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[CapnUrist]

This is pretty awesome. I heartily endorse this event or product.

I thought Dwarven Dowsing was when they used shaped sticks to find hidden underground alcohol?

No, that's called mining.

[TheeBaconman]

This is pretty awesome. I heartily endorse this event or product.

I thought Dwarven Dowsing was when they used shaped sticks to find hidden underground alcohol?

No, that's called mining.

"All Urists! Report to the meeting hall. It appears we have been mining all wrong, trying to dig our homes to give our tired, sick, injured, troubled, criminal, demented, and even "noble," people a home where they can find peace and rest. Mining twas not for the dominance of our proud race of blind pragmatics. Nay, twas for the glorious blood of our indisputable god ARMOK!! BOOZE!!!!!"

And from that day on, all the Urists worked 3x as hard.

[Roraborialisforealis]

And now I think I realize where the heck that third cavern is.  I apparently went straight down past it, missing it entirely.

So easy to miss that third cavern, and its candy soaked goodness......

[Oliolli]

And now the chances of Surprise Super Happy Fun Times are much lower, and 0.31.26 will come a short while later then it would have otherwise come.

[FrisianDude]

And from that day on, all the Urists worked 3x as hard.

That's nice, but in a 150 Dwarf fortress like mine with approx. three Urists that doesn't change much.

[Musashi]

God. It's as revolutionary as the speed of light not being the absolute limit.
Now, now. The real question should be:
Is that a bug, or a feature?

[Z1000000m]

There are no bugs in DF, hence feature.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Anyone added it to the Wiki yet?

[da_nang]

Dwarven Depth Telemetry (DDT). What to the humans looks like a wrestling match is actually a scientific, geological survey. For ‼SCIENCE‼.

[Farmerbob]

This is excellent.

Dwarven farmers are apparently adept at reflection seismology.  But maybe they just call it Farmdar.

[o_O[WTFace]]

So you strike the earth until it tells you where the caverns and spoilers are?  Nice 

[kardwill]

Um, when you see things underground or underwater, its called sonar. (/nitpick)

Already been said (and totally off-topic, sorry), but ground radars DO exist. I'm in sewer engineering, and we use georadar to detect underground features, structure weakpoints and thickness, metal braces, water, cavities... Quite a usefull tool, really.

[NRDL]

Dwarven Depth Telemetry (DDT). What to the humans looks like a wrestling match is actually a scientific, geological survey. For ‼SCIENCE‼.

I'm a big wrestling fan, I very much support this. 

The actual face-plant is what allows dwarves to see underneath the ground. 

[ThatAussieGuy]

I still like DRODAR, myself.  (Dwarven ROad Detection and Ranging)

[darkrider2]

I still like DRODAR, myself.  (Dwarven ROad Detection and Ranging)

Makes it sound too much like Dradus from BSG.