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Meanmelter

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Ant Colonys?
« on: June 13, 2010, 04:22:08 pm »
Is there a point to them? That would be cool to dig right under them and find like a bunch of little ants, but, that does not happen... Can we even capture them as Vermin?
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Re: Ant Colonys?
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2010, 06:00:01 pm »
Think they're just decoration.

A giant ant colony would be interesting:  where they tunnel around randomly building a nest and might break into your fort and start attacking. 
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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2010, 06:02:47 pm »
By then the dwarves should be smart enough to try to stop them, after all, the ants are about half their size.
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Re: Ant Colonys?
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2010, 06:10:24 pm »
It would be interesting if they Generated Ant's, think of the purposes other than eating the remains! Oh the Dwarven Scientist will be pleased!
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Re: Ant Colonys?
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2010, 06:13:00 pm »
Quote from: Meanmelter on June 13, 2010, 06:10:24 pm
It would be interesting if they Generated Ant's, think of the purposes other than eating the remains! Oh the Dwarven Scientist will be pleased!
You mean the same one that encased the fortress in magma and smashed the king with a drawbridge?
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Meanmelter

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Re: Ant Colonys?
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2010, 06:25:52 pm »
Quote from: Jacob/Lee on June 13, 2010, 06:13:00 pm
Quote from: Meanmelter on June 13, 2010, 06:10:24 pm
It would be interesting if they Generated Ant's, think of the purposes other than eating the remains! Oh the Dwarven Scientist will be pleased!
You mean the same one that encased the fortress in magma and smashed the king with a drawbridge?
No not the Giant ass ones, these ones are smaller and more Dwarven-friendly.
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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2010, 08:17:25 pm »
Quote from: Meanmelter on June 13, 2010, 06:25:52 pm
Quote from: Jacob/Lee on June 13, 2010, 06:13:00 pm
Quote from: Meanmelter on June 13, 2010, 06:10:24 pm
It would be interesting if they Generated Ant's, think of the purposes other than eating the remains! Oh the Dwarven Scientist will be pleased!
You mean the same one that encased the fortress in magma and smashed the king with a drawbridge?
No not the Giant ass ones, these ones are smaller and more Dwarven-friendly.
Considering your careful use of the word 'more' I'm taken to believe the fort will only flood with water, and the count will be killed instead.
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Re: Ant Colonys?
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2010, 08:39:23 pm »
The ant version of Dwarf Fortress. It even has an epic catastrophe involving a liquid... Remind anyone of Fun?

Also: Holy shit it's huge!!
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« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2010, 10:19:46 pm »
Quote from: Meanmelter on June 13, 2010, 06:25:52 pm
Quote from: Jacob/Lee on June 13, 2010, 06:13:00 pm
Quote from: Meanmelter on June 13, 2010, 06:10:24 pm
It would be interesting if they Generated Ant's, think of the purposes other than eating the remains! Oh the Dwarven Scientist will be pleased!
You mean the same one that encased the fortress in magma and smashed the king with a drawbridge?
No not the Giant ass ones, these ones are smaller and more Dwarven-friendly.
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I was refering to the scientist.
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Re: Ant Colonys?
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2010, 10:55:36 pm »
Quote from: Jacob/Lee on June 13, 2010, 10:19:46 pm
Quote from: Meanmelter on June 13, 2010, 06:25:52 pm
Quote from: Jacob/Lee on June 13, 2010, 06:13:00 pm
Quote from: Meanmelter on June 13, 2010, 06:10:24 pm
It would be interesting if they Generated Ant's, think of the purposes other than eating the remains! Oh the Dwarven Scientist will be pleased!
You mean the same one that encased the fortress in magma and smashed the king with a drawbridge?
No not the Giant ass ones, these ones are smaller and more Dwarven-friendly.
.....
I was refering to the scientist.
Ohh, I knew that... :-[
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Re: Ant Colonys?
« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2010, 11:59:59 pm »
Quote from: Snook on June 13, 2010, 08:39:23 pm
The ant version of Dwarf Fortress. It even has an epic catastrophe involving a liquid... Remind anyone of Fun?

Also: Holy shit it's huge!!

What a lovely design for a fortress.  To think, though, if the ants had only troubled to leave a few cage traps outside, they'd have a bunch of tameable/butcherable scientists right now. 
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Re: Ant Colonys?
« Reply #11 on: June 14, 2010, 01:06:53 am »
Quote from: tigrex on June 13, 2010, 11:59:59 pm
Quote from: Snook on June 13, 2010, 08:39:23 pm
The ant version of Dwarf Fortress. It even has an epic catastrophe involving a liquid... Remind anyone of Fun?

Also: Holy shit it's huge!!

What a lovely design for a fortress.  To think, though, if the ants had only troubled to leave a few cage traps outside, they'd have a bunch of tameable/butcherable scientists right now.
And why did they collapse it a z-level?
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Re: Ant Colonys?
« Reply #12 on: June 14, 2010, 01:08:31 am »
Quote from: tigrex on June 13, 2010, 11:59:59 pm
Quote from: Snook on June 13, 2010, 08:39:23 pm
The ant version of Dwarf Fortress. It even has an epic catastrophe involving a liquid... Remind anyone of Fun?

Also: Holy shit it's huge!!

What a lovely design for a fortress.  To think, though, if the ants had only troubled to leave a few cage traps outside, they'd have a bunch of tameable/butcherable scientists right now.
*An ant is holding a chain in it's mandibles that is connected to a dwarf slave*
Ant:DIG
Dwarf: NEVER
*Ant bites dwarf*
Ant: I SAID DIG BITCH
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« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2010, 01:47:33 am »
That is an awesome design. Now I know what I'm doing for my next megaproject (After I'm done my current one)
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Re: Ant Colonys?
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2010, 03:33:07 am »
Quote from: Snook on June 13, 2010, 08:39:23 pm
The ant version of Dwarf Fortress.
Surely the ant version of DF is SimAnt?
EDIT: Yes, there is a Sim version of everything.
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