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Gate over volcano

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Gate carved from the rock

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Other (post idea)

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Total Members Voted: 35

[They Got Leader]

The map I have has a plateau with a magma pipe next to it. I am planning on digging a Moria/Undergrotto style underground castle. However, before I start digging, I need to know: do I build my gatehouse (two big towers with a gate inbetween), with the gate over the volcano, or do I carve it from rock?

Please help.

Also: map has sand, flux and iron (so let the ideas roll)

Thanks,
TGL

[Oxinabox]

n story tall steel wall, rplaing insid wall of on side of the volano,
Steel drawbridge across the volcano (that is n tiles long)
connectiing to a tunnel though to the outside?

[Xenos]

n x 4 x h wall (n wide, 4 deep, h high) made of green (bonus points for clear) glass with 4x4xh+3 hollow steel towers every x tiles across the volcano.  make a cotton candy bridge (or something cheap like steel or platinum or gold or aluminum) over the magma.

[Halnoth]

I think the answer is in your sig homie.

[They Got Leader]

Hm... Steel towers. I think I may do something like that...


But as for my sig, 1) crocodiles can't swim in magma, 2) creatures falling into the magma would fall right into the magma sea without fail.

[Halnoth]

Well what you could do then, just for the sheer audacity of it, is build a regular water moat filled with crocs INSIDE a magma moat.

[Shoku]

If you dig a deep enough pit and fit it with magma it will be similar enough to a volcano. Not like the molten red stuff cools down in this game.

[nbonaparte]

You could make a moat entirely of crocodiles, no liquid.

[They Got Leader]

Hm.... Sounds dangerously evil...

[Mechanoid]

Not like the molten red stuff cools down in this game.

When at a depth of 1.

[Silent_Thunder]

Over a volcano? I'd say build it in a volcano.

[Quantum Toast]

Either one, then the other one beyond it.

[They Got Leader]

I am going to use the entrance over magma. However, the enemies then have to follow the path onto my bridge which has (technically "will have") a 10 z-level drop into magma.

[Xenos]

Well what you could do then, just for the sheer audacity of it, is build a regular water moat filled with crocs INSIDE a magma moat.

This with an extremely dwarfy massive wall of steel and cast obsidian. 

[shadowform]

For one of my megaprojects I built a two 12x12, 6-story towers out of solid gold.  These bookended a set of three 4-story 5x8 marble towers with a walkway between them, and all of it sat on top of a pair of (I think) 5x10 marble bridges.  Of course, I built 10 or 11 total of those gold towers between the three embarks the accompanying wall covered, and about 17,000 more marble blocks on top of that...  but even so.

Don't get so focused on the gate that you forget to make what it's guarding impressive as well.