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[Sir Leonard III]

I have just struck cotton candy, praise the miners! Blah, blah, blah.
My question is, however, if I mine one tile if this hidden fun stuff will I immediately be attacked by clowns and open up the carnival for all of the !!FUN!! loving clowns to "brighten" up my fort?

[khearn]

It depends on *which* one tile you mine. You must choose wisely.

[Sir Leonard III]

It depends on *which* one tile you mine. You must choose wisely.

But... I MUST HAVE IT ALL. ALL OF IT. ALL OF IT IS MINE.

[Necro910]

It depends on *which* one tile you mine. You must choose wisely.

But... I MUST HAVE IT ALL. ALL OF IT. ALL OF IT IS MINE.

Terrifying screams come from below!

[TheeBaconman]

It depends on *which* one tile you mine. You must choose wisely.

But... I MUST HAVE IT ALL. ALL OF IT. ALL OF IT IS MINE.

Play minesweeper to prepare..... Or devise your own dwarven mine sweeper system. With booze as your mines, dwarves as your minesweepers.

Otherwise create a complexly simple  hallways with traps or beef up your military with extra beards

[Necro910]

It depends on *which* one tile you mine. You must choose wisely.

But... I MUST HAVE IT ALL. ALL OF IT. ALL OF IT IS MINE.

Play minesweeper to prepare..... Or devise your own dwarven mine sweeper system. With booze as your mines, dwarves as your minesweepers.

Otherwise create a complexly simple  hallways with traps or beef up your military with extra beards

Dwarf Fortress:

Teaching you that you can defeat the forces of Hell if you have an awesome enough beard.

[NecroRebel]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Demons attack when you breach the bottom layer. The adamantine tubes are just that: tubes. They're hollow, and if you breach the center, you breach hell. However, the hollow part is, without fail, a 2x2 space, so on every z-level there is exactly one 4x4 square that is actually dangerous. If you mine out the whole perimeter of an adamantine tube on a particular z-level, you can then mine out any and all spaces that could not hide a 2x2 open area at their center without any risk whatsoever. In short, if there's a part of the adamantine vein that's 3 or less tiles thick, mine it.

Note that while there is at least one 4x4 square on every z-level of an adamantine tube, it isn't always hollow, so you might be able to mine out whole levels safely. It's just a gamble as to whether a particular level's center is dangerous or not.

[Teneb]

Clownite tubes: Minesweeper, Dwarf Fortress style.

[Shootandrun]

There are five ways to deal with blue gambling. Spoilers ahead.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

-The gambling. You mine what you thing is safe, and you pray. Really dangerous. Don't actually do that.
-The short way. You mine everything that's not thick enough to have the hollow part. Sadly, there's a lot of waste.
-The slow way. You smooth the adamantine, carve fortifications in the adamantine and look inside. If it's safe, you dig these fortifications, smooth the adamantine, carve fortifications... Really long and boring.
-The man's way. Demons are trapavoids, but upward pikes don't count as traps. Placing a LONG hallway full of these with good metal (steel, at least) and connecting them to one lever set to repeat will kill the main wave of demons, unless you are really unlucky.
-The dwarf's way. Fifty steel clad legendary dwarfs is more than enough to take on hell. Once the main wave is destroyed, some demons will sometimes come to get you, but never more than one at a time.
[After you use the two last ways, send magma in the place of the massacre and, if needed, put the dwarfs who fought in a isolated place for some time. Syndromes can be really deadly.]

[Lectorog]

Just keep digging. There won't be any problems. Don't worry 

[Oliolli]

It depends on *which* one tile you mine. You must choose wisely.

But... I MUST HAVE IT ALL. ALL OF IT. ALL OF IT IS MINE.

Play minesweeper to prepare..... Or devise your own dwarven mine sweeper system. With booze as your mines, dwarves as your minesweepers.

Otherwise create a complexly simple  hallways with traps or beef up your military with extra beards

Dwarf Fortress:

Teaching you that you can defeat the forces of Hell if you have an awesome enough beard.

Dwarf Fortress: Teaching you that infinity is just another amount to deal with.

[gtmattz]

you could cheat and run dfhack and see how far you can mine before hitting the hollow part.  Since every tube is random, we really cant say wether you will unleash hell on the first tile, or the 1000'th.

[Jessoftherocks]

You do realize that once you strike the Adamantine your dwarfs will only request that for strange moods. Hope you got enough of it to make it worth your time and efforts and dwarfs.

[Noir]

You do realize that once you strike the Adamantine your dwarfs will only request that for strange moods. Hope you got enough of it to make it worth your time and efforts and dwarfs.

Never heard of this - is it true?

[FoiledFencer]

You do realize that once you strike the Adamantine your dwarfs will only request that for strange moods. Hope you got enough of it to make it worth your time and efforts and dwarfs.

Never heard of this - is it true?

Me neither - I've had adamantine for ages and it seems that my dwarfs have a thing for llama wool and gabbro instead.