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What kind of site should I embark on for the giant pit fortress project?

Forest
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Desert
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Badlands
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Glacier
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Ocean
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Lake
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Mountain
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Volcano
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Total Members Voted: 75

Voting closed: April 23, 2011, 10:59:35 pm


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Lost Requiem

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Surface mining Fortress project
« on: April 12, 2011, 10:51:34 pm »
Has anybody actually tried this?

For the disengaged, surface mining is where you carve away an entire layer of rock instead of mining shafts and tunnels. I'm thinking about doing it in my current fortress. Why?
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Minnakht

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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2011, 11:03:49 pm »
I did this on a small scale, as that's how you mine out clusters...
Nothing like mining out an entire layer, though.
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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2011, 11:15:43 pm »
It's an interesting idea but it would take so much more time than just building above ground.
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Lost Requiem

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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2011, 11:18:36 pm »
Quote from: psychologicalshock on April 12, 2011, 11:15:43 pm
It's an interesting idea but it would take so much more time than just building above ground.

That's why you don't strip mine a certain area. And I'm talking large scale, like all the way down to the magma sea level.
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Minnakht

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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2011, 11:20:26 pm »
So wait - you want to make your embark a giant hole, and have all the stone it's made of in boulders?

And then you'd rebuild something with the stone?

Sounds... like a painstakingly extended project.
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Quote from: Splint on January 25, 2012, 05:22:22 pm
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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2011, 11:21:32 pm »
Quote from: Minnakht on April 12, 2011, 11:20:26 pm
So wait - you want to make your embark a giant hole, and have all the stone it's made of in boulders?

And then you'd rebuild something with the stone?

Sounds... like a DWARVEN project.
Fixed that for ya.
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Byakugan01

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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2011, 11:24:15 pm »
Even for dwarveness, this sounds pointless. Espeically for FPS reasons.
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171. My character's dying words are not allowed to be "Hastur, Hastur, Hastur"
218. No matter my alignment, organizing halfling pit fights is a violation.
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Lost Requiem

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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2011, 11:24:43 pm »
Save for a section of clay (and maybe some sand). I'm not going to let the stone dictate how many building materials I get to have!
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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2011, 11:35:50 pm »
Fuck yes, mine out the whole map and rebuild it in ARMOK's image using smooth blocks.
Bonus points for putting a few cast obsidian layers to muddy for trees just to piss off the elves when you cut them down.
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They're nearly as bad as badgers. Build a couple of anti-buzzard SAM sites marksdwarf towers and your fortress will look like Baghdad in 2003 from all the aerial bolt spam. You waste a lot of ammo and everything is covered in unslightly exploded buzzard bits and broken bolts.

Lost Requiem

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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2011, 11:39:13 pm »
You can grow trees on obsidian?
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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2011, 11:42:42 pm »
Quote from: Lost Requiem on April 12, 2011, 11:39:13 pm
You can grow trees on obsidian?
Trees will grow on soil.
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From Mr. Welch's 1350 things he is not allowed to do in a RPG:
148. There is no Gnomish Deathgrip, and even if there was, it wouldn't involve tongs.
171. My character's dying words are not allowed to be "Hastur, Hastur, Hastur"
218. No matter my alignment, organizing halfling pit fights is a violation.
231. I am not allowed to do anything that would make a Sith Lord cry.
240. Any character with more than three skills specializing in chainsaw is vetoed.

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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #11 on: April 12, 2011, 11:43:29 pm »
Quote from: Lost Requiem on April 12, 2011, 11:39:13 pm
You can grow trees on obsidian?
You can after you muddy them with water. ;)
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Lost Requiem

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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #12 on: April 12, 2011, 11:46:22 pm »
Interesting...

Next fortress will be dedicated to carving out a massive hole in the ground.
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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #13 on: April 12, 2011, 11:51:46 pm »
Definition of strip mining. Right there.
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Re: Surface mining
« Reply #14 on: April 13, 2011, 12:04:56 am »
I always do this, I level mountians, carve multi tower modern like cities skylines out of mountains.  I like to dig a reverse hollow tower going down.  If I have a tall volcanoe, I will strip mine it flat and leave a gigantic smokestack for my truly Armokian Forges.  Sometimes I just do it to the sides of mountains to create a giant (50+z level) flat cliff.  Or I did into the face that way to create a bunch of asain rice paddy farms, complete with water.  Or I make truly Armokian Olympic pools this way.

strip mining is run.  The up ramp is your friend, unless there is a tree above you.
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