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Daveorock

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EMPTY volcano
« on: January 24, 2011, 08:23:17 pm »
So recently, my computer has been making glitchier and glitchier worlds, now its at the point where it takes 500+ rejects to find a suitable one, and even then every other tile is glitched. I've finally been able to embark on one of the worlds, a volcano, flux, obsidian, sand, a stream... Well, I look around, and it's nice... then I see this empty spot, zoom up and down.. it's the volcano!! But without obsidian walls, then it hit me, IT HAS ABSOLUTELY NO MAGMA. A giant 100z pit of sparta (to certain doom) now exists in DF. (BTW, because it's glitched, you can see all 3 caverns and the magma sea!)

Save:http://www.mediafire.com/?vgk3hph2k8zdtvu (But be warned, it's an FPS killer.)
« Last Edit: January 24, 2011, 08:27:25 pm by Daveorock »
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Twenty seconds after the collapse, 14 dwarves hit the ground simultaneously.
EDIT: make that 15. Not sure what took that last one so long.
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Daveorock

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Re: EMPTY volcano
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2011, 08:36:40 pm »
Large update: I tried a different spot, and the same thing happened, I predict every single one of the 100+ volcanoes on the map is glitched like this... have fun with the save!
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Quote from: Quantum Toast on October 24, 2009, 09:00:48 pm
Quote from: Untelligent on October 24, 2009, 08:28:15 pm
Twenty seconds after the collapse, 14 dwarves hit the ground simultaneously.
EDIT: make that 15. Not sure what took that last one so long.
Urist McLemming cancels Fall: Dangerous Terrain

Urist Imiknorris

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Re: EMPTY volcano
« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2011, 08:43:53 pm »
Do you have HFS turned off? That causes it.
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Daveorock

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Re: EMPTY volcano
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2011, 08:46:19 pm »
Yes, I have HFS turned off (for more space to build), but the magma layer is on, I thought that would still keep volcanoes full.
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Quote from: Quantum Toast on October 24, 2009, 09:00:48 pm
Quote from: Untelligent on October 24, 2009, 08:28:15 pm
Twenty seconds after the collapse, 14 dwarves hit the ground simultaneously.
EDIT: make that 15. Not sure what took that last one so long.
Urist McLemming cancels Fall: Dangerous Terrain

Urist Imiknorris

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Re: EMPTY volcano
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2011, 08:47:06 pm »
Nope! Nobody is really sure why, but no HFS == no volcanos.
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YOU CANT NOT HAVE SUSPECTS IN A GAME OF MAFIA

ITS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE GAME
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If Tiruin redirected the lynch, then this means that, and... the Illuminati! Of course!

narhiril

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Re: EMPTY volcano
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2011, 08:57:27 pm »
You will have FUN.  Hidden or not.

That being said, this would be an epic site for a megaproject.
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Megaman3321

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Re: EMPTY volcano
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2011, 10:32:12 pm »
Hmm, I guess that the reason hell exists is to power the adamantine pipes, which act as pumps, and keep the magma sea/volcanoes filled [/WMG]
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Re: EMPTY volcano
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2011, 11:47:21 pm »
Build an altar to Armok near/on the bottomless chasm!
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Re: EMPTY volcano
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2011, 11:53:40 pm »
Quote from: JacaByte on January 24, 2011, 11:47:21 pm
Build an altar to Armok near/on the bottomless chasm!

Better yet! Build the entire fortress IN the chasm!
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Re: EMPTY volcano
« Reply #9 on: January 25, 2011, 12:04:54 am »
Drop prisoners (and puppies and kitties) into the pit until most of the bottom layer is covered with corpses and body parts.  Cast the bottom layer as obsidian.

Repeat for each layer.  (you can add several creatures to a cage then link via lever to do mass pitting)

Carve away the rest of the volcano, leaving a macabre spire made of corpses and stone, the outsides smoothed and engraved with images of falling creatures.

Dig out the rest of the entire mountain and embark flat, then for the top layer, station your entire population on the top.  Fill the top with 3/7 water.  Using a water tower as a timer, time it so the pump assembly, access staircase, and a layer of magma collapse, simultaneously casting each member of your fortress in obsidian, and destroying any visible apparatus for the construction of the spire.

Basically imitate the pillar of flesh from Eternal Darkness
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Re: EMPTY volcano
« Reply #10 on: January 25, 2011, 01:59:48 am »
I had a fortress like this once, I can say from experience that having a set of bridges at the top that you use to drop invaders many z-levels to their doom is extremely satisfying.  Doing it so that they will fall by the trade depot (which is suspended over the magma as well) is quite good as well.
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