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Author Topic: Melissia's ventures into the greater world of Dwarf Fortress.  (Read 35654 times)

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Re: Melissia's ventures into the greater world of Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #30 on: September 20, 2011, 07:05:39 pm »
Quote from: Melissia on September 20, 2011, 06:16:29 pm
Okay, second cavern is a no-go.  A giant underground lake-- Just not enough ground for me to walk on for exploring purposes.  And lots of cave alligators to pull my unfortunate dwarves into the water... 

Maybe I can drain it somehow?  Though i'd have to do it very, very carefully.

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I might come back to it later.  For now, walling it off with a 2x1 bridge and moving on.

Move on, but make sure your military is prepared.  Now is when things can begin to get really interesting.

If you think they're prepared, they're not prepared enough, you're going to get horribly beaten your first time, guaranteed, when you find the real !!fun!! stuff.
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« Reply #31 on: September 20, 2011, 07:07:02 pm »
Quote from: Melissia on September 20, 2011, 02:22:44 pm
As an aside, my game opened up (as in, after the embark screen) with there being a cave-in somewhere far, far below.  I wonder if I'll find out what happened, it was below the first cavern level somewhere, as it was at least a couple dozen levels down...

Press R, and see if you have any building you don't remember constructing. Specifically upright weapons.
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Re: Melissia's ventures into the greater world of Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #32 on: September 20, 2011, 07:15:29 pm »
Quote from: elf-fondling human on September 20, 2011, 07:07:02 pm
Quote from: Melissia on September 20, 2011, 02:22:44 pm
As an aside, my game opened up (as in, after the embark screen) with there being a cave-in somewhere far, far below.  I wonder if I'll find out what happened, it was below the first cavern level somewhere, as it was at least a couple dozen levels down...

Press R, and see if you have any building you don't remember constructing. Specifically upright weapons.

I think that bugfeature was fixed, sadly.
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Re: Melissia's ventures into the greater world of Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #33 on: September 20, 2011, 07:19:16 pm »
Quote from: darkflagrance on September 20, 2011, 07:15:29 pm
I think that bugfeature was fixed, sadly.
No, it just fixed things appearing on the weapons screen, not on the buildings screen.
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« Reply #34 on: September 20, 2011, 07:34:37 pm »
Either way, nothing on the building screen out of the ordinary (which is to say pages AND PAGES of buildings, zones, stockpiles, and statues.  *mimics The Rock" Millions... AND MILLIONS... of statues), so it may not be a daemonic fortress.

If it IS there though, I'm SO going to floor it over (including making sure it's only one level high to prevent flying beasts from getting past the traps easily), set up a labrinth with lots of traps, and then open it up and run like hell :D
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« Reply #35 on: September 20, 2011, 07:49:54 pm »
LOL
I'm fairly new at DF too, maybe playing a bit longer than you, but you seem to have it down. Good going!
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« Reply #36 on: September 20, 2011, 07:54:29 pm »
Quote from: Specter513 on September 20, 2011, 07:49:54 pm
LOL
I'm fairly new at DF too, maybe playing a bit longer than you, but you seem to have it down. Good going!

Yep (she?) is picking it up certainly a lot faster then I did.
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« Reply #37 on: September 20, 2011, 07:57:41 pm »
You got a little history in this!
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Re: Melissia's ventures into the greater world of Dwarf Fortress.
« Reply #38 on: September 20, 2011, 08:12:19 pm »
You're learning really friggin' fast, aren't you? I didn't have a successful fort until week 4-5, and I'm

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« Reply #39 on: September 20, 2011, 08:31:42 pm »
To be fair, I came from minecraft... which while much, much easier than DF is still a good primer I think...

And now that I've finished slaughtering some Orks in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (to a playlist of Rob Zombie and other similar metal), it's time to break into the third cavern level!
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« Reply #40 on: September 20, 2011, 08:33:17 pm »
Good luck.  Hopefully you're luckier than I - the first time I broke in my miner popped out two tiles from a greater cavern spider.  It went poorly.
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« Reply #41 on: September 20, 2011, 08:34:18 pm »
Oh... yeesh.  Thanks for reminding me to finish equipping my axedwarves before I go down there, I'll have to keep them near my miners when I'm digging down.
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« Reply #42 on: September 20, 2011, 08:38:17 pm »
Wait, I don't remember having any peasants, undrafted potash/soap makers or dyers O.o  Did I get immigrants while I wasn't paying attention? How'd I miss them?  Huh. 

WELL NOW!  I have a new squad of militia then!
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« Reply #43 on: September 20, 2011, 08:48:32 pm »
Quote from: Melissia on September 20, 2011, 08:38:17 pm
Wait, I don't remember having any peasants, undrafted potash/soap makers or dyers O.o  Did I get immigrants while I wasn't paying attention? How'd I miss them?  Huh. 

WELL NOW!  I have a new squad of militia then!

Goodies, I like when that happens.

I'll also note, the GCS only natively exists in caverns 1 and 2.  I had a passage going from cavern 2 to cavern 3.  Cavern 3 has ... vastly worse...   things...

...and a few annoying ones.
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« Reply #44 on: September 20, 2011, 09:01:52 pm »
That's kinda why i'm equipping my militia with ☼ or ≡ Iron Chainmail, Breastplate, Greaves, Gauntlets, Helms, and spider silk cloaks, as well as ≡ or better steel battleaxes, crossbows, and warhammers.
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