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GamerKnight

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Dwarfy Things
« on: January 26, 2011, 07:59:22 pm »
I'd like to hear the dwarfiest thing you have ever done. Just post it here.
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2011, 08:01:04 pm »
I seem to be rather nooby, but traditional gladiator pits to train soldiers, along with wolves as my chained sentinels.  I'm about to begin work on drowning chamber indoor plumbing and soothing indoor waterfalls.
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2011, 08:02:06 pm »


ELF PARTS EVERYWHERE.
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2011, 08:03:38 pm »
My current project... a Magma-based Orbital Defense System fed from a 137-level pump stack, is probably as Dwarfy as I've ever gotten. It's capable of dropping 3,500 units of Magma on invaders in a single salvo.

... note to self: remember to close the front door first.
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2011, 08:07:49 pm »
You just need your front door to be up one Z level.
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2011, 08:11:24 pm »
Quote from: Girlinhat on January 26, 2011, 08:07:49 pm
You just need your front door to be up one Z level.

One level won't do it. I'm using five 10x10 retractible drawbridges as hatches to drop the magma, right in front of my fort entrance; and each 7/7 Magma blob randomly scatters up to three tiles. It's quite possible (in fact, quite likely) to get them stacked two or three levels deep. In which case, they can flow down-hill  in a direction that would normally be "up-hill".
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2011, 08:18:57 pm »
Three levels high then~
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2011, 08:19:07 pm »
Well, there was this time where I killed 50-60 zombie and monsters with an army of dwarfs, untrained, who only had wooden armors and obsidian short swords.
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2011, 09:27:19 pm »
Smoothing and engraving every single mined-out vein, turning one of them into a cemetery and the rest into sculpture gardens. Getting rid of every single piece of loose stone in the fortress just by stonecrafting might also count.
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2011, 09:39:27 pm »
Quote from: blue emu on January 26, 2011, 08:11:24 pm
Quote from: Girlinhat on January 26, 2011, 08:07:49 pm
You just need your front door to be up one Z level.

One level won't do it. I'm using five 10x10 retractible drawbridges as hatches to drop the magma, right in front of my fort entrance; and each 7/7 Magma blob randomly scatters up to three tiles. It's quite possible (in fact, quite likely) to get them stacked two or three levels deep. In which case, they can flow down-hill  in a direction that would normally be "up-hill".

Well then, shape your entrance in a U-bend. Magma without pump can't rise inside the U, whatever happens.
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2011, 09:58:09 pm »
Modded my cats to be war trainable and poisonous.

Very expendable, and very lethal. PURRFECT!
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2011, 10:00:21 pm »
These magma pistons seem very dorfy.
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2011, 10:47:35 pm »
They are. Kinda like the quote in your sig.
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2011, 06:50:11 am »
I'm about to release a freshly-captured hydra against FBs. If I could turn also that part of the caverns into an arena with magma streams, I would, but sadly, I lack the resources to do that.
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Re: Dwarfy Things
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2011, 06:54:34 am »
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