the superFun send an endless stream of reinforcements just in case you somehow beat that inital rush. If they don't kill your fort from sheer overwhelming power, they destroy your FPS.

[Urist mc.miner]

OHMYGOD!!!!Thank armok i havent struck any adimantine.

[Dave Mongoose]

OHMYGOD!!!!Thank armok i havent struck any adimantine.

If you're careful you can mine some of it... just don't get too greedy 

[Urist mc.miner]

Lets say if i made a drawbridge a lever and mechanisims i greadily mined the adimantine then erected the drawbridge to prevent any unwanted nasties from coming in would it work in time?

[twwolfe]

Lets say if i made a drawbridge a lever and mechanisims i greadily mined the adimantine then erected the drawbridge to prevent any unwanted nasties from coming in would it work in time?

they would probably destroy the drawbridge. you're better off just building a wall. no fortifications, since sometimes the demons are made of mist, and will just go right through

[Urist mc.miner]

So if you open the adimantine gate of hell you have two choices,yell out WHY!!curl up into a ball and suck your thumb or die a warriors death,im going with the latter.

[Starver]

Of course, if you can separate yourself with another kind of gap (air, or liquid-filled) it might help.  Except that various Clowns can fly/swim (including, naturally for at least some of them, through magma) so that's a bit difficult, all the while capable of destroying the barriers you raise.  Now, making a set of defensive circles alternately filled with water and magma and gaps, to deal with the different sub-sets of the Clowns, could help (with the added confusion of what happens when they destroy the barriers between different liquid zones), but I never really worked out if that worked, due to Other Things happening when I tried to set that up.

And how this relates to 2010, with the additionally reported variance of circus performers...  It's going to be fun to find out, once I've done all I want to do with my more mundane genealogy experiments, I suspect.  (Or if I get closer than I meant to do while enlarging the fortress to keep it viable so I can conduct those experiments, of course.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Just start a fort specifically for the purpose of Digging Too Deep. Why ask when you can SCIENCE?

And they all can fly, avoid traps, destroy buildings, and swim in both water and magma, and there are some that can pass through fortifications. Cave-ins and bladed weapons are the only ways to ensure their death.

[Urist mc.miner]

Oh god...Clowns?!? what was toady thinking...Wait...if the clowns are dangerous the mimes must be able to trap you in an invisible box!

[Urist Imiknorris]

Oh god...Clowns?!? what was toady thinking...Wait...if the clowns are dangerous the mimes must be able to trap you in an invisible box!

"Clowns" are a euphemism. They aren't really clowns. They are eldritch forgotten horrors not meant to be seen by mortal eyes.

And seriously, SCIENCE! If you have a question about "what happens if I..." just start a throwaway fort somewhere and DO IT.

[bmaczero]

Definitely the fish cleaner. 

[Eagle_eye]

100z level falls work too.

[Urist Imiknorris]

A fairly good number of forgotten beasts and ALL demons can fly.