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elf-fondling human

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Digging to *Spoiler Removed* the hard way
« on: September 19, 2011, 09:43:58 pm »
Spoiler: Huge image (click to show/hide)

Should I keep at it? Is it worth it? All my dwarves look dead because my modded caste that works forever w/out food, water, sleep, or fear don't seem to like ironhand.
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Re: Digging to *Spoiler Removed* the hard way
« Reply #1 on: September 19, 2011, 09:49:33 pm »
make sure you know how SMR works.  not even uber-zombie-workers can mess with it from above if it doesn't want to be messed with.
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elf-fondling human

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Re: Digging to *Spoiler Removed* the hard way
« Reply #2 on: September 19, 2011, 10:02:38 pm »
Yeah, I got to that once, it annoyed the piss out of me so I got lazy elfy and dfrevealed to find a candy spire I could dig through.

And actually, they're more like robots.
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Re: Digging to *Spoiler Removed* the hard way
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2011, 02:39:08 am »
You are going to dig that out? That is insane. Good luck with your FPS...
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Re: Digging to *Spoiler Removed* the hard way
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2011, 07:11:37 pm »
Turns out there were only ~23 levels until I hit the bottom of the map, so I decided that it wasn't even worth it and abandoned.
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Re: Digging to *Spoiler Removed* the hard way
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2011, 08:59:29 pm »
I still want to see someone collapse the above-world into Hell...
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Re: Digging to *Spoiler Removed* the hard way
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2011, 09:13:06 pm »
What is going on in that image?
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Re: Digging to *Spoiler Removed* the hard way
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2011, 09:16:30 pm »
Look at the map to the right.

He's building a giant hole down into the earth until he reaches the happy fun spot.
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Re: Digging to *Spoiler Removed* the hard way
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2011, 09:16:49 pm »
What's going on, is that he's channeling out the whole surface on his way to HFS.  It's not a mineshaft, it's an artificial canyon.
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Re: Digging to *Spoiler Removed* the hard way
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2011, 09:18:25 pm »
It's a strip mine.

*shrug*

I've seen real life ones.
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Re: Digging to *Spoiler Removed* the hard way
« Reply #10 on: September 20, 2011, 10:29:42 pm »
Yep.
It took two years to get that far. With dwarves at speed:0 who never stop to eat/drink/sleep. Or run from animals.

'Course, I only used two miners because I wasn't thinking, but still.
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