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[Jordrake]

Metal face and hands

Will the dwarves rule over the area with an iron fist?

*Ba-dum-tsh*

[Scaraban]

DF overdose

[einstein9073]

I've noticed a problem with the topic title...it's dwarves within 'dwarves', plural, yet I only heard planning of one dwarf...Maybe there should be another dwarf somewhere on the map, and you could separate males into the male dwarf and females into the female dwarf?

OH MY DEAR LORD, BY ALL THAT IS UNDER ARMOK'S WATCHFUL EYE, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BUILD AN EVEN BIGGER DWARF TO CONTAIN YOUR GIANT DWARF CONTAINING YOUR DWARVES.

NO! TWO INTERLOCKING DWARVES CONTAINING YOUR DWARVES CONTAINING YOUR DWARVES....

Yo dog. I herd u liek dwarves , so I put some dwarves in dwarves in your dwarf, so you can Science while you Fun while you MegaProject.

[Lawec]

It makes one think of those small Russian figures that contain smaller copies of themselves, which in turn contains smaller ones... And it just goes on 7 or 8 times.

[jaked122]

I've enjoyed the first post immensly, I hope you can make it work.

[existent]

Can I ask how you ended up modeling your statue? I'm trying to do something a bit similar (well, it involves a giant statue, anyway), and I'm having a spot of trouble wrapping my head around planning out the actual details.

What I'm trying to do is have a 100 Z level tall statue (of a Dwarf, maybe Armok, maybe something else, I haven't decided yet) that I'm going to carve out of the rock- instead of building up, like you- and I'm going to have my entire fortress spiral around it all the way down, and then I think I'll have a cistern at its feet or something. Anyways, I've decided it's going to be 100 Z levels tall, and 30 tiles at its widest, and then I'm going to carve around it so there's nothing but open space.

[Bomepie]

I gave up on 3D modeling and just drew it with designation tiles from a front and side angle on the bottom level of my fortress. I took a screenshot and use it as a loose reference for how my fortress should change every layer. It really sucks when I screw up a layer though, I had a falling block from deconstruction blow through 15z levels of the underground work area, destroying 6 workshops.

[Bomepie]

Balls of brass, sir! Polished to Nth degree!

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Well perhaps copper, brass was too yellow and I don't have the tin to make bronze. Pants are just about finished time to start the vest.

[Talfryn]

Confirming that the brass balls will have Magma Piss (tm) Capability?

[Bomepie]

I'll be setting up multiple systems, normally it will be a  waterfall but in emergencies and on holidays magma will be used.

[Remalle]

Brass?  Why didn't you make balls of steel?

[Talfryn]

I'll be setting up multiple systems, normally it will be a  waterfall but in emergencies and on holidays magma will be used.

I like how you think. Pray tell what he shall piss on?

[Bomepie]

Why goblins of course! Invaders are off for construction but after I finish and clean they'll be all thats left to play with. I imagine the switching between magma and water will leave clogs inside and giant piles outside, it will be fun job for the dwarves to periodically clean things out. I also may use the sack as a drowning chamber. Finally I have very little experience with magma in constructed areas, will I have to mod the melting point of the walls to prevent the whole statue from melting?

Brass?  Why didn't you make balls of steel?

I didn't like the color of steel, but the balls of brass line was a quote from the game Conkers Bad Furday.

[Talfryn]

You want to make the surrounding tiles that the magma is passing through magma resist, and the pumps magma resist, but  otherwise you should be good.

[John Keel]

Constructions resist magma. However, I would suggest either a second, lower, opening in the penis for the magma, or replacing the bottom of the flow-tunnel with a magma-resistant bridge to dump water and prevent the forming of an obsidian kidney stone.