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Waterbreath

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Feeling so proud: struck my first cave
« on: April 12, 2011, 05:01:18 am »

Hiho!

Nothing too special, but yesterday I struck my first cave! I feel so proud of my dorfs! They survived quite OK so far :) Food is OK, water is in good supply, trading works well, living is OK, the military is well trained (in running inside, when enemies come) and now I only need metal to be really happy!

I have been playing a fortress now and then, but never this far! Thanks for this great game! Next stop: Magma. Never seen it so far!

Bye,
WB

PS: Yes, I picked my username after a floodgate-incident, that made my dorfs train this... sadly not fast enough :D
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Re: Feeling so proud: struck my first cave
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2011, 06:50:30 am »

Real dwarves breathe magma.
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Re: Feeling so proud: struck my first cave
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2011, 02:09:47 pm »

Real dwarves breathe magma.

Just not for very long.
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Re: Feeling so proud: struck my first cave
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2011, 02:46:13 pm »

Well, good luck for you then. And once you DO find magma, you'll have a lot of !!FUN!! ;)

Just be on the lookout for forgotten beasts.
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Re: Feeling so proud: struck my first cave
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2011, 06:35:04 pm »

I recently struck my first cavern as well. I actually panicked for several minutes, expecting a forgotten beast or two to burst forth and start violating my dwarves.

Haven't played in a few days, mostly because I'm on an eight year old computer and I have to close every other program and shut down a few non-essential (to dwarf fortress) processes to keep the fps above 0.

Good luck with your Magma!

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Re: Feeling so proud: struck my first cave
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2011, 07:10:37 pm »

Don't worry.  I can assure you, breaking into the caverns will not send forgotten beasts after you directly.  You're probably safe for right now.

How do I know this?

Because they will only come when you are least expecting it...   ;D
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Re: Feeling so proud: struck my first cave
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2011, 07:49:42 pm »

Don't worry.  I can assure you, breaking into the caverns will not send forgotten beasts after you directly.  You're probably safe for right now.

How do I know this?

Because they will only come when you are least expecting it...   ;D

Haha! Good one Jeoshua...


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Re: Feeling so proud: struck my first cave
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2011, 11:01:44 pm »

Don't worry. I've never had a forgotten beast problem that couldn't be solved by throwing a few dozen worthless peasants at it. Half the time the forgotten beasts aren't really all that threatening. Oh, a gigantic winged bunny with an an exposed ribcage that sprays poison dust, or a gigantic skinless frog with poisonous blood and no eyes.

In the end, they're still vulnerable to the same things frogs and bunnies are vulnerable to. Just less so.

It's the Zombie Blue Whales and towering men composed of a certain metal alloy that you really have to worry about.
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Re: Feeling so proud: struck my first cave
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2011, 11:12:11 pm »

...towering men composed of a certain metal alloy that you really have to worry about.

How about limestone? Any better solution than magma?
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Re: Feeling so proud: struck my first cave
« Reply #9 on: April 13, 2011, 06:26:16 am »

In the end, they're still vulnerable to the same things frogs and bunnies are vulnerable to. Just less so.

It's the Zombie Blue Whales and towering men composed of a certain metal alloy that you really have to worry about.
And the slimes.  Especially the flying slimes.
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« Reply #10 on: April 13, 2011, 09:04:02 am »

Yeah, a golem-type forgotten beast will end your fort without question if you aren't prepared properly. I know they used to be effectively immortal versus attacks, because their vital components could never be destroyed by any amount of damage and they remained threatening and mobile even if you cut off everything else. That bug may have been fixed, but on average, material-based forgotten beasts are far more vital and damaging than ones based off living things. If you don't have a well-suited and trained military you'll probably lose everyone to it.

The other alternative is, you build a device with a support linked up to a lever that will cause the ceiling to fall and crush the ground beneath it. You engineer it so the golem walks under it, and have someone (P)ull the lever. It will be killed without fail as long as you time it right and build the trap correctly :)

- This works with both natural rock and constructions
- Kills all types of FB--special care is needed to make a sealed system to protect against flying FB, who will simply fly around the trap, however.
- Forgotten beasts never set off pressure plates. In order to time this right, you need a dwarf locked in a room with the lever that triggers the trap (or put it in the meeting hall).

Another fun way is magma. FB love to destroy things you've built, so the easy way is to put a floodgate along the path they will attack your fortress and have magma behind it. They will unerringly destroy the floodgate and get melted.

Since they destroy things, one way to protect your fort from non-flying forgotten beasts is to make the only way into the fort require crossing a grate or bridge. They will attack the grate\bridge instead of crossing it, and then be unable to get inside.

Flying FB are not at all uncommon, though. So... Good luck!
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