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[GreatWyrmGold]

Oh, and since you already know about the demons, I guess I should warn you about the zombies. They are not too scary now, but their miasma will sicken dwarves and kill your FPS almost as much as releasing the demons will.

[Sutremaine]

I mean come on, 95% of the forum already know's about the clown circus.

And you're trying to make it 100% solely because of that?

[Number4]

If someone asks "How shall I farm?" do we tell him "Plant dimple cups!"? If someone asks "What weapons for my military?" we say "Adamantine maces are a good choice!"? etc., etc. Of the many Fun ways we could TROLL this is the only one we're supposed to use.

I'll tell you what: Fuck that. If I had made my first successful fort and some dicks caused me to destroy it by encouraging to take it I'd be seriously pissed. Remember that people might very well treat this sword with good, honest, natural, dwarfy paranoia but if someone barges in with "grab it, there's sun berries and featherwood below it!" they might very well believe it, the same way they usually believe the true and helpful response inside of 30 seconds if they ask a question about booze.

Protecting the non-spoilers (seriously, I knew about hell even before I downloaded my copy of DF) is one thing, intentionally very possibly destroing hours or days of hard work of a newbie has no place, especially in a community that is supposed to be the very best gaming community in the entire fucking world.

[ImBocaire]

Christ.

Well, now that this thread is spoiler central, can we at least put a spoiler tag in the title? Pretty please?

[Carpman]

If someone asks "How shall I farm?" do we tell him "Plant dimple cups!"? If someone asks "What weapons for my military?" we say "Adamantine maces are a good choice!"? etc., etc. Of the many Fun ways we could TROLL this is the only one we're supposed to use.

I'll tell you what: Fuck that. If I had made my first successful fort and some dicks caused me to destroy it by encouraging to take it I'd be seriously pissed. Remember that people might very well treat this sword with good, honest, natural, dwarfy paranoia but if someone barges in with "grab it, there's sun berries and featherwood below it!" they might very well believe it, the same way they usually believe the true and helpful response inside of 30 seconds if they ask a question about booze.

Protecting the non-spoilers (seriously, I knew about hell even before I downloaded my copy of DF) is one thing, intentionally very possibly destroing hours or days of hard work of a newbie has no place, especially in a community that is supposed to be the very best gaming community in the entire fucking world.

Um... what are you pissed about? No one did that or joked about doing that. What bdthemag SHOULD have done was say that something very bad will happen if he goes down there, and he should have a huge military to take it on. Not say exactly what happens. That's not ruining our fun, that's ruining the player's.

[zehive]

Time to ruin the fun of all the people who want to see your fort die.

Those swords are generally entrances to hell, if you take it it open's up an entrance to hell and an extremely large amount of demons come out. It ruins your FPS and they are hard to kill, SO IGNORE it.

DO NOT TRUST THE OTHER PEOPLE WHO POST AFTER ME!

dude thats ruining his fun, the fun is in learning it yo.

[drkpaladin]

The unspoken agreement on the forums is to honestly and thoroughly answer any question anyone asks, except for the specific question that was asked in the topic.

Consider deleting the topic? The existence of an upright sword is in itself a pretty big spoiler in itself, you can play for a long time and not run into one of those without specifically looking for a place that has one.  Plus we already have many other topics regarding this.

[Crazy Cow]

If you really want that sword, and you do, here is what you must do.
Get yourself a squad of ten steel-clad, legendary dwarves. Punch a hole in the lowest level of the cavern and search for a structure made of slade. The walls are all smooth, so you will recognize it immediately. Move your dwarves slowly in; the place is full of undead monsters. Cleanse the place, level by level, until you are certain there are no more undead there. Then, find your upright weapon. On that level, there will be several "glowing floors." Build a constructed floor over every single one of these. Save, make a copy, and then deconstruct the upright weapon. You now have the best weapon you can possibly find; give it to someone you like.

[Nerserus]

If you really want that sword, and you do, here is what you must do.
Get yourself a squad of ten steel-clad, legendary dwarves. Punch a hole in the lowest level of the cavern and search for a structure made of slade. The walls are all smooth, so you will recognize it immediately. Move your dwarves slowly in; the place is full of undead monsters. Cleanse the place, level by level, until you are certain there are no more undead there. Then, find your upright weapon. On that level, there will be several "glowing floors." Build a constructed floor over every single one of these. Save, make a copy, and then deconstruct the upright weapon. You now have the best weapon you can possibly find; give it to someone you like.

Undead in paticular tend to be very weak and at the moment will die ridiculously easy from marksdwarves I add. Your key problem really lies in what those undead creatures are...Again, Russian Roulette. You could argue building floors over the glowing tiles is being cheap, but your way of playing is yours I guess. I personally used to make wine biscuits, those were the days...

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Also, I wonder how you can make a floor out of green glass blocks and the demon armies below are entirely helpless?

Urist McDemon: Oh crap, those dwarves sealed it up with thin glass, we're trapped forever!...If only those undead just moved the sword a little in advance...

[Nil Eyeglazed]

What happens when you do link a lever to the sword?  Never realized you could before.

[Berserkenstein]

If you really want that sword, and you do, here is what you must do.
Get yourself a squad of ten steel-clad, legendary dwarves. Punch a hole in the lowest level of the cavern and search for a structure made of slade. The walls are all smooth, so you will recognize it immediately. Move your dwarves slowly in; the place is full of undead monsters. Cleanse the place, level by level, until you are certain there are no more undead there. Then, find your upright weapon. On that level, there will be several "glowing floors." Build a constructed floor over every single one of these. Save, make a copy, and then deconstruct the upright weapon. You now have the best weapon you can possibly find; give it to someone you like.

Or you can just send someone to just get the sword now, and then you can just reclaim next game

[ImBocaire]

What happens when you do link a lever to the sword?  Never realized you could before.

I think "activating" the sword just deconstructs it. Probably very useful in case you want your defenses not to include rampant and unnecessary shoe-related death.

[Nil Eyeglazed]

That would be really handy-- awfully hard to open them up via mining and keep your miner.  (Sure, miners are a dime a dozen, but I feel cheap sacrificing anyone.)

[Keltiknight]

should'a just said "Bad things happen, have a very powerful military before removing it." rather then blatantly saying that it opens the gate to

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hell

[Lectorog]

I really see no reason to preserve spoilers other than to screw with noobs. Saying it opens the gate to hell is only marginally "better" than saying bad things happen, anyway. You still ruin the surprise.

On a related note, anyone who hasn't read this yet should.