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PCpaste

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How do I get to...
« on: March 11, 2011, 07:19:14 am »
The Clowns? I want to unleash hordes of Clowns onto a world, but whenever I try to gid really deep to get to them, I always hit these "Semi-Molten Rock" stuff. Is there any way to get to them, or do they just appear on worldgen sometimes and it's just a rumor about digging to the Clowns?

(Clowns as in a spoiler-free term. Not literally Clowns. That would just be silly.)

I've practacly dug out the entire layer down there, nothing but semi-molten rock.
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« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2011, 07:20:15 am »
Try mining some adamantine.
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Re: How do I get to...
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2011, 07:47:07 am »
Yeah. usually there is some adamantine around. If not then you should look for the blue candy stick!
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« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2011, 08:17:39 am »
it will be somewhere.... just dig it up or i just tell you you are unlucky to have NOEZ adamantine
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Re: How do I get to...
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2011, 08:24:41 am »
Every 2x2 or larger embark zone is guaranteed adamantine, I think.
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Re: How do I get to...
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2011, 08:35:50 am »
Candy is hard to come by...
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It's treated as completely normal because this is Dwarf Fortress.  There's absolutely nothing wrong with surrounding yourself with a wall of flames, only to later realize that you're surrounded by a wall of flames.
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« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2011, 08:47:30 am »
In most cases, you'll find the top of the adamantine vein somewhere in the third cavern layer. You can explore it the easy way by pitting some kittens, or you can send a military squad to scout. If you can't find any adamantine in the cavern, then you'll have to poke holes into the magma sea and peek inside.

That gives me an idea. Can we tame magma crabs? If so, they'd make excellent magma sea explorers.
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« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2011, 08:54:28 am »
Quote from: ElthMysterius on March 11, 2011, 08:47:30 am
In most cases, you'll find the top of the adamantine vein somewhere in the third cavern layer. You can explore it the easy way by pitting some kittens, or you can send a military squad to scout. If you can't find any adamantine in the cavern, then you'll have to poke holes into the magma sea and peek inside.

That gives me an idea. Can we tame magma crabs? If so, they'd make excellent magma sea explorers.

extra bonus awesome.


also, why does nobody fortification explore the caverns?  Mine paralel to the wall till you get close to the edge of what you can see, dig portal, continue.  It's safe from all but surprise spitting FB.
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« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2011, 10:57:51 am »
Digging through the ceiling and having a look around doesn't require a second dwarf to come round and do two jobs that can't be designated at the same time.
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« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2011, 11:12:33 am »
If you're really Lucky (lucky being dependent on your perspective), you'll find a Clown Car with the obligatory Masterpiece Candy Cane stuck in the ground at one of the levels, pulling / deconstructing the Candy Cane will open the door to the Clowns and eventually the Circus. Of course, before you get to meet the clowns, you have to get pass some conductors.

You can find out if you have a Clown Car by checking your stocks screen for a Candy Cane.
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« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2011, 11:59:24 am »
Quote from: ahonek on March 11, 2011, 08:24:41 am
Every 2x2 or larger embark zone is guaranteed adamantine, I think.
The above is not exactly correct; please see this post for more info.  In short, you need the smallest dimension of your embark to be either 2 and aligned to the grid, or at least 3, to guarantee a cyan pillar; a random 2x2 embark has a more than 1/5 chance to have none. 
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