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[fivex]

Change title to "Cotton Candy" or "Blue" please.

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Heh, well,

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Dug straight down until I finally hit a slade structure of some sort. Dug around and further down, and uncovered a massive complex of zombie and skeletal surface and cave creatures. Hordes of macaques, camels, naked mole dogs, all skeletal or zombified... FPS dropped from 100 to about 20, miasma everywhere. Total chaos.

The sword is down on a lower level of the complex, so I couldn't even get there before being torn to shreds. I'd wait to see the ultimate gory results, but it'll take a long time with this framerate, so looks like I'm savescumming.

Never seen this particular kind of HFS... crazy shit. Dunno if they're skeletal/zombies because I'm on a haunted biome, or if they'd always be that way.

EDIT: Spoiler tag is an actual spoiler, not a picture.

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Yeah it's always undead.
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Try caving in on the sword.

[ArdentPenguin]

Change title to "Cotton Candy" or "Blue" please.

Sorry?

[krisslanza]

It seems "Cotton Candy" is the lingo for adamantine. I had been wondering that myself.

[ArdentPenguin]

Ah, got it - renamed.

I guess the thing to do now is:

1. Savescum,
2. Spend the next ten years building up a huge army,
3. Take them down there and either:
4a. Wipe that [redacted] from the face of the underground and claim the sword for my own, or,
4b. Die in a horrible miasma-filled catastrophic battle.

And the great thing about this game is, in either case, the result will be wonderful.

[Untelligent]

What are the odds on finding them anyway? I only managed to ever 'find' one, and that was because the parameters and site had been told about. I can never find them in my own worlds

Every region tile has exactly one of these. That's one in every set of 16x16 local tiles.

[NightmareBros]

Oh wow, that is one seriosuly guarded super-sword.

Time the spread the rumor that the Dwarf the recovers this Ultimate Weapon shall be crowned King. Although maybe not for long given all the zombies and forgotten beasts guarding the thing.

[Namfuak]

It seems "Cotton Candy" is the lingo for adamantine. I had been wondering that myself.

Effectively, its so that someone reading the forums knows its a spoiler.  Plus, it's more fun that way.

[Akura]

I don't really know why it's called that way, most of the cotton candy I've eaten was pink, though most other candies that were "cotton candy flavored" have been light blue.

[sgrunt]

Think of the steps in processing it from what you find underground to anything usable.

[Namfuak]

Think of the steps in processing it from what you find underground to anything usable.

Answered before I could.

[Encased in burning magma]

Once you get rid of the undead, deconstruct the awesome sword for a dwarf to take it.

[BurnedToast]

It seems "Cotton Candy" is the lingo for adamantine. I had been wondering that myself.

Effectively, its so that someone reading the forums knows its a spoiler.  Plus, it's more fun that way.

Adamantine is not really a spoiler anymore.

It's on the forge/craftshop/jobs list (and maybe manager screen) from the start of the game these days.

[Untelligent]

Yeah, but how you can find it and what you find under it is still a bit of a spoiler.


As for why it's called cotton candy, back in 40d someone mentioned a mod that added clowns to the Hidden Fun Squad in one thread. For whatever reason, the association between Hidden Fun Stuff and the circus theme took hold of the forums and never really let go.

[Victuz]

Dwarves are not ready for awesome powers of the awesome sword!

MELT IT

[Jake]

You may gain some insight into what you're letting yourself in for from this interesting fact:

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I recently learned from TV Tropes that slade, the material from which Demonic Fortress is built, happens to be the surname of the author of the Salvation War series. I'm pretty certain that this is not entirely coincidental.