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[lordgeryon]

So, I hadn't played DF in a several months, and decided to download the newest version and give it a shot.

First world I genned, didn't find any sites I liked the look of. Second world, I found a decent site. Got my embark all prepared and hit the embark key, and DF crashed. I grumbled a bit, reloaded, and went to try to find that site again. Got to where I thought it was, set up my embark again, and hey, it worked.

And then I saw it.

An above-ground spire of bluemetal.

Unlike the massive one elsewhere, this one is only 12 zlevels high, and goes down 156 or so zlevels to the Fun Place. It is a tube, btw. Breaching it doesn't trigger the fun until you breach a good deal below the magma sea. Site has clay, brook, shallow and deep metal, flux, and plenty of trees and vegetation. Not sure of the surrounding civs, though.

And it is completely minable. No bugs in the game that I can see.

I offer up the save here. It has my dwarfs, no fort, and iirc, one tile of the spire mined out to show it can be mined.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, I used the Phoebus download instead of the standard game. This may or may not be relevant.

[!!crundle!!]

Testing this now. If it's a playable site, then that's great.

[Assassinfox]

Nice find! 

Gonna preserve the spire as a holy place, or are you gonna smelt it to HFS and back?

[lordgeryon]

Oh, I'm gonna mine it and use it. Armok would be displeased if I did not use his gift properly.

[!!crundle!!]

Actually, this seems to be somewhat playable, with ~35 FPS off the bat. And my computer's not even that great.

[Flaede]

So, I hadn't played DF in a several months, and decided to download the newest version and give it a shot.

First world I genned, didn't find any sites I liked the look of. Second world, I found a decent site. Got my embark all prepared and hit the embark key, and DF crashed. I grumbled a bit, reloaded, and went to try to find that site again. Got to where I thought it was, set up my embark again, and hey, it worked.

And then I saw it.

An above-ground spire of bluemetal.

Unlike the massive one elsewhere, this one is only 12 zlevels high, and goes down 156 or so zlevels to the Fun Place. It is a tube, btw. Breaching it doesn't trigger the fun until you breach a good deal below the magma sea. Site has clay, brook, shallow and deep metal, flux, and plenty of trees and vegetation. Not sure of the surrounding civs, though.

And it is completely minable. No bugs in the game that I can see.

I offer up the save here. It has my dwarfs, no fort, and iirc, one tile of the spire mined out to show it can be mined.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, I used the Phoebus download instead of the standard game. This may or may not be relevant.

Woo! Nice.
Pheobus... is it .19 or .18?

[Lielac]

I have to admit, once the implications of this set in, I cackled. Evilly.

-downloads the save to set about mining that spire to Hell-

[daishi5]

This embark is awesome, except for one thing that I feared, the magma sea is draining in a couple of places.  One seems to be off the side of the map, and at least two other places it is draining into the HFS.  I tried to plug the gaps with dfhack, but I just don't think I can do it. 

[lordgeryon]

Woo! Nice.
Pheobus... is it .19 or .18?

This is .19

[Flaede]

Wonderful. Downloading now...

um. Out of curiosity, why not use the DFFD?

[Pukako]

I had one of these in 31.18 two days ago - the draining magma does test the FPS.

Just don't do what I did, and collapse the tower on three of your starting dwarves...

[Aramco]

I had one of these in 31.18 two days ago - the draining magma does test the FPS.

Just don't do what I did, and collapse the tower on three of your starting dwarves...

If you collapse it you get 'unknown material' or something like that. (At least one of the succession forts (Flagbinded, I think.) did, and I did when I tested it myself.)

Time to do some downloadin'.