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[Harudoku]

Or Adamantinesweeper, as I call it.
Does anyone else play this with their fortresses sometimes?

[Girlinhat]

...wat?

[Harudoku]

...wat?

It's minesweeper, and the hollow segments and magma are the mines.

[Eddren]

Actually, they're frowny faces with X's for eyes.

[Harudoku]

Nah, that's the dwarves after you make a mistake.

[Eddren]

There's five of them, and they're all in a single column going down.
That's all.
Seriously.
Like, I'll use printscreen and show you.
If I can figure out how to use it.

[Vattic]

If you right click and view image it takes you to a page that says:

The bandwidth are limited for embedding this image now.

I thought they were custom emotes.

To answer your question: I don't usually go after the blue stuff at all.

[Harudoku]

Ah, Gyazo's stupid, I guess. Lesson learned. Hang on, Photobucketuploading

[Fire_fox]

Man I gota' say I was looking forward to see a minesweeper game in Dwarf Fortress. But more to the point I just never really use the stuff to much work when iron and steel works fine in my military with legendary dwarves.

[Girlinhat]

Most older players tend to agree "candy is overpowered".  You get a few scraps of the stuff and your soldiers become immune to everything, light as a feather, and can cut a hole to the center of the earth if they drop their sword blade-down in the grass.  According to the physics, a sword of adamantine would weigh so little and be so sharp, that it would cut through stone be resting atop it.  For a challenge, most older players just stick with steel and dwarf power.

[elf-fondling human]

Personally, the one time I actually started harvesting the cotton candy sticks I turned it into wafers and let it rust away in its own stockpile.

[Angry Bob]

Man I gota' say I was looking forward to see a minesweeper game in Dwarf Fortress. But more to the point I just never really use the stuff to much work when iron and steel works fine in my military with legendary dwarves.

Create a minesweeper setup in a fort. Then have someone else reclaim - everything will be obscured again. I vaguely recall there being a utility that re-obscures stuff, if we wanted to be less dwarfy or avoid reclaim-related weirdness. Doable?

Possible setup: Build an otherwise solid wall with a few holes. Put pressure plates in those holes. Make an apocalypse device hooked to those pressure plates that trigger when there's less than 7/7 water or magma on the plate. Game is played by deconstructing sections of the wall. When the wrong one is removed, the fort explodes. I suppose this makes the "mines" occupy a 3x3 area, though. "Number of adjacent mines" could simply be indicated with different wall colors.

Other possible setup: Huge area of levers. Attach a certain number of them to domesday device, the rest to something harmless(no cheating!). This one is easier and therefore less dwarfy, but on the other hand I don't have any experience with pressure plates so I have no idea how I'd go about setting up the former, if it would work at all.

[Harudoku]

Most older players tend to agree "candy is overpowered".  You get a few scraps of the stuff and your soldiers become immune to everything, light as a feather, and can cut a hole to the center of the earth if they drop their sword blade-down in the grass.  According to the physics, a sword of adamantine would weigh so little and be so sharp, that it would cut through stone be resting atop it.  For a challenge, most older players just stick with steel and dwarf power.

Overpowered? You don't use it for weapons. You use it...

to make your fortress unnecessarily badass. "I played Adamantinesweeper and all I got was this lousy masterwork statue!"

[Person]

Elite bowman don't care that you have adamantine. They'll still shoot and kill you VERY often. Other than that, yeah you're immune to everything.

[sirdanilot]

My dwarves actually used the adamantine threads as sutures, rather than doing anything useful with it...

When I saw that sutures are reusable when a dwarf gets healed and leaves the hospital, I was pretty glad.