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[acetech09]

I just opened a backup save of my fortress to build a contraption to quickly and cleanly kill my entire fortress: a series of 1-wide corridors, with a pressure plate to a drawbridge in the middle of the corridor, and a construction to be removed at the end. Dwarf walks up, over pressure plate, onto drawbridge, which subsequently pulls and the dwarf tumbles down to the empty room below. I was going to run my whole fortress through that when an elven caravan arrived.

"ahh screw it"

i burrowed all my dorfs to the top level of my skyscraper (Trade depot is on main floor), then removed all of the support for it except for a single soap stair , and then told my mayor to remove the stair. three-hundred and forty-four dwarf death announcements later, I look at the aftermath.

All elves dead. YAY.
All dwarves de- wait a second. survivors! 2 babies survived with major injures - I looked at their thoughts:

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Onok Ducimkab has been unhappy lately. He has lost a father to tragedy recently. He has lost a sibling to tragedy recently. He has lost a mother to tragedy recently. He has witnessed death. He choked on dust underground lately. He sustained major injuries recently.

I first thought that the mothers shielded the babies from the cave-in ... no not right.
The babies used their mothers as shields to protect against the cave-in.


OMIGOD. A mason survived the cave-in. WITH ZERO INJURIES! How in hell... he's gonna accompany the original Expedition Leader, whom I saved so i could see the aftermath.




I needed somewhere to post this little adventure. It was strange that that mason survived while the rest of the fortress is there dead, and it involves killing a whole fortress to kill some elves, which is a plus.

[KtosoX]

Maybe there was a sock with his name on it somewhere far away from home?
Also, how many dwarfs you had there? 344? Are you playing on some kind of top secret NASA computer!?

[Mistercheif]

Maybe there was a sock with his name on it somewhere far away from home?
Also, how many dwarfs you had there? 344? Are you playing on some kind of top secret NASA computer!?

If you are, I want one. Especially if it is portable.  Because that would be awesome.  You know you want to help the spread of high FPS Dwarf Fortress.

[MagmaMcFry]

Also, how many dwarfs you had there? 344? Are you playing on some kind of top secret NASA computer!?

Perhaps he has some spare computers? Dibs on the first three.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Considering DF isn't multithreaded a supercomputer wouldn't run it all that much better than a normal one.

[MagmaMcFry]

Well, where the hell did acetech09 get his one from?

[acetech09]

DoD, actually.

Nah - my work computer is a dual i7 990X, 64gb of RAM, Tesla GPU... one i7 is overclocked to 4.8gHz with a homebuilt refrigerated cooling system I whipped up with a old wine cooler destined for the junkyard. Second i7 - see below. I could push it higher but I'm not sure how they'll take it. All custom.

Some people spend their money working on their cars, some people decorate their houses. I just get more RAM and HD for my ☼Computer☼.

Considering DF isn't multithreaded a supercomputer wouldn't run it all that much better than a normal one.

What I do is actually shut down half of the cores in one of the i7s, and then overclock it extremely. that way I can get a really high core speed without overheating.