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[Urist McKing]

Anyone willing to find out whats underneath hell?

You simply can't go beneath Hell.  There's nothing there -- literally, below a certain (negative) z-level, the game world simply doesn't exist.  You can't dig channels, downward staircases, or downward/upward staircases on the lowest Z level you're allowed, even if you make it possible to mine slade, and anything thrown into a glowing pit is obliterated.  It's an instant death for an adventurer; if your adventurer can fly, you just aren't allowed to go into the pit.  It's just like the lowest Z level in 40d.

WE HAVE A NEW GARBAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM GENTLEMEN

[Urist Imiknorris]

(I believe) Dermonster said it already somewhere else in the "This game needs a tag line" thread. I'll dig up the post.

EDIT:

Dwarf Fortress: The only game where you break into hell just to dump garbage in the pits.

[Vaftrudner]

Anyone willing to find out whats underneath hell?

You simply can't go beneath Hell.  There's nothing there -- literally, below a certain (negative) z-level, the game world simply doesn't exist.  You can't dig channels, downward staircases, or downward/upward staircases on the lowest Z level you're allowed, even if you make it possible to mine slade, and anything thrown into a glowing pit is obliterated.  It's an instant death for an adventurer; if your adventurer can fly, you just aren't allowed to go into the pit.  It's just like the lowest Z level in 40d.

WE HAVE A NEW GARBAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM GENTLEMEN

Yeah, I use them and love them, just like the chasms of old. I even have a floor hatch on top of a pit in case I ever need to dump a dwarf.

[Urist Imiknorris]

My longtime goal in .31 is to expose an eerie glowing pit tile to the sky. I know how to do it too.

[iceball3]

But does anyone know how to control hell's openness, like how they can with caverns?

[Gutanoth]

My longtime goal in .31 is to expose an eerie glowing pit tile to the sky. I know how to do it too.

Do you mean like channel a ring hole where the rock would collapse around the shape of the pit?

liek so

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continued until above ground.would all the rock below will simply fall into nothing?

[Urist Imiknorris]

It would get eaten by SMR.

The real way is to carve stairs up through the SMR and from there up to the surface, then to channel them all out.

[fivex]

It would get eaten by SMR.

The real way is to carve stairs up through the SMR and from there up to the surface, then to channel them all out.

Wouldn't it be easier to just simply have a miner channel it?

[Urist Imiknorris]

 If a ramp is dug into an unrevealed SMR tile from above, the semi-molten rock below will be replaced by a rock ramp, but only if it is not adjacent to another rock ramp or empty space. If the "Magma Flow" floor over a rock ramp (only) is replaced by a construction, and the construction is then removed, it reverts to a stone floor. This floor can then be channeled into again, making the ramp visible from above. Unfortunately, dwarfs still cannot descend into this square with the ramp, nor can they ascend out of it should they find themselves somehow there. A dwarf dumped into the space, say, by a remote controlled hatch "accident", cannot construct anything because the adjacent squares remain semi-molten rock, and won't turn to ramps if channelled from above.

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You can also dig up into semi-molten rock just fine (by designating an up/down staircase accessible from below). This also works only if the tile is still unrevealed. Often (but not always) you can't get down there without encountering hidden fun stuff.

tl;dr: SMR is weird and doesn't like being fucked with from above.

[Vaftrudner]

It would get eaten by SMR.

The real way is to carve stairs up through the SMR and from there up to the surface, then to channel them all out.

Good idea, but I just tried it, building an upwards stair on the top level of hell, but they won't dig upwards when I give the order.

[Maninblack144]

The wiki quote does say the SMR tile needs to be unrevealed, that may be the case.

[Vaftrudner]

The wiki quote does say the SMR tile needs to be unrevealed, that may be the case.

The tile I'm trying to dig into is unrevealed.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Just keep digging, just keep digging...

Redesignate.

[Eagle_eye]

what material is it listed as? semi-molten rock upward staircase?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Granite, which is coincidentally my lowest stone layer.